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• FDA: Avoid fake ‘miracle’ cancer treatments sold on internet

  30-04-2017 23:13 via krqe.com
  
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. regulators are warning consumers to avoid 65 bogus products hawked on the internet with false claims that they can cure, treat, diagnose or prevent cancer.
  The Food and Drug Administration says these products , mostly sold on websites and social media sites, can be harmful, waste money and result in people not getting approved, effective treatments.
  The pills, creams and teas are untested and not approved by the FDA, which called them a “cruel deception.&rdq
  
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• Gathering of Nations comes to a close for another year

  30-04-2017 22:56
  
  Hundreds of tribes and tens of thousands of people flooded the Tingley Coliseum for the Gathering of Nations.
  
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• Updated: Globalism reigns at box office, while ‘Furious’ passes $1B

  30-04-2017 22:39
  
  NEW YORK — A South India sensation, a Hispanic-focused comedy and the highest-grossing film ever directed by an African American made up the top three films in North America on a culturally diverse box office weekend. As expected, it was another runaway weekend for “The Fate of the Furious,” which took No. 1 for the […]
  
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• Updated: Is this the future of college: Online classes, but no degree

  30-04-2017 22:37
  
  WASHINGTON — Connor Mitchell’s university classes take place online, he doesn’t have any exams and he studies in a different country every year. Is he looking into the future or taking a gamble? With college costs rising steadily and with more courses available online for free, some observers are beginning to question the need for […]
  
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• APD investigating homicide after man found dead near park

  30-04-2017 22:26
  
  Officers are investigating a homicide after one man was found dead in northeast Albuquerque early Sunday morning, according to a spokesman for the Albuquerque Police Department. Around 4 a.m. officers responded to a shots fired call near the Stardust Skies park by Pennsylvania and Bellrose NE when they found the body, officer Simon Drobik said. […]
  
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• Updated: 2 dead as chartered bus with Texas school athletes crashes

  30-04-2017 22:07
  
  DELL CITY, Texas — Texas Department of Public Safety authorities say two people are dead after a head-on crash involving a pickup truck and a chartered bus carrying 34 coaches and athletes from seven El Paso high schools returning home from a regional track meet in Lubbock. El Paso Independent School District officials identified one […]
  
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• Neanderthals in California? Maybe so, provocative study says

  30-04-2017 21:33 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A startling new report asserts that the first known Americans arrived much, much earlier than scientists thought — more than 100,000 years ago __ and maybe they were Neanderthals.
  If true, the finding would far surpass the widely accepted date of about 15,000 years ago.
  Researchers say a site in Southern California shows evidence of humanlike behavior from about 130,000 years ago, when bones and teeth of an elephantlike mastodon were evidently smashed with rocks.
  The
  
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• Guy in gorilla costume finishes London Marathon after 6 days

  30-04-2017 20:31
  
  An English policeman wearing a gorilla costume while crawling the London Marathon has finally finished the race, almost a week…
  
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• Updated: Jose Baez: Hernandez acquittal burnishes lawyer’s reputation

  30-04-2017 20:30
  
  BOSTON — During Aaron Hernandez’s double murder trial, the former NFL star’s lawyer wanted to drive home his point that the prosecution’s star witness was a “three-legged pony” whose testimony could not be believed. So he galloped like a horse in front of the jury. It was vintage Jose Baez: flashy, theatrical and willing to […]
  
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• Police: Minot State student dies in apparent bridge fall

  30-04-2017 19:48
  
  MINOT, N.D. — Minot police say a 22-year-old man who was found dead near a bridge was a student at Minot State University. Police identified the victim as Cristian Fuentes, formerly of Texas. Fuentes’ body was found Saturday morning under the Broadway Bridge in Minot, near a construction project. Police say he apparently fell from […]
  
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• Scientists investigate large number of humpback whale deaths

  30-04-2017 19:32 via krqe.com
  
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Government scientists launched an investigation Thursday into an unusually large number of humpback whale deaths from North Carolina to Maine, the first such “unusual mortality event” declaration in a decade.
  Forty-one whales have died in the region in 2016 and so far in 2017, far exceeding the average of about 14 per year, said Deborah Fauquier, a veterinary medical officer with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Marine Fisheries.
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• New Mexico State Police investigate shooting involving Santa Fe Police Officer

  30-04-2017 19:30 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE)– New Mexico State Police are investigating a shooting that involved a Santa Fe Police Officer.
  Investigators say the shooting happened Saturday evening around 10 p.m. on Chaparral Drive in Eldorado, New Mexico when a Santa Fe Police Officer was attempting to arrest a suspect who was seen in a stolen car. At some point the suspect was able to escape the officer, get into the officer’s patrol car and pin the officer between the patrol unit and a nearby tree.NMSP s
  
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• Updated: NYC mayor announces plan for free preschool for 3-year-olds

  30-04-2017 18:47
  
  NEW YORK — Free preschool for 4-year-olds was a signature issue that helped New York City’s mayor win office in 2013. Now up for re-election, Bill de Blasio wants to add thousands of classroom seats for 3-year-olds, too. His initiative, which could eventually enroll up to 62,000 kids, would be among the largest public investments […]
  
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• California says oceans could rise higher than thought

  30-04-2017 17:22 via krqe.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — New climate-change findings mean the Pacific Ocean off California may rise higher, and storms and high tides hit harder, than previously thought, officials said.
  The state’s Ocean Protection Council on Wednesday revised upward its predictions for how much water off California will rise as the climate warms. The forecast helps agencies in the nation’s most populous state plan for climate change as rising water seeps toward low-lying airports, highways and co
  
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• The Latest: Trump ready to end NAFTA if he can’t renegotiate

  30-04-2017 17:21 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local):
  11 a.m.
  President Donald Trump says if he’s unable to renegotiate a long-standing free trade agreement with Mexico and Canada, then he’ll terminate the pact.
  That’s what he tells CBS’ “Face the Nation.” And it’s in keeping with what the president says he’s told the leaders of those two countries. He says he’s told them he won’t pull the United States from th
  
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• The Latest: Trump holds hope for progress on health care

  30-04-2017 17:21 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local):
  4:15 p.m.
  President Donald Trump approaches the week with the threat of a government shutdown still looming as he holds hope for progress on health care.
  Trump spent his first 100 days without passing any major legislation.
  His challenges remain. Last week lawmakers averted a shutdown by sending the president a one-week spending bill. Congress will have to negotiate final details on a $1 trillion package by Friday to
  
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• Trump warns North Korea’s missiles will get better

  30-04-2017 17:20 via krqe.com
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Donald Trump said after North Korea’s latest failed rocket launch that communist leader Kim Jong-Un will eventually develop better missiles, and “we can’t allow it to happen.”
  In a taped interview broadcast Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” the president would not discuss the possibility of military action, saying: “It is a chess game. I just don’t want people to know what my thinking is.”
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• Polish official suspended over image of Tusk as SS officer

  30-04-2017 17:20 via krqe.com
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Foreign Ministry has suspended one of its honorary consuls in the U.S. after the woman allegedly posted a digitally-altered image showing European Council President Donald Tusk dressed as a Nazi German SS officer.
  The image was posted on the Facebook page of Maria Szonert Binienda, recently named honorary consul in Akron, Ohio. The news agency PAP reported Sunday that she has been suspended from that position and that further decisions will be decided a
  
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• Parents of missing UK girl still hopeful she’s ‘out there’

  30-04-2017 17:20 via krqe.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — The parents of Madeleine McCann, the 3-year-old British girl who vanished during a family vacation to Portugal in 2007, say they are still hopeful they will one day be reunited with their daughter as they mark the 10th anniversary of her disappearance.
  In an interview with the British media released Sunday, the McCanns said they felt encouraged by the “real progress” that British police have made in the case in the past five years.
  Scotland Yard said last week tha
  
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• Thousands brave weather to protest Trump climate policies

  30-04-2017 17:19 via krqe.com
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Thousands of people across the U.S. marched in rain, snow and sweltering heat Saturday to demand action on climate change — mass protests that coincided with President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office and took aim at his agenda for rolling back environmental protections.
  At the marquee event, the Peoples Climate March in Washington, D.C., tens of thousands of demonstrators made their way down Pennsylvania Avenue on their way to encircle the White House as tempe
  
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• The Latest: A salute to First Amendment and jibes for Trump

  30-04-2017 17:19 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and the competing event organized by late-night TV star Samantha Bee (all times EDT):
  11:15 p.m.
  The First Amendment has been getting plenty of praise from prominent Washington journalists attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The event was held this year without President Donald Trump and without the usual Hollywood presence.
  Watergate journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein remi
  
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• Investments in Russia become focus in congressional race

  30-04-2017 17:19 via krqe.com
  
  GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — The leading candidates for Montana’s only congressional seat tangled Saturday over money, including taxes, campaign financing and $240,000 in investments by the Republican candidate that financial disclosures link to index funds with substantial holdings in Russian firms that are under sanctions by the U.S. government.
  The investments gave Democrat Rob Quist fresh ammunition to lob at Greg Gianforte during their only televised debate before the May 25 specia
  
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• Horseman rides across US to bring attention to Agent Orange

  30-04-2017 17:19 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA CLARITA, California (AP) — The two things Colt Romberger and his father had most in common, the ones that made them best friends as well as father and son, were a deep affection for horses and an equally deep pride in having served their country in times of war.
  So when Cliff Romberger, a Vietnam War veteran and onetime wrangler of horses on Hollywood film sets, died in 2015 of a brain disease doctors attributed to his exposure to the chemical defoliant Agent Orange, his son knew the
  
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• Beyond 100 days, Trump faces more legislative challenges

  30-04-2017 17:19 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — After more than three months in office without passing any major legislation, President Donald Trump faces a week with a deadline to avert a government shutdown and the possibility of progress on health care.
  Trump has spent his first 100 days coming to terms with the slow grind of government even in a Republican-dominated capital, and watching some of his promises —from repealing the nation’s health care law to temporarily banning people from some Muslim nati
  
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• At 100 days in, Trump seems both outsider and insider

  30-04-2017 17:19 via krqe.com
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump is turning from his dramatic debut as an outsider president to focus on advancing his plans to cut taxes and get tough on trade deals.
  “We are not going to let other countries take advantage of us anymore,” he said Saturday in Harrisburg at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center. “From now on it’s going to be America first.”
  But even as he returned to friendly political turf in Pennsylvania, Trump seems
  
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• New: Chorus aims to benefit music education with upcoming concert

  30-04-2017 17:00
  
    Casa Rondeña will host “Dreaming of Midsummer: Music of the Far North,” a choral concert by Chamber Chorus of Coro Lux (“chorus of light”) to benefit music education. Proceeds from the concerts on May 6 and 7 will go toward Coro Lux’s extensive scholarship program for young singers. The concert features love songs from […]
  
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• Ashlynne Mike’s parents continue advocacy

  30-04-2017 16:27
  
  LOWER FRUITLAND — Almost a year after their 11-year-old daughter’s death, Gary Mike and Pamela Foster continue to call on tribal officials to establish an Amber Alert system on the Navajo Nation. The parents of Ashlynne Mike spoke today at an event to remember their daughter and to heighten awareness of child safety about the […]
  
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• Updated: Tornadoes leave trail of destruction in East Texas

  30-04-2017 16:24
  
  CANTON, Texas — Severe storms including tornadoes have swept through several small towns in East Texas, leaving a trail of overturned vehicles, mangled trees and damaged homes. Authorities believe as many as five people were killed and dozens injured, though they were still assessing the damage from the storms that swept through an area about […]
  
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• Tests find Samsung’s S8 phones more prone to screen cracks

  30-04-2017 15:52 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Samsung’s latest phones feature big wraparound screens and lots of glass. They also appear to break more easily, according to tests run by SquareTrade, a company that sells gadget-repair plans.
  The nearly all-glass design of Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus makes them beautiful, SquareTrade said, but also “extremely susceptible to cracking when dropped from any angle.”
  Samsung had no comment.
  The new phones have received positive reviews from The Asso
  
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• Updated: May brushes off EU calls to settle Brexit divorce bill first

  30-04-2017 15:50
  
  LONDON — Britain’s prime minister has brushed off calls for her country to settle its “divorce bill” from the European Union before beginning trade talks, saying she was confident she could secure a good Brexit deal. Theresa May was speaking a day after 27 EU leaders formally backed the bloc’s Brexit negotiating guidelines. They agreed […]
  
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• Overnight fire destroys west side house

  30-04-2017 14:35 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, NM (KRQE) – Firefighters say an abandoned house in northwest Albuquerque is a total loss after a fire .
  AFD crews responded a fire at Lamy and Pepperwood near Montono just before midnight on Friday.
  Fire crews arrived to find flames shooting from the house.
  Firefighters got the fire out and are now investigating the cause.
  There are no reported injuries.
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• Absent glitter and Trump, journalists honor press freedom

  30-04-2017 12:38 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Prominent Washington journalists, if not Hollywood stars, celebrated the First Amendment during the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, an event that lacked the glitter of past years because of the absence of the president of the United States.
  With President Donald Trump sending his regrets, the attention was no longer focused on an in-person roasting of the commander in chief and his humorous remarks about politics and the press. The red carpet that once fe
  
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• Tornadoes leave trail of destruction in East Texas

  30-04-2017 12:37 via krqe.com
  
  CANTON, Texas (AP) — Severe storms including tornadoes have swept through several small towns in East Texas, leaving a trail of overturned vehicles, mangled trees and damaged homes.
  Authorities believe as many as five people were killed and dozens injured, though they were still assessing the damage from the storms that swept through an area about 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of Dallas on Saturday evening.
  “We’re talking about I think maybe five casualties,” Canton Fire
  
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• Official: Deaths reported, dozens hospitalized after tornado

  30-04-2017 12:37 via krqe.com
  
  CANTON, Texas (AP) — Fatalities have been reported and dozens of people were taken to hospitals after a tornado hit a small city in East Texas, authorities said.
  Canton Fire Department Capt. Brian Horton said during a news conference late Saturday that “a number of fatalities” were reported, but that it wasn’t yet clear how many, after powerful storms swept through the community earlier in the evening.
  The storms left behind a trail of overturned vehicles, mangled trees a
  
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• 7 killed by storms and flooding in South and Midwest

  30-04-2017 12:37 via krqe.com
  
  CANTON, Texas (AP) — At least seven people have been killed by tornadoes or flooding in the South and Midwest by a storm that also dumped a rare late-season blizzard in western Kansas on Sunday.
  Tornadoes hit several small towns in East Texas, killing four people. Flooding swept away a car, drowning a woman in Missouri; a tree fell on a home killing a woman in Arkansas; and a death was reported in Sunday morning storms that raked Mississippi.
  Flooding closed part of Interstate 44 near Haze
  
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• 10 killed by storms and flooding in South and Midwest

  30-04-2017 12:37 via krqe.com
  
  CANTON, Texas (AP) — At least 10 people have been killed by tornadoes or flooding in the South and Midwest by a storm that also dumped a rare late-season blizzard in western Kansas on Sunday.
  Tornadoes hit several small towns in East Texas, killing four people. Three people were killed by flooding and winds in Arkansas, with officials saying two more people are missing. Rushing water swept away a car, drowning a woman in Missouri; and a death was reported in Sunday morning storms that rake
  
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• Updated: At 100 days in, Trump seems both outsider and insider

  30-04-2017 08:42
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. — President Donald Trump is turning from his dramatic debut as an outsider president to advancing his plans to cut taxes and get tough on trade deals. “We are not going to let other countries take advantage of us anymore,” he said Saturday in Harrisburg at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo […]
  
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• Judge detains murder suspect under no-bail-hold amendment

  30-04-2017 08:05
  
  She cites felon's 'poor history' in decision
  
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• $74M in WIPP, LANL settlement projects underway

  30-04-2017 08:05
  
  Road repairs in Carlsbad a top priority
  
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• Former Lobo Daniel Henry Signs Undrafted Free Agent Deal with Baltimore

  30-04-2017 06:49 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Former UNM Safety Daniel Henry signed a free agent deal with the Baltimore Ravens on Saturday. His agent is still working on all of the details, but Henry was excited to move on to the next level and play in the NFL.
  “They liked that I am a physical player. I played in the box a lot just in our defense at UNM, and they like hard hitting safeties. So, you know they want me to put on some more weight there, but they think that I haven’t developed into t
  
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• Jalen Harris leaves while Anthony Mathis stays at UNM

  30-04-2017 06:47 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Friday night the news came out that now former Lobo Basketball Guard Jalen Harris was transferring out to Arkansas. Harris averaged just over 4 points, 2 assists, and 1 rebound in his freshman season with the Lobos this past year.
  So, one Lobo is gone, but another has decided to stay. Along with forward Sam Logwood, sophomore shooter Anthony Mathis has decided to stay with the Lobos. Mathis was one of the four players that said he would transfer out at the end of
  
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• Lobo Baseball tops SDSU 11-6 on Saturday

  30-04-2017 06:46 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Lobo Baseball was coming off of a loss, in game 1 of their 3 game series with San Diego State, coming into Saturday’s game. UNM bounced back in a big way early against the Aztecs, as they scored 8 runs in the 1st inning.
  They went on to defeat SDSU 11-6 lengthening their lead in the mountain west standings. UNM is now 3 games up on the Aztecs and hold a 15-3-1 MW overall record. The series finale in San Diego will be on Sunday at 2 pm.
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• Albuquerque man allegedly uses cell phone as weapon to threaten police

  30-04-2017 06:44 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Things quickly got dangerous as officers responded to a domestic call earlier this week. Police lapel video shows a man threatening them, and all signs indicating he was armed.
  Police said Jacob Martinez was drunk when they got to the scene. They said he kept reaching for something in his pocket, and officers didn’t know what it was. Turns out, it was only a cell phone.
  It all started early Thursday morning when Albuquerque Police responded to a domestic vi
  
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• Fire investigation finds grow-lab for narcotic mushrooms

  30-04-2017 06:37
  
  The Albuquerque Fire Department says the investigation of a fire that killed two dogs last week has led to unexpected territory.
  
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• Winter weather hits New Mexico well into Spring

  30-04-2017 06:31 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Just east of Albuquerque and throughout Santa Fe, it was a snowy mess. Snow plows were out in full force, and some drivers found themselves stuck in mounds of snow.
  “I turned around and just a little piece of ice threw me off the road, kind of messed my day up,” said one man who got his way out of snow after getting stuck on the side of the road.
  Many others found themselves stuck and tried to get out and on their way.
  “This is very unusual
  
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• EMT meets girl she saved, nearly 20 years later

  30-04-2017 06:28 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A long-awaited reunion. KRQE News 13 told you about a woman’s search for the EMT who saved her life and how KRQE viewers helped them reconnect. Today nearly18 years since the crash that almost killed her, a survivor meets her rescuer.
  With their scheduled reunion moments away, Gabby Ferguson’s curiosity got the best of her. She followed one of the reunion’s coordinators down the hall to where Shelly was waiting. Peeking around the corner, t
  
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• Albuquerque student headed to national geography competition

  30-04-2017 06:28
  
  A sixth-grader from Albuquerque is about to represent New Mexico on the national stage.
  
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• Weir puts Lobos through speed training

  30-04-2017 06:20
  
  They ran. And pressed....
  
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• Man captured while wanted on nine warrants

  30-04-2017 06:18
  
  The Albuquerque Police Department finally caught up to a man that was wanted on nine separate warrants.
  
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• Photos: Gathering of Nations 2017

  30-04-2017 05:02 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The nation’s largest is underway at Expo New Mexico. Tens of thousands of spectators are expected to attend the Gathering of Nations. It is the second largest event in Albuquerque, behind Balloon Fiesta.
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