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• Troubled Santa Fe art, design school to close in spring 2018

  12-04-2017 23:56 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – The Santa Fe University of Art and Design will be closing in the spring of 2018.
  School administrators made the announcement Wednesday, citing ongoing financial challenges and the need to offer their roughly 650 students more clarity about the school’s future.
  Still, administrators say they are considering other options, such as public-private partnerships that can further the mission of the campus.
  The school is owned by Laureate International Universities. The
  
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• NMSU student develops new device to improve cattle grazing

  12-04-2017 23:52 via krqe.com
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE) –  A student at New Mexico State University hopes to improve cattle grazing with a new device.
  NMSU junior, Josiah Brooks has developed a marker system to determine feed intake in cattle.
  The system will allow researchers to help with grazing management and supplementation programs that can improve cattle health.
  Brooks is working with Aggie Innovation Space Innovator, and NMSU junior Jordan Glaze to develop the parts for the device.
  The two are conti
  
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• Teen accused of stabbing parents after being kicked out of home

  12-04-2017 23:28 via krqe.com
  
  ROSWELL, N.M. (KRQE) – KRQE News 13 is learning more about a Roswell teen accused of stabbing her parents.
  Brianna DuranThe couple was stabbed at their home near North Garden and East Third Street on Monday.
  The mother was stabbed in her shoulder, the father in his torso. Both are expected to recover.
  According to court documents, their 18-year-old daughter Brianna Duran had been kicked out of their home because of her drug addiction. It also says she had been in and out of the house in re
  
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• Sculptor of Wall Street’s bull wants ‘Fearless Girl’ moved

  12-04-2017 23:12 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The sculptor of Wall Street’s “Charging Bull” says New York City is violating his legal rights by forcing his bronze beast to face off against the “Fearless Girl.”
  Artist Arturo Di Modica (dee-MOH’-dih-kuh) said Wednesday that the new neighboring statue changes his bull into something negative.
  He says the bull’s message is supposed to be “freedom in the world, peace, strength, power and love.”
  His lawyers say “Fea
  
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• Rio Rancho students learn the importance of throwing away trash

  12-04-2017 22:53 via krqe.com
  
  RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE) – Local elementary school students were able to learn what it really means to throw your trash away.
  Students from Rio Rancho Elementary took a field trip to the Rio Rancho landfill where they learned about how waste is processed and filtered.
  They also were taught a lesson in the importance of keeping recyclables out of the landfill.
  Teachers hope to take many more trips like this in the future.
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• Panel of experts discuss how to grow IT industry in New Mexico

  12-04-2017 22:49 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A panel of IT experts met Wednesday to try and figure out a way to grow the industry in New Mexico.
  The State Auditor says in one year, $40 million of government contracts went to out-of-state IT companies.
  “This kind of thing needs to go on so we can get the workforce together and into Albuquerque to grow our economy,” Eric Lopez, Vice President of EC-Council, said.
  The State Auditor’s Office plans to have similar panels in the future with
  
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• State Police offering lateral signing bonuses for officers who transfer

  12-04-2017 22:43 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – New Mexico State Police are offering a hefty check for officers who want to transfer over to their department.
  “We feel it’s important to tap into the pool of officers that are out there in New Mexico and of course throughout the nation,” State Police Chief Pete Kassetas said.
  So, State Police is offering an $8,000 signing bonus in an effort to fill its ranks. It’s holding a lateral academy for current officers in other departments to tran
  
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• Ssscary! Cleaning staff finds python in hotel room drawer

  12-04-2017 22:36 via krqe.com
  
  WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A worker at a Massachusetts hotel got a slithery surprise while cleaning a room — a 5-foot ball python left in a drawer.
  The Telegram & Gazette reports that staff at the Marriott Residence Inn in Worcester found the snake last week and called animal control. Animal control took the snake to a pet supply store.
  General manager Rod Dzivasen says the snake appeared to be in good health.
  Officials don’t think the snake was in the room for long. Police sa
  
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• Eastern New Mexico regents choose new president

  12-04-2017 22:25 via krqe.com
  
  PORTALES, N.M. (AP) – The Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents has chosen a new president from among five finalists.
  The regents voted unanimously Wednesday to offer J.S. “Jeff” Elwell of the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga the post. Portales radio station KENW reports that he accepted a three-year contract with an annual salary of $230,000.
  Elwell will take over later this summer once current president Steven G. Gamble retires.
  Elwell will be in charge of the mai
  
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• Shia LaBeouf spending a month living alone in Finland cabin

  12-04-2017 21:06
  
  HELSINKI- Shia LaBeouf's latest endeavor is to spend a month isolated in a cabin in Finland's remote Lapland region, with his only communication with the outside world coming via text message to visitors to a Helsinki museum.
  
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• Woman sentence to probation, restitution for embezzlement

  12-04-2017 20:41 via krqe.com
  
  ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) – A judge has sentenced a former New Mexico teacher to pay restitution and supervised probation for a felony embezzlement charge.
  The Roswell Daily Record reports (http://bit.ly/2o6SeVW ) Judge James Hudson gave 44-year-old Michelle Fuentes her sentence on Monday. Prosecutors say Fuentes was accused of taking about $325,000 from her former employer, JJM Farms. Fuentes pleaded no contest to the charge March 8, which means she chose not to defend herself against the charge
  
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• Deputies seek armed robbery suspect

  12-04-2017 20:38
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office needs the public's help in tracking down a robbery suspect.
  
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• K-9 makes drug bust on I-40

  12-04-2017 20:37 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – An alert Bernalillo county K-9 has made another big bust.
  “Terry” helped the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office and Homeland Security uncover nearly 60 pounds of pot during a drug bust along I-40 Tuesday.
  The feds are now handling that case.
  KRQE News 13 last told you about Terry last year when he uncovered a whopping 210 pounds of pot during a traffic stop.
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• Watermelon Mountain Ranch hosts pet fashion show and adoption event

  12-04-2017 19:55
  
  This Saturday, Watermelon Mountain Ranch is hosting a pet fashion show and adoption event.
  
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• New Mexico nursing board puts college on notice

  12-04-2017 18:44 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – Santa Fe Community College won’t be able to accept any new students into its nursing program until its graduates’ test results improve or it wins an appeal.
  You keep hearing New Mexico needs more nurses. Now, the state is clamping down on a school for the quality of nurses it’s sending out into the workforce
  The Santa Fe Community College nursing program could face a halt in enrollment for up to two years because of student test scores, and with a
  
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• Asian shares mixed as Trump talks down US dollar

  12-04-2017 18:38 via krqe.com
  
  BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew a threat to declare China a currency manipulator. Trump’s comment that the U.S. dollar was getting too strong helped push the yen higher, hurting Japanese exporters’ shares.
  KEEPING SCORE: Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 fell 1.0 percent to 18,362.43 and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng lost 0.1 percent to 24,296.85. The Shanghai Composite Index edged 0.1 percent higher to 3,277.88. Sydney&rsq
  
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• Man indicted in ax killing of Lincoln County ranch worker

  12-04-2017 18:08 via krqe.com
  
  CARRIZOZO, N.M. (AP) – A 25-year-old man arrested in the ax killing of a Ruidoso-area ranch worker area is charged with first-degree murder in the near-beheading.
  Court records say Andrew Poteet Magill’s case was transferred Monday from magistrate court to District Court in Carrizozo after he was indicted in the killing of Mary Ann Moorhouse at the ranch where she worked about 10 miles east of the city of Ruidoso Downs.
  Lincoln County deputies found Moorhouse dead after a concerned c
  
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• Putin meets Tillerson as tensions rise over Syria

  12-04-2017 18:01 via krqe.com
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin met with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Moscow on Wednesday as the two countries traded sharp accusations about a chemical weapons attack in Syria.
  Tillerson, making the first visit by a Trump Cabinet official, went to the Kremlin in the early evening to meet with the Russian leader, the U.S. Embassy and the Kremlin said. Though President Donald Trump has spoken with Putin by phone, the meeting was believed to be the first between Pu
  
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• Authorities respond to South Valley accident

  12-04-2017 14:58
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Investigators were on the scene of an accident at Rio Bravo and La Junta in the South Valley Tuesday evening.
  
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• Missing ABQ dog found in Georgia reunited with family

  12-04-2017 14:57
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Pets are like family. If you've ever lost one, you know how devastating it can be. But that devastation turned to relief for one Albuquerque family after their missing dog turned up five months later and more nearly 1,400 miles away in Georgia.
  
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• County commissioner accused of election fraud files countersuit

  12-04-2017 14:51
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- His former opponent has accused Bernalillo County Commissioner Steven Michael Quezada of election fraud -- failing to sign his own candidacy documents. Now the actor-turned-politician is fighting back with a counter-claim.
  
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• Lobo, Aggie fans react UNM hiring Paul Weir

  12-04-2017 14:49
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Fans on both sides of the Rio Grande Rivalry certainly had their opinions about the University of New Mexico hiring Paul Weir to lead its men's basketball program. Watch the video for those reactions.
  
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• Updated: Xi stresses China’s North Korea concerns in talk with Trump

  12-04-2017 11:15
  
  BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping told President Donald Trump in a phone call Wednesday that Beijing is willing to work with Washington on ending North Korea’s nuclear weapons program but wants a peaceful solution to the escalating conflict. Xi’s comments came after Trump tweeted that China should do more on the issue Washington sees […]
  
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• Updated: US show of force to North Korea also could show US weakness

  12-04-2017 09:53
  
  WASHINGTON — Upping the stakes in its slow-burning confrontation with North Korea, the Trump administration deployed an aircraft carrier to the region this week in a show of force that also could expose American weakness. If the North proceeds with a ballistic missile or nuclear test and the U.S. does nothing in response, America’s deterrence […]
  
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• Paul Weir introduced as new New Mexico men’s basketball coach

  12-04-2017 07:34 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Paul Weir was introduced as the 21st coach in New Mexico Lobo men’s basketball history Tuesday. After ten seasons at New Mexico State and one as head coach Weir will become the first to coach both of the state’s division one basketball programs.  “At first my initial reaction was probably like a lot of people,” said Weir. “This is just kind of unusual. This is new. As I really reflected and thought more about it and just kind of
  
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• ART serves as an example for similar project in Indianapolis

  12-04-2017 06:25
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- When most Burqueños look at the Albuquerque Rapid Transit project, they see construction, confusing orange barriers, and the traffic challenges. But a group of people from Indianapolis see something else -- their city's potential future.
  
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• New sculpture unveiled outside of Rape Crisis Center in Albuquerque

  12-04-2017 01:46 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A new sculpture now sits outside the Rape Crisis Center of Central New Mexico.
  The bronze sculpture called “Byrd Ryders” was dedicated during a special ceremony Tuesday.
  County leaders hope the strength and beauty conveyed in the sculpture will empower those who go to the center.
  “The bronze material exhibits the same grace and strength reflected of the horse and bird. I hope one day our soldiers are free to feel the strength to run free and enj
  
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• DAs address need to hold dangerous criminals without bond

  12-04-2017 01:32
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- District attorneys from around New Mexico gathered Tuesday to explain their fight to hold dangerous repeat criminals without bond.
  
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