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• Trump says US ‘must be paid more’ to defend Germany

  18-03-2017 23:55 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that Germany owes “vast sums of money” to NATO and the U.S. “must be paid more” for providing defense, reiterating his stance that European allies need to meet their end of the bargain if they are to continue benefiting from the military alliance.
  Trump’s tweet from his Florida resort, where he is spending the weekend, came the day after his first meeting with Germany’s leader.
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• Republicans at odds over how to overhaul Medicaid

  18-03-2017 23:55 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House GOP health care bill has competition from other Republicans, a group of governors who’ve made their own proposal about how to overhaul Medicaid for low-income people. They’re hoping GOP senators will find their ideas more persuasive.
  It’s a gradual approach, with additional options for states. It’s likely to involve more federal spending than the House bill, but also keep more people covered. In the end, though, the governors are still ta
  
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• Trump sticks to unproved wiretap accusation against Obama

  18-03-2017 23:54 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump defiantly refused to back down from his explosive claim that Barack Obama wiretapped his phones, and sidestepped any blame for the White House decision to highlight an unverified report that Britain helped carry out the alleged surveillance.
  In brushing off the diplomatic row with perhaps America’s closest ally, Trump also revived another: the Obama administration’s monitoring of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s calls.
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• Top economies yield to US, drop no-protectionism pledge

  18-03-2017 23:54 via krqe.com
  
  BADEN-BADEN, Germany (AP) — The world’s top economic powers dropped a pledge to oppose trade protectionism amid pushback from the Trump administration, which wants trade to more clearly benefit American companies and workers.
  Finance ministers from the Group of 20 countries meeting in the southern German town of Baden-Baden issued a statement Saturday that said only that countries “are working to strengthen the contribution of trade” to their economies.
  By comparison, las
  
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• Aggie women’s upset bid vs. Stanford falls just short

  18-03-2017 23:26
  
  MANHATTAN, Kan. — Stanford spent most of its NCAA Tournament opener against New Mexico State on Saturday looking a bit lost, which made sense considering the Cardinal were playing about 1,800 miles from home. They found their way just in time. Alanna Smith had 19 points and 11 rebounds, Karlie Samuelson hit five 3-pointers and […]
  
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• Google hopes to improve search quality with ‘offensive’ flag

  18-03-2017 22:52 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Google is trying to improve the quality of its search results by directing review teams to flag content that might come across as upsetting or offensive.
  With the change, content with racial slurs could now get flagged under a new category called “upsetting-offensive.” So could content that promotes hate or violence against a specific group of people based on gender, race or other criteria.
  While flagging something doesn’t directly affect the search result
  
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• Updated: Trump wants to build 30-foot-high wall at Mexican border

  18-03-2017 22:38
  
  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration wants to build a 30-foot-high border wall that looks good from the north side and is difficult to climb or cut through, according to a pair of contract notices posted to a government website further detailing President Donald Trump’s promise to build a “big, beautiful wall” at the Mexican border. […]
  
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• Updated: Northwestern no match for Gonzaga in first half

  18-03-2017 22:22
  
  The Latest on Day 3 of the NCAA Tournament (all times Eastern): 6:20 p.m. Northwestern’s dream season could be ending shortly. The Wildcats are being outmanned by Gonzaga through the first half. The top-seeded Bulldogs lead 38-20. Nigel Williams-Goss leads Gonzaga with 14 points, six rebounds and four assists — three of which have come […]
  
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• Governor Martinez calls for special session

  18-03-2017 21:39 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP)– New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez says she will call lawmakers back to the state capital to renegotiate a budget for the coming fiscal year because she objects to proposed increases in taxes and spending.
  Martinez said Saturday at the conclusion of a 60-day legislative session that she will closely review a $6.1 billion spending bill from lawmakers and a companion legislation that would raises $350 million in new revenues before calling a special session of the Legislatu
  
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• Updated: Gov. Martinez to lawmakers: ‘What a waste of time’

  18-03-2017 21:08
  
  Gov. Susana Martinez leveled blistering criticism at lawmakers after the adjournment of this year’s 60-day session and said she plans to call a special session.
  
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• Gov. Martinez to lawmakers: “What a waste of time”

  18-03-2017 21:08
  
  SANTA FE — Gov. Susana Martinez leveled blistering criticism at New Mexico lawmakers — especially majority Senate Democrats — during a news conference held minutes after the adjournment of this year’s 60-day session. The two-term Republican governor specifically accused legislators of knowingly passing budget and tax increase bills they knew she opposed. “Many in the […]
  
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• Brooklyn Museum highlights Georgia O’Keeffe as style icon

  18-03-2017 20:24 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City museum is highlighting Georgia O’Keeffe’s role as a style icon.
  The Brooklyn Museum exhibit — titled “Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern” — features clothing, paintings and photos. It’s part of a yearlong project celebrating feminist thinking.
  Guest curator Wanda M. Corn studied six decades worth of O’Keeffe’s garments and accessories.
  She concluded that O’Keeffe, who made many of her clothes, al
  
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• Breaking: NM legislative session ends without 11th-hour deal

  18-03-2017 19:01
  
  A 60-day legislative session highlighted by debate over the state’s budget woes and a long-awaited breakthrough on ethics legislation has reached its finish line.
  
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• Boot, wheelbarrow, thimble ousted from Monopoly board game

  18-03-2017 18:54 via krqe.com
  
  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The boot has been booted, the wheelbarrow has been wheeled out, and the thimble got the thumbs down in the latest version of the board game Monopoly. In their place will be a Tyrannosaurus rex, a penguin and a rubber ducky.
  More than 4.3 million voters from 146 countries weighed in on which tokens they wanted to see in future versions of the property-acquisition game, which is based on the real-life streets of Atlantic City. Pawtucket, Rhode Island-based Hasbro a
  
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• Chelsea Clinton writes children’s book, ‘She Persisted’

  18-03-2017 17:43 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Chelsea Clinton has written a children’s book, with a sharply worded title.
  The book is called “She Persisted” and comes out May 30, Penguin Young Readers announced Thursday. Clinton will honor 13 American women “who never take no for an answer,” including Harriet Tubman, Sonia Sotomayor and Oprah Winfrey. “She Persisted” will also feature a “special” and unidentified cameo, presumably Clinton’s mother, Hillary Cli
  
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• Young Americans: Most see Trump as illegitimate president

  18-03-2017 16:54 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Jermaine Anderson keeps going back to the same memory of Donald Trump, then a candidate for president of the United States, referring to some Mexican immigrants as rapists and murderers.
  “You can’t be saying that (if) you’re the president,” says Anderson, a 21-year-old student from Coconut Creek, Florida.
  That Trump is undeniably the nation’s 45th president doesn’t sit easily with young Americans like Anderson who are the nation’s
  
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• King maintains support in Iowa after inflammatory comments

  18-03-2017 16:54 via krqe.com
  
  CARROLL, Iowa (AP) — Outside his rural congressional district stretching over 39 Iowa counties, conservative U.S. Rep. Steve King’s stream of inflammatory comments generate outrage and condemnation, but back home they rate little more than a shrug.
  “That’s just Steve being Steve,” was how Tom Reiter put it, looking into a mirror while getting his hair cut Thursday in Carroll. “He doesn’t pull any punches.”
  It’s been that way since King, a for
  
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• How a school bomb-scare case sparked a media-vs.-FBI fight

  18-03-2017 16:54 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The young hacker was told in no uncertain terms: You are safe with me.
  “I am not trying to find out your true identity,” AP journalist Norm Weatherill assured the teenager in an online chat. “As a member of the Press, I would rather not know who you are as writers are not allowed to reveal their sources.”
  But Norm Weatherill was no reporter. He was FBI agent Norman B. Sanders Jr., and the whole conversation was a trap. Within hours, police descende
  
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• Masahiro Tanaka, Yankees team up to no-hit Tigers

  18-03-2017 16:53 via krqe.com
  
  No runs once again off Masahiro Tanaka. No hits off him or the New York Yankees’ bullpen, either.
  Tanaka and two relievers combined on a spring training no-hitter against the Detroit Tigers in a 3-0 win Friday in Lakeland, Florida.
  New York manager Joe Girardi didn’t keep the lineup card as a souvenir, but still appreciated the effort.
  “I’m happy for our guys,” Girardi said. “It’s fun. Obviously, it means more if it’s the regular season, but still
  
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• Albuquerque police give back to fire victim that helped fallen officer

  18-03-2017 16:00 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Dozens of people had their cars destroyed or damaged during a fire that tore through a southeast apartment complex Friday morning.
  But for a fire that left behind so much destruction without injuring one person, it’s hard to imagine what an Albuquerque Police Department chaplain would want with one person in particular.
  Her name is Rose Barak.
  APD tracked her down and gave her some much needed help because of the help she gave to one of their own nearly two
  
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• Updated: Ex-‘Most Interesting Man’ to help judge best beard contest

  18-03-2017 15:37
  
  MONTPELIER, Vt. — The man who once helped pitch Dos Equis beer as the “most interesting man in the world” is turning his attention from his favorite beer to his favorite beard by judging a Saturday competition called Vermont Beardies. Actor Jonathan Goldsmith, who lives in Manchester and sports a closely cropped white beard that […]
  
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• Updated: The Latest: French official confirms suspect’s name

  18-03-2017 15:32
  
  PARIS — The Latest on incident at Orly Airport in Paris where a man was shot to death after attempting to seize a soldier’s weapon (all times local): 3:00 p.m. A French official connected to the investigation confirms media reports identifying the Orly Airport attacker as Ziyed Ben Belgacem, a 39-year-old born in France. The […]
  
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• Updated: Orly attacker used revolver to detain soldier

  18-03-2017 15:32
  
  PARIS — The Latest on incident at Orly Airport in Paris where a man was shot to death after attempting to seize a soldier’s weapon (all times local): 8:40 p.m. Paris prosecutor Francois Molins says the man who attacked a soldier at Orly Airport had 9 mm revolver that shoots birdshot and used it to […]
  
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• Updated: How a school bomb-scare case sparked a media-vs.-FBI fight

  18-03-2017 15:32
  
  WASHINGTON — The young hacker was told in no uncertain terms: You are safe with me. “I am not trying to find out your true identity,” AP journalist Norm Weatherill assured the teenager in an online chat. “As a member of the Press, I would rather not know who you are as writers are not […]
  
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• Councilor says resolution could ‘shut down’ ART

  18-03-2017 15:27 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A city councilor says his plan could shut down the Albuquerque Rapid Transit project after it’s up and running.
  Read the full resolution here »
  City councilor Dan Lewis is introducing a resolution to study the effects of ART out on Central.
  Critics question whether this is just a political move from the councilor, who is running for mayor.
  Driving along Route 66, it’s clear ART construction is well underway with some of the station platforms alr
  
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• Updated: Trump sticks to unproved wiretap accusation against Obama

  18-03-2017 15:25
  
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump defiantly refused to back down from his explosive claim that Barack Obama wiretapped his phones, and sidestepped any blame for the White House decision to highlight an unverified report that Britain helped carry out the alleged surveillance. In brushing off the diplomatic row with perhaps America’s closest ally, Trump also […]
  
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• Creation of independent ethics commission goes to voters in 2018

  18-03-2017 14:51 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, NM- A joint resolution allowing New Mexicans to vote on establishing an ethics commission made it through the legislature Friday night after senate approval.
  The commission would investigate complaints against elected officials, lobbyists and others.
  Friday representatives from both chambers met in a joint conference committee to resolve differences between the House and Senate-passed versions of House Joint Resolution 8.
  The committee agreed on a selection process for commissione
  
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• New Mexico lawmakers OK watered-down payday loan reform bill

  18-03-2017 14:15 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico lawmakers have passed a proposal capping the amount of interest and fees charged by the payday loan industry in one of the nation’s poorest states.
  The House voted earlier Saturday to set new limits on small loans, including a 175 percent cap on interest rates in New Mexico.
  The Senate vote late Friday came after an emotional debate by conflicted senators who live in poor districts and who wanted rates capped at 36 percent.
  Sen. Clemente Sanchez, a Gr
  
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• New Mexico adopts rules for sexual assault kits

  18-03-2017 14:06 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – The New Mexico Legislature has approved guidelines to ensure DNA evidence kits from sexual assaults are processed quickly and don’t languish in storage.
  A House vote Friday sent the measure to the Gov. Susana Martinez for consideration. Local law enforcement must send sexual assault test kits for processing within 30 days under the legislation.
  New Mexico law enforcement agencies have been grappling with a backlog of thousands of untested evidence kits.
  State Au
  
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• Paris Orly Airport attacker wanted to kill, die for Allah

  18-03-2017 12:46 via krqe.com
  
  ORLY, France (AP) — Yelling that he wanted to kill and die for Allah, a suspected Islamic extremist attacked a French soldier Saturday morning at Paris’ Orly Airport and wrested away her assault rifle, a French prosecutor said. Two colleagues on her patrol shot and killed the man before he could fire the military-grade weapon in the busy airport terminal.
  The attack forced the airport’s terminals to shut down and evacuate, sent passengers and workers fleeing in panic and trappe
  
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• Man killed at Paris airport had criminal past, radical flags

  18-03-2017 12:46 via krqe.com
  
  ORLY, France (AP) — French soldiers shot and killed a man who wrestled a colleague to the ground Saturday and tried to steal her rifle at Paris’ Orly Airport. The melee forced the airport’s busy terminals to close and evacuate and trapped hundreds of passengers aboard flights that had just landed.
  The 39-year-old Frenchman, who authorities said had a long criminal record and was previously flagged for possible radicalism, first fired bird shot at police officers during an early
  
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• Man killed after trying to grab Paris airport soldier’s gun

  18-03-2017 12:46 via krqe.com
  
  ORLY, France (AP) — Soldiers at Paris’ busy Orly Aiport shot and killed a man who wrestled one of their colleagues to the ground and tried to steal her rifle Saturday, officials said.
  No one else was hurt, but thousands of travelers were evacuated and at least 15 flights were diverted to the city’s other airport, Charles de Gaulle.
  Police did not immediately provide a motive for the attack. The Paris prosecutor’s office said its anti-terrorism division was handling the in
  
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• Updated: For Zimbabwe’s Mugabes, marriage is political and personal

  18-03-2017 11:03
  
  MATOPO HILLS, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe plucked her from the secretarial pool decades ago to become his wife. Now Grace Mugabe is stirring speculation that she wants to succeed her 93-year-old husband as leader. The power couple’s extraordinary arc is deeply felt in this southern African nation. Many are pondering how their dynamic […]
  
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• Updated: With friends like these: Trump struggles to win GOP

  18-03-2017 08:27
  
  WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans have a lot to say about their new president. Donald Trump’s proposed budget is “draconian, careless and counterproductive.” The health care plan is a bailout that won’t pass. And his administration’s suggestion that former President Barack Obama used London’s spy agency for surveillance is simply “inexplicable.” With friends like these, who […]
  
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• Updated: Republican health care plan creates budget problems for GOP

  18-03-2017 08:25
  
  WASHINGTON — Republicans intent on scrapping Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act have a budget problem. As it turns out, repealing and replacing the law they hate so much won’t save nearly as much money as getting rid of it entirely, the goal they’ve been campaigning on for seven years. That means trouble for the federal […]
  
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• Updated: North Korea, South China Sea on Tillerson agenda in Beijing

  18-03-2017 08:16
  
  BEIJING — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Beijing on Saturday for his first face-to-face talks with Chinese leaders expected to focus on North Korea’s nuclear program, trade and South China Sea territorial disputes. Tillerson’s visit followed his remarks in South Korea on Friday in which he warned that pre-emptive military action against […]
  
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• Lawsuit filed over jail inmate’s death

  18-03-2017 07:05
  
  SANTA FE–The sister of a man who died at the Santa Fe County jail two years ago has filed...
  
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• Promoting kindness at the heart of a toy drive for APD

  18-03-2017 07:02
  
  Chief Eden: 'These toys help establish a bond between that police officer and that child'
  
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• Martinez went to bat for political adviser

  18-03-2017 07:02
  
  Governor gave federal investigators sworn statement defending McCleskey payments
  
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• Editorial: Obama-like secrecy, not the media, is the enemy

  18-03-2017 07:02
  
  Call it the antithesis of Sunshine Week, an annual celebration of access to public information. Desp ...
  
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• Councilor calls for study of ART’s impacts

  18-03-2017 07:02
  
  Resolution would require data collection after construction finished
  
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• Police arrest suspect sought for violent carjacking

  18-03-2017 05:16
  
  Albuquerque police apprehended a carjacking suspect after they say he threw a woman and her child out of a vehicle.
  
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• City settles lawsuit in fatal 2013 crash involving APD officer

  18-03-2017 05:07
  
  The City of Albuquerque reached a settlement agreement with the family of a woman killed when an Albuquerque Police Department officer ran a red light and caused a crash.
  
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• Friday’s Metro baseball, softball tournament results

  18-03-2017 04:41 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Semifinal match-ups wrapped up on Friday for the Metro Championship Softball Tournament. Top seeded La Cueva took out Sandia in a low scoring affair 1-0. They will meet two seed Cleveland in the Championship game on Saturday at UNM Softball field, game time is 1:30 p.m.
  On the Baseball side, semifinals wrapped up on Thursday, but games were still played on Friday. Sandia would knock off Cibola in a late game thriller 8-7. Sandia took the 5th place spot in the Met
  
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• Duke City Gladiators look for 1st win of the year on Saturday

  18-03-2017 04:37 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Duke City Gladiators are currently 0-2 in regular season play, but they have been involved in two very close games.
  Gladiators Head Coach Dominic Bramante thinks his team is very athletic but is battling some adversity early. The Gladiators have had some injuries and are still learning to gel with each other.
  DC Quarterback Donovan Porterie believes the same thing as coach and also says that the wins will start rolling in.
  “We have everything that we ne
  
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• NMSU Falls to Baylor in the NCAA Tournament 91-73

  18-03-2017 04:34 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It was a tale of two halves in Tulsa for the first round NCAA Tournament game between 14 seed New Mexico State University and three seed Baylor.
  NMSU came out with great pace and competed for every possession against the Bears in the first half. New Mexico State also hit 6 three pointers in the first half and looked to play upset over Baylor leading 40-38 at the half.
  While they looked great in the first, the second did not look so good. The Aggies would not shoo
  
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• Boxing: Local standouts top ‘Victory’ card

  18-03-2017 03:00
  
  Chris Middendorf and Cameron Dunkin first crossed paths in 2005. Dunkin was managing a talented youn ...
  
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• Prep softball: La Cueva, Cleveland to play for metro tourney title

  18-03-2017 02:44
  
  The number of undefeated softball teams in Class 6A dropped from three to one on Friday. That one, La Cueva, the top seed for the Albuquerque Metro Championships, advanced to today’s 1:30 p.m. title game at Lobo Field. The Bears (8-0) will face No. 2 seed Cleveland (5-6), which won in walk-off fashion for the […]
  
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• AD looks at how to keep Weir after 28-win season

  18-03-2017 02:37
  
  TULSA, Okla. — Paul Weir wasn’t having it. It’s not been his style all season to be reflective. In fact, as those around him learned this season, the 37-year-old first-year head coach of the New Mexico State Aggies was far more prone to beat himself up in times of struggle than enjoy the unprecedented accomplishments […]
  
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• New Mexico airline service threatened if White House eliminates subsidies

  18-03-2017 02:22 via krqe.com
  
  Albuquerque, NM (KRQE) – Three New Mexico cities would likely lose all airline service under the new federal budget proposed this week by President Donald Trump.
  The US Department of Transportation provides about $9 million dollars a year to Boutique Airlines to provide what is called Essential Air Service (EAS) to the New Mexico cities of Carlsbad, Clovis and Silver City. Passengers are flown to major hubs in Dallas, Phoenix or Albuquerque depending on where they embark.
  The new White Hou
  
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