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• Tennessee cities adjust to law letting guns in buses, hubs

  15-07-2017 23:23 via krqe.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The four biggest cities in Tennessee are now letting guns on their buses due to a new state law, but the change might not be obvious to riders from the vaguely worded rules posted by cities that opposed the law.
  Transit policy changes in Nashville, Knoxville and Chattanooga rely on riders to know beforehand, or at least look up on their own, who can carry a gun. Memphis officials are still changing the wording of their policy on guns on buses and in stations, but ha
  
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• Trump, protesters, supporters come out for US Women's Open

  15-07-2017 23:20
  
  "I take my role as a female role model very seriously, but this week is about the golf," Michelle Wie said.
  
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• Disney unveils footage of 'Star Wars,' 'A Wrinkle in Time,' 'Lion King'

  15-07-2017 22:41
  
  Which movies will you see?
  
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• Fans get behind-the-scenes look at Star Wars with new video

  15-07-2017 22:26
  
  The thrilling video includes shots of Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, among other stars.
  
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• Albuquerque Police end hours long SWAT call in NE ABQ

  15-07-2017 22:14
  
  One person is in custody
  
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• Jailhouse calls show different side of accused child killer

  15-07-2017 21:51
  
  Jailhouse phone calls between Jessica Kelley and her kids reveal a different side of one of the suspects in the horrific murder of Victoria Martens.
  
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• Stars of "Aladdin" cast announced

  15-07-2017 21:31
  
  Will Smith has already been cast as the Genie.
  
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• Pet of the week: Ladie spots

  15-07-2017 21:09
  
  Pet of the week: Lady spots
  
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• Newborn giraffe calf dies at Maryland Zoo

  15-07-2017 20:45
  
  The one-month-old giraffe never learned to nurse effectively and was euthanized overnight.
  
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• Wild primates in Florida park: Monkey shenanigans on rise

  15-07-2017 20:15 via krqe.com
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — There’s an upswing in monkey business in and around a state park in Florida, where bands of non-native rhesus macaques live along a river that’s popular with kayakers and tourists.
  Officials have closed two walking areas at Silver Springs State Park because of unwanted monkey interactions with park guests. An observation deck and a boardwalk are off-limits because the primates have essentially taken over.
  Matt Mitchell, the assistant director of Flor
  
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• Sky diver warned he wasn't going to pull cord before fatal jump

  15-07-2017 20:09
  
  He told his wife he was going "somewhere beautiful."
  
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• White House hires special counsel amid Russia probes

  15-07-2017 19:59
  
  A former federal prosecutor will help the Trump administration's internal legal team deal with the investigations over Russian election meddling.
  
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• Art exhibit in Poland shows Auschwitz through inmates’ eyes

  15-07-2017 19:32 via krqe.com
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A new exhibition in southern Poland shows the brutality of the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz through the artistic work of its inmates. Some of the artworks are being shown publicly for the first time.
  The “Face to Face: Art in Auschwitz” exhibition opened last week at the Kamienica Szolayskich (Szolayski Tenement House) of the National Museum in Krakow to mark 70 years of the Auschwitz Museum. The museum’s task is to preserve the site in the so
  
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• Boy gets new parents after being starved for years

  15-07-2017 19:28
  
  Camron Foster, 9, was abused by his adoptive parents and starved for years, according to Child Protective Services. But now, he's in a new home with parents giving him all the love he's missed out on.
  
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• 'Astounding' gene therapy cancer drug heading for FDA approval

  15-07-2017 19:22
  
  The treatment genetically modifies the cells of patients with a certain type of leukemia so they can attack cancer cells.
  
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• Hot dogs recalled over pieces of bone

  15-07-2017 18:30
  
  Millions of pounds of Sabrett hot dogs and sausages -- as well as similar foods sold under other popular brand names -- are part of the recall.
  
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• Man somehow survives after large metal pipe crushes minivan

  15-07-2017 18:00
  
  A semi carrying scrap metal on a ramp above the car flipped on its side, leading to the bizarre accident in Florida.
  
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• SWAT team responds to northeast Albuquerque in reference to barricaded suspect

  15-07-2017 17:48 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE)- Albuquerque Police Department’s SWAT team has been called out to northeast in reference to a barricaded subject.
  SWAT personnel have surrounded a home near Conejo Rd NE and Zena Lona St NE.
  Police say the barricaded suspect is a domestic violence offender.
  No other details on the suspect have been released at this time.
  Police are urging residents to avoid the area if possible.
  KRQE will provide updates as information is made available.
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• Police say woman used Alexa to call 911, but Amazon says she can't do that

  15-07-2017 17:33
  
  Sheriff's Office praises the technology but Amazon says this is impossible
  
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• Albuquerque Police activate SWAT call in NE ABQ

  15-07-2017 17:33
  
  Drivers are urged to avoid the area ofConejo Rd NE and Zena Lona St NE Blvd
  
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• Saturday festival celebrates all things lavender

  15-07-2017 17:19
  
  The Lavender in the Village Festival kicks off Saturday morning in the Village of Los Ranchos.
  
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• 'I needed that job': Employee fired for going after shoplifters

  15-07-2017 17:09
  
  A 70-year-old veteran thought he was doing the right thing, but it cost him his job at Home Depot.
  
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• Garbiñe Muguruza tops Venus Williams for 1st Wimbledon title

  15-07-2017 17:08
  
  She rallied from set points twice in the first set on the way to becoming Spain's second women's champ.
  
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• Pence tells US governors it’s time for ‘end of Obamacare’

  15-07-2017 16:43 via krqe.com
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence told a bipartisan gathering of governors on Friday that he and President Donald Trump believe the revised health care bill before the U.S. Senate is the “right bill at the right time to begin the end of Obamacare.”
  “The president said he wanted a health care system that in his words is far less expensive and far better,” the Republican vice president said during a conference of the National Governors Association. &ld
  
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• New TV network to focus on Olympics making debut on Saturday

  15-07-2017 16:41 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — While too early in the morning for a torch lighting, a new television network designed to highlight Olympic sports and American athletes chasing gold medal dreams is set to debut Saturday.
  The Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA network launches at 6 a.m. ET in some 35 million American homes with NBC’s Mike Tirico previewing the live sports, archival footage and documentaries that will make up most of its programming. The show will repeat several times over the weekend
  
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• Telegram blocks terror content after Indonesia threatens ban

  15-07-2017 16:40 via krqe.com
  
  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The encrypted messaging app Telegram is forming a team of moderators who are familiar with Indonesian culture and language so it can remove “terrorist-related content” faster, its co-founder said Sunday, after Indonesia limited access to the app and threatened a total ban.
  Pavel Durov, who with his brother Nikolai founded the app in 2013, said in a message to his 40,000 followers on Telegram that he’d been unaware of a failure to quickly respond
  
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• Indonesia limits access to Telegram app, readies total ban

  15-07-2017 16:40 via krqe.com
  
  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia says it’s blocking web versions of the encrypted Telegram instant messaging app and will block the app completely if it continues to be a forum for radical propaganda and violent militants.
  The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology said in a statement Friday evening that it has asked internet companies in the world’s most populous Muslim nation to block access to 11 addresses that the web version is available through.
  It said
  
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• 3 dead in fire at Honolulu high-rise with no sprinklers

  15-07-2017 16:13 via krqe.com
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — At least three people died and 12 were injured Friday in a fire at a Honolulu high-rise that was not equipped with sprinklers, authorities said, and hundreds fled the giant condominium complex as smoke billowed from the upper floors.
  The dead were found on the 26th floor, where the fire broke out around 2:15 p.m. and then spread to the 28th floor of the Marco Polo residences, Fire Chief Manuel Neves said.
  Firefighters were searching the damaged areas to make sure no additio
  
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• New GOP health care bill will determine winners, losers

  15-07-2017 16:12 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans’ latest health care plan would create winners and losers among Americans up and down the income ladder, and across age groups.
  It would give consumers more responsibility for their insurance choices, a goal long held by conservatives who argue that’s key to a true health care market. Younger adults and healthy people in the solid middle class may find more agreeable options. But low-income people may not be able to afford coverage, along with older
  
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• Liberation from militants leaves devastation in Mosul

  15-07-2017 16:12 via krqe.com
  
  MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — There was a smell of death in Mosul’s Old City when Ayman Hashem came back this week to see what happened to his home. His neighborhood was unrecognizable.
  “All that’s left is rubble and the bodies of families trapped underneath,” the 23-year-old said. He flipped through photos on his phone, showing picture after picture of wreckage. His own house was “cut in half,” he said. He had to cover his nose with his tee-shirt because of the sm
  
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• Heller facing hot seat on GOP health care bill decision

  15-07-2017 16:12 via krqe.com
  
  CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Health care legislation is hanging by a thread in the Senate, and no one is under more pressure than Republican Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada.
  Heller was already seen as the most endangered GOP incumbent senator in next year’s midterm elections. He is the only one running for re-election in a state President Donald Trump lost to former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
  Against that backdrop, it’s hard to envision a more difficult political
  
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• Hawaii soldier held without bail on terrorism charges

  15-07-2017 16:12 via krqe.com
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — A U.S. soldier accused of wanting to commit a mass shooting after pledging loyalty to the Islamic State group believed the moon landing was faked, questioned the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and thought the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were an inside job coordinated by the U.S. government, according to a former Army bunkmate.
  Army Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang was ordered held without bail in federal court in Honolulu Thursday after a brief detention hearing. Kang&
  
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• Federal ranger’s testimony sought in Steinle murder trial

  15-07-2017 16:12 via krqe.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal agency is prohibiting a ranger from testifying about his stolen gun used to kill Kate Steinle, a young Northern California woman whose death reignited the national immigration debate.
  Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez, 54, admits fatally shooting Steinle while she walked with her father on a San Francisco pier crowded with tourists on July 1, 2015, but has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder. He said the shooting was accidental.
  Two years after the killing,
  
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• Woman accused of lying about rape claims psychiatric illness

  15-07-2017 16:10 via krqe.com
  
  BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A former university student accused of lying about being raped by two university football players is seeking to have the charges against her dismissed. The Connecticut Post reports former Sacred Heart University student Nikki Yovino filed an application in court Friday saying she’s suffering from a psychiatric disability.
  The 19-year-old South Setauket, New York, native will undergo a psychological evaluation. A judge will decide whether she qualifies for a p
  
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• Nevada pot retailers get supply relief, but not out of woods

  15-07-2017 16:10 via krqe.com
  
  CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Regulators took steps this week to make sure Nevada’s fledgling but popular marijuana industry doesn’t run out of pot to sell. But questions remain about whether newly minted distributors can handle the heavy demand, and the possibility of another legal roadblock may be looming on the horizon.
  Tax commissioners charged with enforcing the unusual administrative structure that has led to a distribution bottleneck got their first real taste of the potentia
  
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• Ick-free and ready for a dip: Portland touts revived river

  15-07-2017 16:10 via krqe.com
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland is well-known as a tree-hugging, outdoorsy city, but the river that powers through its downtown has never been part of that green reputation.
  For decades, residents have been repulsed by the idea of swimming in the Willamette River because of weekly sewage overflows that created a bacterial stew.
  Now, the recent completion of a $1.4 billion sewage pipe has flushed those worries — and the river once shunned by swimmers is enjoying a rapid renaissance.
  Th
  
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• Growing sinkhole swallows 2 houses, 1 boat in Florida

  15-07-2017 16:10 via krqe.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — A sinkhole that started out the size of a small swimming pool and continued to grow in Florida swallowed a boat, destroyed two homes and prompted officials to evacuate residents from about a dozen homes Friday.
  Dramatic video showed the home in Land O’ Lakes, north of Tampa in Pasco County, collapsing into the hole Friday morning. It quickly engulfed one home and a boat and then consumed about 80 percent of another home, said Kevin Guthrie, Pasco County’s assistant
  
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• The Latest: Turkey’s Erdogan joins march to coup bridge

  15-07-2017 16:09 via krqe.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — The Latest on the first anniversary since Turkey quashed last summer’s coup attempt (all times local):
  9:15 p.m.
  Turkey’s president has joined a massive flood of people in Istanbul commemorating the defeat of a coup attempt last year.
  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife are en route to unveil a memorial for the 250 people killed resisting the attempted overthrow of the government on July 15, 2016. Erdogan was marching with children wearing shirts with Tu
  
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• The Latest: Opposition criticizes Turkish govt over coup

  15-07-2017 16:09 via krqe.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — The Latest on the first anniversary since Turkey quashed last summer’s coup attempt (all times local):
  3:40 p.m.
  Two opposition parties have slammed the Turkish government for missing a historic opportunity to unite the country after last summer’s failed coup attempt and accused it of undermining democracy.
  Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party, said the July 15, 2016, coup attempt had not been fully investigated.
  
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• The Latest: Erdogan honors those killed opposing coup

  15-07-2017 16:09 via krqe.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — The Latest on the first anniversary since Turkey quashed last summer’s coup attempt (all times local):
  11:45 p.m.
  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has opened a hollow, globe-shape monument in Istanbul honoring some 250 people who were killed a year ago while opposing coup-plotters trying to overthrow the government.
  Erdogan inaugurated the structure, featuring the names of the “martyrs” on Saturday, as the nation marks the first anniversary of the coup attem
  
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• The Latest: Drone crashes while filming Turkish ceremony

  15-07-2017 16:09 via krqe.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — The Latest on the first anniversary since Turkey quashed last summer’s coup attempt (all times local):
  5:15 a.m.
  A camera-mounted drone has crashed while filming a ceremony outside of parliament marking the first anniversary of Turkey’s failed coup.
  The private Dogan news agency says seven people were slightly injured in the accident and were taken away on stretchers.
  The accident occurred as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was addressing thousands of people in t
  
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• US finalizing plans to revamp cyber command

  15-07-2017 16:08 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of delay, the Trump administration is finalizing plans to revamp the nation’s military command for defensive and offensive cyber operations in hopes of intensifying America’s ability to wage cyber war against the Islamic State group and other foes, according to U.S. officials.
  Under the plans, U.S. Cyber Command would eventually be split off from the intelligence-focused National Security Agency.
  Details are still being worked out, but officials s
  
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• Senator selling stock after AP ties company to Mexican labor

  15-07-2017 16:08 via krqe.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana senator and longtime critic of outsourcing jobs to foreign countries announced Friday that he’s selling his stock in his family’s arts and crafts company after The Associated Press reported it manufactures some products in Mexico.
  Democrat Joe Donnelly said he hasn’t had an active role in the company for 20 years but was taking the action to avoid allowing the issue to become “a distraction from our work to end outsourcing and keep Ame
  
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• Papers reveal pot dealer’s grisly confession to 4 slayings

  15-07-2017 16:08 via krqe.com
  
  DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A marijuana dealer gave police a grisly account of killing four men on his family’s farm, saying he crushed one of them with a backhoe after shooting him and tried to set three of the bodies on fire in a metal bin with the help of his cousin, according to court papers filed Friday.
  Cosmo DiNardo, who graduated from a Catholic prep school two years ago, said he killed a former schoolmate when he arrived with $800 to buy $8,000 worth of pot. DiNardo, who’s
  
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• Military cyber operations headed for revamp after long delay

  15-07-2017 16:08 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of delay, the Trump administration is finalizing plans to revamp the nation’s military command for defensive and offensive cyber operations in hopes of intensifying America’s ability to wage cyberwar against the Islamic State group and other foes, according to U.S. officials.
  Under the plans, U.S. Cyber Command would eventually be split off from the intelligence-focused National Security Agency.
  Details are still being worked out, but officials sa
  
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• Lighting should have alerted pilots of potential disaster

  15-07-2017 16:08 via krqe.com
  
  Investigators looking into the frighteningly close call involving an airliner that nearly hit planes on the ground at San Francisco International Airport will try to determine why the pilots made such a rookie mistake and nearly landed on a busy taxiway instead of the runway.
  The Air Canada plane with 140 people aboard came within 100 feet of crashing onto the first two of four passenger-filled planes readying for takeoff.
  Runways are edged with rows of white lights, and another system of lights
  
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• Venezuelan prosecutor seeks conditional release for Utah man

  15-07-2017 16:07 via krqe.com
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s chief prosecutor on Friday requested the conditional release of a Utah man and his wife detained for over a year on weapons charges in a case that has further rankled already tense relations with the U.S.
  The petition to have Joshua Holt and his wife Thamara Candelo freed but barred from leaving Venezuela while awaiting trial was made because of what the prosecutor’s office said were repeated delays by the court overseeing the case.
  Prosecu
  
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• Cop: Woman nabbed for drugs demands them back, is rearrested

  15-07-2017 16:07 via krqe.com
  
  SALEM, N.H. (AP) — Authorities say a New Hampshire woman arrested for drug possession returned to the police station to demand the drugs be returned to her, and she was rearrested.
  An officer told 26-year-old Emily Morin, of Concord, he wouldn’t return the Suboxone, a highly addictive substance that can be used to treat heroin addiction. It was seized as evidence during her arrest stemming from a shoplifting incident Tuesday.
  The officer said he saw Morin get into a car and start to
  
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• Turks commemorate 1 year since failed coup with huge march

  15-07-2017 16:05 via krqe.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s president addressed tens of thousands of people Saturday at a ceremony marking the first anniversary of the country’s crushed military coup, vowing to “rip the heads off” of terror groups and of the coup-plotters who tried to end his more than a decade-long rule.
  Recep Tayyip Erdogan joined the large, flag-waving crowd who took part in a national unity march in Istanbul, converging at the iconic July 15 Martyrs’ Bridge to remember 250
  
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• Turks commemorate 1 year since coup try with massive march

  15-07-2017 16:05 via krqe.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Waving large red Turkish flags, tens of thousands joined a national unity march in Istanbul on Saturday, converging at the iconic July 15 Martyrs’ Bridge to mark the anniversary of the failed military coup attempt that 250 people died resisting.
  As part of the commemoration, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan flew to Istanbul on Saturday and was photographed waving at a fighter jet escorting his aircraft. Accompanied by his grandchildren wearing shirts with Turkis
  
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