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• Honey, I blew up the council!

  27-01-2017 23:52
  
  The New Mexico Technology Council is blazing a new path in Albuquerque’s burgeoning tech community with an expanded board, a new chair, scores of new members and a packed agenda of activities. The council selected Curt Schatz, United Health Care’s community and state chief information officer, as its new board chair this month, replacing long-time […]
  
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• NM’s housing market gains ground in 2016

  27-01-2017 23:49
  
  The recovery in New Mexico’s housing market gained momentum in 2016, with single-family home sales hitting the highest number since the beginning of the Great Recession. Just under 20,000 home sales were reported to the Realtors Association of New Mexico during the year that just ended, a 6.4 increase over the previous year that was […]
  
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• Competitors prepare for Angel Fire’s World Shovel Race Championships

  27-01-2017 23:46 via krqe.com
  
  ANGEL FIRE, N.M. (KRQE) – Get your shovel ready. The date is set for Angel Fire Resort’s World Shovel Race Championships.
  The rules are pretty simple. Competitors slide downhill on a shovel as fast as they can and the fastest rider wins.
  The competition includes different racing categories for people of all ages to join in on.
  The practice session will be held Feb. 3, with the competition occurring Feb. 4.
  Every year, KRQE News 13 competes in the Women in Media competition.
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• Woman accused of embezzling from father-in-law, killing him

  27-01-2017 23:39 via krqe.com
  
  LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) — A San Miguel County woman is accused of killing her 81-year-old father-in-law by stabbing him at least 15 times after stealing thousands of dollars from him.
  A criminal complaint charging 52-year-old Ruth Rivera with first-degree murder, tampering with evidence, embezzlement and forgery alleges she embezzled nearly $80,000 from Arthur Rivera before his death.
  Arthur Rivera was found dead in in the bathroom of his Ribera home on Dec. 28, and the Las Vegas Optic r
  
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• MMA: Cerrone thrilled to be part of Denver UFC card

  27-01-2017 23:15
  
    Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone cut his mixed-martial-arts teeth in his home state of Colorado, fighting on the Ring of Fire circuit a decade ago. Since then, during a career that has made him one of the most popular fighters in the sport, he has fought all over the United States and in a couple of […]
  
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• Arizona caregiver sentenced for stealing from patients

  27-01-2017 23:14
  
  PHOENIX — An Arizona caregiver has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for stealing from patients. The state attorney general’s office announced the sentencing of Mary Louise Gonzalez on Friday. She pleaded guilty in December to forgery and trafficking in stolen property. Prosecutors say the 57-year-old Gonzalez was a home health worker […]
  
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• Grant County Sheriff’s Office searches for missing woman

  27-01-2017 22:55 via krqe.com
  
  SILVER CITY, N.M. (KRQE) – The Grant County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help finding a missing woman from Silver City.
  GCSO says 34-year-old Cassandra Marquez was last seen in Grant County. She is described as 5-feet tall and 130 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair.
  Anyone with information is asked to contact the Grant County Sheriff’s Office.
  Filed under: Home, New Mexico, News Tagged: Missing and Endangered Persons
  
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• Lowe-Bo Homes: an artistic business

  27-01-2017 22:53
  
  Seeing one of his homes emerge from the ground to completion gives Ted Lowe of Lowe-Bo Homes a certain thrill inside. “I look at building as an artistic business,” he said. “A lot of people don’t realize that. They just think construction. Sticks and bricks.” But there’s a lot more to it, Lowe said. Building […]
  
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• New head named for BeWellnm

  27-01-2017 22:45
  
  Cheryl Smith Gardner has been named the new chief executive officer of BeWellnm, New Mexico’s health insurance exchange. Smith Gardner is currently executive director of the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace and has more than 10 years of experience in health insurance policy and reform efforts, according to a news release. Linda Wedeen stepped in last […]
  
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• Brain Break: New Mexico Legislature Trivia

  27-01-2017 22:41 via krqe.com
  
  The New Mexico Legislature is now underway but do you know exactly how laws are made? Put your legislature knowledge to the test with our Legislature Brain Break.
  Take the New Mexico Legislature Trivia Quiz here »
  See all New Mexico Legislature storiesBill would let New Mexico AG’s office probe police shootings Filing bills a race for some lawmakers, slow-goings for others Bill would limit school districts to 5 state testing days per year Belen petitions County Commission to mov
  
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• Updated: US-Mexico trade war could hit Mexico economy, spur migration

  27-01-2017 22:36
  
  MEXICO CITY — If President Donald Trump makes good on threats to gut NAFTA and impose stiff tariffs on Mexican goods, economists say he risks a trade war that could lead to the very thing he is hoping to avoid — a huge surge in Mexican migration to the United States. The result would be […]
  
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• Albuquerque police ID suspect in officer-involved shooting

  27-01-2017 22:32 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Albuquerque Police Department has released more details about what was behind Thursday night’s officer-involved shooting.
  APD said officers were called to Chico and Rhode Island after someone reported seeing a shooting. When officers arrived, they said they heard more gunshots and came across Moses Hernandez who then shot at them, one bullet whizzing by an officer. Officers shot back but no one was hit.
  Hernandez was arrested, another man was found
  
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• Navajo lawmakers table measure to change name to Dine Nation

  27-01-2017 22:19 via krqe.com
  
  WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) – Navajo Nation lawmakers have postponed consideration of a proposal that called for changing the name of the tribal government from Navajo to Dine.
  Following nearly two hours of discussion on the final day of the tribal council’s winter session, sponsor and Council Delegate Jonathan Hale agreed to table the measure to allow more time for the Navajo people to discuss and consider the change.
  The measure will likely be brought up again during the spring council
  
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• What is gaslighting? The term explained

  27-01-2017 21:37
  
  She hears footsteps from above, shuffling against the attic floorboards. A framed painting suddenly vanishes from a wall. The gas-fueled flames of the chandelier flicker and dim. She is certain it happened – but her husband assures her that she’s imagining it all. It’s her behavior that seems odd, he insists; perhaps she’s going mad? […]
  
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• Charge filed against Texas teacher’s aide who faked cancer

  27-01-2017 21:18
  
  MESQUITE, Texas — Police in suburban Dallas have filed a theft charge against a teacher’s aide who investigators say lied to school staff and students about having cancer. Mesquite police said in a statement Friday that 56-year-old Kevin MaBone (MAY’-bone) accepted more than $11,000 that was raised by students and staff at Wilkinson Middle School […]
  
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• Updated: Texas Historical Commission gives Astrodome landmark status

  27-01-2017 21:17
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Historical Commission has granted landmark status to the Houston Astrodome amid plans to redevelop the no-longer-used enclosed stadium. Commission members voted Friday to recognize the Astrodome as a Texas antiquities landmark and to provide legal protections. The Astrodome opened in 1965 but has been vacant for 18 years, falling into […]
  
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• Updated: Colorado considers ending longtime switchblade knife ban

  27-01-2017 21:17
  
  DENVER — The switchblade knives wielded six decades ago by the fictional Jets and Sharks street gangs in the legendary Broadway musical “West Side Story” and in Hollywood films spooked lawmakers across the U.S. and helped usher in state bans. But 54 years after Colorado enacted its prohibition of the folding knives with blades that […]
  
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• Bolivia: 19 miners trapped by rival group inside mine

  27-01-2017 21:17
  
  LA PAZ, Bolivia — A group of wildcat miners used dynamite to trap 19 rivals inside a mine in a remote area of Bolivia, authorities said on Friday. Police said that about 100 miners used dynamite blasts to block the mine’s entrance and took control of another way out of the Asientos mine. Police said […]
  
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• Man sentenced to 31 years in prison for fatal DWI crash

  27-01-2017 20:23 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The drunk driver who slammed into an SUV killing a father and critically injuring his family will spend decades in prison.
  A judge sentenced Ofimiano Herrera to 31 years behind bars Friday for a number of charges including vehicular homicide.
  The daughters and widow of the victim spoke emotionally in court asking the judge to impose the maximum 41-year sentence.
  In June Herrera pled guilty to crashing into Oscar Almeida Sr.’s SUV while driving drunk. Almeid
  
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• No charges to be filed in fatal Crouch Mesa shooting

  27-01-2017 20:19 via krqe.com
  
  SAN JUAN COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – The San Juan County District Attorney’s office has decided not to file charges in the shooting of a 22-year-old woman after an investigation determined it was an accident.
  Last month, Melissa Westbrook died at UNM Hospital after she was shot at a home in Crouch Mesa.
  According to the Farmington Daily Times, an investigation revealed that a 2-year-old boy found the gun on a bed and when a man tried to get it from him, the gun discharged, shooting We
  
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• Attorney seeks mental evaluation for man who caused UNM scare

  27-01-2017 20:19 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The attorney for a man who caused a major scare the University of New Mexico campus is requesting a psychiatric evaluation.
  Daniel Arushanov brought a gun onto campus in November and sat with it in the food court. He told police he was testing response time.
  Because it’s illegal to bring a gun on campus Arushanov was arrested. Arushanov is also facing allegations of rape in California and has a restraining order against him.
  Now his attorney says there reas
  
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• Updated: Trump needs money for his wall. You might be paying for it with your guacamole.

  27-01-2017 19:52
  
  WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump announced his plans to build a controversial border wall this week, financed by imposing a 20 percent tax on goods from Mexico. Which would mean America, not Mexico, would be paying for the wall, with the tomatoes and limes we buy in grocery stores — and with every happy hour […]
  
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• Updated: Ex-NC State basketball star Charles Shackleford found dead

  27-01-2017 19:52
  
  KINSTON, N.C. — Charles Shackleford, a North Carolina State basketball star in the 1980s who spent six seasons in the NBA, was found dead in his home Friday. He was 50. The cause of death hasn’t been determined and an investigation is underway, spokesman Woody Spencer of the Kinston Police Department told The Associated Press. […]
  
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• Behind closed doors, Republican lawmakers fret about how to repeal Obamacare

  27-01-2017 19:52
  
  PHILADELPHIA – Republican lawmakers aired sharp concerns about their party’s quick push to repeal the Affordable Care Act inside a closed-door meeting Thursday, according to a recording of the session obtained by The Washington Post. The recording reveals a GOP that appears to be filled with doubts about how to make good on a long-standing […]
  
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• High-ranking Arizona DPS member involved in deadly I-17 chase

  27-01-2017 19:45
  
  PHOENIX — Authorities are investigating the actions of a high-ranking Department of Public Safety officer who was involved in a high-speed chase that ended with the death of the suspect. The department is investigating Tuesday’s deadly crash near Camp Verde that killed 29-year-old Bradley Moore. Authorities say Deputy Director Heston Silbert was chasing Moore while […]
  
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• To stand out at Super Bowl LI, ads are going for stunts

  27-01-2017 19:29 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Lady Gaga is reportedly entertaining an unusual twist on her Super Bowl halftime show, which — though it’s not confirmed — she could perform from the roof of the stadium. If that comes to pass, she won’t be the only one making a big play for attention this year.
  Advertisers from first timer 84 Lumber to veteran Hyundai are ramping up the marketing stunts in order to stand out from the crowd during the big game. Some will air live ads, ,or at least te
  
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• Mattis orders cost reviews of F-35 fighter, Air Force One

  27-01-2017 19:29
  
  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary James Mattis has ordered reviews of two key Air Force aircraft programs which were criticized by President Donald Trump last month as too expensive. Mattis asked for a review of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program to find ways to cut costs. He said the review should compare the F-35 with […]
  
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• Clovis man sentenced to life on conviction in 2002 killing

  27-01-2017 19:27 via krqe.com
  
  CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) – A 35-year-old Clovis man has been convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison for a 2002 killing.
  David Gutierrez Jr. was sentenced Thursday after a jury deliberated two hours before convicting Gutierrez in the shooting death of Jose Valverde in his home, a railroad boxcar.
  District Attorney Andrea Reeb said the case went unsolved for years until the Clovis Police Department reopened the investigation and witnesses in May 2011 began coming forward t
  
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• Outside firm to investigate Albuquerque video editing claims

  27-01-2017 19:06
  
  An outside firm will investigate allegations that Albuquerque police officials secretly deleted or edited several videos in high-profile cases.
  
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• Beyond ‘Just Say No’: Schools teach about opioid dangers

  27-01-2017 18:25 via krqe.com
  
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Schools are going beyond “Just Say No” as they teach students as young as kindergartners about the dangers of opioids in the hope that they don’t later become part of the growing crisis.
  Some states have begun requiring instruction about prescription drugs and heroin, and districts are updating their anti-drug teachings to move toward interactive and engaging science-based lessons they hope will save lives.
  States including Ohio and New York have pass
  
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• Trump expected to sign directive halting refugee flows to US

  27-01-2017 18:08 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday intended to sign an executive action Friday temporarily halting the flow of refugees into the United Sates and stopping all entries from some majority-Muslim nations, his spokesman said.
  A draft of the order obtained by The Associated Press also includes an indefinite ban on accepting Syrian refugees, and the pause in the broader refugee program extends for 120 days.
  Trump campaigned on a pledge to put in place “extreme vetting&rdquo
  
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• NASA opens exhibit on 50th anniversary of Apollo 1 fire

  27-01-2017 18:03 via krqe.com
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is opening an exhibit honoring the astronauts in the Apollo 1 fire — 50 years to the day they died.
  The hatch from the burning spacecraft is the main draw. It had been concealed, along with the capsule, for a half-century. On Friday’s anniversary, the hatch that trapped Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee inside their capsule at the launch pad is finally going on display.
  The public exhibit at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center also includ
  
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• Updated: AP WAS THERE: 50 years ago, AP reported on fatal Apollo fire

  27-01-2017 17:34
  
  CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. — The three Apollo I astronauts were killed tonight by a flash fire that trapped them aboard the huge spacecraft designed to take man to the moon by 1970. Locked behind sealed hatches and killed instantly just 218 feet above the ground were: Air Force Lt. Col. Virgil (Gus) Grissom, a space […]
  
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• Ex-Houston school board member must pay up to $2.1M penalty

  27-01-2017 17:34
  
  HOUSTON — A federal judge has determined a former longtime Houston school trustee is liable for as much as $2.1 million in civil damages for participating in a scheme that withheld school contracts unless bribes were paid. The Houston Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/2jmt16U ) U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison on Thursday determined the amount of liability […]
  
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• Deer defense! Man fights speeding ticket with novel argument

  27-01-2017 17:33
  
  A Massachusetts man fighting a speeding ticket in court had a unique explanation - the officer's radar gun may have…
  
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• 9-year-old struck, killed in Colorado Springs crosswalk

  27-01-2017 17:26
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A 9-year-old girl has died after she was struck by a pickup truck while crossing a Colorado Springs crosswalk. The Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/2jxk4ut ) that a 45-year-old man was cited Thursday for careless driving involving death and careless driving causing bodily injury for the Tuesday crash that killed Alexa Jaimes. Neither […]
  
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• Updated: Trump expected to sign directive halting refugee flows to US

  27-01-2017 17:21
  
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday intended to sign an executive action Friday temporarily halting the flow of refugees into the United Sates and stopping all entries from some majority-Muslim nations, his spokesman said. A draft of the order obtained by The Associated Press also includes an indefinite ban on accepting Syrian refugees, and […]
  
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• Chelsea Manning’s attorney responds to Trump’s ‘ungrateful traitor’ tweet

  27-01-2017 16:02
  
  The Albuquerque attorney for convicted military analyst and leaker Chelsea Manning is blasting President Trump for calling Manning a traitor.
  
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• New Mexico budget woes stifle tourism ad campaign

  27-01-2017 16:01 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico officials say they will not be able to expand the state’s tourism advertisement campaign because of government budgeting woes.
  The New Mexican reports that the New Mexico True ads have been praised for spotlighting the state’s culture, people and natural resources. Tourism Secretary Rebecca Latham says the ads wont’ be shown in new markets for financial reasons.
  Latham also says her agency is still spending more than ever to promote the st
  
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• Five myths about the White House press corps

  27-01-2017 15:52
  
  When 27-year-old reporter William W. Price came to Washington from South Carolina in 1895, there was no such thing as a White House beat. Then Price, working for the Washington Evening Star, began calling himself a “White House correspondent” and getting stories about President Grover Cleveland, and a beat was born. Today, White House reporters […]
  
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• Updated: Craigslist founder donates $500K to curb Wikipedia trolls

  27-01-2017 15:46
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — Craigslist founder Craig Newmark is donating $500,000 to help curb harassment on Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation announced Thursday that money from the Craig Newmark Foundation and Craigslist’s Charitable Fund will go toward tools for Wikipedia’s staff and volunteer editors to reduce harassment on the user-generated encyclopedia site. The Wikimedia Foundation says online […]
  
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• Updated: Bear this in mind: Missing panda is probably still in zoo

  27-01-2017 15:45
  
  NORFOLK, Va. — The search for Sunny, the missing red panda, has spanned wide distances, but authorities believe the tree-dwelling animal probably hasn’t left the grounds of the Virginia Zoo in Norfolk. Newport News sheriff’s deputy Tommy Blyth told The Virginian-Pilot (http://bit.ly/2jbIECD ) on Thursday that search dogs haven’t given any indication that Sunny has […]
  
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• beWellnm urging New Mexicans to enroll for coverage

  27-01-2017 15:44 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – With just a week in oval office, President Donald Trump is working to make good on campaign promises to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
  So far, the U.S. Senate has passed a budget resolution paving the way for official legislation and on his first day as president, Trump signed a broad executive order “minimizing the economic burden of the Affordable Care Act.”
  Officials with beWellnm say New Mexicans need to go forth with business as usua
  
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• Markets Right Now: US indexes barely budge in early trade

  27-01-2017 15:43
  
  NEW YORK — The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 9:35 a.m. Stock indexes are barely budging in early trading on Wall Street as investors look over a large batch of earnings reports from U.S. companies. Chevron slumped 3 percent after reporting fourth-quarter results that missed analysts’ estimates. Intel rose 2 percent […]
  
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• DC’s March for Life to highlight gains by abortion opponents

  27-01-2017 15:41 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time in years, abortion opponents will have all the political momentum when they hold their annual rally Friday on the National Mall.
  The March for Life, held each year in Washington to mark the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, will have one of its biggest-name speakers in years: Vice President Mike Pence.
  The March for Life said that neither a president nor a vice president has ever addressed the event now in its 44th year
  
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• Virginia Tech to mark 10 years after deadly campus shooting

  27-01-2017 15:37 via krqe.com
  
  BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Virginia Tech says the 10th anniversary of the shooting on its campus that killed 32 people will be marked with three days of events.
  The school says in a statement that events and tributes will culminate on April 16, the shooting’s tenth anniversary.
  The school says that on April 14, a campus arts center will host a “Performance in Remembrance” with student performers including a wind ensemble, choirs and dancers.
  On April 15, the school will host
  
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• Bear this in mind: Missing panda is probably still in zoo

  27-01-2017 15:35
  
  The search for Sunny, the missing red panda, has spanned wide distances, but authorities believe the tree-dwelling animal probably hasn't…
  
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• National organization examines Bernalillo County operations

  27-01-2017 15:21 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The National Association of Counties says Bernalillo County is doing something right. So much so that they have chosen them as one of the counties they examine in a peer exchange.
  The group arrived in Albuquerque on Thursday for the two-day exercise. In that time, they have been looking at everything from how the county deals with everything from behavioral health concerns to controlling jail populations.
  According to the president of the organization, they
  
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• Local man plays lead role in Hollywood film

  27-01-2017 15:06 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – One local man is making his way to Hollywood with a new feature film.
  Dances With Werewolves tells the story of a troubled paranormal investigator who finds himself in a deadly love triangle with a battered-women werewolf.
  Lead actor of the film, Omar Paz Trujillo, joined KRQE This Morning to talk about his film.
  On Friday, January 27, Jean Cocteau Cinema is hosting a special screening of the film starting at 9 p.m. Trujillo along with other cast and crew me
  
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• Gas hose adapter crashes into driver’s windshield

  27-01-2017 15:05
  
  An Albuquerque man said he feels lucky to be alive after a gas hose adapter landed on his windshield on I-25.
  
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