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• Lawsuits filed by opponents of ART project dropped in joint decision

  21-02-2017 23:49 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – KRQE News 13 has learned a joint decision has been reached between the Federal Transit Administration and opponents of the Albuquerque Rapid Transit project, dropping the two lawsuits filed last year against ART.
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  Official construction on the controversial ART project began last October.
  Last year, opponents filed two lawsuits, hoping a federal judge would stop construction until there was a ruling. How
  
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• Community leaders show support for troubled charter school

  21-02-2017 23:06 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Some community leaders are stepping up to show their support for a charter school the state is looking to close.
  The state’s Public Education Department is moving forward with the process to revoke the Charter for La Promesa.
  An audit shows serious questions about the school’s finances. The audit was launched after the former founder and Albuquerque Public Schools Board Member Analee Maestas sent a cleaning crew to her home and paid for it with school
  
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• American unveils prices, routes for new cheapest fare

  21-02-2017 21:57 via krqe.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines has begun selling cheaper “basic economy” fares as it battles discount airlines for the most budget-conscious travelers.
  American announced Tuesday that it began selling the new fares for flights starting March 1 on 10 different routes from its hub airports in Dallas, Miami, Philadelphia and Charlotte, North Carolina.
  With a basic-economy fare on American you can’t pick your seat when you buy the ticket, you’re in the last group to bo
  
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• Police responding to reports of gunfire at Houston hospital

  21-02-2017 21:53 via krqe.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Police in Houston are responding to reports of shots fired inside a hospital at Houston’s Texas Medical Center.
  Houston police spokesman Kese Smith says authorities have no immediate word of anyone being wounded. He says authorities began receiving reports shortly after 2 p.m. Tuesday.
  Smith says officers and a SWAT team were responding to the scene at Ben Taub Hospital, one of the hospitals that’s part of the Medical Center. Ben Taub is one of the major trauma c
  
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• Houston police: No injuries amid reports of hospital gunfire

  21-02-2017 21:53 via krqe.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — No one was found injured and there was no evidence that a shooting happened amid reports of gunfire Tuesday inside a hospital at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, authorities said.
  “I can’t say there was no shooting,” Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said. “I am confident if there was a threat, that threat is not present here now. We have thoroughly searched this facility on more than one occasion. There is no reason to fear.”
  He said dogs tr
  
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• Milo Yiannopoulos apologizes for remarks, quits Breitbart

  21-02-2017 21:46 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Polarizing right-wing writer Milo Yiannopoulos resigned as an editor at Breitbart News on Tuesday and apologized for comments he had made about sexual relationships between boys and men.
  Yiannopoulos, speaking to reporters, said that two men, including a priest, had touched him inappropriately when he was between the ages of 13 and 16.
  “My experiences as a victim led me to believe I could say anything I wanted to on this subject, no matter how outrageous,” he sa
  
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• Pet adoption event to be held at Rock and Brews Sunday

  21-02-2017 21:29
  
  The no-kill shelter Watermelon Mountain Ranch is teaming up with BarkHappy at Rock & Brews for special Mardi Gras "Pawty" on Sunday, February 26.
  
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• UN says upcoming Syria talks aimed at ‘political transition’

  21-02-2017 21:21 via krqe.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — A top adviser to the U.N. envoy for Syria said Tuesday that their “main guidance” for the first Syrian peace talks in 10 months will be a Security Council resolution that calls for a political transition.
  U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura is putting the “finishing touches on arrangements” for Thursday’s start of talks in Geneva between the government and the opposition, the fourth round since early last year, his chief of staff, Michael Contet, told
  
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• Las Cruces police: Restaurant robbery staged by ex-employee

  21-02-2017 21:19 via krqe.com
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) – A former employee who reported an armed robbery at a Las Cruces restaurant allegedly is the person who planned the crime and conspired with relatives to stage it.
  Las Cruces police say the 26-year-old woman arranged with two relatives to stage the armed robbery at knife-point in order to steal cash and change from the Subway store.
  Police say the two intruders took an undisclosed amount of money from the cash register last Tuesday.
  They say the stolen money has been
  
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• Wells Fargo fires 4 senior managers in sales scandal inquiry

  21-02-2017 21:17 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Wells Fargo’s board of directors fired four senior managers as part of its investigation into the bank’s sales practices scandal.
  Tuesday’s announcement is the first public firing of managers and executives since Wells acknowledged in September that its employees opened up to 2 million bank and credit card accounts without customer authorization in order to meet lofty sales goals.
  When the scandal first broke, Wells had said it had fired roughly 5,300 empl
  
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• Shooting gets underway for Han Solo ‘Star Wars’ film

  21-02-2017 21:14 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Alden Ehrenreich has taken control of the Millennium Falcon. The Han Solo “Star Wars” spin-off has begun production.
  The Walt Disney Co. announced Tuesday that shooting began at London’s Pinewood Studios on Monday. To kick off the untitled Han Solo movie, the studio released a photo of the cast at the controls of the Millennium Falcon. Ehrenreich, who plays a younger version of Harrison Ford’s iconic smuggler, is seated amid cast members including Wo
  
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• Vandals tag anti-Trump art exhibit in downtown Albuquerque

  21-02-2017 20:10 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – After only three days up actor Shia LaBeouf’s controversial art exhibit in downtown Albuquerque has been vandalized.
  The project titled, “he will not divide us” attached to the El Rey Theater was covered in pink graffiti. The words “reject false idols” were written over it.
  The exhibit is a collaboration between LaBeouf and artists to protest President Trump and his policies.
  The goal is for people to voice their opinions in the live
  
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• Santa Fe Police Department starts misconduct investigation into sergeant

  21-02-2017 20:01 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – An internal investigation has been launched into a Santa Fe police sergeant because of his personal Facebook posts.
  Chief Patrick Gallagher says the inquiry into Sergeant Troy Baker was opened Monday after he was made aware of the posts. Baker is also the Police Union Chief.
  One of the post says quote, “all lives splatter, nobody cares about your protest”. There is also one mocking the transgender population and another about Islam.
  The chief says the in
  
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• Santa Fe Police Department launches misconduct investigation into sergeant

  21-02-2017 20:01 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – An internal investigation has been launched into a Santa Fe police sergeant because of his personal Facebook posts.
  Chief Patrick Gallagher says the inquiry into Sergeant Troy Baker was opened Monday after he was made aware of the posts. Baker is also the Police Union Chief.
  One of the post says quote, “all lives splatter, nobody cares about your protest.” There is also one mocking the transgender population and another about Islam.
  The chief says the in
  
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• Police release video of woman’s cartwheels during DWI stop

  21-02-2017 19:57
  
    Albuquerque police on Tuesday released police lapel camera footage of a sobriety test of a suspect who was arrested after she kept doing cartwheels during the test. The video shows an officer try to get Bryelle Marshall, 23, to face one direction and do a “walk and turn” test. But Marshall kept raising her […]
  
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• New Mexico bill would ban drones near power plants, airports

  21-02-2017 19:49 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – A New Mexico lawmaker has proposed banning drones from flying within 500 feet of power plants, refineries and other such critical infrastructure facilities.
  Violations under the bill by Republican Sen. Greg Baca of Belen would be misdemeanors.
  While noting there are federal regulations governing drone usage, Baca says it’s important for the state to have regulations protecting critical facilities.
  Other such critical facilities include airports, government bu
  
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• 4 elected officials want more time for La Promesa charter

  21-02-2017 19:32
  
  Four local elected officials rallied for La Promesa Early Learning Center this morning, appealing to ...
  
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• Updated: Lakers fire Kupchak, put Magic in charge of basketball ops

  21-02-2017 19:28
  
  LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Lakers fired general manager Mitch Kupchak on Tuesday and put Magic Johnson in charge of basketball operations in a major shake-up of the struggling franchise’s front office. Lakers owner Jeanie Buss also removed her brother, Jim, from his job as the Lakers’ executive vice president of basketball operations. Jeanie […]
  
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• US to expand pool of people targeted for deportation

  21-02-2017 19:25 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is greatly expanding the number of people living in the U.S. illegally who are considered a priority for deportation, including people arrested for traffic violations, according to agency documents released Tuesday.
  The documents represent a sweeping rewrite of the nation’s immigration enforcement priorities.
  The Homeland Security Department memos, signed by Secretary John Kelly, lay out that any immigrant living in the United States illegal
  
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• Updated: Follow that horse: German police track manure to culprit

  21-02-2017 19:14
  
  Police in Bavaria say they were able to track down a man responsible for a hit-and-run by following the hoof…
  
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• Updated: Kellogg's unveils Pop-Tarts pizza, tacos at NYC cafe

  21-02-2017 19:03
  
  Pop-Tarts might not just be for breakfast anymore. Kellogg's is giving the public a taste of some unique flavor combinations…
  
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• More tests needed on Russian UN ambassador’s cause of death

  21-02-2017 18:29 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Medical examiners who performed an autopsy on Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations said Tuesday that more tests are needed to determine how and why he fell ill in his office and later died.
  Vitaly Churkin, who died Monday, a day before his 65th birthday, had been Russia’s envoy at the U.N. since 2006. He was the longest-serving ambassador on the Security Council, the U.N.’s most powerful body.
  New York City’s medical examiners concluded Churkin&
  
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• Death of Russian ambassador to UN needs to be studied more

  21-02-2017 18:29 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The cause and manner of death of Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations needs to be studied further, the city medical examiner said Tuesday, a day after the diplomat fell ill at his office at Russia’s U.N. mission and died at a hospital.
  Further study usually includes toxicology and other screenings, which can take weeks. The case was referred to the medical examiner’s office by the hospital, spokeswoman Julie Bolcer said.
  Vitaly Churkin, who died a day
  
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• Autopsy set for Russian ambassador to UN after sudden death

  21-02-2017 18:29 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The city medical examiner was expected to perform an autopsy Tuesday on Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, who died a day earlier after falling ill at his office at Russia’s U.N. mission.
  Spokeswoman Julie Bolcer said the case was referred to the office by the hospital. The medical examiner is responsible for investigating deaths that occur by criminal violence, accident, suicide, suddenly or when the person seemed healthy, or if someone died in any unus
  
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• Teenage Iranian chess master banned from national team for refusing to wear a headscarf

  21-02-2017 18:27
  
  To most observers, nothing stood out about Dorsa Derakhshani last month when she competed at the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival. The 18-year-old female grand master fared fine on the board, twice using the Four Knights defense, and looked like any other teenager you might see in the British territory that borders southern Spain. But to […]
  
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• If college liberals are so naive, why did the campus right fall for Yiannopoulos?

  21-02-2017 18:26
  
  I promised myself that I’d spend less less of 2017 dissecting the provocations of assorted jerks and frauds. I held out for a while. But as Milo Yiannopoulos’s reign as the latest conservative enfant terrible crumbled this weekend over video of him suggesting that very young teenagers can consent to sex with adults, with organizers […]
  
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• A Trump wine boycott backfires spectacularly

  21-02-2017 18:25
  
  They tried to stop Donald Trump in the primaries. Old story. They tried to stop him on Election Day. Everyone knows how that turned out. With Trump in the White House and their options dwindling, the president’s opponents finally tried to #StopTrumpWine. Want to guess how that’s going? To be fair, the National Organization for […]
  
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• Updated: Three D.C. monuments damaged with graffiti over holiday weekend

  21-02-2017 18:21
  
  The Washington Monument and the World War II and Lincoln memorials were damaged by graffiti over the holiday weekend, officials said. U.S. Park Police and National Park Service officials said the three sites had graffiti markings that were similar in nature and not considered to be political or racial. Some of the words in the […]
  
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• On his 93rd birthday, Robert Mugabe says of Trump: ‘Give him time’

  21-02-2017 18:21
  
  Ahead of his 93rd birthday on Tuesday, longtime Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe offered his thoughts on President Trump. “I do not know him. Give him time,” Mugabe said during an interview with state television, the Zimbabwe Herald reported Monday. The Zimbabwean president also suggested that Trump might reexamine long-standing U.S. sanctions on Zimbabwe. In the […]
  
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• Supreme Court seems split in case of boy’s death near border

  21-02-2017 16:56 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appears to be evenly divided about the right of Mexican parents to use American courts to sue a U.S. Border Patrol agent who fired across the U.S.-Mexican border and killed their teenage son.
  Justice Anthony Kennedy and other conservative justices suggested during argument Tuesday that the boy’s death on the Mexican side of the border was enough to keep the matter out of U.S. courts.
  The four liberal justices indicated they would support the parent
  
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• Almost 1.4 million children face ‘imminent death:’ UN agency

  21-02-2017 16:55 via krqe.com
  
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The United Nations children’s agency is warning that almost 1.4 million children are at “imminent risk of death” as famine threatens parts of South Sudan, Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen.
  The UNICEF announcement comes a day after famine was declared in parts of Unity state in South Sudan, where civil war has raged since late 2013 and where severe inflation has made food unaffordable for many.
  UNICEF for months has warned about severe malnutrition in northea
  
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• Updated: Wal-Mart earnings fall, but online sales surge

  21-02-2017 16:40
  
  NEW YORK — Wal-Mart drew more shoppers to its namesake stores in the United States and its e-commerce sales soared, signs that its efforts to lower prices and improve web services are helping it compete better against online leader Amazon. The company saw the biggest gain in a key revenue measure in its U.S business […]
  
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• Updated: US stocks start week at new highs on deals and earnings

  21-02-2017 16:40
  
  NEW YORK — Stocks are breaking records again Tuesday. Energy companies are rising more than the rest of the market. Consumer goods giant Kraft Heinz is falling after it withdrew a $143 billion offer for competition Unilever, but several other food and household goods makers are rising as investors bet Kraft will make an offer […]
  
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• Updated: Burger King, Tim Hortons parent to buy Popeyes for $1.8B

  21-02-2017 16:40
  
  NEW YORK — Restaurant Brands International says it’ll pay $1.8 billion for Popeyes, bringing the fried chicken chain under the same corporate umbrella as Burger King and Tim Hortons. The move fits Restaurant Brands’ strategy of taking over well-known fast-food chains that it believes have the potential for wider expansion. The deal gives Popeyes shareholders […]
  
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• Trump denounces ‘horrible’ threats against Jewish centers

  21-02-2017 16:30 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday denounced recent threats against Jewish community centers as “horrible” and “painful” and said more must be done “to root out hate and prejudice and evil.”
  Trump made the remarks after touring the newly opened National Museum of African American History and Culture.
  “This tour was a meaningful reminder of why we have to fight bigotry, intolerance and hatred in all of its very ugly forms,” Tr
  
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• Trump denounces anti-Semitism; newly forceful condemnation

  21-02-2017 16:30 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday condemned recent threats against Jewish community centers in the U.S. as “painful reminders” of lingering prejudice and evil, his first full-throated comments on the rise of anti-Semitic venom after pressure for him to speak out forcefully.
  With his somewhat delayed denunciation, Trump sought to reset his relationship with American Jews, which has been strained by a recent White House statement on the Holocaust, comments by so
  
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• Trump denounces anti-Semitism in newly forceful condemnation

  21-02-2017 16:30 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday condemned recent threats against Jewish community centers in the U.S. as “painful reminders” of lingering prejudice and evil, his first full-throated comments on the rise of anti-Semitic venom after pressure for him to speak out forcefully.
  With his somewhat delayed denunciation, Trump sought to reset his relationship with American Jews, which has been strained by a recent White House statement on the Holocaust, comments by so
  
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• Mom mails garbage to college student who didn’t empty trash

  21-02-2017 16:27
  
  NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. — A Pennsylvania college student got a reminder to take out the trash when his mother sent him some garbage in a care package. Eighteen-year-old Connor Cox tells WHTM-TV (http://bit.ly/2l3BugR ) that his mother sent two boxes to him at Westminster College in New Wilmington last month. One box contained food and […]
  
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• Jazz fusion guitarist Larry Coryell dies in NYC at age 73

  21-02-2017 16:27
  
  NEW YORK — Jazz guitarist Larry Coryell, known as the “Godfather of Fusion,” has died in New York City. He was 73. His publicist, Kurt Nishimura, said Coryell died Sunday in his hotel room of natural causes. Nishimura says he had just performed two shows at the Iridium on Friday and Saturday. Coryell grew up […]
  
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• Global stocks turn higher on strong economic indicators

  21-02-2017 15:41 via krqe.com
  
  BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets mostly turned higher on Tuesday after surveys pointed to robust economic growth in Europe and Japan, regions that have stagnated in recent years.
  KEEPING SCORE: Germany’s DAX advanced 0.6 percent to 11,895 while France’s CAC 40 rose 0.3 percent to 4,880. London’s FTSE 100 retreated 0.2 percent to 7,288. On Wall Street, the future for the Dow was up 0.3 percent while that for the S&P 500 advanced 0.2 percent, suggesting gains after t
  
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• Levee fixed in California’s central valley, evacuation stays

  21-02-2017 15:36 via krqe.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An evacuation order remains in place Tuesday morning though San Joaquin County crews have stabilized a breached levee and at least temporarily halted the leak.
  Forecasters say a flash flood warning remains in effect.
  The levee break along the San Joaquin River prompted an evacuation order Monday for about 500 people living in mainly ranch and farmlands near Manteca.
  “When the water gets that high and more water is coming, there is just too much pressure and levee
  
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• Hundreds rescued from California floodwaters in San Jose

  21-02-2017 15:36 via krqe.com
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Rescuers chest-deep in water steered boats full of people, some with babies and pets, from a San Jose neighborhood inundated Tuesday by water from an overflowing creek.
  Further north, farmers used tractors to shore up an endangered levee in California’s agricultural heartland, officials opened a spillway at the Don Pedro reservoir for the first time in 20 years, and a Sierra Nevada highway threatened to collapse after the latest downpours swelled waterways, le
  
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• Dozens rescued in California from San Jose floodwaters

  21-02-2017 15:36 via krqe.com
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Rescuers chest-deep in water steered boats carrying dozens of people, some with babies and pets, from a San Jose neighborhood inundated by water from an overflowing creek Tuesday.
  The rescued residents had to be taken to dry land and rinsed with soap and water to prevent them from being sickened by floodwaters that had traveled through engine fuel, garbage, debris and over sewer lines, San Jose Fire Capt. Mitch Matlow said.
  Only residents who could show they had bee
  
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• Dozens rescued from rising waters in San Jose neighborhood

  21-02-2017 15:36 via krqe.com
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Rescuers chest-deep in water steered boats carrying dozens of people, some with babies and pets, from a San Jose neighborhood inundated by water from an overflowing creek Tuesday.
  The rescued residents had to be taken to dry land and rinsed with soap and water to prevent them from being sickened by floodwaters that had traveled through engine fuel, garbage, debris and over sewer lines, San Jose Fire Capt. Mitch Matlow said. Only residents who could show they had bee
  
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• Creeks, rivers top banks after latest California storm

  21-02-2017 15:36 via krqe.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Creeks and rivers topped their banks, hundreds of homes were evacuated and several thousand people found themselves trapped in a rural hamlet as Northern California emerged Tuesday from yet another winter storm.
  The atmospheric river of moisture that has saturated drought-parched ground with a series of drenching storms in recent weeks returned with a vengeance to the north on Monday after briefly focusing its fury on Southern California.
  The downpours swelled watercou
  
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• 5 rescued from swollen creek as storms pummel California

  21-02-2017 15:36 via krqe.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Fire crews rescued residents from a San Jose neighborhood inundated by water from an overflowing creek Tuesday after earlier saving five people who were stranded by flooding at a homeless encampment along a creek in the city.
  The rescues came after a series of heavy storms drenched already soggy Northern California.
  The rescued residents had to be taken to dry land and rinsed off to prevent them from being sickened by floodwaters that had traveled through garbage, debr
  
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• Relax, Renew, and Recharge at The Living Spa

  21-02-2017 15:11 via krqe.com
  
  TAOS, N.M. (KRQE) – As the new year becomes not-so-new, many may find it’s time to wind down from the holidays and their resolutions by renewing themselves at The Living Spa.
  The Living Spa got its name due to its green space filled with moving water and tropical plants. The Taos spa, located at the El Monte Sagrado Resort has many recommendations on how to relax, renew, and rebalance the body.
  One suggestion is the “Day of Detox,” a 30-minute Japanese soak of either
  
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• NMNSH gears us for Spring Day Camps

  21-02-2017 15:06 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History is getting ready for their Science is Everywhere Spring Day Camps.
  Students will be able to explore sessions that include topics such as “The Code of the Robot”, “The Upside Down”, “Back in Time with Tim”, “Science Star”, “Get Glowing”,  and so much more.
  Camps will be held for those who are ages six through 12 who will experience the wonders
  
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• Tuesday’s Morning Rush Video, 5 Facts: Family of mother, daughter killed in crash file civil suit

  21-02-2017 15:02 via krqe.com
  
  The 5 Facts You Need to Know
  1. There is more trouble for the two people suspected in a stolen car crash that led to the deaths of a mother and daughter. KRQE News 13 has learned a civil lawsuit has been filed by the family of the victims, Shaylee Boling and her mother Shauna. In it, the family goes after Paul Garcia and the alleged driver Elexus Groves for negligent use of the stolen car. Both are facing murder charges for the crash. The suit also goes after the employee who was assigned t
  
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• In the kitchen for Santa Fe’s Restaurant Week: TerraCotta Wine Bistro

  21-02-2017 15:01 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s the eighth year the state has showcased the region’s remarkable restaurants with a highly anticipated event.
  New Mexico Restaurant Week has helped to boost restaurant business and local restaurants all over the state are participating by offering up their best plates.
  Restaurants are encouraged to put their “best food forward” to entice customers from all over the state to visit for the first time or hopefully return.
  Eighty restaur
  
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