Albuquerque news

• City’s ABQ land sale aims to spark redevelopment

  20-04-2017 23:47
  
  Mayor Richard J. Berry said Thursday he hopes to spark redevelopment in  Southwest Albuquerque by offering 6.6 acres of city-owned land to developers, perhaps for retail uses. The city hopes to transform a swath of vacant land on the northwest corner of Unser Boulevard and Central through a sale or a long-term ground lease to […]
  
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• Aggie women lead WAC golf tourney with one round to go

  20-04-2017 23:42
  
  MISSION HILLS, Kan. – Behind the play of tournament co-leader Pun Chanachai, the New Mexico State women’s golf team moved up two spots after the second round to take sole possession of first place with a team score of 606 (+46) on Thursday at the Western Athletic Conference tournament. The Aggies shot 17-over 297 on […]
  
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• Updated: UC Berkeley flip-flops on Ann Coulter, proposes May date

  20-04-2017 23:39
  
  BERKELEY, Calif. — University of California, Berkeley officials said Thursday they have a “grave concern” of violence on campus if Ann Coulter follows through on her threat to speak next week at the university. Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks instead proposed an alternate May 2 date for the conservative author. Dirks said police have “very specific […]
  
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• Unusually large swarm of icebergs drifts into shipping lanes

  20-04-2017 23:34 via krqe.com
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — More than 400 icebergs have drifted into the North Atlantic shipping lanes over the past week in an unusually large swarm for this early in the season, forcing vessels to slow to a crawl or take detours of hundreds of miles.
  Experts are attributing it to uncommonly strong counter-clockwise winds that are drawing the icebergs south, and perhaps also global warming, which is accelerating the process by which chunks of the Greenland ice sheet break off and float away.
  
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• Clovis investigating possible tampering with ambulance drugs

  20-04-2017 23:08 via krqe.com
  
  CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) — Clovis officials say possible tampering has prompted them to remove and replace all drugs on the Fire Department’s 11 ambulances used for emergency calls.
  The Eastern New Mexico News reports that police began investigating after tampering with some narcotics was discovered Saturday night.
  City Manager Larry Fry says all of the department’s 72 uniformed personnel are being drug tested and that the federal Drug Enforcement Administration is assisting Clov
  
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• UN strongly condemns North Korean missile launch after delay

  20-04-2017 23:06 via krqe.com
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has issued a strongly worded condemnation of the latest North Korean missile launch after the U.S. agreed to Russia’s request to include a call for “dialogue” with Pyongyang in the text.
  The statement agreed Thursday to demands for an immediate end to the North’s nuclear and missile tests and threatens to impose new sanctions. It also expresses the council’s “utmost concern” about North Korea’s
  
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• Delicioso stamp collection to be dedicated Thursday night

  20-04-2017 22:59 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – People will be getting a closer look at the new “Delicioso Forever” stamps and the artist who created them.
  The stamps feature Mexican cuisine, including some New Mexico favorites such as flan, empanadas and chile rellenos.
  “My father’s side is Mexican and I had these aunts who were famous for their cooking, so we had tamales as a kid growing up we had empanadas, all sorts of things. So right off the bat I knew we’ve got to
  
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• 3 Paris officers shot, 1 fatally, in Champs-Elysees attack

  20-04-2017 22:01 via krqe.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — An attacker with an automatic weapon opened fire on police on Paris’ iconic Champs-Elysees Thursday night, killing one officer and seriously wounding two others before police shot and killed him. The Islamic State group quickly claimed responsibility for the attack.
  Paris police spokeswoman Johanna Primevert told The Associated Press that the attacker targeted officers guarding the area near the Franklin Roosevelt subway station at the center of the sparkling shopping bo
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Hernandez lawyer wants NFL star’s brain back

  20-04-2017 20:26
  
  BOSTON — The Latest on the apparent suicide in prison of ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez (all times local): 2:05 p.m. Aaron Hernandez’s lawyer is accusing Massachusetts’ chief medical examiner of “illegally” holding the brain of the ex-NFL star who was found hanged in his prison cell. Jose Baez told reporters Thursday that Hernandez’s family had […]
  
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• Santa Fe archdiocese endorses soda tax to fund pre-K

  20-04-2017 20:10
  
  SANTA FE — The Roman Catholic Church is endorsing a proposed tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in New Mexico’s state capital city. The Archdiocese of Santa Fe threw its support Wednesday behind a soda tax of 2 cents per fluid ounce that would go toward expanding prekindergarten programs. Santa Fe voters will decide on the local […]
  
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• Updated: GOP leaders agree to close cold beer loophole

  20-04-2017 20:01
  
  INDIANAPOLIS — Republican leaders in the Indiana Statehouse have reached agreement on a measure that appears to punish a convenience store owner who used a legal loophole to circumvent the state’s stringent law governing who can sell cold beer. A copy of the legislation obtained Thursday by the Associated Press sets a bar so high […]
  
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• Mexico says deportation of ‘dreamer,’ mother violated rules

  20-04-2017 20:00
  
  MEXICO CITY — The Mexican government says the deportation of a mother of four U.S.-born children as well as that of a young man brought to the United States as a child violated U.S. rules. Mexico’s Foreign Relations department said Thursday it was assisting Maribel Trujillo, who lived in southwest Ohio after she entered the […]
  
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• Man charged with killing Navajo Nation officer pleads not guilty

  20-04-2017 19:59 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) –The man accused of gunning down Navajo Nation police officer Houston Largo pleaded not guilty Thursday.
  Kirby Cleveland is facing eight counts relating to the murder four of them are punishable by death.
  32-year-old Kirby Cleveland is now awaiting a federal court judge to set his trial date after he entered eight pleas of not guilty to the charges.
  Cleveland faces eight counts, including first-degree murder, killing a federal officer and felony murder while escapi
  
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• Updated: American, Russian cheered as they reach Intl Space Station

  20-04-2017 19:56
  
  BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — A Soyuz space capsule on Thursday safely delivered an American astronaut making his first space flight and a veteran Russian cosmonaut to the International Space Station. NASA’s Jack Fischer and Russia’s Fyodor Yurchikhin lifted off from the Russia-leased launch facility in Kazakhstan at 1:13 p.m. Thursday (0713 GMT, 3:13 a.m. EDT). They […]
  
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• Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Flying car to go on sale

  20-04-2017 19:53 via krqe.com
  
  MONACO (AP) — It may not be quite like the Jetsons, but for over a million dollars you too can soon fly around in a car.
  A Slovakian company called AeroMobil unveiled on Thursday its version of a flying car, a light-framed plane whose wings can fold back, like an insect, and is boosted by a hybrid engine and rear propeller.
  It will be available to preorder as soon as this year but is not for everyone: besides the big price tag — between 1.2 million and 1.5 million euros ($1.3 mi
  
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• Report: ICE does bad job of overseeing deportable immigrants

  20-04-2017 19:46 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An internal government watchdog says Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation officers aren’t doing a very good job of keeping track of track of immigrants facing deportation but released from jail.
  The Homeland Security Department’s inspect general finds in a report released Thursday that ICE deportation officers are routinely assigned to manage thousands of cases at a time and are so overburdened that the agency likely isn’t deporting all the im
  
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• Tennessee student found safe, teacher arrested in California

  20-04-2017 19:27 via krqe.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —A 15-year-old Tennessee girl who disappeared with her teacher more than a month ago was found safe in California and the teacher was arrested, authorities said Thursday.
  The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said 50-year-old Tad Cummins had been taken into custody and that the girl was found in Siskiyou County in northern California. The agency said it planned a news conference for 4 p.m. EDT to release more details.
  The pair’s disappearance March 13 came after
  
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• 15-year-old Tennessee girl who disappeared with her teacher found safe in California; teacher arrested

  20-04-2017 19:27 via krqe.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — 15-year-old Tennessee girl who disappeared with her teacher found safe in California; teacher arrested.
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• Supreme Court bans Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia

  20-04-2017 19:18 via krqe.com
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday banned Jehovah’s Witnesses from operating anywhere in the country, accepting a request from the justice ministry that the religious organization be considered an extremist group.
  The court ordered the closure of the group’s Russian headquarters and its 395 local chapters, as well as the seizure of its property.
  The Interfax news agency on Thursday quoted Justice Ministry attorney Svetlana Borisova in court as saying that Je
  
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• Cultural Atlas: Cady Wells

  20-04-2017 19:16 via krqe.com
  
  In a catalog of essays, Georgia O’Keeffe was quoted as saying, “I believe we are the two best painters working in our part of the country.”  The “we” she was referring to included herself and artist Cady Wells.
  In a new exhibition, produced in cooperation with the Philbrook Museum of Art in Oklahoma, Cady Wells: Ruminations explores the work of this striking and emotionally-charged watercolorist who captured the American Southwest with a distinct and complex vi
  
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• Albuquerque city councilor seeks US House seat as Democrat

  20-04-2017 19:00 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque City Councilor Pat Davis is running as a Democrat for U.S. Congress in New Mexico’s central district.
  Davis formally announced his campaign for the Democratic nomination on Thursday at a brief news conference. He is a former police officer who directs the liberal advocacy group ProgressNow New Mexico.
  Democrats are hoping to maintain control of the Albuquerque-based congressional seat currently held by Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham. Lujan Grisham wi
  
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• Indiana University bans athletes with sexual violence past

  20-04-2017 18:56 via krqe.com
  
  BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Indiana University-Bloomington will no longer admit athletes with a history of sexual or domestic violence.
  The Indianapolis Star reports that under a policy approved this month, the school is banning all prospective student-athletes, including transfer students and incoming freshman, who have been “convicted of or pleaded guilty or no contest to a felony involving sexual violence” from its programs.
  The policy was started by athletic director Fred Glas
  
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• Navajo name change fails to garner enough support

  20-04-2017 18:07 via krqe.com
  
  WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) – A proposal that called for changing the name of the Navajo Nation to Dine Nation has failed to win enough support from the tribal council.
  Legislation proposing the official name change went before the council Tuesday, with only nine delegates voting in favor. The measure was previously tabled in January in an effort to gather more perspective from elders and study the costs of making such a change.
  Had it been approved, Council Delegate Jonathan Hale said the cha
  
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• New Mexico earns $4M in latest oil and gas lease sale

  20-04-2017 16:45 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – The latest oil and gas lease sale has netted nearly $4 million for public schools and other beneficiaries.
  The State Land Office said this month’s sale attracted two dozen bidders from six states. Up for auction were 35 tracks covering nearly 9,000 acres in Eddy, Chaves and Lea counties in southeastern New Mexico.
  With two months left in the fiscal year, revenues earned from monthly oil and gas lease sales have surpassed $61 million. Officials say earnings for t
  
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• Roman Catholic church backs soda tax in New Mexico

  20-04-2017 16:43 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – The Roman Catholica Church is endorsing a proposed tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in New Mexico’s state capital city.
  The Archdiocese of Santa Fe threw its support Wednesday behind a soda tax of 2 cents per fluid ounce that would go toward expanding prekindergarten programs. Santa Fe voters will decide on the local tax May 2.
  In a news release, the archdiocese says municipal governments are being left with little choice other than to fund their own early child
  
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• Man tries to carjack two different people, court documents say

  20-04-2017 15:56
  
  One woman was getting gas and another was shopping for groceries when police say a man tried to carjack the both of them. Marco Tijerina is being charged with aggravated burglary and attempt to commit a third-degree felony robbery.
  
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• Verizon’s profit sinks as it loses wireless subscribers

  20-04-2017 15:55
  
  NEW YORK — Verizon’s profit sunk 20 percent in its first quarter as it lost subscribers for its wireless cellphone service. Shares dropped more than 2 percent in Thursday premarket trading. The stock has fallen more than 8 percent since the beginning of the year. The New York company said that it lost 307,000 wireless […]
  
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• Updated: Mayor: Staff ‘misled’ Dallas leaders on hiring for 911 staff

  20-04-2017 15:55
  
  DALLAS — Mayor Mike Rawlings says city staff for years “misled” Dallas leaders by making them believe money would be spent to hire additional 911 dispatchers when such hiring never occurred. Rawlings’ sharp criticism came Wednesday during a city council briefing on Dallas’ 911 operations, which have long suffered from staffing shortages and technological problems […]
  
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• Updated: Fresno gunman gave police blow-by-blow of shootings of 3 men

  20-04-2017 15:52
  
  FRESNO, Calif. — Five days before a rampage that left three men dead, Kori Ali Muhammad shot an unarmed security guard who he felt had insulted him at a Motel 6 when he visited a woman at the hotel, police said. Muhammad shot the guard, 25-year-old Carl Williams, multiple times at close range shortly after […]
  
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• Survivalist who ambushed police seeks to avoid death penalty

  20-04-2017 15:52
  
  MILFORD, Pa. — A survivalist who shot and killed a Pennsylvania State Police trooper and injured another in an ambush at their barracks will now fight for his own life following his conviction on capital murder charges. Eric Frein, 33, was convicted Wednesday of all 12 charges he faced more than two years after targeting […]
  
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• Markets Right Now: Banks rise as earnings boost stocks

  20-04-2017 15:48
  
  9:40 a.m. Stocks are recovering as banks rise with bond yields and interest rates. Investors are also buying consumer-focused companies and small firms, a bet that the U.S. economy will perform well. Company earnings remain in focus Thursday morning. American Express rose 3.9 percent. It had a solid first quarter as its credit card members […]
  
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• Parents still concerned about APS decision to cut middle school sports

  20-04-2017 15:34 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Some parents are still concerned after calling out the Albuquerque Public School Board over a proposal to cut middle school sports.
  Many parents worry the cut will only hurt students in the long run.
  They say it’s losing crucial characteristics that are developed through sports like self-discipline the drive to achieve better grades and the goal to live a healthy life.
  “If we don’t have the kids successful in middle school, they don’t
  
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• Parents still concerend about APS decision to cut middle school sports

  20-04-2017 15:34 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) –Some parents are still concerned after calling out the Albuquerque Public School Board over a proposal to cut middle school sports.
  Many parents worry the cut will only hurt students in the long run.
  They say it’s losing crucial characteristics that are developed through sports like self-discipline the drive to achieve better grades and the goal to live a healthy life.
  “If we don’t have the kids successful in middle school, they don’t make
  
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• New UNM course explains how beer changed the world

  20-04-2017 15:26
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Beer breweries and tap rooms continue to bubble up in New Mexico, quenching the desert state's thirst for more creative and quality brews.
  
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• Complaint filed over county commissioner's election eligibility

  20-04-2017 15:23
  
  More than four months after a Republican Sandoval County commissioner was elected into office, the county's Democratic Party is questioning his eligibility.
  
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• UNM: Student robbed at gunpoint near dorm

  20-04-2017 15:22
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- KOB is learning more about what happened early Wednesday morning when a UNM student said he was robbed at gunpoint in his dorm room.
  
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• Boy on life support after crash with APD vehicle

  20-04-2017 15:19
  
  A 6-year-old boy hurt in a car crash with an Albuquerque Police Department cruiser earlier this week is on life support while his 8-year-old sister remains in critical condition, a close family friend confirmed to KOB Wednesday with permission from the family.
  
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• Benefit gala honors local students for their generosity in the community.

  20-04-2017 15:12 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque Public School students are being recognized for their outstanding community service.
  The APS Gold Bar Benefit Gala is scheduled to honor 14 of the most generous students in Albuquerque as part of its Selfless Seniors program. Students are recognized for works of volunteerism in their communities, schools, and families.
  The benefit gala will also pay tribute to the inaugural APS Hall of Honor inductees, and introduce the Foundation’s first Best
  
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• A critically-acclaimed play comes to the Duke City

  20-04-2017 15:10 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) –   An iconic play is coming to a local theatre.
  ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ is a critically lauded play by American playwright Edward Albee. The theatrical production won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1963 and was also selected for the Pulitzer Prize in drama.  The dark comedy chronicles a late night of dangerous fun and games between new friends that culminate in a shocking revelation.
  The Desert Rose Playhouse will present the
  
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• Local wildlife refuge hosts community celebration for Earth Day.

  20-04-2017 15:06 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A local organization is gearing up to promote an environmental awareness event filled with family fun and interactive activities.
  The Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge is hosting it’s third annual Abrazos Community Celebration in honor of Earth Day. The public is invited to join this free community event, which will feature plenty of interactive family activities, educational workshops, music, and free food. The fun will be outside, so water and sunscre
  
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• April 20 Morning Rush: Police officer identified in Eubank and Indian School crash

  20-04-2017 15:04 via krqe.com
  
  1.Developments In the serious officer-involved crash that sent a mother and two young kids to the hospital. The officer’s name is now known. Thursday morning, police are waiting to interview veteran officer Jonathan McDonnell who was responding to a 911 call Monday when he hit a car at Eubank and Indian School. A mother and her two children who the family tells KRQE News 13 is a 9-year old girl and 6-year old boy, were seriously injured and rushed to the hospital. The family allowed us to
  
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• US weighs giving Saudis more military aid for Yemen efforts

  20-04-2017 14:50 via krqe.com
  
  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The United States is considering ways to boost military support for the Saudi-led fight against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen, believing military pressure is needed to prod the militants into a negotiated end to the conflict, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
  The U.S. already is helping the Saudis by providing intelligence and aerial refueling of their combat aircraft. But the coalition, which also includes the United Arab Emirates, has failed to defeat the rebels kn
  
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• Ann Coulter vows to speak at Berkeley despite cancellation

  20-04-2017 14:50 via krqe.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ann Coulter fired off an angry stream of tweets Wednesday vowing to speak as planned next week at the University of California, Berkeley after campus officials called off the event for security concerns.
  “I WILL BE SPEAKING NEXT THURSDAY,” the right-wing commentator tweeted, calling the move to cancel her planned event on April 27 a ban on free speech.
  Coulter was invited to speak at Berkeley by campus Republicans on the subject of illegal immigration. The
  
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• Patriots hit back at New York Times over White House tweet

  20-04-2017 14:40 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The New England Patriots are taking issue with a New York Times photo comparison that suggested a significantly smaller turnout for a Super Bowl celebration at the White House with President Donald Trump than one two years ago with President Barack Obama.
  The Times on Wednesday tweeted an Associated Press photo of the Patriots standing behind Obama on the south side of the White House in 2015. Stairs on either side of the main group were filled with people. The tweet comp
  
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• Widow of Saints star Will Smith upset at killer’s 25 years

  20-04-2017 14:39 via krqe.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The man who killed retired New Orleans Saints star Will Smith and wounded his wife after colliding in traffic last year was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for manslaughter, far less than the maximum prosecutors had called for.
  Cardell Hayes faced up to 60 years if given consecutive maximum terms for manslaughter and attempted manslaughter. Instead, Judge Camille Buras gave him 15 years for shooting Racquel Smith in the legs, to be served at the same time.
  Hayes
  
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• Killer of NFL’s Will Smith apologizes to his widow in court

  20-04-2017 14:39 via krqe.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The man who killed retired New Orleans Saints star Will Smith during a traffic dispute cried about missing his son, insisted he acted in self-defense and apologized to Smith’s family on Thursday.
  Cardell Hayes, who faces up to 60 years in prison for manslaughter and attempted manslaughter, said he understands the pain the three Smith children feel as they go through life without their father.
  “That’s what I fear most for my son, not to be there for him,
  
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• Defense to plead for leniency in death ex-New Orleans Saint

  20-04-2017 14:39 via krqe.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The defense will get a chance to make its case for leniency Thursday when a sentencing hearing resumes in the shooting death of former New Orleans Saints star Will Smith.
  Smith’s widow, Racquel, and other loved ones took the stand Wednesday and tearfully aimed bitter remarks at her husband’s killer, Cardell Hayes.
  Hayes, 29, could be sentenced to 60 years for fatally shooting Smith and wounding Racquel Smith in a confrontation after a traffic crash last year.
  
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• Alleged cop killer to answer to charges

  20-04-2017 14:07 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Kirby Cleveland will face a judge Thursday set to answer to eight charges surrounding the murder of tribal officer Houston James Largo.
  Four of the charges carry the death penalty like murdering a federal officer and committing murder while escaping from an institution of confinement.
  The charges allege that Cleveland escaped from a halfway house in Albuquerque sometime between the end of February and mid-March.
  Investigators say Cleveland killed officer Lar
  
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• Alleged cop killer to answer charges

  20-04-2017 14:07 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) –An accused cop killer is set to enter his plea in federal court. Kirby Cleveland will face a judge Thursday and is set to answer to eight charges surrounding the murder of tribal officer Houston James Largo.
  Four of the charges carry the death penalty like murdering a federal officer and committing murder while escaping from an institution of confinement.
  The charges allege that Cleveland escaped from a halfway house in Albuquerque sometime between the end of Febr
  
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• Pope sets May 13 as canonization date for Fatima siblings

  20-04-2017 13:44 via krqe.com
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis confirmed Thursday he will use his upcoming visit to the Portuguese shrine at Fatima to canonize two Portuguese shepherd children who say they saw visions of the Virgin Mary 100 years ago.
  Francis convened his cardinals to formally set the May 13 date for the saint-making Mass.
  Originally, Francis had planned to travel to Fatima on May 12-13 to merely mark the anniversary of the apparitions, which turned the tiny northern Portuguese town into one of the wor
  
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