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• Reports: Tomb of French president, war hero vandalized

  27-05-2017 23:51
  
  French media said an individual mounted the grave and damaged the cross of the tomb, located in northeastern France.
  
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• Bernalillo County Sheriff's activate SWAT call for a barricaded burglar, building fire

  27-05-2017 23:27
  
  Deputies advise residents to avoid the area
  
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• Rock legend Gregg Allman of The Allman Brothers Band dies

  27-05-2017 23:25
  
  A publicist for rock legend Gregg Allman says the organist and singer for The Allman Brothers Band has died. He was 69.
  
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• Mother of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick killed in boat accident

  27-05-2017 23:22
  
  Bonnie Kalanick, the mother of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, has died in a boating accident. Kalanick's father, Donald, was injured and is in serious condition.
  
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• New Mexico lab’s future up in the air after recent fire

  27-05-2017 23:21 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – A recent fire has put a national laboratory’s ability to operate safely into question.
  The Santa Fe New Mexican reports the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board announced Friday that it will hold a hearing next month to discuss the future of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  A fire broke mid-April at the lab in a section where the plutonium cores of nuclear weapons are produced. Lab officials said that the fire was put out quickly and caused minor injuries.
  
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• New Mexico police to watch for drunken drivers

  27-05-2017 23:19 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico state police officers are planning a series of sobriety checkpoints around the state.
  Officials say the checkpoints and advertising highlighting the state’s enforcement efforts are aimed at reducing alcohol-related fatalities.
  Data from the state Transportation Department and the University of New Mexico shows 113 people have died in alcohol-related crashes in the first four months of 2017. That’s less than the first quarter the previous year.
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• Las Cruces using herd of goats to clear vegetation along dam

  27-05-2017 23:17 via krqe.com
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) – Las Cruces officials say dozens of rented goats is having success in reducing brush and other vegetation along a nearly 3-mile-long dam in the southern New Mexico city.
  The Las Cruces Sun-News reports the herd of goats started at one end of the dam about a year ago and have gradually moved toward the other end while enclosed by a movable fence.
  Street and Traffic Operations Administrator Willie Roman says use of the goats is a safe way to clear the dam’s slant
  
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• Jury convicts 2 suspected in death of an Albuquerque woman

  27-05-2017 23:15 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Two people suspected in the death of an Albuquerque woman have been convicted by a Valencia County jury.
  Prosecutors say Shane Foster was convicted Thursday of second-degree murder with a firearms enhancement, tampering with evidence and conspiracy to tamper with evidence.
  They say Renee Foster was convicted of tampering with evidence and conspiracy to tamper with evidence.
  Sentencing dates haven’t been set yet.
  New Mexico State Police say they received infor
  
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• Utah law that could send online bullies to jail criticized

  27-05-2017 23:10 via krqe.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers hope a new, unusual law cuts down on increasingly troubling forms of cyber harassment by giving authorities the ability to send online bullies to jail for a year.
  Law enforcement, school officials and support groups back the effort, but some lawyers and a libertarian-leaning group have balked at what they call vague language in the law. They believe it could be unconstitutional and lead innocent people to be charged with crimes.
  The regulation won unani
  
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• Police: Woman locked her children in car trunk while she shopped

  27-05-2017 23:08
  
  Police say witnesses heard the children ages 2 and 5 making noise and saw the car shaking.
  
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• Women CEOs earned more last year, but few were in top job

  27-05-2017 23:05 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Women CEOs earned big bucks last year, but there’s still very few of them running the world’s largest companies.
  The median pay for a female CEO was $13.1 million last year, up 9 percent from 2015, according to an analysis by executive data firm Equilar and The Associated Press. By comparison, male CEOs earned $11.4 million, also up 9 percent.
  But the number of women in CEO roles has barely budged. Just 6 percent of the top paid CEOs in the U.S. last year were w
  
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• Survey finds US honeybee losses improve from horrible to bad

  27-05-2017 23:05 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s a glimmer of hope for America’s ailing honeybees as winter losses were the lowest in more than a decade, according to a U.S. survey of beekeepers released Thursday.
  Beekeepers lost 21 percent of their colonies over last winter, the annual Bee Informed Partnership survey found. That’s the lowest winter loss level since the survey started in 2006 and an improvement from nearly 27 percent the winter before.
  The U.S. government has set a goal of keep
  
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• Many poor kids can’t swim; Olympic champs throw a lifeline

  27-05-2017 23:05 via krqe.com
  
  Missy Franklin, Cullen Jones, Rowdy Gaines and a handful of other Olympic champions are climbing into the pool this summer to help American kids learn how to swim.
  They’ve got plenty of work to do.
  The USA Swimming Foundation’s most recent survey, released Thursday, found nearly 64 percent of African-American kids, 45 percent of Hispanic kids and 79 percent of children in families that bring in less than $50,000 in annual income have little or no swimming ability.
  The foundation is i
  
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• Egypt moves bed, chariot of King Tut to new museum

  27-05-2017 23:05 via krqe.com
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt safely moved two artifacts, a funerary bed and a chariot, belonging to the famed pharaoh King Tutankhamun on Tuesday, from the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo to a new one across the city, which will house a large collection of the ancient monarch’s items.
  The two gold-plated pieces are part of a bigger batch of King Tut’s items that will be gradually moved to the Grand Egyptian museum, which is still under construction just west of the Giza pyramids.
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• Agency takes tectonics study to earthquake-prone Alaska

  27-05-2017 23:05 via krqe.com
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska averages 40,000 earthquakes per year, with more large quakes than the other 49 states combined, and America’s shakiest state is about to have its ground examined like never before.
  A federal agency that supports basic science research is completing installation in Alaska of an array of seismometers as part of its quest to map the Earth’s upper crust beneath North America.
  When the magnitude 9.2 Great Alaska Earthquake ripped through the state in
  
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• Need cash? Facebook expands personal fundraising tools

  27-05-2017 23:04 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is expanding its fundraising tools that let users ask friends and strangers to give them money to help pay for education, medical or other expenses.
  The company has been testing the tool, which is similar to online fundraising services such as GoFundMe, since March.
  With the latest update unveiled Wednesday, it has added sports and community fundraisers as options. It’s also possible to raise money for medical expenses for pets, crisis relief, funerals, and a
  
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• PHOTOS: Rock legend Gregg Allman through the years

  27-05-2017 22:50
  
  Music legend Gregg Allman, whose bluesy vocals and soulful touch on the Hammond B-3 organ helped propel the Allman Brothers Band to superstardom and spawn Southern rock, has died.
  
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• Gregg Allman of The Allman Brothers Band dies at age 69

  27-05-2017 22:43 via krqe.com
  
  SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Music legend Gregg Allman, whose bluesy vocals and soulful touch on the Hammond B-3 organ helped propel the Allman Brothers Band to superstardom and spawn Southern Rock, died Saturday, a publicist said. He was 69.
  Allman died at his home in Savannah, Georgia, publicist Ken Weinstein said. A statement on the singer’s website says he “passed away peacefully.”
  Allman had canceled some 2016 tour dates, announcing on Aug. 5 that he was “under his doc
  
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• Former US Senator and Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Bunning dies

  27-05-2017 22:24
  
  He was 85 years old.
  
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• Hasbro to hold first-ever convention for company’s brands

  27-05-2017 22:20 via krqe.com
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — From G.I. Joe to My Little Pony, toy maker Hasbro says it’s holding the first-ever convention to bring all of its brands together.
  The Pawtucket, Rhode Island-based company says its HASCON family and fan event will be held in Providence in September. Tickets went on sale this week.
  Among those scheduled to participate are 94-year-old Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee, YouTube stars Dude Perfect, actors who have voiced Transformers and My Little Pony cartoons and
  
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• Business burns down after SWAT situation in East Mountains

  27-05-2017 22:08 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A highway in the East Mountains has reopened after it was shutdown for hours Saturday afternoon. Deputies say a man barricaded himself inside a business, then the business burned down.
  Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Deputies say around 1 p.m., 38-year-old Marcio Lujan barricaded himself inside ExerPlay – a playground equipment company – along North Highway 14, about three miles north of I-40.
  BCSO says Lujan was steali
  
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• BCSO activate SWAT call for barricaded burglar in Tijeras

  27-05-2017 22:08 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department has activated a SWAT call at a business near North Highway 14 in Tijeras.
  North Highway 14 is now shut down.
  Officials say the suspect has broken into the closed business and is refusing to leave.
  According to a release, citizens are asked to avoid this area.
  No other information is known at this time.
  KRQE News 13 will continue to provide updates as they become available.
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• Bernalillo County Sheriff's arrest mom of three for sharing child pornography

  27-05-2017 21:57
  
  Deputies say Homeland Security tipped them off
  
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• Roswell police searching for suspect after early morning shooting

  27-05-2017 21:49 via krqe.com
  
  ROSWELL, N.M. (KRQE) – Roswell police are looking for a man in connection with a shooting that happened early Saturday morning.
  Chavez County Crime Stoppers say 24-year-old Tyler Mazac is wanted for shooting another man.
  This happened around 1 a.m. Saturday morning on North Maple Street in West Roswell.
  The 33-year-old victim was taken to a local hospital but then flown to another one.
  His condition and name are unknown at this time.
  Police say Mazac fled the scene
  
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• BA outage creates London travel chaos; power issue blamed

  27-05-2017 21:19 via krqe.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — British Airways canceled all flights from London’s Heathrow and Gatwick airports on Saturday as a global IT failure upended the travel plans of tens of thousands of people on a busy U.K. holiday weekend.
  The airline said it was suffering a “major IT systems failure” around the world. Chief executive Alex Cruz said “we believe the root cause was a power-supply issue and we have no evidence of any cyberattack.”
  He said the crash had affected &ldquo
  
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• Trump’s trip: Conventional images and unconventional talk

  27-05-2017 21:14 via krqe.com
  
  TAORMINA, Sicily (AP) — As he dashed through the Middle East and Europe, Donald Trump looked like a conventional American leader abroad. He solemnly laid a wreath at a Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, had an audience with the pope at the Vatican and stood center stage with Western allies at the annual summits that dominate the diplomatic calendar.
  But when Trump spoke, he sounded like anything but a typical U.S. president.
  On his first overseas tour, the new president made no attempt to pu
  
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• Science Says: Whale of a mystery solved? How they got so big

  27-05-2017 21:12 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists think they have answered a whale of a mystery: How the ocean creatures got so huge so quickly.
  A few million years ago, the largest whales, averaged maybe 15 feet long. That’s big, but you could still hold a fossil skull in two hands.
  Then seemingly overnight, one type of whale — the toothless baleens — became huge. Modern blue whales get as big as 100 feet, the largest creatures ever on Earth. Its skull is now bigger than a minivan and could
  
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• Serena Williams accepts a new challenge – in Silicon Valley

  27-05-2017 21:11 via krqe.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tennis star Serena Williams has 39 Grand Slam titles, four Olympic medals, major endorsement deals and her own line of clothing and accessories. Now she is embarking on a new mission: She says wants to help tech companies diversify their workforces and solve one of the industry’s most vexing problems.
  Williams, 35, will get her chance as she joins a Silicon Valley boardroom for the first time. Online poll-taking service SurveyMonkey announced Williams’ appo
  
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• Quiet college dropout turned bomber: Who was Salman Abedi?

  27-05-2017 21:11 via krqe.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — He was quiet and withdrawn, a college dropout who liked soccer — and, some say, showed alarming signs of being radicalized years before he walked into a pop concert at Britain’s Manchester Arena and detonated a powerful bomb, killing himself and 22 others.
  While some claim Salman Abedi had been banned from the mosque he attended for statements glorifying terrorism and his angry rhetoric even prompted an acquaintance to report him to the authorities, others deny th
  
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• From Trump to Oprah, speakers offer parting advice to grads

  27-05-2017 21:11 via krqe.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Oprah Winfrey told students to live with purpose. President Donald Trump said to ignore the naysayers. Will Ferrell sang some Whitney Houston.
  Those are a few of the speakers who have taken the stage at college graduation ceremonies this month to share their wisdom, joining a wide range of others in entertainment, politics, business and journalism. In their efforts to inspire the Class of 2017, they’ve elicited both laughter and tears and, in some cases, jeers.
  Rock gro
  
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• Saldana and Del Toro help open new Disney ‘Guardians’ ride

  27-05-2017 21:10 via krqe.com
  
  ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Stepping inside Disney’s latest theme park attraction, Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission BREAKOUT!, is like being thrust into one of blockbuster films’ pulsating, action-packed trailers.
  Music blares throughout the tower drop ride as guests are treated to a visual feast of images from the “Guardians” universe, as well as cameos by series stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and others. The motion of the ride, set primarily in a prison tower elevator,
  
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• Chicago inmates can order fancy Italian pizza made in jail

  27-05-2017 21:10 via krqe.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — How can you get a gourmet Italian pizza delivered right to your door for no more than $7? Get locked up at Cook County Jail in Chicago.
  Inmates in the jail’s medium-security Division 11 can now order pizzas made with the finest ingredients in the kind of ovens found in pizzerias. It’s all part of Sheriff Tom Dart’s ongoing effort to make jail a bit more humane while providing inmates skills that might help keep them from returning once they’re set fre
  
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• Bird-riding loses luster in South Africa’s ostrich capital

  27-05-2017 21:06 via krqe.com
  
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Clambering onto an ostrich for a ride used to be popular among tourists in a South African town known as the “ostrich capital of the world.”
  Not so much anymore.
  Two major ostrich farms in the Oudtshoorn area have stopped offering ostrich rides to tourists, responding to concerns from European clients and others about the birds’ welfare. A third farm is sticking with the feature, saying its regulations include tourist weight restrictions and that an os
  
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• Groot is the best part of the 'Guardians of the Galaxy' movies

  27-05-2017 20:25
  
  The single most unexpected hero that has risen to the forefront is Groot, the Flora Colossus from Planet X that is the team’s powerhouse and its most innocent, wide-eyed member.
  
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• Rival militias clash in Libyan capital, leaving 47 dead

  27-05-2017 19:54
  
  Residents heard loud explosions, gunfire and tanks rolling down the streets.
  
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• Police identify suspect in double killing on Oregon train

  27-05-2017 19:41
  
  Court records show that Jeremy Joseph Christian was convicted of robbery, kidnapping and a weapons charge in 2002.
  
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• Self-described 'fat dude’ from Georgia pens heartfelt letter to Ariana Grande

  27-05-2017 19:37
  
  A man who describes himself as a 'fat dude in Georgia who loves his daughters' wrote an open letter to Ariana Grande after the deadly bombing at her concert.
  
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• Former U.S. Senator and baseball hall-of-famer Jim Bunning has died

  27-05-2017 19:28
  
  Bunning was 85-years-old.
  
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• Brazil packed with travel riches, so why so few tourists?

  27-05-2017 19:15 via krqe.com
  
  SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil is home to the largest rainforest on Earth. It has miles of sandy, deserted beaches, and stunning flat-topped mountains. It invented samba and a devilish little drink called the caipirinha. It has massive reserves for native peoples and charming colonial towns built by the Portuguese.
  Despite the seeming abundance of riches for travelers, it has a tourism problem. Because while you may have heard about the Amazon or the stunning beaches of Rio de Janeiro, you have p
  
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• Man breaks into restaurant, cooks himself steak

  27-05-2017 18:56
  
  The video shows a burglar breaking in through the ceiling and searching for cash. When he couldn't find any, he cooked himself a snack.
  
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• Apple's iPhone 8 could come with AI chip

  27-05-2017 18:37
  
  Tech firms continue to battle it out for the top spot in the field of artificial intelligence, and Apple is joining the competition with plans to create a dedicated A.I. processor for its line of iPhones.
  
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• 3 crashes on eastbound I-40 and Rio Grande

  27-05-2017 18:34
  
  The Albuquerque Police Department is reporting that three crashes occurred at I-40 and Rio Grande Saturday morning.
  
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• G7 summit ends without agreement on climate change

  27-05-2017 18:33
  
  A summit of the leaders of the world's wealthiest democracies has ended without a unanimous agreement on climate change, as the Trump administration plans to take more time to say whether the U.S. is going to remain in the Paris climate deal.
  
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• Hundreds evacuated from theater in London, nothing suspicious found

  27-05-2017 18:19
  
  Britain is under heightened security after Monday's deadly bomb attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester.
  
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• Police investigate three separate crashes on I-40 eastbound near Rio Grande Blvd exit

  27-05-2017 18:11
  
  Five people were transported to hospital
  
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• Botulism outbreak tied to nacho cheese kills 1, sickens 9

  27-05-2017 18:01 via krqe.com
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A botulism outbreak linked to contaminated nacho-cheese dip sold at a Northern California gas station has killed one man and left at least nine other people hospitalized, health officials said.
  The San Francisco County coroner’s office identified the dead man as Martin Galindo-Larios Jr., 37. Matt Conens, a spokesman for the California Department of Public Health, declined to release further information on the death, the condition of the other victims, or th
  
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• British Airways cancels London Heathrow, Gatwick flights

  27-05-2017 17:39
  
  Passengers stuck at London's Heathrow Airport reported problems with baggage and flight delays.
  
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• Are fake hate crimes on the rise?

  27-05-2017 17:14
  
  False reports of hate crimes are nearly impossible to quantify, since they're not tracked by the FBI.
  
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• AFD responds to Saturday morning fire in SE Albuquerque

  27-05-2017 17:09
  
  The Albuquerque Fire Department says they responded to a fire at 919 Alvarado SE about 8 a.m. Saturday morning.
  
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• Up to 36 million Android smartphones may be infected with this malware

  27-05-2017 16:37
  
  Google just removed 41 apps infected with adware from its Play Store.
  
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