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• What do Panera and Krispy Kreme have in common?

  08-04-2017 23:42 via krqe.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Panera is being acquired by Europe’s JAB Holding Co. for more than $7 billion, the second largest restaurant deal made in North America in at least decades.
  Americans are likely more familiar with JAB than they know. The Luxembourg investment fund has controlling interests in Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Caribou Coffee Co., Stumptown Coffee and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. The deal for Panera, however, underscores its sway over what people eat when away from home in the
  
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• Softball: Nevada handles UNM again

  08-04-2017 23:21
  
  The University of New Mexico softball team dropped the second game of the three game series to Nevada on Saturday, falling 8-2. The Lobos are now 18-15 on the year and 4-4 in the Mountain West. Nevada was on the board early again, taking a 5-0 lead in the third off Lobo starter Jensen Main. But […]
  
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• Warplanes strike Syrian town hit by chemical attack

  08-04-2017 22:45 via krqe.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Warplanes on Saturday struck the Syrian town where a chemical attack had killed scores of people earlier this week, as Turkey warned that a retaliatory U.S. missile strike on a Syrian air base would only be “cosmetic” if greater efforts are not made to remove President Bashar Assad from power.
  The airstrikes on the opposition-held northern town of Khan Sheikhoun, where 87 people were killed in the chemical attack earlier this week, killed a woman and wounded her s
  
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• Republicans hope Trump amenable to food stamp restrictions

  08-04-2017 22:45 via krqe.com
  
  AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine resident Zak McCutcheon says he likes soda but acknowledges he’d drink less of it if his governor convinced Republican President Donald Trump to put restrictions on the approximately $200 a month he receives in food stamps. He thinks it may even make recipients healthier and less overweight.
  “If I was more restricted to what I could buy, I would become more of a veggie eater,” said McCutcheon, who recently perused grapes and packages of pre-cho
  
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• APNewsBreak: FBI reviews handling of terrorism-related tips

  08-04-2017 22:45 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has been reviewing the handling of thousands of terrorism-related tips and leads from the past three years to make sure they were properly investigated and no obvious red flags were missed, The Associated Press has learned.
  The review follows attacks by people who were once on the FBI’s radar but who have been accused in the past 12 months of massacring innocents in an Orlando, Florida, nightclub, injuring people on the streets of New York City, and gunning
  
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• Alabama governor faces impeachment hearings after ruling

  08-04-2017 22:45 via krqe.com
  
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley will face impeachment hearings beginning Monday after the state Supreme Court gave lawmakers the greenlight to move ahead with an effort to oust the governor, who is fighting to stay in office amid fallout from an affair with a top aide.
  The Alabama Supreme Court on Saturday reversed a short-lived victory for Bentley when a judge on Friday blocked impeachment proceedings. After the high court’s ruling, the House Judiciary Committee
  
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• Rock Hall 2017 class includes Pearl Jam, Tupac and Journey

  08-04-2017 22:44 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Seattle rockers Pearl Jam, the late rapper Tupac Shakur and 1970s hitmaking band Journey were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Friday night.
  Joan Baez, Electric Light Orchestra and Yes were also part of the 2017 class inducted at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, which kicked off with a tribute to Chuck Berry.
  The new inductees closed the multi-hour event with a group performance, and before that Pearl Jam electrified with a performance of its well-k
  
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• Updated: Alabama governor faces impeachment hearings after ruling

  08-04-2017 22:41
  
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley will face impeachment hearings beginning Monday after the state Supreme Court gave lawmakers the greenlight to move ahead with an effort to oust the governor, who is fighting to stay in office amid fallout from an affair with a top aide. The Alabama Supreme Court on Saturday reversed […]
  
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• Poll: Most young people say gov’t should pay for health care

  08-04-2017 22:16 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Most young Americans want any health care overhaul under President Donald Trump to look a lot like the Affordable Care Act signed into law by his predecessor, President Barack Obama.
  But there’s one big exception: A majority of young Americans dislike “Obamacare’s” requirement that all Americans buy insurance or pay a fine.
  A GenForward poll says a majority of people ages 18 to 30 think the federal government should be responsible for making sure A
  
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• Isotopes: Pedro Martinez won’t make it to tonight’s game

  08-04-2017 21:29
  
  The Albuquerque Isotopes issued a statement Saturday afternoon stating that Hall of Fame pitcher Pedro Martinez has had travel problems while coming from Miami and won’t make it to the Saturday night Isotopes game and Albuquerque Pro Baseball Hall of Fame ceremonies. The club has offered ticket-buyers a rain check to another game this season. […]
  
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• Updated: Man journeys from living under a bridge to Boston Marathon

  08-04-2017 21:24
  
  BOSTON — Whether solo, jogging in a crowd, or lost in the sensation of music thumping through his headphones, Danny Dwyer sees his thorny past, thankful present and unwritten future blend to form the perfect sanctuary. This is how he trains for this year’s Boston Marathon. Each step is one away from battles with drug […]
  
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• Helicopter crew rescue elderly hiker off Camelback Mountain

  08-04-2017 21:24
  
  PHOENIX — An elderly hiker visiting from out of town was rescued by helicopter from Camelback Mountain. The Phoenix fire department said Friday afternoon that the 69-year-old man became lightheaded and dizzy on the Cholla Trail. Crews located him after he reported he couldn’t make it back down. He was rescued from the mountain by […]
  
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• YouTube TV has some nifty features – and some big drawbacks

  08-04-2017 21:05 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — YouTube TV, Google’s new streaming package of about 40 television channels, is the tech industry’s latest bid to get cable-shunning millennials to pay for live TV over the internet. It offers intriguing advantages over rivals, but it remains hobbled by a limited channel selection.
  Don’t confuse the YouTube service, which debuts Wednesday, with Netflix, Amazon Prime and other streaming offerings. Like similar efforts from Sony, Dish and AT&T’s Dir
  
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• Wyoming turns to Colorado for help in 2015 bar burning death

  08-04-2017 20:38
  
  RAWLINS, Wyo. — Wyoming authorities are turning to the Colorado Bureau of Investigations for help answering questions about the mysterious case of a woman who burned to death in 2015 at the bar she owned. The Rawlins Times reports that the 2015 death of 47-year-old Denise King Martinez remains a mystery. Martinez caught fire at […]
  
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• Historical Commission objects to plan to exhume Polk’s body

  08-04-2017 20:24 via krqe.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Historical Commission has come out against a plan to exhume the body of former President James K. Polk from the grounds of the state Capitol and move it 50 miles away.
  Commission Executive Director Patrick McIntyre Jr. wrote a letter saying moving the graves of the 11th U.S. president and his wife, Sarah, will create a false sense of history at the site.
  The state Senate has passed a resolution that would move the bodies to the James K. Polk Home and M
  
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• Seattle mayor denies sex abuse claims – ‘simply not true’

  08-04-2017 19:26 via krqe.com
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Ed Murray led a long campaign to legalize same-sex marriage in Washington state, toiled for nearly two decades as a state lawmaker and won his biggest personal political victory in 2013 when he unseated Seattle’s incumbent mayor by promising the ultra-liberal city to raise the minimum hourly wage to $15.
  Just as he took on a role as a high-profile critic of President Donald Trump and prepared to launch a re-election campaign, Murray was hit Thursday with a political bo
  
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• Popular Chinese comedian faces weapon, drug charges in NY

  08-04-2017 19:26 via krqe.com
  
  MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A popular Chinese comedian and former judge on the “China’s Got Talent” television program is facing weapon and drug charges on Long Island in New York.
  Zhou Libo appeared playful and jovial, joking with more than a dozen reporters from Chinese media outlets before and after a brief appearance in a Nassau County courtroom on Friday. At one point before he went into court, Zhou smiled broadly as he joined other reporters in taking cellphone video of hi
  
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• California governor declares historic drought over _ for now

  08-04-2017 19:26 via krqe.com
  
  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Thirsty California lawns faded to brown from a lack of water in four extraordinarily dry years have revived to bright green in neighborhoods across the state.
  Dry riverbeds of sand and tumbleweeds that snake their way through farmers’ fields now charge with water swelling up their banks.
  Scenes like these and many others prompted California Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday to declare an end to the state’s drought emergency that had drained reservoirs and wells,
  
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• Stone Age cannibals: Hunting each other not worth the hassle

  08-04-2017 19:20 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — You know those snacks that are OK if they’re handy, but not worth the bother if you have to go track them down? Our Stone Age forerunners may have felt the same way about eating each other.
  Neanderthals and prehistoric members of our own species occasionally practiced cannibalism and explaining that is a scientific challenge. Generally, it has been attributed to factors like starvation, violence between groups or ceremonial practices following a death.
  Now a new study
  
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• Updated: Screenwriters say ‘Peak TV’ has hurt them; strike vote looms

  08-04-2017 18:47
  
  So-called “Peak TV” and its expansive array of series has been great for viewers, say Hollywood scribes, but not so much for writers. On Monday, the Writers Guild of America will resume negotiations over a new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents broadcast and cable networks and movie studios. […]
  
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• Harvard holds contest to change last line of alma mater song

  08-04-2017 18:13 via krqe.com
  
  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard is holding a contest to erase a reference to “Puritans” from the final line of its alma mater song.
  The song “Fair Harvard” ends with the lines “Be the herald of light, and the bearer of love, till the stock of the Puritans die.”
  The university’s Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging said the line “till the stock of the Puritans die” dates to 1836 and needs to be updated “for the 21st c
  
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• Updated: Could Rikers Island spell relief for busy LaGuardia Airport?

  08-04-2017 17:51
  
  NEW YORK — Travelers stuck in endless delays at New York City’s cramped and congested LaGuardia Airport can feel like prisoners. Now there’s a plan to liberate them by closing the city’s most notorious jail. A commission that helped persuade city officials to eventually close New York’s violent jail complex on Rikers Island said the […]
  
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• Updated: California governor declares historic drought over for now

  08-04-2017 17:03
  
  FRESNO, Calif. — Thirsty California lawns faded to brown from a lack of water in four extraordinarily dry years have revived to bright green in neighborhoods across the state. Dry riverbeds of sand and tumbleweeds that snake their way through farmers’ fields now charge with water swelling up their banks. Scenes like these and many […]
  
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• Updated: Colorado seminar helps Gold Star families cope with loss

  08-04-2017 17:00
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Charity Stone remembers when she attended her first seminar for members of Gold Star families. She didn’t make it through the whole weekend. The memories of her fiance were too fresh, too overwhelming to share with a roomful of strangers. Six years later, the Denver resident is in a different place […]
  
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• Building collapses in Poland: 5 killed, 4 injured, 1 missing

  08-04-2017 15:09 via krqe.com
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A pre-World War II apartment house collapsed Saturday in southwestern Poland, leaving five people dead, four injured and one missing, authorities said.
  Scores of firefighters with dogs were searching the rubble of the building in the town of Swiebodzice (Shvyeh-‘boh-tchi-tseh), according to Daniel Mucha, regional spokesman for the firefighters. He said the collapse of two floors of the three-floor building might have been caused by a gas explosion.
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• Building collapses in Poland: 4 killed, 4 injured, 2 missing

  08-04-2017 15:09 via krqe.com
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An apartment house collapsed Saturday in southwestern Poland, leaving four people dead, four injured and two others missing, authorities said.
  Scores of firefighters with dogs were searching the rubble of the building in the town of Swiebodzice (Shvyeh-‘boh-tchi-tseh), according to Daniel Mucha, regional spokesman for the firefighters. He said the collapse of two floors of the three-floor building might have been caused by a gas explosion.
  Regional governor Pawe
  
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• Apartment building collapses in Poland: 6 killed, 4 injured

  08-04-2017 15:09 via krqe.com
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A pre-World War II apartment house collapsed Saturday in southwestern Poland, leaving six people dead and four injured, authorities said.
  Scores of firefighters with dogs continued to search the rubble of the building in the town of Swiebodzice (Shvyeh-‘boh-tchi-tseh), to make sure no one remained trapped.
  According to Daniel Mucha, regional spokesman for the firefighters, the two upper floors of the three-floor building might have collapsed due to a gas explosi
  
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• US vows to keep up pressure on Syria after missile strikes

  08-04-2017 15:07 via krqe.com
  
  PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The United States is vowing to keep up the pressure on Syria after the intense nighttime wave of missile strikes from U.S. ships, despite the prospect of escalating Russian ill will that could further inflame one of the world’s most vexing conflicts.
  Standing firm, the Trump administration on Friday signaled new sanctions would soon follow the missile attack, and the Pentagon was even probing whether Russia itself was involved in the chemical weapons assault t
  
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• Truck attack angers Swedes, raises questions about policies

  08-04-2017 15:07 via krqe.com
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — One brutal attack by a man who drove a stolen truck into shoppers in Stockholm has brought Sweden’s open-door immigration policies under increased scrutiny — and raised the question if Swedish society, considered democratic and egalitarian, has failed to integrate its newcomers.
  The suspect in Friday’s attack, a 39-year-old native of Uzbekistan who has been arrested by police, had been on authorities’ radar previously but they dismissed him as a &ld
  
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• Sweden identifies truck attack suspect as Uzbek native, 39

  08-04-2017 15:07 via krqe.com
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — The suspect in Stockholm’s deadly beer truck attack is a 39-year-old native of Uzbekistan who had been on authorities’ radar previously, Swedish officials said Saturday. The prime minister urged citizens to “get through this” and strolled through the streets of the capital to chat with residents.
  Swedes flew flags at half-staff Saturday to commemorate the four people killed and 15 wounded when the hijacked truck plowed into a crowd of shoppers Frida
  
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• Filipino Bataan Death March survivors mark 75th anniversary

  08-04-2017 15:07 via krqe.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ramon Regalado was starving and sick with malaria when he slipped away from his Japanese captors during the infamous 1942 Bataan Death March in the Philippines, escaping a brutal trudge through steamy jungle that killed hundreds of Americans and thousands of Filipinos who fought for the U.S. during World War II.
  On Saturday, the former wartime machine-gun operator will join a dwindling band of veterans of the war in San Francisco’s Presidio to honor the soldiers
  
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• Updated: Joining high court, the real Neil Gorsuch set to stand up

  08-04-2017 14:59
  
  WASHINGTON — Somewhere between the Republican caricature of the next justice of the Supreme Court as a folksy family guy and the Democrats’ demonization of him as a cold-hearted automaton, stands Neil Gorsuch. Largely unknown six months ago, Gorsuch has seen his life story, personality and professional career explored in excruciating detail since he was […]
  
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• Updated: Now on high court, the real Neil Gorsuch set to stand up

  08-04-2017 14:58
  
  WASHINGTON — Republicans portrayed the next Supreme Court justice as a folksy family guy. Democrats tried to paint Neil Gorsuch (GOR’-suhch) as a cold-hearted automaton. Somewhere in between is the real thing. Gorsuch was nominated by President Donald Trump 10 weeks ago. Since then, he’s seen his life story, personality and professional career explored in […]
  
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• Updated: US threatens more pressure on Syria after missile strikes

  08-04-2017 11:36
  
  PALM BEACH, Fla. — The United States is vowing to keep up the pressure on Syria after the intense nighttime wave of missile strikes from U.S. ships, despite the prospect of escalating Russian ill will that could further inflame one of the world’s most vexing conflicts. Standing firm, the Trump administration on Friday signaled new […]
  
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• Updated: US strike on Syrian air base has limited impact on Assad

  08-04-2017 11:04
  
  BEIRUT — The U.S. missile attack caused heavy damage to one of Syria’s biggest and most strategic air bases, used to launch warplanes to strike opposition-held areas throughout Syria. Videos from inside the Shayrat air base showed fighter jets and hangars destroyed and runways pocked with holes after the strike in the pre-dawn hours Friday. […]
  
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• Updated: Swedish authorities say truck attack suspect held

  08-04-2017 09:00
  
  STOCKHOLM — A Swedish prosecutor says a person has been formally identified as a suspect “of terrorist offenses by murder” by driving a hijacked truck into a crowd of pedestrians, killing four people and wounding 15 others. The prosecutor, Hans Ihrman, said Saturday that the unidentified suspect should face a pre-trial custody hearing before midday […]
  
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• Isotopes: House awaits call to bullpen

  08-04-2017 08:05
  
  Austin House has a whole new appreciation for home this baseball season.Pitching for h ...
  
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• Fundraiser boosts tutoring program

  08-04-2017 08:05
  
  "Success breeds success," it's been said more than once and when a program has been successful, espe ...
  
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• Club Rio Rancho golf course sold to development firm

  08-04-2017 08:05
  
  The 275-acre golf course property, previously held and operated as Club Rio Rancho, was purchased la ...
  
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• Bernalillo rail crossing safety plan detailed

  08-04-2017 08:05
  
  Dedicated areas to be built for pedestrians
  
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• Drivers say I-25 San Mateo exit’s poor design causes backups

  08-04-2017 06:02 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Drivers are frustrated a poorly designed exit off of I-25 is constantly backing up traffic, and they want to know why the state has not made an easy fix.
  Exiting off of I-25 northbound at San Mateo, more drivers turn right than those who are trying to go straight onto the Frontage Road. However, there is not a lane designated just for right turns, so if one car is waiting at the light to go straight, it causes a backup.
  The New Mexico Department of Transport
  
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• City of Albuquerque violates dangerous dog law in case involving employee

  08-04-2017 06:00 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – When a dog kills someone else’s pet, Albuquerque’s law states the city must take custody of the dangerous dog.
  Read Animal Welfare’s Dog Report »
  However, KRQE News 13 uncovered a recent case where the city ignored its own rules after an Animal Welfare employee’s own dog killed a neighbor’s Chihuahua.
  “We heard a Chihuahua screaming,” recalled Nial Tack, the neighbor who witnessed the attack.
  February 19th
  
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• Albuquerque woman honored for being a foster grandparent for 20 years

  08-04-2017 05:48 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – An Albuquerque woman who has spent more than two decades as a foster grandparent was honored Friday.
  Rupertita Tafoya began volunteering in 1994. That’s on top of having 10 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren of her own.
  The mayor presented her with a plaque Friday naming her the city of Albuquerque’s volunteer of the month.
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• Cordova, 19, killed in car accident

  08-04-2017 05:35
  
  New Mexico Highlands freshman softball player Danielle Cordova was killed in a one-car accident on Wednesday on I-25, according to school officials. A memorial for Cordova, a standout student-athlete at Bernalillo High School who graduated in 2016 as a member of the National Honor Society, will be held sometime this weekend or early next week […]
  
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• Cody Ross is in Van Tate’s Sports Office

  08-04-2017 04:53 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Cody Ross has returned to the Land of Enchantment to receive an honor. Ross will go into the New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame April 9. Ross was the 2010 MVP of the NLCS while playing for the San Francisco Giants.
  He is reliving part of that moment in the Sports Office this week. Ross also talks about how the game has changed and his new job helping the Giants.
  Filed under: Albuquerque - Metro, Home, SmartTV, Sports, Top Video Tagged: Sports Office
  
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• Swarm season has arrived for New Mexico

  08-04-2017 02:51
  
  April and May are the busiest months for beekeepers. It’s swarm season, which means half the colony and the queen will leave the hive in search of a new home.
  
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• After pursuit, mother arrested for drunken driving

  08-04-2017 02:47
  
  A mother has been arrested for drunken driving with her two children inside the car. Albuquerque police also chased the woman for miles before officers caught her.
  
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• Ex-owner of Albuquerque sports bar gets prison in tax case

  08-04-2017 02:36
  
  The former owner of an Albuquerque sports bar and restaurant has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for federal income tax evasion.
  
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• Woman connected to 2014 murder pleads no contest

  08-04-2017 02:17
  
  A lie could land a woman behind bars for up to 22 years.
  
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• Suspect arrested in Rio Rancho homicide investigation

  08-04-2017 02:15
  
  RIO RANCHO, N.M. -- Rio Rancho police say they have arrested a man in connection with last Friday's slaying of23-year-old Kenneth Torres.
  
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