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• Updated: Supply ship named for John Glenn arrives at space station

  22-04-2017 23:30
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A supply ship bearing John Glenn’s name arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday. Astronauts used the station’s big robot arm to grab the capsule, as the craft flew 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Germany. NASA’s commercial shipper, Orbital ATK, named the spacecraft the S.S. John Glenn in honor of […]
  
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• Updated: Premature hippo a happy hit for Ohio zoo after gorilla death

  22-04-2017 23:21
  
  CINCINNATI — A prematurely born hippo in Ohio has been providing regular doses of happiness for animal lovers, in a show of public affection that’s also given an emotional lift to Cincinnati Zoo workers. After months of backlash over the zoo’s fatal shooting of Harambe, a gorilla who became a pop culture phenomenon in death, […]
  
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• How dangerous air bags can find their way into used cars

  22-04-2017 22:13 via krqe.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada crash that nearly killed a young woman has exposed a hole in the government’s efforts to get dangerous Takata air bag inflators off the road: There’s nothing that prevents the devices from being taken from wrecked cars and reused.
  Karina Dorado’s trachea was punctured by shrapnel from an inflator in an otherwise minor crash in Las Vegas on March 3. She was rushed to a trauma center, where surgeons removed pieces that damaged her vocal cords. She
  
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• Mayoral candidate announces plan for energy neutral Albuquerque

  22-04-2017 22:09
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-- Albuquerque mayoral candidate and current New Mexico State Auditor Tim Keller announced his vision of an energy neutral Albuquerque in a statement released Saturday.
  
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• Loan fund established to help ART-impacted businesses

  22-04-2017 21:07
  
  The city launched a new loan program construction called the Central Loan Fund for businesses affected by Albuquerque Rapid Transit.
  
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• US students satisfied with life, but some foreigners happier

  22-04-2017 20:34 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) – The good news: American high school students are generally satisfied with their lives. But many of their peers in other countries are happier.
  Asked to rank their life satisfaction on a scale from 0 to 10, American 15-year-olds gave an average mark of 7.4, according to a study conducted by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, which was released Wednesday.
  American students scored close to the average of 7.3 among OECD’s 35 member c
  
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• Threat on social media causes concerns at Los Lunas school

  22-04-2017 20:13
  
  LOS LUNAS, N.M. -- Valencia High school had extra security on campus Friday after threats made last night on social media. People posted about a possible shooting on campus through Snapchat and Facebook.
  
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• As an organ donor, boy can make lasting impact after tragedy

  22-04-2017 20:09
  
  There is a lot of heartbreak in the wake of Monday's horrific collision between an Albuquerque Police Department officer and an Albuquerque family. Late Thursday night the 6-year-old in that car, a boy named Joel died. According to family members, Joel's mother signed paperwork to donate his organs, and the decision will likely have a lifesaving impact on New Mexicans in need.
  
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• Rape kit backlog may be growing, state auditor says

  22-04-2017 20:06
  
  The severity of New Mexico's backlog has been known for around five months after a state audit. Since then, State Auditor Tim Keller said it's been all talk, but no action in the way of a plan to address it.
  
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• Authorities locate missing 12-year-old

  22-04-2017 20:03
  
  A 12-year-old boy with autism who went missing earlier this week is safe and authorities say he will soon be reunited with his family.
  
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• Updated: Scams push foreclosure fraud to limit, taking victims’ homes

  22-04-2017 20:02
  
  NEW YORK — The phone call came as Raymond Murray neared the bottom of his luck. His wife had died, his career had been ended by injuries, and struggling to get by on his disability check, he had scraped together just enough to pay a lawyer to avoid imminent foreclosure on his modest Brooklyn home. […]
  
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• Icelandic language at risk; robots, computers can’t grasp it

  22-04-2017 19:16 via krqe.com
  
  REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — When an Icelander arrives at an office building and sees “Solarfri” posted, they need no further explanation for the empty premises: The word means “when staff get an unexpected afternoon off to enjoy good weather.”
  The people of this rugged North Atlantic island settled by Norsemen some 1,100 years ago have a unique dialect of Old Norse that has adapted to life at the edge of the Artic.
  Hundslappadrifa, for example, means “heavy snow
  
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• Chinese jihadis’ rise in Syria raises concerns at home

  22-04-2017 19:16 via krqe.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Many don’t speak Arabic and their role in Syria is little known to the outside world, but the Chinese fighters of the Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria are organized, battled-hardened and have been instrumental in ground offensives against President Bashar Assad’s forces in the country’s northern regions.
  Thousands of Chinese jihadis have come to Syria since the country’s civil war began in March 2011 to fight against government forces and their allies.
  
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• Divisions, protests erupt at German nationalist convention

  22-04-2017 19:15 via krqe.com
  
  COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Divisions among German nationalists erupted Saturday as delegates from the far-right Alternative for Germany party rejected an appeal by one of their leaders to seek a pragmatic political path instead of turning into a “fundamental opposition” party.
  While tensions brewed inside the AfD party convention in the western German city of Cologne, outside the hotel hundreds of left-wing demonstrators tried to block about 600 AfD party members from entering. Th
  
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• Coin flip decides new president of southern Illinois village

  22-04-2017 19:15 via krqe.com
  
  MARION, Ill. (AP) — A coin flip has decided who will lead a tiny southern Illinois town after an election this month ended in a tie.
  Tammy O’Daniell-Howell is the new village president of Colp, home to about 250 residents, after the coin toss Thursday.
  Williamson County Clerk Amanda Barnes says opponent Bryan Riekena let O’Daniell-Howell choose heads or tails. She picked heads and that’s where it landed.
  Barnes says both candidates inspected the 2016 North Dakota quarter
  
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• Battles within and outside German nationalist convention

  22-04-2017 19:15 via krqe.com
  
  COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Germany’s best-known nationalist politician on Saturday called on members of the Alternative for Germany to endorse her more pragmatic course instead of turning the party into a “fundamental opposition,” an appeal that appeared to reveal the growing split among the populist party’s leading figures.
  Speaking in front of AfD members at a party convention in the western city of Cologne, Frauke Petry said that party needs to set the course for a
  
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• Renowned Soviet avant-garde art collection comes to Moscow

  22-04-2017 19:14 via krqe.com
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Vladimir Lysenko’s painted bull stares with flat black eyes like a double-barrel shotgun, one of his horns festooned in a mosaic of bright rectangles, the tip of his tail stretched toward a glowing orange globe that may be the sun.
  Over the years, the painting has become one of the most renowned images of the artistic ferment that bubbled under the strictures of insipid Soviet social realism. But until recently, anyone who wanted to see it had to travel to an isolated,
  
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• Chelsea Clinton: Someday, someone’s mother will be president

  22-04-2017 19:14 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Chelsea Clinton stayed away from politics and stuck to the subject of childhood obesity Friday at a Variety magazine event honoring prominent women and their charity work — except for her last line.
  Responding to a pointed quip hours earlier from emcee Vanessa Bayer, a “Saturday Night Live” cast member, that none of the honorees’ mothers was president of the United States, Clinton reminded her that maybe not, “but someday, someone’s (moth
  
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• ‘Avatar’ sequels now scheduled to start in December 2020

  22-04-2017 19:14 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — James Cameron has set the release dates for the next four “Avatar” sequels, with the first coming in 2020.
  The movie’s Facebook page Saturday posted a photo of Cameron and his massive film crew, who have been working on all four films simultaneously. The post said “Avatar 2” will hit theaters Dec. 18, 2020, and “Avatar 3” comes a year later, on Dec. 17, 2021.
  The franchise then takes a three-year hiatus before returning with “
  
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• Want to own a town? Tiny Oregon community for sale for $3.5M

  22-04-2017 19:13 via krqe.com
  
  TILLER, Ore. (AP) — In the tiny, dying timber town of Tiller, the old cliche is true. If you blink, you might actually miss it.
  But these days, this dot on a map in southwestern Oregon is generating big-city buzz for an unlikely reason: Almost the entire town is for sale.
  The asking price of $3.5 million brings with it six houses, the shuttered general store and gas station, the land under the post office, undeveloped parcels, water rights and infrastructure that includes sidewalks, fire h
  
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• Security tight as France prepares for presidential vote

  22-04-2017 19:13 via krqe.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Early voting began overseas Saturday in France’s most nail-biting election in generations, and the 11 candidates seeking to become the country’s next president silenced their campaigns as required to give voters a period of reflection.
  Opinion polls pointed to a tight race among the four top contenders vying to get into the May 7 presidential runoff that will decide who becomes France’s next head of state. But the polls also said that decision was largely in
  
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• Possible shutdown, health care quagmire awaiting Congress

  22-04-2017 19:13 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers returning to Washington this coming week will find a familiar quagmire on health care legislation and a budget deadline dramatized by the prospect of a protracted battle between President Donald Trump and Democrats over his border wall.
  Trump’s GOP allies control Congress, but they’ve been unable to send him a single major bill as his presidency faces the symbolic 100-day mark on April 29 — the very day when the government, in a worst-case scen
  
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• French overseas territories kicking off presidential voting

  22-04-2017 19:13 via krqe.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Voters waking up in some French overseas territories are preparing to vote first in France’s unpredictable presidential election — one day earlier than in the mainland.
  Political campaigning is banned from Saturday across France, and online, as voters in far-flung areas such as French Polynesia, Guiana, Guadeloupe cast ballots for one of the 11 candidates.
  The mad-dash campaigning of the last few weeks came to a premature end Friday, hours after a gunman killed a p
  
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• France kicks off presidential vote overseas; security tight

  22-04-2017 19:13 via krqe.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Early voting began overseas Saturday in France’s most nail-biting election in generations, and the 11 candidates seeking to become the country’s next president silenced their campaigns as required to give voters a period of reflection.
  Opinion polls showed a tight race among the four top contenders vying to get into the May presidential 7 runoff that will decide who becomes France’s next head of state. But the polls also showed that decision was largely in th
  
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• Pope comforts sister of French priest slain by extremists

  22-04-2017 19:12 via krqe.com
  
  ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday comforted the sister of an elderly French priest who was slain by Islamic militants in a church in Normandy as the pontiff paid tribute with a special prayer service to the courage of 20th- and 21st- century Christian martyrs.
  Francis gripped the hands of Roselyne Hamel, whose brother, Rev. Jacques Hamel, 85, died when his throat was slit as he celebrated Mass on July 26, 2016.
  He quietly spoke with her during the evening service in St. Bartholomew Basi
  
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• Oklahoman author, Texas dispute ownership of ‘lunar Bibles’

  22-04-2017 19:12 via krqe.com
  
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Ten microfilm Bibles once launched hundreds of thousands of miles into space sit landlocked today inside an Oklahoma courthouse while a legal battle rages in two states over who is the rightful owner of the celestial keepsakes.
  Eight of the 10 tiny holy books in dispute landed on the surface of the moon during NASA’s 1971 Apollo 14 mission, carried in a pouch by astronaut Edgar Mitchell. Each isn’t much larger than a postage stamp and contains all 1,245 page
  
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• Harvard researchers find copy of Declaration of Independence

  22-04-2017 19:12 via krqe.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University researchers say they’ve discovered a second parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence.
  The Boston Globe reported Friday researchers Emily Sneff and Danielle Allen found the copy in a records office in southern England.
  The only other parchment copy is maintained by the National Archives in Washington.
  The two dated the document to the 1780s. They say it was found in the archives in Chichester, and is believed to have originally belonged to a D
  
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• No charges for Northglenn officers who killed suspect in car

  22-04-2017 19:08
  
  DENVER — Two police officers in a Denver suburb who shot a domestic violence suspect 14 times won’t face charges, the Adams County District Attorney’s Office announced after finding the use of force was reasonable. “There is no reasonable likelihood of success of proving that the involved officers committed any crimes beyond a reasonable doubt […]
  
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• Police: Woman killed by own car in apparent accident

  22-04-2017 18:34
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. — Las Cruces police say a 62-year-old woman is dead after being struck and pinned under her own car in what appears to be an accident. Police say investigators believe Jill Thompson mistakenly started the car while the automatic transmission was in reverse instead of park and that she then was struck […]
  
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• KFC changing chicken sandwich prep, aiming to improve taste

  22-04-2017 18:12 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — KFC is aiming to take a bigger bite out of the chicken sandwich market by changing how it prepares them.
  The chain says it is hoping to improve the taste and is switching from filets that were breaded and frozen offsite before being shipped to the stores in favor of filets breaded at the stores. That’s similar to how rivals Chick-fil-A and Popeye’s already prepare their chicken.
  The move reflects how big fast-food chains are trying to step up the image of their
  
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• Big summer for Disney parks: Pandora and Guardians of Galaxy

  22-04-2017 16:43 via krqe.com
  
  Disney theme parks have a big summer ahead of them with major new attractions opening May 27 based on two movies, one about the Marvel Comics superheroes from “Guardians of the Galaxy” and the other about the lush alien world of Pandora from the James Cameron film “Avatar.”
  The Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission BREAKOUT! attraction opens at Disney California Adventure in Anaheim, California.
  Pandora — The World of Avatar is a 12-acre land opening at Walt Disney World
  
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• Updated: Prosthetic arm designed by undergrads lets girl play violin

  22-04-2017 16:35
  
  FAIRFAX, Va. — The pressure was on for Abdul Gouda and his classmates at George Mason University: Not only did their graduation depend on the success of their project, but so did the hopes of an impossibly cute 10-year-old girl. Fifth-grader Isabella Nicola wanted to play the violin, but she was born with no left […]
  
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• Updated: Jail to job: NYC to give jobs to released inmates

  22-04-2017 16:32
  
  NEW YORK — Neftali Thomas Diaz swears he’s done with Rikers Island. After being locked up twice at the notorious New York City jail for stealing a credit card and violating parole, Diaz entered a private jobs program. Once he’s back on his feet with a paycheck, Diaz says, “I know I’m not ever going […]
  
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• Hernandez’s body brought to Connecticut funeral home

  22-04-2017 16:03 via krqe.com
  
  BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — Former NFL player Aaron Hernandez’s body was taken to a funeral home in his Connecticut hometown Saturday, two days before his family holds a private funeral.
  The body arrived in the afternoon at O’Brien Funeral Home in Bristol, said Laura Soll, a spokeswoman for the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association.
  A private service is scheduled at the funeral home Monday from 1 to 3 p.m. Soll said the burial will be private at an undisclosed location.
  The forme
  
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• Hernandez family planning private funeral in Connecticut

  22-04-2017 16:03 via krqe.com
  
  BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — Aaron Hernandez’s family is planning a private funeral for the former NFL star in his Connecticut hometown.
  A spokeswoman for the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association said Saturday that the service is set for Monday at a funeral home in Bristol, where Hernandez was a standout football and basketball player in high school.
  The former New England Patriots tight end was found hanged in his cell at a maximum-security prison in Massachusetts early Wednesday. He
  
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• Supply ship named for John Glenn arrives at space station

  22-04-2017 13:45 via krqe.com
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A supply ship bearing John Glenn’s name arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday.
  Astronauts used the station’s big robot arm to grab the capsule, as the craft flew 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Germany.
  NASA’s commercial shipper, Orbital ATK, named the spacecraft the S.S. John Glenn in honor of the first American to orbit Earth. It rocketed from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Tuesday with nearly 7,700 pounds of food, experiments
  
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• Afghan officials: 100 casualties in Afghanistan attack

  22-04-2017 13:30 via krqe.com
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Authorities on Saturday raised the casualty toll to 100 in an attack on a military compound in northern Afghanistan a day earlier by gunmen and suicide bombers wearing army uniforms.
  Gen. Daulat Waziri, spokesman for the Afghanistan Ministry of Defense, said the attack Friday on a compound of the 209th Corps of the Afghan National Army left dozens of soldiers and other personnel dead or wounded.
  The defense ministry had said Friday night that eight soldiers were k
  
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• Justice Dept. warns sanctuary cities in immigration fight

  22-04-2017 13:29 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration intensified its threats to crack down on so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to comply with federal immigration authorities, warning nine jurisdictions Friday that they may lose coveted law enforcement grant money unless they document cooperation.
  It sent letters to officials in California and major cities including New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and New Orleans, all places the Justice Department’s inspector general has identified as lim
  
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• Scientists leave labs, take to streets to defend research

  22-04-2017 13:10 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists worldwide left their labs to take to the streets Saturday along with students and research advocates in pushing back against what they say are mounting attacks on science.
  The March for Science, coinciding with Earth Day, was set for more than 500 cities, anchored in Washington and to be joined by dozens of nonpartisan scientific professional societies in a turnout intended to combine political and how-to science demonstrations.
  Marchers in Geneva carried signs
  
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• March for Science events to take place around the globe

  22-04-2017 13:10 via krqe.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of people are expected to attend March for Science events around the world to promote the understanding of science and defend it from various attacks, including U.S. government budget cuts.
  The March for Science was dreamed up at the Women’s March on Washington, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January. Saturday is also Earth Day.
  The march puts scientists, who generally shy away from advocacy and whose work depends on objective
  
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• Advocates fan out in global show of support for science

  22-04-2017 13:10 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists, students and research advocates rallied from the Brandenburg Gate to the Washington Monument on Earth Day, conveying a global message of scientific freedom without political interference and spending necessary to make future breakthroughs possible.
  “We didn’t choose to be in this battle, but it has come to the point where we have to fight because the stakes are too great,” said climate scientist Michael Mann, who regularly clashes with politi
  
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• Updated: ‘Drain the swamp’ more a Trump slogan than a practice so far

  22-04-2017 08:50
  
  WASHINGTON — The leader of a bipartisan good-government group, Zach Wamp, headed to the White House last week to ask whether President Donald Trump’s “drain the swamp” slogan would ever be more than a throwaway campaign slogan. One of the president’s closest aides, Steve Bannon, assured him it’s a priority. Bannon said he “agrees with […]
  
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• Two enter race for Soil and Water seat

  22-04-2017 08:05
  
  Bernalillo and Placitas residents announce candidacies
  
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• Technical education growth will be studied

  22-04-2017 08:05
  
  Recent CNM skills event sparks interest in new programs
  
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• Pay raise recommended for RR city employees

  22-04-2017 08:05
  
  If approved, employees would see a 2.4 percent increase in pay
  
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• Commissioner allegedly violated federal law

  22-04-2017 08:05
  
  Hatch Act rules at heart of issue
  
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• Silver Star Nation: Pre-Draft Special Part Two

  22-04-2017 06:35 via krqe.com
  
  One of the highlights of 2016’s Draft was the Cowboys’ Dak Prescott pick on day three of the draft. Silver Star Nation talks what we can expect from Prescott this year.
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• Silver Star Nation: Pre-Draft Special Part Three

  22-04-2017 06:35 via krqe.com
  
  The Cowboys are looking for some fresh talent in the 2017 Draft but what about players who were already drafted and have yet to play?
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  Silver Star Nation Part Four »Filed under: Silver Star Nation
  
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• Silver Star Nation: Pre-Draft Special Part One

  22-04-2017 06:35 via krqe.com
  
  Can the Dallas Cowboys fill their biggest needs in the 2017 draft? Silver Start Nation Part One takes a look at what those needs are ahead of the 2017 Draft.
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• Silver Star Nation: Pre-Draft Special Part Four

  22-04-2017 06:35 via krqe.com
  
  After talk about some of the Cowboys’ losses, Silver Star Nation takes a look at some of the competition. Who made some big additions? And, can the Cowboys keep up?
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  Silver Star Nation Part One »
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