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• Dozens still missing in Sri Lankan garbage collapse; 30 dead

  17-04-2017 21:12 via krqe.com
  
  MEETOTAMULLA, Sri Lanka (AP) — Rescuers on Monday were digging through heaps of mud and trash that collapsed onto a clutch of homes near a garbage dump outside Sri Lanka’s capital, killing at least 30 people and possibly burying dozens more.
  Hundreds of people had been living in the working-class neighborhood on the fringe of the towering dump in Meetotamulla, a town near Colombo, when a huge mound collapsed Friday night during a celebration for the local new year, damaging at least
  
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• Military helicopter crashes in southern Maryland

  17-04-2017 21:10 via krqe.com
  
  LEONARDTOWN, Md. (AP) — A military helicopter crashed in southern Maryland on Monday afternoon, authorities and witnesses said.
  There was no immediate word about how many people were aboard or whether there were any fatalities.
  Maryland State Police spokesman Sgt. Davaughn Parker said a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Leonardtown on Monday afternoon. State police have sent two medevac helicopters to the scene to assist, he said.
  Kevin Bowen, who works in the pro shop of the Breton Bay Gol
  
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• Lawsuit: Army should factor PTSD in discharge decisions

  17-04-2017 21:05 via krqe.com
  
  NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A federal lawsuit alleges the U.S. Army has issued less-than-honorable discharges for potentially thousands of service members without adequately considering the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health conditions.
  Two Army veterans from Connecticut who served in Iraq and Afghanistan say in the lawsuit filed Monday in New Haven that they were wrongly denied honorable discharges.
  They say a review board set up to give veterans a second chance
  
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• University presidents want funding restored in New Mexico

  17-04-2017 20:22 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – A council of university presidents from around New Mexico is asking that Gov. Susana Martinez restores some $745 million in funding to the state’s public colleges and universities.
  The council made its plea in a column published Sunday in the Albuquerque Journal.
  New Mexico State University President Garrey Carruthers, a member of the council, said deep concern has spread across the state’s higher education system since vetoed by Martinez defended all s
  
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• Public Education Department faces teacher evaluation lawsuit

  17-04-2017 19:54 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The New Mexico Public Education Department is now facing a lawsuit over its teacher evaluation system specifically, on the way teachers are penalized when taking sick leave.
  The suit was brought by Logan Municipal schools teacher Angela Medrow.
  In the suit, it calls the practice of penalizing teachers in evaluations for sick time they are entitled to under their contract unconstitutional.
  Under the old policy, teachers were penalized after taking 3 days
  
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• Canada glacier melt rerouted in rare case of ‘river piracy’

  17-04-2017 19:34 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have witnessed the first modern case of what they call “river piracy” and they blame global warming. Most of the water gushing from a large glacier in northwest Canada last year suddenly switched from one river to another.
  That changed the Slims River from a 10-foot (3 meters) deep, raging river to something so shallow that it barely was above a scientist’s high top sneakers at midstream. The melt from the Yukon’s Kaskawulsh glacier now
  
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• New Mexico wildlife officials warn of bear activity

  17-04-2017 19:26 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico wildlife officials say bears are expected to be busy this spring after three years of good precipitation following what has been a long-running drought.
  The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish on Monday issued a reminder for people to be aware of the greater chance of encountering bears and other native wildlife.
  Department biologist Rick Winslow says males and young, independent bears are emerging from hibernation now and will be out foraging and seekin
  
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• Kenyans sweep Boston Marathon on a good day for US runners

  17-04-2017 19:22 via krqe.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The Kenyans are back in Boston after a relative lull that saw them shut out in the world’s most prestigious marathon twice in the past three years.
  More surprisingly, so are the Americans.
  Geoffrey Kirui won the 121st Boston Marathon on Monday, pulling away from three-time U.S. Olympian Galen Rupp with two miles to go to give Kenya its first men’s victory in five years. Edna Kiplagat won the women’s race to complete the Kenyan sweep.
  They were followed close
  
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• Lawmakers across US move to include young people in voting

  17-04-2017 17:43 via krqe.com
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Donald Trump’s characterization of Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists during his presidential campaign angered Heidi Sainz, whose family is from Mexico and who has close friends who are immigrants. She was also upset that she couldn’t do anything about it at the ballot box because she was a year shy of being able to vote.
  Sainz favors a bill in the California Legislature that would lower the voting age to 17, which she thinks would give a voic
  
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• Updated: US stocks climb, led by tech and consumer companies

  17-04-2017 17:17
  
  NEW YORK — U.S. stocks are starting higher Monday as investors get back to trading after the Easter holiday weekend. Technology companies are making some of the largest gains and industrial and consumer-focused companies are also rising after the Chinese government said that country’s economy grew at a slightly faster pace in the first quarter. […]
  
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• Updated: INFLUENCE GAME: Telecom lobbying muscle kills privacy rules

  17-04-2017 17:16
  
  NEW YORK — The telecom industry’s lobbying muscle pushed a consumer privacy measure to a swift death in Congress. Republicans struck down Obama-era rules that would have imposed tight restrictions on what broadband companies such as Verizon, AT&T and Comcast could do with their customers’ personal data. Digital-rights and consumer-advocacy groups such as the Electronic […]
  
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• Updated: Federal tax bill hits hardest in District of Columbia

  17-04-2017 17:16
  
  WASHINGTON — As Tax Day approaches, show some love for the good people who live in the nation’s capital. Washington, that swampy den of iniquity that politicians love to scorn, sends the most tax dollars per person to the U.S. government. By a lot. Last year, the District of Columbia paid Uncle Sam $37,000 per […]
  
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• Updated: China’s economy gains steam; 1Q growth fastest since 2015

  17-04-2017 17:15
  
  HONG KONG — China’s economic recovery is gaining traction, with growth rising to its fastest pace in over a year in January-March. The 6.9 percent annual pace of expansion for the world’s second-largest economy, reported Monday, surpassed economists’ forecasts and was an improvement from 6.8 percent growth in the last quarter of 2016. Growth last […]
  
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• Argentina soccer fan declared brain dead after stadium fall

  17-04-2017 17:12
  
  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — An Argentine soccer fan has been declared brain dead after he was chased down the terraces of a stadium and allegedly thrown from the bleachers. The Emergency Hospital in Cordoba says Emanuel Balbo remains on a ventilator. But the hospital’s head of surgery tells local Todo Noticias channel on Monday that […]
  
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• Painkiller prescribed for Prince in another name

  17-04-2017 16:59 via krqe.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A court document says a doctor prescribed oxycodone for Prince under the name of the musician’s friend to protect his privacy.
  Prince was 57 when he was found alone and unresponsive in an elevator at his Paisley Park home on April 21.
  Autopsy results showed he died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a synthetic drug 50 times more powerful than heroin.
  According to search warrants unsealed Monday, authorities searched Paisley Park, cellphone records of Prince&
  
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• 2013 Boston Marathon memorials are in the works

  17-04-2017 16:39 via krqe.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) – Plans are in the works for memorials to mark the sites where two bombs exploded during the 2013 Boston Marathon.
  City officials and the families of five people who died in the bombing or its aftermath say there’s also a plan to build a separate, larger memorial to victims, survivors ,and responders.
  Pablo Eduardo is a Massachusetts resident and internationally known sculptor. He’ll create the memorial markers on Boylston Street where bombs killed three s
  
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• Vegas journalist arrested at Trump rally released from jail

  17-04-2017 16:08 via krqe.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The journalist arrested at a Tax Day protest at President Donald Trump’s signature Las Vegas hotel has been released from jail.
  KLAS Vice President and General Manager Lisa Howfield said photojournalist Neb Solomon was freed Saturday night, hours after he was arrested while covering the off-Strip protest.
  Las Vegas police said Solomon was uncooperative and refused to provide his personal identification information at the scene. He was then booked into Clark County ja
  
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• Hundreds of Palestinians held by Israel launch hunger strike

  17-04-2017 15:25 via krqe.com
  
  RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli prisons launched a hunger strike Monday, in what their leader behind bars called a new step in the Palestinians’ “long walk to freedom.”
  More than 1,500 of about 6,500 Palestinians held by Israel joined the open-ended protest, Palestinian activists said, the largest such strike in five years. The hunger strikers’ immediate demands included better conditions, including more contact with relatives, and an
  
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• Murder suspected expected in court for mailbox crime

  17-04-2017 15:21 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Monday a murder suspect is expected back in court for a different crime.
  In December, deputies said Elexus Groves and Paul Garcia were caught breaking into mailboxes in Placitas and later almost hitting a deputy with a car.
  Groves is set for an arraignment for that accused crime.
  A month later in January, Groves and Garcia stole a van, and crashed it into a family’s car killing two people.
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• Murder suspected Elexus Groves pleads not guilty for another crime

  17-04-2017 15:21 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) –The woman accused of stealing a car then killing a mother and daughter while fleeing from police was back in court today for a different crime.
  Elexus groves pleaded not guilty for almost hitting a deputy with a car after she was caught with a car full of stolen mail in Placitas back in December.
  Deputy Robert Torres stood in court talking about that night she almost ran into him.
  Groves is currently being held without bond on murder charges in the deaths of the m
  
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• Artists give new life to discarded items

  17-04-2017 15:15 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Everyday items are getting a fresh start thanks to local artists.
  The 8th Annual ABQ Recycled Art Fair is an annual event which features New Mexico art vendors, a youth market, educational activities, fun contests, and live musical performances. Recycled art is work created from 75 percent or more discarded material—most of which would have otherwise piled up in storm water drains or landfills. The general inspiration is to rethink: “reduce, reuse, re
  
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• Woman takes initiative in Valencia county cleanup

  17-04-2017 15:10
  
  A woman has started a Facebook group, made signs, made bumper stickers, and has shirts to give away to anyone willing to help clean up the dumping in Valencia County.
  
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• ART construction finds old ABQ trolley system

  17-04-2017 15:09
  
  Many business owners and drivers will agree, ART construction has been a little frustrating. But as workers dug up Central Avenue last week, they stumbled upon something historic – the pieces from Albuquerque's original trolley system that shut down in 1927.
  
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• Free and fun activities for local youth

  17-04-2017 15:06 via krqe.com
  
  LOS LUNAS, N.M. (KRQE) – Summer fun is just around the corner for local youths.
  The Village of Los Lunas Summer Recreation Program provides structured summer activities for youth ages five through twelve at an extremely low cost. Activities include sports, arts and crafts, cultural activities, educational activities, and a large variety of field trips, plus a healthy free lunch each day. The program is limited to the first 300 participants.
  Registration begins Monday, April 17 and co
  
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• April 17 Morning Rush: Pence warns NKorea after medium-range ballistic missile was launched over the weekend

  17-04-2017 15:06 via krqe.com
  
  1. President Trump’s national security adviser said the U.S. is working with its allies and China to respond to the threat from North Korea.Tensions flared between the two countries over the weekend after the north launched what the U.S. believes was a medium-range ballistic missile from its submarine base. It failed to explode just after it left the ground. Still, the vice president sent out a stern warning to the north declaring the “era of strategic patience is over.”
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• Lawyer sues 100 ABQ businesses claiming advocacy; patterns raise suspicious motive

  17-04-2017 15:03
  
  Some call it disability advocacy, others call it a shakedown. A Santa Fe attorney has filed a hundred lawsuits against Albuquerque businesses in a period of two months.
  
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• APD responds to suspicious death in northeast ABQ

  17-04-2017 14:58
  
  Albuquerque Police are investigating a death after suspicious activity was reported by neighbors Sunday at a house in northeast Albuquerque.
  
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• City councilors vote for panhandling reduction program

  17-04-2017 14:38 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – City councilors will discuss possibly approving an expansion of the Better Way Program which aims to reduce panhandling in Albuquerque.
  The mayor is requesting to increase the program’s budget from $181,000 to $261,000 for the next fiscal year.
  The Better Way Program would then use two vans instead of one.
  The extra van would from come from the solid waste department. The program launched last year and the city partnered with Saint Martin’s hospi
  
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• City councilors vote to rename Sandia high school

  17-04-2017 14:32 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Monday night city council are set to vote on whether to rename the Sandia high school pool after a beloved longtime metro coach.
  Betsy Patterson, coached the Sandia high school swim team and a local club team for a combined 24 years before she died after battling breast cancer in 2014.
  Her former swimmers pushed for the school’s pool to be named after her.
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• City councilors to vote on renaming Sandia High School pool

  17-04-2017 14:32 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Monday night, city councilors are set to vote on whether to rename the Sandia High School pool after a beloved longtime metro coach.
  Betsy Patterson coached the Sandia High School swim team and a local club team for a combined 24 years before she died after battling breast cancer in 2014.
  Her former swimmers pushed for the school’s pool to be named after her.
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• More than 21,000 expected at Trump’s first Easter Egg Roll

  17-04-2017 14:03 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of children are heading to the White House for its biggest social event of the year: the annual Easter Egg Roll.
  There had been some hand-wringing over whether President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, would be able to pull off a successful “egg-stravaganza.” Both the president and first lady have been slow to fill White House staff jobs.
  But a downsized version of the 139-year-old event is kicking off early Monday on the South Law
  
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• Turkish opposition urges board to cancel referendum result

  17-04-2017 14:01 via krqe.com
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s main opposition party urged the country’s electoral board Monday to cancel the results of a landmark referendum that granted sweeping new powers to the nation’s president, citing what it called substantial voting irregularities.
  An international observer mission who monitored the voting also cited irregularities, saying the conduct of Sunday’s referendum “fell short” of the international standards Turkey has signed up to. I
  
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• Former Afghan President: Massive US bomb was an ‘atrocity’

  17-04-2017 14:01 via krqe.com
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that the U.S. is using Afghanistan as a weapons testing ground, calling the recent use of the largest-ever non-nuclear bomb “an immense atrocity against the Afghan people.”
  Last week, U.S. forces dropped the GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb in eastern Nangarhar province, reportedly killing 95 militants. Karzai, in an interview with The Associated Press, objected to the decision, saying that
  
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• National Park traveler visits Petroglyphs in world record attempt

  17-04-2017 13:56 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – A Nebraska man is on the road in New Mexico hoping to break a world record. His next stop?  Albuquerque.
  For the past year, Mikah Meyer has been driving around the country trying to become the youngest person to visit all 417 National Park Service sites in one continuous trip.
  He plans to stop at the Petroglyph National Monument bringing his total to 145. In New Mexico, he’s already visited White Sands, Salinas Pueblo Missions, El Morro and El Malpais Nation
  
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• United changes policy, crew can’t displace seated passengers

  17-04-2017 13:40 via krqe.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines is changing a company policy and will no longer allow crew members to displace customers already onboard an airplane.
  The change comes after a passenger, Dr. David Dao, was dragged from a fully-booked United Express flight in Chicago because he refused to give up his seat to make room for crew members. Cellphone video of the incident sparked widespread outrage and created a public-relations nightmare for United.
  Under the change outlined in an internal A
  
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• Car theft suspect linked to murder case due in court

  17-04-2017 13:20 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A man accused of killing another man in his home during a robbery, then vanishing for twenty years is due in court Monday.
  In 1996 police say they found then 43-year-old Rick Brodbeck’s body.
  Last August they arrested 38-year-old Jedidiah Rose on a car theft related charge and matched his DNA with the scene from the alleged murder.
  He’s set to go to trial in October for first-degree murder.
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• Alleged car theft suspect linked to murder case

  17-04-2017 13:20 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A man accused of killing another man in his home during a robbery, then vanishing for twenty years is due in court Monday.
  In 1996 police say they found then 43-year-old Rick Brodbeck’s body.
  Last August they arrested 38-year-old Jedidiah Rose on a car theft related charge and matched his DNA with the scene from the alleged murder.
  He’s set to go to trial in October for first-degree murder.
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• Teen in deadly DWI crash pleads not guilty

  17-04-2017 12:56 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) –The teenager accused in a deadly DWI crash in Sandoval County pleaded not guilty this Monday morning.
  Police say in February, 18-year-old Luke Griffin was three times the legal limit when he rear-ended another car on I-25 near San Felipe Pueblo.
  In that car, Corrina Vaden and her two friends were driving from Colorado.
  Vaden died, the other two suffered serious injuries.
  Griffin faces four charges including homicide by vehicle.
  A judge has set his bond at $50,000
  
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• Teen in deadly DWI crash expected in court

  17-04-2017 12:56 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – In a few hours, the teenager accused in a deadly DWI crash in Sandoval County is expected in court for an arraignment.
  Police say in February 18-year-old Luke Griffin was three times the legal limit when he rear-ended another car on I-25 near San Felipe Pueblo.
  In that car, Corrina Vaden and her two friends were driving from Colorado.
  Vaden died, the other two suffered serious injuries.
  Griffin faces four charges including homicide by vehicle.
  He’s due
  
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• Trump warns North Korea: ‘Gotta behave’

  17-04-2017 12:52 via krqe.com
  
  PANMUNJOM, South Korea (AP) — A day after a failed North Korean missile test, U.S. President Donald Trump had a message Monday for the North’s ruler: ‘Gotta behave.” At the same time, Vice President Mike Pence warned at the Korean Demilitarized Zone that America’s “era of strategic patience is over.”
  Keeping up the verbal volleying, North Korea’s deputy U.N. ambassador accused the United States of turning the Korean peninsula into “the world&
  
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• Pence warns NKorea ‘era of strategic patience is over’

  17-04-2017 12:52 via krqe.com
  
  PANMUNJOM, South Korea (AP) — Viewing his adversaries in the distance, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence traveled to the tense zone dividing North and South Korea and warned Pyongyang that after years of testing the U.S. and South Korea with its nuclear ambitions, “the era of strategic patience is over.”
  Pence made an unannounced visit to the Demilitarized Zone Monday at the start of his 10-day trip to Asia in a U.S. show of force that allowed the vice president to gaze at North K
  
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• Multi-state search targets suspect in Facebook video murder

  17-04-2017 12:47 via krqe.com
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — The search for a suspected killer who posted gruesome Facebook video of a fatal Cleveland shooting put authorities in surrounding states on the lookout Monday after police said the man might have left Ohio.
  Cleveland police allege 37-year-old Steve Stephens, a case manager at a behavioral health agency, shot a 74-year-old passer-by on Sunday in an apparently random attack.
  The victim, retired foundry worker Robert Godwin Sr., apparently was shot while out on a walk to coll
  
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• Manhunt expanded for suspect in Facebook video killing

  17-04-2017 12:47 via krqe.com
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Authorities in several states were on the lookout Monday for a man police say shot a Cleveland retiree collecting aluminum cans and then posted video of the apparently random killing on Facebook.
  “He could be nearby. He could be far away or anywhere in between,” FBI agent Stephen Anthony said on Day 2 of the manhunt for Steve Stephens, a 37-year-old job counselor for teens and young adults.
  Police said Stephens killed Robert Godwin Sr., a 74-year-old former fou
  
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• Ex-South Korean leader Park indicted, faces trial

  17-04-2017 12:47 via krqe.com
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean prosecutors on Monday indicted ex-President Park Geun-hye on bribery, extortion, abuse of power and other high-profile corruption charges that could potentially send her to jail for life.
  It is the latest in a series of humiliations for Park, who was driven from office by massive and peaceful popular protests. Park was impeached in December, officially stripped of power in March and has been in a detention facility near Seoul since being arrested last
  
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• Updated: Search widens for Facebook murder suspect

  17-04-2017 12:19
  
  CLEVELAND — Police in Ohio urged residents in surrounding states on Monday to be on alert for a man who they said shot and killed an elderly passerby seemingly at random and then posted a gruesome video of the killing on Facebook. Steve Stephens, 37, was wanted on a charge of aggravated murder in the […]
  
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• Updated: Kids prefer the TV for their viewing, but love other devices

  17-04-2017 08:27
  
  NEW YORK — Grace Ellis has never known a time when you needed a TV to watch TV. The North Attleboro, Massachusetts, fifth-grader watches shows like “Liv and Maddie,” “Jessie” and “The Lodge” on her laptop, iPad and phone. “Sometimes I watch TV in the car,” she says. “I have ballet every day, so I […]
  
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• Updated: Pence warns NKorea ‘era of strategic patience is over’

  17-04-2017 08:21
  
  PANMUNJOM, South Korea — Viewing his adversaries in the distance, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence traveled to the tense zone dividing North and South Korea and warned Pyongyang that after years of testing the U.S. and South Korea with its nuclear ambitions, “the era of strategic patience is over.” Pence made an unannounced visit to […]
  
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• PED sued over penalty for sick leave

  17-04-2017 08:02
  
  Class-action suit says state can't take away teacher benefits allowed in contract
  
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• Man stops in NM in quest to visit all 417 national park sites

  17-04-2017 08:02
  
  Intolerance, tragedy inspired his epic journey
  
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• BernCo seeks volunteers for Saturday’s Great American Clean Up

  17-04-2017 08:02
  
  T-shirts and other items will be handed out while supplies last
  
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