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• Albuquerque doctor arrested on child prostitution charges

  10-02-2017 23:54 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A local surgeon is facing human trafficking and other charges for allegedly trying to have sex with a minor. He was arrested during an undercover operation.
  Glenroy Heywood was arrested Wednesday for attempting to have sex with a juvenile.
  “We post an ad on social media, people would then contact that ad. That ad was very clear that this was child prostitution,” said Detective Trevor Weeks of the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department.
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• Deputies: man tosses small poodle to its death

  10-02-2017 22:14
  
  Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested a man this week in connection with extrem ...
  
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• Updated: Trump’s comments likely to cause heartburn for US lawyers

  10-02-2017 22:03
  
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump lobs verbal bombshells on Twitter. He criticizes federal judges overseeing his court cases. And he openly discusses pending legal matters on which lawyers usually advise their clients to stay mum. That freewheeling style is uncharacteristic for an American president. It is also complicating efforts of the Justice Department attorneys who […]
  
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• Updated: Trump’s comments likely to cause heartburn for his lawyers

  10-02-2017 22:03
  
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump lobs verbal bombshells on Twitter. He criticizes federal judges overseeing his court cases. And he openly discusses pending legal matters on which lawyers usually advise their clients to stay mum. That freewheeling style is uncharacteristic for an American president. It is also complicating efforts of the Justice Department attorneys who […]
  
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• Gallup judge gives man 30 years for child rape, pornography

  10-02-2017 21:52
  
  Barion Ernesto Solorzano — also known as "Uncle Barion" to one of his victims — was se ...
  
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• Breaking: PEC votes to begin revocation of La Promesa charter

  10-02-2017 21:52
  
  SANTA Fe — After long, tense discussions, the Public Education Commission voted 5-3 Friday to begin ...
  
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• Suspect, carjacking victim injured after officer-involved shooting

  10-02-2017 21:26 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A scary situation unfolded this afternoon in the parking lot of a state office building.
  The Albuquerque Police Department says one of its officers opened fire to stop an attempted carjacking. The armed suspect was hit and wounded, and so was the woman he was carjacking.
  The suspect and his female victim were each shot in the leg, but police aren’t saying who shot her — just that at least one officer fired.
  Police say officers tried to arrest a suspec
  
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• Police investigate officer-involved shooting in northeast Albuquerque

  10-02-2017 21:26 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A suspected carjacker was shot — and so was his victim — after police say an officer opened fire to stop the crime. Police are still trying to work out who shot whom.
  Police say the carjacking suspect and the victim are in the hospital after they were each shot in the leg. There is still a big police presence at San Antonio near the frontage road, with the road blocked off all the way to San Pedro.
  Police say officers tried to arrest a suspect wh
  
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• Police ID carjacking suspect in officer-involved shooting

  10-02-2017 21:26 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A scary situation unfolded this afternoon in the parking lot of a state office building.
  The Albuquerque Police Department says one of its officers opened fire to stop an attempted carjacking. The armed suspect was hit and wounded, and so was the woman he was carjacking.
  Lee BrandenburgThe suspect, 41-year-old Lee Brandenburg, and his female victim were each shot in the leg, but police aren’t saying who shot her — just that at least one officer fired.
  
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• Police activity closes westbound San Antonio near I-25

  10-02-2017 21:26 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – San Antonio at the I-25 frontage road has been shut down to San Pedro due to police activity.
  Details about the incident have not been released.
  KRQE News 13 is working to get more information and will provide updates as they become available.
  Filed under: Albuquerque - Metro, Crime, Home, News, Top Stories Tagged: News App Alert, Officer Involved Shootings
  
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• New Mexico considers budget bailout for museum system

  10-02-2017 20:50 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico budget officials are seeking to ward off further layoffs and reduced services at a world renowned network of state museums and historical sites through a one-time accounting maneuver.
  The Department of Cultural Affairs said Friday that lawmakers are studying a proposal to provide $1.5 million to the agency for the current fiscal year and the budget year starting July 1 through a complex swap of unused capital outlay funds for artwork at public buildings.
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• Snow play area closed due to lack of snow

  10-02-2017 20:44 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – A popular snow play area in a national forest near Albuquerque has closed, possibly for the rest of winter, due to lack of snow caused by melting from recent warmer temperatures.
  Cibola National Forest officials say the Capulin Snow Play Area has only 6 inches of snow and ice — well short of the minimum snow base of 12 inches that officials say are required for safety and to protect vegetation on the slope.
  Officials say no new snow is expected and that a dec
  
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• Protest marks public school visit by new education secretary

  10-02-2017 20:15 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Angry activists shouted “stand up, fight back” and one protester was arrested, as Betsy Devos made her first visit to a public school Friday as education secretary.
  Several dozen protesters, some with small children, gathered at Jefferson Middle School, a predominantly African-American school in the nation’s capital. At one point, when DeVos tried to enter the school, two protesters blocked her path, forcing her to return to her car. D.C. police said one
  
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• Public Education Commission votes to consider closing La Promesa Charter School

  10-02-2017 20:05 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The state is one step closer to closing La Promesa Charter School.
  Friday, the Public Education Commission voted five to three to proceed with revocation of the school’s charter.
  The state PED has been investigating La Promesa since its founder and Albuquerque Public School Board member, Analee Maestas, used school money to send a cleaning crew to her home. She is accused of doctoring the paperwork to make it look like the job was done at the
  
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• Public Education Commission votes to close La Promesa Charter School

  10-02-2017 20:05 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The state is moving forward with the closure of La Promesa Charter School.
  Friday, the Public Education Commission voted five to three to proceed with revocation of the school’s charter.
  The state PED has been investigating La Promesa since its founder and Albuquerque Public School Board member, Analee Maestas, used school money to send a cleaning crew to her home. She is accused of doctoring the paperwork to make it look like the job was done at
  
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• Public Education Commission expected to make decision on La Promesa

  10-02-2017 20:05 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Public Education Commission is currently discussing whether or not to close a troubled Albuquerque charter school.
  The state Public Education Department has been investigating the school and the school’s founder and Albuquerque Public Schools school board member, Analee Maestas, ever since she used school money to send a cleaning crew to her home. She then doctored paperwork to make it look like the job was done at the school.
  The PEC could decide
  
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• Friday marks 27th anniversary of Las Cruces bowling alley massacre

  10-02-2017 20:05 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Friday marks the 27th anniversary of the still unsolved bowling alley massacre in Las Cruces. The mass-shooting happened back in 1990.
  Two men walked into what was then known as Las Cruces bowl off Amador Avenue. They shot seven people execution style and robbed the place. A two-year-old and six-year-old were among the victims.
  Las Cruces Crime Stoppers continues to offer a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the two men.
  The best evidence the
  
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• Lomas at Pennsylvania cleared after fatal accident

  10-02-2017 20:00
  
  UPDATE: Albuquerque police say the intersection of Lomas at Pennsylvania is cleared after a fatal accident.
  
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• Updated: Trump promises action ‘very rapidly’ after travel ban halted

  10-02-2017 19:57
  
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump promised Friday to take action “very rapidly” to protect the U.S. and its citizens, a day after a federal appeals court firmly kept his travel ban on hold. He didn’t reveal his planned next step to control travel into the U.S. from countries that he considers potential terrorist threats. “We’ll […]
  
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• US rig count increases 12 this week to 741; Texas up 7

  10-02-2017 19:39
  
  HOUSTON — The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased by 12 this week to 741. A year ago, 541 rigs were active. Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. said Friday that 591 rigs sought oil and 149 explored for natural gas this week. One was listed as […]
  
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• Chocolate from South Dakota shop in swag bag at Grammy Awards

  10-02-2017 19:36 via krqe.com
  
  DEADWOOD, S.D. (KELO) – Valentine’s Day makes February an extra busy month for those in the chocolate business but one shop in South Dakota is busy for a different reason.
  Mary “Chip” Tautkus owns Chubby Chipmunk in Deadwood.
  (KELO)Chocolate from her shop will be included in this year’s swag bags at the Grammy Awards after winning a competition.
  “It was a competition, for a wedding truffle, and we put in the butter cream, and it won, and the next thing I know,
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Trump says US committed to security of Japan

  10-02-2017 19:31
  
  WASHINGTON — The Latest on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Washington and meeting with President Donald Trump (all times local): 1:30 p.m. President Donald Trump says the U.S. is committed to the security of Japan and all areas under its administrative control. Trump’s comments imply that a U.S.-Japan defense treaty covers disputed East […]
  
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• Updated: Swiss consider citizenship for third-generation foreigners

  10-02-2017 19:30
  
  GENEVA — High-school student Selena Mercado was born in Switzerland, has gone to school in Switzerland, considers herself Swiss and dreams of a political career here one day. But her passport is from Chile, a country that she’s never set foot in but was home to her grandparents before they moved to this small Alpine […]
  
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• Nob Hill store corners market on Valentines chocolate

  10-02-2017 19:10 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s no surprise that chocolate covered strawberries are a hot ticket item for Valentines Day gifts, but the owner of the Chocolate Dude in Albuquerque’s Nob Hill said they’re so popular that they’ve already been filling orders.
  KRQE This Morning stopped by the store on Wednesday to find owner Kurt Oelsner and manager Tyneal Caster dipping the long-stemmed strawberries in chocolate. Once the initial coat was dry, they were being drizzled a
  
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• Controversial landfill project in New Mexico renews permit

  10-02-2017 18:50 via krqe.com
  
  ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) – A waste management company has filed to renew a permit for a potential hazardous waste facility near Roswell.
  The Roswell Daily Record reports that Gandy Marley Inc. filed for a renewal of its 2002 permit and says the project presents little to no environmental risk.
  The proposed hazardous waste landfill has generated opposition from environmental groups and others for more than a decade. They argue that it has potentially risky side effects and that the state agency i
  
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• Morning power outage hits NE Albuquerque

  10-02-2017 18:45
  
  PNM officials say crews responded to restore a power outage in the northeast heights area of Albuquerque near Academy and Tramway Friday morning.
  
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• Updated: An uneasy union: Couples are getting cold feet about weddings at Trump’s hotel

  10-02-2017 18:40
  
  Sarah Squire’s wedding wasn’t meant to be a political statement. But, she says, it probably seems like one now. Back when Squire booked the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., for her January nuptials, Donald Trump was one of a dozen candidates clamoring for the Republican nomination. The real estate tycoon was widely presumed to […]
  
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• After Louvre attack, France foils another terrorist plot

  10-02-2017 18:40
  
  PARIS – Four suspects were arrested in the southern French city of Montpellier in connection with plotting a terrorist attack in France, the French interior ministry announced Friday. Among the suspects were a 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl, both known to French authorities for ties to radical Islamist organizations. The attack had apparently been […]
  
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• Updated: Japanese farmers fear trade issues with US

  10-02-2017 18:39
  
  Farmers and others in the domestic agricultural industry have been shaken by President Donald Trump’s stated intention to sign a bilateral trade agreement with Japan following his decision to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) multilateral free trade pact. Behind the fears are Japan’s repeated capitulations to pressure from the United States […]
  
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• The ban on mentally ill people buying guns helps no one. Blame Democrats.

  10-02-2017 18:39
  
  Republicans are moving to eliminate a rule instituted by the Obama administration that prevented certain people with mental illnesses from buying guns. As a researcher on firearms policy and mental health, I opposed the rule when it was first established. It wasn’t supported by evidence, and it was far too broad. Now, Republicans are unlikely […]
  
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• Erasing yourself from the Internet is nearly impossible. But here’s how you can try.

  10-02-2017 18:39
  
  For those of us who spend a lot of time on the Internet, there will be the occasional urge to simply disappear – delete your accounts, roll back your Google results and become invisible. At this particular moment in time, a lot of people seem to be interested in making that a reality – or […]
  
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• Takata expecting red ink from US air-bag recall fine

  10-02-2017 18:08 via krqe.com
  
  TOKYO (AP) — Takata Corp., the Japanese manufacturer at the center of massive air bag recalls, reported Friday that fines in the U.S. will push it into the red for the fiscal year through March.
  Tokyo-based Takata said Friday that instead of posting a 20 billion yen ($176 million) annual profit, as it had earlier projected, it will sink into a 64 billion yen ($562 million) loss.
  Last month, Takata agreed to plead guilty to a single U.S. criminal charge and pay $1 billion in fines and resti
  
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• Russian Olympic champion Maria Savinova stripped of gold medal, banned

  10-02-2017 18:05 via krqe.com
  
  LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Russian runner Maria Savinova was stripped of her 2012 Olympic gold medal for doping on Friday, putting Caster Semenya in line to become a two-time champion.
  Savinova, who won the 800-meter title at the London Games ahead of Semenya, was also banned for four years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
  CAS said the 31-year-old Savinova was “found to have been engaged in using doping” from July 2010 until August 2013.
  In 2014, Savinova was caught in
  
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• Official: Flynn not ‘certain’ on sanctions talk with Russia

  10-02-2017 17:55 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s national security adviser addressed U.S. sanctions against Russia in his conversations with the country’s ambassador while President Barack Obama was still in office, a new report said, contradicting previous claims that the issue was not discussed.
  A Trump administration official told The Associated Press that Michael Flynn “can’t be certain” that sanctions did not come up in his discussions with the Russian ambassad
  
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• Updated: How Google Chromebooks conquered schools

  10-02-2017 16:51
  
  NEW YORK — The Google Chromebook, a type of stripped-down laptop, isn’t a practical mobile device for many people — mostly because it basically turns into an expensive paperweight whenever it can’t find a Wi-Fi connection. Yet Chromebooks have defied expectations and made major inroads in an unexpected environment — U.S. schools. In retrospect, that […]
  
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• Updated: US stock indexes extend climb into record heights

  10-02-2017 16:49
  
  U.S. stock indexes extended their climb into record heights early Friday, powered by rising energy prices. Oil and gas companies led the gainers as the price of crude oil headed higher. Utilities slid. Investors kept their focus on strong fourth quarter earnings and corporate deal news. KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average rose 51 […]
  
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• Sound of snowblowers, scrapers replace storm’s howling winds

  10-02-2017 16:49 via krqe.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The howling winds of the biggest snowstorm this winter to hit the Northeast were replaced Friday by the growl of snowblowers and scraping of shovels.
  Sunshine graced the region, following blizzard conditions that dropped a foot and a half of snow in New England and eastern New York on Thursday. Temperatures were cold, though, in the teens that felt even colder with the wind chill.
  East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and East Hartford, Connecticut, hit the jackpot, each with 19 in
  
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• Northeast starts to dig out from its biggest storm of season

  10-02-2017 16:49 via krqe.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The Northeast is digging out from a winter storm that dumped a foot or more of snow along the New York-to-Boston corridor, forced the cancellation of schools in cities big and small and grounded thousands of flights.
  The storm Thursday came a day after temperatures soared into the 50s and 60s, giving millions of people a taste of spring. But then it was back to reality.
  “We were waiting for a good one all year,” said Morgan Crum, a manager at Katz Ace Hardware in
  
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• After midweek wallop, New England prepares for more snow

  10-02-2017 16:49 via krqe.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — More snow will likely blanket New England this weekend even as the region shoveled and scraped its way out Friday after the biggest snowstorm this winter hit the Northeast.
  The National Weather Service forecast several more inches of snow on Saturday for the region and predicted possible accumulations by Monday of up to 9 inches in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island and up to 18 inches in the northern three states.
  “There’s going to be a significant event
  
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• Updated: Follow that car! Toll-collecting bureaus step up enforcement

  10-02-2017 16:36
  
  TRENTON, N.J. — No one likes to pay tolls, some more so than others. And toll-collection agencies across the country are fed up. Some drivers blatantly zip through toll gates without paying. Others get more creative, like the truck driver accused of using fishing line to flip his license plate to avoid capture, or the […]
  
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• Philadelphia DA won’t seek re-election amid FBI probe

  10-02-2017 16:36
  
  PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams has announced he won’t run for a third term amid an FBI probe into $160,000 worth of gifts he initially failed to report. Reports show the gifts included a new roof, a $2,700 couch and luxury vacations. He has agreed to pay $62,000 in related fines. The 50-year-old […]
  
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• Grammys add 1st man, transgender woman as trophy presenters

  10-02-2017 16:34 via krqe.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — At Sunday’s Grammys, a man and a transgender woman will join the so-called trophy girls who bring music’s top honors onstage.
  It’s a change that puts the Grammys in the front ranks of awards diversity.
  “To be honest, the idea of a ‘trophy girl’ has felt antiquated for some time now,” Neil Portnow, president of the Recording Academy, said in a statement Friday. “Who wrote that rule anyway? The ability to present a trophy has
  
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• New Mexico lawmakers trim slate of electoral reforms

  10-02-2017 16:32 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico lawmakers have trimmed down a slate of bills designed to open up elections to greater participation by independent voters and candidates.
  A proposed was withdrawn Thursday for a constitutional amendment to create a “top-two” primary system where all candidates compete on one ballot with a two-person general election runoff, regardless of party affiliations.
  Members of a legislative committee overseeing elections declined to advance that measure.
  
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• Fort Bliss soldier gets 15 months for immigrant smuggling

  10-02-2017 16:14 via krqe.com
  
  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A Fort Bliss soldier has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for trying to smuggle two immigrants through a South Texas border checkpoint.
  Joseph Edmond Cleveland of El Paso was sentenced Thursday in Corpus Christi.
  Cleveland pleaded guilty to conspiracy-related human smuggling counts. Officials say Cleveland tried to use his military status to drive two immigrants through the Falfurrias checkpoint last June.
  Cleveland and another Fort Bliss soldier,
  
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• Pair accused of stealing car, killing mother and daughter expected in court

  10-02-2017 15:56 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – They’re accused of stealing a van and leading police on a chase ending in a crash that would ultimately kill a mother and her daughter. On Friday, they’re expected to go in front of a judge.
  Both Paul Garcia and Elexus Groves are scheduled to be in District Court for their arraignment.
  Their court appearance comes just days after authorities were finally able to arrest Garcia at a McDonald’s in Edgewood. He was on the run for weeks with authorit
  
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• Man accused of stealing car, killing mother and daughter to stay behind bars

  10-02-2017 15:56 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The suspected car thief accused of killing an Albuquerque mother and her teenage daughter will stay in jail until his trial.
  The judge decided Friday to hold Paul Garcia on no bond. Garcia pleaded not guilty to double murder for the crash that killed a Sandia High School freshman and her mom last month.
  Garcia’s defense asked the judge for the possibility to bond out. But the state asked the judge to hold Garcia on no bond or a high cash only bond saying Ga
  
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• Lomas at Pennsylvania reopens after fatal crash

  10-02-2017 15:24 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Lomas at Pennsylvania was shut down Friday after a fatal crash.The Albuquerque Police Department says one person was killed in the crash and at least one other person was taken to the hospital.
  APD has not released any information as to what caused the crash. The victim’s name has also not been released.Intersection of Pennsylvania / Lomas is now open.
  — Albuquerque Police (@ABQPOLICE) February 10, 2017All WB and EB traffic shut down Pennsylvania
  
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• Fatal crash shuts down Lomas at Pennsylvania

  10-02-2017 15:24 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A fatal rollover crash has shut down Lomas at Pennsylvania.
  At this time, the Albuquerque Police Department and the Albuquerque Fire Department are on scene.
  APD says one person was killed in the crash and at least one other person was taken to the hospital.
  Drivers should expect delays or seek an alternative route.
  KRQE News 13 will provide updates as they become available.
  Get more traffic updates here »All WB and EB traffic shut down Pennsylvania /
  
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• Cottonwood Mall offers one stop shopping for Valentines Day

  10-02-2017 15:10 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Valentine’s Day is rounding the corner and it’s time to get everything in order from gifts for your sweetheart and what you are going to wear on that night out.
  Cottonwood Mall is your one stop shop for the day of love from jewelry to gift baskets and the perfect attire for the whole family.
  Cottonwood Mall’s General Manager, B Janecka, joined KRQE’s This Morning team to talk about everything available for Valentine’s Day.
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• Friday’s Morning Rush Video, 5 Facts: President Trump’s travel ban still on hold

  10-02-2017 15:08 via krqe.com
  
  The 5 Facts You Need to Know
  1. People from seven majority-Muslim countries can continue entering the country. President Trump’s travel ban remains on hold after a U.S. Appeals court refused to reinstate the executive order. The government has 14 days to ask the court to reconsider or file an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court. The president could also reissue the executive order with some fixes.  Also, new Health Secretary Tom Price could take the oath of office as early as
  
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