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• $75 million pledged to protect heritage sites in war zones

  26-03-2017 23:03 via krqe.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — World donors pledged more than $75 million Monday to an historic UNESCO-backed alliance to protect cultural heritage sites threatened by war and the wave of ideological-driven destruction carried out by Islamic State group militants.
  French President Francois Hollande, speaking at a donors’ conference in Paris’ Louvre Museum, passionately called on more countries to contribute to the newly-created heritage alliance and help push it past its “ambitious”
  
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• Updated: Teens wearing leggings barred from United flight

  26-03-2017 22:31
  
  Two teenage girls were barred by a gate agent from boarding a United Airlines flight from Denver to Minneapolis on…
  
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• Stanford rallies, edges Notre Dame 76-75 to reach Final Four

  26-03-2017 22:28 via krqe.com
  
  LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Alanna Smith’s layup with 23 seconds left capped Stanford’s rally from a 16-point deficit in the second half, Erica McCall blocked a last-second shot and the Cardinal edged top-seeded Notre Dame 76-75 Sunday to reach its first Final Four since 2014.
  Brittany McPhee scored 27 as the second-seeded Cardinal (32-5) won its eighth in a row overall. This was the third straight year Stanford and Notre Dame have met in the NCAA Tournament, with the Cardinal winnin
  
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• Updated: Johnson, Rahm win to set up powerful title match

  26-03-2017 21:26
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — Dustin Johnson finally held up his end of the bargain Sunday morning, setting up a powerful title bout in the Dell Technologies Match Play against Jon Rahm. Johnson was forced beyond the 16th hole for the first time all week in an error-filled finish against Hideto Tanihara of Japan, and the world’s […]
  
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• Updated: Kentucky-North Carolina tightening in 2nd half

  26-03-2017 21:24
  
  The Latest on the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament (all times Eastern): 6:55 p.m. Well, the South Regional final is looking much more like the game so many expected from North Carolina and Kentucky. Kentucky has a chance for a lead, down 57-56 with less than 8 minutes left and free throws to come. […]
  
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• Updated: Fouls piling up for Florida vs. South Carolina

  26-03-2017 21:24
  
  The Latest on the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament (all times Eastern): 4 p.m. Florida was called for seven fouls in the first 5 minutes of the second half, putting South Carolina in the bonus for 15 minutes. Could be a long second half at the Garden with all those free throws. The Gamecocks […]
  
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• Wi-Fi on wheels: Google helps students get online, on the go

  26-03-2017 21:22 via krqe.com
  
  ST. STEPHEN, S.C. (AP) — Eighth-grader Lakaysha Governor spends two hours on the bus getting back and forth to school each day. Thanks to a grant from Google, she can now use that time more productively and get her homework done.
  The aspiring forensic anthropologist is one of nearly 2,000 students in South Carolina’s rural Berkeley County who will ride to school on one of 28, Google-funded, Wi-Fi-equipped school buses unveiled Monday. The tech giant also has given the school district
  
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• Updated: Medical pot bill in S. Carolina bolstered by conservatives

  26-03-2017 20:32
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Rep. Eric Bedingfield once shunned all marijuana use, but when his eldest son’s six-year struggle with opioid addiction ended with his overdose a year ago, the conservative Republican co-sponsored medical cannabis legislation. “My mindset has changed from somebody who looked down on it as a negative substance to saying, ‘This […]
  
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• Updated: Study: Livestock grazing can benefit struggling bird species

  26-03-2017 20:25
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. — A new study disputes a widely-held view that livestock grazing is largely incompatible with a ground-dwelling bird that has suffered a dramatic population decline across its 11-state range in the U.S. West. Researchers said some grazing, particularly later in the growing season, could actually benefit the chicken-sized greater sage grouse. Late-season grazing […]
  
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• Study: Livestock grazing can benefit struggling bird species

  26-03-2017 20:25
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. — A new study suggests some livestock grazing can benefit a ground-dwelling bird that’s suffered a dramatic population decline across its 11-state range in the U.S. West. Grazing on land occupied by greater sage grouse has been frequently cited as a reason for the bird’s decline, along with disease, oil and gas drilling […]
  
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• No surprise: Beijing’s pick Lam chosen as Hong Kong’s leader

  26-03-2017 19:57 via krqe.com
  
  HONG KONG (AP) — The candidate favored by China’s Communist leadership was chosen as Hong Kong’s new leader on Sunday, in the first such vote since huge pro-democracy protests erupted over the semiautonomous Chinese city’s election system in 2014.
  A committee dominated by pro-Beijing elites selected Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s former No. 2 official, as the financial hub’s chief executive even though she was far less popular than her main rival. Lam received 67 per
  
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• UK: Attacker used WhatsApp, firm must help police get access

  26-03-2017 19:45 via krqe.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Westminster Bridge attacker Khalid Masood sent a WhatsApp message that cannot be accessed because it was encrypted by the popular messaging service, a top British security official said Sunday.
  British press reports suggest Masood used the messaging service owned by Facebook just minutes before the Wednesday rampage that left three pedestrians and one police officer dead and dozens more wounded.
  As controversy swirled over the encrypted messages, police made another arrest in
  
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• Trump’s border-wall proposal faces many obstacles

  26-03-2017 19:45 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has now laid out exactly what he wants in the “big, beautiful wall” that he’s promised to build on the U.S.-Mexico border. But his effort to build a huge hurdle to those entering the U.S. illegally faces impediments of its own.
  It’s still not clear how Trump will pay for the wall that, as described in contracting notices, would be 30 feet (9 meters) high and easy on the eye for those looking at it from the north. The Trump ad
  
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• GOP struggles to govern despite a monopoly in Washington

  26-03-2017 19:45 via krqe.com
  
  The Republican Party of “no” for Democrat Barack Obama’s eight years is having a hard time getting to “yes” in the early Donald Trump era.
  The unmitigated failure of the GOP bill to replace Obamacare underscored that Republicans are a party of upstart firebrands, old-guard conservatives and moderates in Democratic-leaning districts. Despite the GOP monopoly on Washington, they are pitted against one another and struggling for a way to govern.
  The divisions cost the
  
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• Blaming conservatives, Trump signals new openness to Dems

  26-03-2017 19:45 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday attacked conservative lawmakers for the failure of the Republican bill to replace former President Barack Obama’s health care law, as aides signaled a greater willingness to work with moderate Democrats on upcoming legislative battles from the budget and tax cuts to health care.
  On Twitter, Trump complained: “Democrats are smiling in D.C. that the Freedom Caucus, with the help of Club For Growth and Heritage, have saved Planned
  
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• The Latest: Chiozza’s 3 gives SEC an Elite Eight trio

  26-03-2017 19:44 via krqe.com
  
  The Latest on the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament on Friday (all times Eastern):
  1:15 a.m.
  The Southeastern Conference had a big Friday night.
  Chris Chiozza’s incredible running 3-pointer at the buzzer lifted Florida past Wisconsin in overtime, and it gave the SEC three teams in the Elite Eight for the first time since 1986.
  Kentucky beat UCLA in the South Region, while South Carolina beat Baylor in the East. The Gators closed the night by eliminating the Badgers and the Big Ten.
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• Play it back: Rematches to decide last 2 spots in Final Four

  26-03-2017 19:44 via krqe.com
  
  The most entertaining college basketball game of the regular season came in December.
  Malik Monk set a record for a Kentucky freshman with 47 points, including a go-ahead 3-pointer taken against his coach’s wishes, to lift the Wildcats to a 103-100 win over North Carolina.
  Are these two ready for an encore?
  Of course they are — though it’s a valid argument to say this rematch might be better suited for next weekend in the Final Four than Sunday in the Elite Eight.
  “I reme
  
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• Jones back with Orioles after winning World Baseball Classic

  26-03-2017 19:44 via krqe.com
  
  Adam Jones provided perhaps the best highlight of the World Baseball Classic, when he took a home run away from Manny Machado with a spectacular catch in center field.
  Now Jones and Machado are just teammates again.
  “Pretty cool catch, pretty great moment,” Jones said. “Sorry it had to be my boy Manny, but it’s part of the game, part of that process.”
  Jones is back with the Baltimore Orioles at their camp in Sarasota, Florida, after winning the WBC with Team USA. Th
  
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• Where’s the line? Theme parks aiming to eliminate them

  26-03-2017 19:43 via krqe.com
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — At Universal Orlando Resort’s new “Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon” ride, waiting in line has been replaced by lounging on couches and listening to a racy barber shop quartet sing until it’s time to enter the ride.
  Universal is leading the theme-park charge into “virtual lines” that give visitors options for exploring a park or watching live entertainment instead of the tedium of looking at someone’s back as you inc
  
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• Drought-stricken Somalia battles hunger and cholera

  26-03-2017 19:36 via krqe.com
  
  BAIDOA, Somalia (AP) — An emaciated woman writhes on her hospital bed, weakly waving her bony hand to create a current of air.
  Cholera patient Zeinab Hussein, a 50-year-old farmer, is one of thousands of desperate Somalis who have streamed into Baidoa in southwestern Somalia seeking food and medical care as a result the country’s prolonged drought. The influx has overwhelmed local and international aid agencies.
  The hospital ward is filled with the sound of crying, malnourished child
  
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• Spain: Drug dealers use fake bananas to transport cocaine

  26-03-2017 19:35
  
  MADRID — Spanish police have arrested two men for allegedly transporting large quantities of cocaine inside fake bananas. Spain’s civil guard made the arrests Sunday after an investigation was started in November when agents discovered the drugs in a shipment of bananas. Among the real bananas, police found 57 fake bananas made of resin that […]
  
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• Updated: Carrier deal touted by Trump unusual for Indiana

  26-03-2017 19:07
  
  INDIANAPOLIS — The deal brokered by President Donald Trump to stem job losses at a Carrier Corp. factory in Indianapolis is unusual for the state of Indiana as it offers $7 million of incentives to a company still planning to cut about a third of its some 1,600 jobs. A state economic development board is […]
  
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• Updated: Will NYC invite the ‘Fearless Girl’ to stay on Wall Street?

  26-03-2017 17:48
  
  NEW YORK — Should the “Fearless Girl” stand up to Wall Street’s charging bull forever? That’s the question New York City officials are facing after a statue of a ponytailed girl in a windblown dress went up in front of the bronze bull early this month and immediately became a tourist draw and internet sensation. […]
  
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• Updated: Shooting at Cincinnati nightclub kills 1, injures 15

  26-03-2017 17:33
  
  CINCINNATI — Gunfire erupted early Sunday inside a crowded Cincinnati nightclub after a dispute broke out among several men, killing one man and injuring 15 other people, authorities said. No suspect was in custody by the afternoon and police did not think the shooting at the Cameo club was terrorism-related. They said the nightclub has […]
  
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• Updated: New anxieties as Trump says Obamacare will ‘explode’

  26-03-2017 17:29
  
  ATLANTA — Americans who have benefited from the Affordable Care Act are feeling some relief at the failure of Republican efforts to repeal it, but they face new anxieties with President Donald Trump tweeting that “ObamaCare will explode.” Premiums have risen and major insurers have backed out of the state markets where people can buy […]
  
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• Non merci: French voters reject corruption in politics

  26-03-2017 17:28 via krqe.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — French voters just won’t tolerate corruption in politics anymore — that appears to be the message from the swift downfall of the country’s powerful security minister.
  It’s a notable shift from the past, when influence peddling seemed endemic and politicians untouchable, even when they were accused of shocking scandals.
  The change is the result of an aggressive new financial prosecutor, an unprecedented anti-corruption drive by President Francois Holland
  
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• Family of missing ex-FBI agent files lawsuit against Iran

  26-03-2017 17:28 via krqe.com
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The family of a former FBI agent who went missing in Iran a decade ago on an unauthorized CIA assignment has filed a lawsuit against the Islamic Republic, accusing it of using “cold, cynical and false denials” to torture his loved ones.
  The lawsuit by Robert Levinson’s family in U.S. federal court comes years after the last hostage photos and video of the 69-year-old investigator surfaced in emails they say were sent by Iran so the count
  
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• Exit polls show center-right party leading in Bulgaria

  26-03-2017 17:27 via krqe.com
  
  SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — The center-right GERB party of former Prime Minister Boiko Borisov took the lead in Bulgaria’s parliamentary election on Sunday, a pair of exit polls showed, a result that if confirmed by official returns indicates support for the country keeping its European identity.
  The Alpha Research exit poll said GERB won 32.2 percent of the vote, with the Socialist Party coming in second with 28 percent, while a separate exit poll by Gallup International Balkan had GERB
  
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• Center-right party tops Bulgaria election; Socialists yield

  26-03-2017 17:27 via krqe.com
  
  SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — The center-right GERB party of former Prime Minister Boiko Borisov took the lead in Bulgaria’s parliamentary election on Sunday, a pair of exit polls showed, a result that if confirmed by official returns indicates support for the country keeping its European identity.
  The Alpha Research exit poll said GERB won 32.2 percent of the vote, with the Socialist Party coming in second with 28 percent, while a separate exit poll by Gallup International Balkan had GERB
  
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• Bulgarians vote in ballot that may tilt nation toward Russia

  26-03-2017 17:27 via krqe.com
  
  SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarians voted Sunday for the third time in four years in an early election that could tilt the European Union’s poorest member closer to Russia.
  The election campaign focused on the future of the EU and the influence of Russia and Turkey on domestic politics, as well as on the increased number of migrants coming into this southeastern European nation that borders Greece, Turkey and Romania.
  Some 6.8 million Bulgarians are eligible to vote in an election wide
  
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• The Latest: Police: No sign club shooting terrorism related

  26-03-2017 17:26 via krqe.com
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — The Latest on the nightclub shooting in Cincinnati (all times local):
  6:45 a.m.
  Police say there is no indication the deadly shooting at a nightclub in Cincinnati is terrorism related.
  Assistant Police Chief Paul Neudigate says in a tweet that the motive is still unclear.
  Police say “at least a couple of shooters” opened fire inside the Cameo club early Sunday, killing one person and wounding more than a dozen others.
  Capt. Kim Williams says the crowd there is
  
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• The Latest: Man killed in nightclub shooting ID’d; 15 hurt

  26-03-2017 17:26 via krqe.com
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — The Latest on the nightclub shooting in Cincinnati (all times local):
  11:45 a.m.
  Police have identified the name of the person killed in an overnight Cincinnati nightclub shooting that also left 15 people injured.
  The victim was identified at a news conference as 27-year-old O’Bryan Spikes.
  Police say calls came in of shots fired at the Cameo club around 1:30 a.m. Sunday.
  Police Chief Eliot Isaac said the bar was very crowded at the time when several men got into a
  
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• The Latest: Cincinnati club owner calls shooting ‘senseless’

  26-03-2017 17:26 via krqe.com
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — The Latest on the nightclub shooting in Cincinnati (all times local):
  9:45 p.m.
  The owner of a Cincinnati nightclub calls the shooting that took place there, “senseless.”
  Police say a gunfight broke out inside the crowded Cameo club early Sunday, leaving one man dead and 15 other people wounded. They say a dispute among several patrons escalated into a shootout.
  Club owner Jay Rodgers released a statement Sunday night, saying he’s “deeply saddened&
  
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• New anxieties as Trump says Obamacare will ‘explode’

  26-03-2017 17:26 via krqe.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Americans who have benefited from the Affordable Care Act are feeling some relief at the failure of Republican efforts to repeal it, but they face new anxieties with President Donald Trump tweeting that “ObamaCare will explode.”
  Premiums have risen and major insurers have backed out of the state markets where people can buy insurance online under Obama’s signature health care law. But people who say it saved their lives or helped them start a business want
  
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• Updated: Suspect arrested in Houston-area hit-and-run, 2 cyclists die

  26-03-2017 17:23
  
  BROOKSHIRE, Texas — Officers have arrested a man suspected of driving a vehicle in a Southeast Texas hit-and-run that left two bicyclists dead and another hurt. Waller County jail records show Victor Kevin Tome of Dallas was being held Sunday on charges including murder, aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury, accident involving death, accident involving […]
  
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• US acknowledges its forces were behind airstrike on Mosul

  26-03-2017 15:53 via krqe.com
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — An airstrike targeting Islamic State militants in the Iraqi city of Mosul that witnesses say killed at least 100 people was in fact launched by the U.S. military, American officials said Saturday.
  U.S. officials did not confirm the reports of civilian casualties but opened an investigation. In the days following the March 17 airstrike, U.S. officials had said they were unsure whether American forces were behind the attack.
  The statement issued by the U.S.-led coalition said
  
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• Arrests after scuffle breaks out at California Trump rally

  26-03-2017 13:32 via krqe.com
  
  HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA (AP) — A scuffle broke out on a Southern California beach where supporters of President Donald Trump were marching when counter-protesters doused organizers with pepper spray, authorities said Saturday.
  The violence erupted when the march of about 2,000 people at Bolsa Chica State Beach reached a group of about 30 counter-protesters, some of whom began spraying the irritant, said Capt. Kevin Pearsall of the California State Parks Police. Three people were arrested on s
  
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• UPDATE: Police now say just one shooter opened fire in Cincinnati nightclub

  26-03-2017 13:11 via krqe.com
  
  CINCINNATI, OH (AP) – Police are now saying only one shooter was responsible for the deadly Cincinnati nightclub assault.
  Assistant Police Chief Paul Neudigate says in a tweet there was only one reported shooter but police are still investigating. Police earlier had said “at least a couple of shooters” opened fire inside the Cameo club early Sunday, killing one person and wounding more than a dozen others.
  The motive for the shooting remains unclear, and Neudigate says there is
  
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• Police: At least 2 shooters at Cincinnati club

  26-03-2017 13:11 via krqe.com
  
  CINCINNATI, OH (AP) – Police in Cincinnati say there were “at least a couple of shooters” who opened fire inside of a nightclub, killing one person and wounding more than a dozen others.
  Capt. Kim Williams says authorities are not sure what prompted the shooting at the Cameo nightclub early Sunday. She says the crowd there is often very young on Saturday nights and they have had trouble in the past, but “this is the worst by far.”
  She says the scene was chaotic
  
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• Vegas Strip reopens after gunman surrender, fatal shooting

  26-03-2017 13:04 via krqe.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man riding on a double decker bus on the Las Vegas Strip pulled a gun and started shooting, killing one person and wounding another before barricading himself inside in a standoff that lasted hours before he finally surrendered.
  The standoff began about 11 a.m. PDT Saturday on the bus when it was stopped on Las Vegas Boulevard near the Cosmopolitan hotel-casino.
  “He was on the bus. He was shooting people on the bus. He was just contained to that location. He never
  
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• Updated: Spain: Drug dealers use fake bananas to transport cocaine

  26-03-2017 12:02
  
  Spanish police have arrested two men for allegedly transporting large quantities of cocaine inside fake bananas. Spain's civil guard made…
  
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• N.M. consumers could get more I.D. protection

  26-03-2017 08:02
  
  New Mexico might be removed from a "worst of" list when it comes to consumer safety, thanks to a bil ...
  
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• Iraq: Don’t confuse a good country with a bad war

  26-03-2017 08:02
  
  WASHINGTON–Ask most Americans if the U.S. war in Iraq was a bad idea and a majority would...
  
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• Governor should sign the sensible, responsible bills sent to her

  26-03-2017 08:02
  
  Last Saturday, one of the most productive and bipartisan legislative sessions in memory concluded wi ...
  
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• Editorial: No detouring now

  26-03-2017 08:02
  
  A sure thing may not be a slam dunk after all, as Albuquerque city leaders are finding out. ...
  
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• Democrats should consider Republican tax reform proposal

  26-03-2017 08:02
  
  As we close the book on the 2017 legislative session, Republicans have a lot to be proud of. Despite ...
  
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• Sal Puentes and Kristin Griego Memorial Tournaments wrap up

  26-03-2017 07:13 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Saturday afternoon, Rio Rancho High School played host to the championship games of the Sal Puentes and Kristin Griego Memorial tournaments.
  In the Sal Puentes title game, Cleveland would outlast Clovis with a walk off win in the 7th inning 8-7.
  In the Kristin Griego Memorial title game, Aztec would play outstanding both in the field and at the plate. They 10-run-rule Rio Rancho 13-3.
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• Former High School Foe’s now friends in a Lobo uniform

  26-03-2017 07:12 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Redshirt Freshmen safeties Kameron Miller and Gabe Ortega know each other from their heated battles at the High School Level. Miller was the QB for Las Cruces High, while Ortega was the QB for Cleveland High School in Rio Rancho.
  “In high school we had this heated rivalry, kind of an unspoked rivalry between each other and then we got here and just found out we have similar interests and play the same position”, said Gabe Ortega.
  Both of the Red Shirt fresh
  
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• USA Boxing Amateur qualifier wraps up on Saturday

  26-03-2017 07:11 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The 2017 Western Elite Qualifier and Regional Open Championships wrapped up Saturday night at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
  Some local fighters took home some titles.
  In the girls 101 pound junior title fight Jolene Bottini of Los Lunas took out her Los Lunas opponent Estrallita Iturralde, and in the Junior 138 pound title match Kirtland NM native Elija Martinez would take out Josue Reyes by a doctor’s stoppage.
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• Weekend craft fairs aim to inspire people to shop local

  26-03-2017 07:03 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A couple craft fairs around the city this weekend are helping to expose local artists’ work.
  The Visionary Arts and Crafts Guild held their Spring Show Saturday morning at the Pongal Event Center.
  Attendees could start the holiday shopping early with crafts made out of clay, paper and even miniature items.
  Over at the Los Altos Golf Course, the Craft and Vendor Fest aimed to inspire people to shop local.
  “To support local vendors and local crafters, w
  
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