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• Retailers, brands see green for back-to-school shopping

  22-07-2017 23:53 via krqe.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — For the back-to-school season, many parents and their kids are thinking green.
  Concerns about the environment have them looking for secondhand clothing or fashions made from reused material — but price still rules. Shoppers want quality and style in backpacks, jeans and the like without spending a lot more money.
  Retailers like H&M, Target and J.C. Penney are coming out with more clothes that use waste from all sorts of sources, like recycled denim or leather, nyl
  
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• Teen dies after shooting in Dion's parking lot

  22-07-2017 23:41
  
  Albuquerque police say a teenager died and two others were critically injured after a shooting at a Dion's restaurant near University and Gibson Friday night.
  
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• European approach to feeding babies gaining popularity

  22-07-2017 23:38
  
  Parents, forget playing “airplane” to spoon-feed your baby.
  
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• Dog pulls baby deer from water to save it from drowning

  22-07-2017 23:32 via krqe.com
  PORT JEFFERSON, N.Y. (AP) — A dog that saw a baby deer in danger of drowning in New York jumped in and dragged it to shore.
  The daring rescue in Long Island Sound was caught on video by his owner Mark Freeley. He tells WCBS-TV  that he was taking the English golden retriever named Storm on a walk Sunday morning when Storm “just plunged into the water and started swimming out to the fawn, grabbed it by the neck, and started swimming to shore.”
  Video shows Storm pushing the
  
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• Cheer camp helper charged after newborn's remains found buried in backyard

  22-07-2017 23:27
  
  Investigators initially believed the remains were that of a stillborn.
  
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• 'Wonder Woman' sequel is a go

  22-07-2017 23:17
  
  The first movie is expected to surpass Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" as the summer's top grossing movie by the end of its theatrical run.
  
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• Ready-to-cook meals from Amazon in bid to expand groceries

  22-07-2017 22:45 via krqe.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon has begun selling ready-to-cook meal packages for busy households in a bid to expand its groceries business.
  Amazon-branded meal kits come with raw ingredients needed to prepare such meals as chicken tikka masala and falafel patties. They can help households save time; a kit for salmon with soba noodles can be prepared in just a half-hour, for instance. But at $16 to $20 for two servings, they can be more expensive than buying ingredients separately in larger quantit
  
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• Ben Affleck addresses rumors that he's out as Batman

  22-07-2017 22:06
  
  The actor addressed rumors Saturday at Comic-Con in San Diego.
  
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• Dylan Redwine’s father indicted, arrested for murder

  22-07-2017 21:57 via krqe.com
  LA PLATA COUNTY, COLO. (KRQE) – Closing in on five years after Dylan Redwine went missing, his father, Mark Redwine, has been indicted for the murder and subsequently arrested.
  According to the La Plata County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado, Mark Redwine was arrested Saturday following the grand jury’s indictment. Mark is being held on $1 million cash-only bond.
  Dylan was 13 years old when he went missing from his father’s home in Vallecito near Durango in November 2012 whi
  
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• Dylan Redwine's father arrested in connection with boy's death

  22-07-2017 21:55
  
  Mark Redwine has been arrested in connection with his son, Dylan's, death.
  
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• US fines 3 airlines over rule violations

  22-07-2017 21:26
  
  One airline failed to assist passengers who have disabilities, the government found.
  
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• Samsung to recover rare metals, components in Galaxy Note 7s

  22-07-2017 21:22 via krqe.com
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics plans to recover gold and other metals and components from recalled Galaxy Note 7 smartphones to reduce waste.
  The South Korean company said Tuesday that it expects to retrieve 157 tons of gold, silver, cobalt, copper and other metals from millions of smartphones that were recalled and discontinued last year after their batteries were found to be prone to catching fire.
  It didn’t say how it would use the retrieved metals.
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• New Jersey becomes 3rd state to raise smoking age to 21

  22-07-2017 20:55
  
  Gov. Chris Christie says the move gives "young people more time to develop a maturity and better understanding of how dangerous smoking can be."
  
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• Pet of the week: Captain

  22-07-2017 20:43
  
  Pet of the week: Captain
  
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• Nicole Brown Simpson's ex-boyfriend calls OJ's parole testimony 'a joke'

  22-07-2017 20:07
  
  Keith Zlomsowitch says the former football star can't claim to have lived a "conflict-free life."
  
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• Hearing is believing: Speech may be a clue to mental decline

  22-07-2017 20:02 via krqe.com
  Your speech may, um, help reveal if you’re uh … developing thinking problems. More pauses, filler words and other verbal changes might be an early sign of mental decline, which can lead to Alzheimer’s disease, a study suggests.
  Researchers had people describe a picture they were shown in taped sessions two years apart. Those with early-stage mild cognitive impairment slid much faster on certain verbal skills than those who didn’t develop thinking problems.
  “What we
  
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• Surveillance video: Customer uses chair to fight off Starbucks robber

  22-07-2017 19:34
  
  A knife-wielding robber wearing a "Transformers" mask didn't see the brave customer behind him.
  
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• Netflix still piling up viewers — and big programming bills

  22-07-2017 19:15 via krqe.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix is pulling in new viewers and award nominations in droves, but the online video service still faces a long-term problem: Its acclaimed programming line-up is costing far more money than what subscribers pay for it.
  That hasn’t been a big issue so far, thanks to investors’ willingness to accept scant profits in exchange for robust subscriber growth.
  Netflix delivered on that front again Monday, announcing that it added 5.2 million subscribers in the
  
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• Trump hails America's military might at commissioning of USS Gerald R. Ford

  22-07-2017 18:32
  
  The $12.9 billion warship is the first in a new class of aircraft carriers.
  
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• Needles all over: What to do if you find syringes in public

  22-07-2017 18:15 via krqe.com
  Syringes left by drug users are increasingly turning up in public places, and authorities offer this advice if you or your children should encounter any:
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  DON’T PICK THEM UP
  You could get exposed to drugs or disease, or unwittingly dispose of them improperly.
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  CALL SOMEONE TO PICK THEM UP
  Check with your local information hotline or health department, which can take care of it or direct you to people who can. Don’t call 911 unless directed, or unless there is imminent danger or
  
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• A new class of carrier: Introducing the USS Gerald R. Ford

  22-07-2017 18:11
  
  The Navy's newest aircraft carrier hopes to bring "Integrity at the Helm."
  
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• Democrats herald agreement on sweeping Russia sanctions bill

  22-07-2017 18:06
  
  Passage of the bill could put Congress on a possible collision course with the White House, which objects to a key section of the measure.
  
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• This musician strummed a guitar during his own brain surgery

  22-07-2017 17:41
  
  Some people prefer the stage, but this Indian guitarist was live from the operating table.
  
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• ‘Little House on the Prairie’ cabin in Kansas to be rebuilt

  22-07-2017 17:03 via krqe.com
  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The deteriorating log cabin at the “Little House on the Prairie” site in Kansas is expected to soon get a makeover.
  The current cabin was re-created and built near Independence in 1977, during the peak of popularity for a television series based on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books centered on her childhood. Wilder spent a year with her family at the Kansas site in 1869, the Wichita Eagle reported.
  Siblings Bill Kurtis and Jean Schodorf, who own the cabin,
  
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• APD: One killed, two injured in Dion's parking lot shooting

  22-07-2017 16:46
  
  Albuquerque police say one person has died and two others were critically injured after a shooting at a Dion's restaurant near University and Gibson Friday night.
  
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• A new class of carrier: Introducing the USS Gerald Ford

  22-07-2017 16:42
  
  The Navy's newest aircraft carrier hopes to bring "Integrity at the Helm."
  
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• John Heard, veteran actor and 'Home Alone' dad, dies at 72

  22-07-2017 16:38
  
  He was reportedly found dead in a hotel room days after a "minor back surgery."
  
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• UK palace releases Prince George’s 4th birthday portrait

  22-07-2017 16:07 via krqe.com
  LONDON (AP) — Kensington Palace has released a portrait to mark Prince George’s fourth birthday.
  The son of Prince William and his wife Kate celebrated his birthday Saturday. George, who is third in line to the throne, is beaming with a happy smile in the photo.
  The palace said William and Kate “are delighted to share a new official portrait of Prince George to mark His Royal Highness’s fourth birthday.” It was taken by a professional photographer. In the past, Kate
  
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• With 2018 looming, Democrats divided on their core message

  22-07-2017 16:05 via krqe.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley hesitated when asked about his party’s core message to voters.
  “That message is being worked on,” the New York congressman said in an interview this past week. “We’re doing everything we can to simplify it, but at the same time provide the meat behind it as well. So that’s coming together now.”
  The admission from the No. 4 House Democrat — that his party lacks a clear, core message
  
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• Trump wakes up with Russia, and plenty more, on his mind

  22-07-2017 16:05 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump woke up Saturday with a lot on his mind.
  He was thinking about the Russia investigation, Hillary Clinton, son Don Jr., health care, the commissioning of the USS Gerald Ford, an Islamic State terrorist who may be dead, his attorney general and his new White House communications aide.
  It’s all there in his Twitter feed.
  On a day when most people are ready to step away from the issues that nagged at them during the week, Trump was just revving up
  
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• Trump fires off volley of angry tweets on Russia probe

  22-07-2017 16:05 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hours before he was to help commission a new aircraft carrier at a patriotic ceremony on the Virginia coast, President Donald Trump fired off a volley of early morning tweets that again showed how furious he remains over multiple investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
  The tweets were unusual in their breadth and scope, even for Trump, given the wide variety of topics he touched on as Saturday dawned. His 10 tweets, all sent within two hour
  
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• Trump asserts all agree he has ‘complete power’ to pardon

  22-07-2017 16:05 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that he has “complete power” to issue pardons, an assertion that comes amid investigations into Russian interference in last year’s presidential election. It was one of many topics that appeared to occupy the president’s mind as the day broke.
  On a day when most people are ready to forget about the issues that nagged them during the week, Trump revved up. In an early morning flurry of 10 tweets, he commented abo
  
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• Protests across Poland over law to control judiciary

  22-07-2017 16:05 via krqe.com
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Outrage over plans by Poland’s governing party to put the judicial system under its political control sparked another day of nationwide protests Saturday, with some people gathering outside the home of ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski and accusing him of being a dictator.
  Polish democracy icon and former President Lech Walesa addressed a protest in Gdansk, urging young Poles to fight to preserve the separation of powers that his Solidarity movement helped
  
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• Polish president sees flaws in contentious law on top court

  22-07-2017 16:05 via krqe.com
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president sees flaws in contentious legislation adopted by the Senate that gives politicians significant influence over the nation’s Supreme Court, his spokesman said Saturday.
  President Andrzej Duda’s spokesman, Andrzej Lapinski, stopped short of saying whether the president would reject the bill or seek the opinion of a special court, the Constitutional Tribunal. The tribunal has already been put under the influence of the ruling conservat
  
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• Lech Walesa urges protesters in Poland to defend democracy

  22-07-2017 16:05 via krqe.com
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish democracy icon and former president Lech Walesa on Saturday joined the protests that have broken out across Poland over plans by the populist ruling party to put the Supreme Court and the rest of the judicial system under the party’s political control.
  The European Union and many international legal experts say the changes would mark a dramatic reversal for a country hailed as a model of democratic transition over the past quarter century, and move Poland
  
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• A weird Florida mystery: Frozen pork falling from the sky

  22-07-2017 15:50 via krqe.com
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Meat falling from the sky is weird, even by Florida standards.
  But that’s what happened at 4 a.m. Saturday when a 15-pound (6.8-kilogram) bag of frozen pork landed on the Deerfield Beach home of Travis Adair and his family.
  Adair said Thursday that the package hit his roof with a “big bang.” He thought it was thunder, but his wife Jennie later went outside and found two bundles next to the house. His son Austin found three on the roof.
  “
  
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• The Latest: Walesa supports Poland’s new political struggle

  22-07-2017 15:49 via krqe.com
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Latest on Poland’s move to give politicians influence over Supreme Court (all times local):
  3:30 p.m.
  Polish democracy icon and ex-President Lech Walesa has told a large crowd of anti-government protesters in Gdansk that he will always support their struggle.
  Walesa’s address in Gdansk came amid mass nationwide protests over a plan by the ruling conservative Law and Justice party that would put the Supreme Court and the rest of the judicial system unde
  
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• The Latest: Anti-govt protesters march in Polish cities

  22-07-2017 15:49 via krqe.com
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Latest on Poland’s move to give politicians influence over Supreme Court (all times local):
  8:45 p.m.
  Thousands of government opponents are gathering in Warsaw, Krakow and other cities across Poland to urge President Andrzej Duda to reject legislation that would give the ruling party control of the Supreme Court and the judiciary.
  People with national and European Union flags gathered before the Presidential Palace in Warsaw. Many are holding “3 X veto
  
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• Legal deal pulls money to teach tribal kids native language

  22-07-2017 15:49 via krqe.com
  PHOENIX (AP) — New generations of children growing up in a tiny American Indian tribe in Arizona have lost a key way of learning to speak their native language, and it may not be coming back.
  A private land developer stopped making payments five years ago that funded language development in Hopi schools and helped 18 other tribes in Arizona build schools, youth camps and educational facilities. The payments were required under a massive land swap with the United States.
  The federal governm
  
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• Germany reaches out to Turkish-rooted citizens over crisis

  22-07-2017 15:48 via krqe.com
  BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister has tried to reach out to the country’s Turkish-rooted citizens, saying the crisis between both countries isn’t directed against them.
  Sigmar Gabriel wrote an open letter to the 3.5 million Germans of Turkish descent, which was published in both Turkish and German in Bild daily paper Saturday. He said that the government wants to let them know that “the friendship between Germans and Turks is a great treasure.”
  More tha
  
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• Al-Qaida suspect linked to cartoonist plot extradited to US

  22-07-2017 15:48 via krqe.com
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An al-Qaida suspect linked to a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist has been brought to Philadelphia from Spain to face terrorism charges in federal court, despite President Donald Trump’s promises to send terror suspects to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
  Ali Charaf Damache, 52, of Algeria, appeared in court Friday and will be arraigned next month on charges that he conspired with two American women and a high school honors student from Maryland, court offic
  
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• The Latest: Senators update plans for Trump Jr., Manafort

  22-07-2017 15:47 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the probe into allegations of Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election (all times local):
  11:00 a.m.
  The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee are providing more information about the terms of negotiations they’re having with President Donald Trump’s eldest son and his former campaign chairman. The panel is investigating Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election.
  Committee chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa
  
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• California firefighters bring nearly dead dog back to life

  22-07-2017 15:46 via krqe.com
  BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — A California fire department says a little white dog named Jack is recovering after firefighters rescued him from a burning home and brought him back to life.
  In a video posted to the Bakersfield Fire Department’s website that has been widely shared online, firefighter Matt Smith is shown carrying the nearly lifeless Shih Tzu from the house on Wednesday.
  Using a pet oxygen mask donated to the department by a local Girl Scout troop, Smith and his partners sl
  
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• Alabama man to display head of 820-pound hog shot in yard

  22-07-2017 15:46 via krqe.com
  SAMSON, Ala. (AP) — Hogs aren’t unusual in rural south Alabama, but Wade Seago said he’d never seen anything like the 820-pound (372-kilogram) animal he shot and killed in his front yard.
  Seago told al.com that he and his daughter spotted the massive hog in their yard in Samson last week after the family’s pet schnauzer Cruiser started barking.
  “Cruiser had this huge hog confused with all of the barking and movement,” Wade said. “It was not a good situat
  
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• ‘Walking Dead’ Comic-Con panel pays tribute to late stuntman

  22-07-2017 15:45 via krqe.com
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — There will never be an antidote or immunity to the zombie apocalypse in “The Walking Dead.”
  “It’s kind of a mythology-breaking proposition,” creator Robert Kirkman said Friday during the show’s presentation at Comic-Con.
  Kirkman and showrunner Scott Gimple were joined by a dozen cast members for the panel inside the San Diego Convention Center’s largest exhibition hall, where they unveiled the trailer for season eight and shared a
  
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• New librarian finds live Civil War-era shells in her office

  22-07-2017 15:45 via krqe.com
  CARLISLE, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts librarian on her first day on the job has come across live military shells from the Civil War inside a closet in her new office.
  Gleason Public Library director Abby Noland tells The Boston Globe she found the shells Thursday morning inside a box with a label explaining they had been examined by a munitions expert and could be live. She called police, who evacuated the library in Carlisle.
  The state bomb squad later arrived and determined the shells w
  
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• Linkin Park cancels tour after Chester Bennington’s death

  22-07-2017 15:45 via krqe.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The band Linkin Park canceled its North American tour Friday after its lead singer, Chester Bennington, was found dead by hanging the day before.
  “We are incredibly saddened to hear about the passing of Chester Bennington. The Linkin Park One More Light North American Tour has been canceled and refunds are available at point of purchase. Our thoughts go out to all those affected,” tour promoter Live Nation said in a statement.
  The Los Angeles County coroner&r
  
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• Beyonce wax figure touched up after fans say it’s too white

  22-07-2017 15:45 via krqe.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — A wax figure of Beyonce at Madame Tussauds in New York has been given a makeover after fans of the megastar said the figure was too white.
  The wax Beyonce sported wavy blond hair and appeared to be thinner and lighter-skinned than the “Lemonade” singer in real life.
  Fans complained on Twitter that the figure looked more like Lindsay Lohan or Shakira than Beyonce.
  The New York Times reported that the figure was off the floor Thursday.
  Madame Tussauds said in a st
  
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• Trump: USS Ford is ‘100,000-ton message to the world’

  22-07-2017 15:44 via krqe.com
  NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — With praise and a blessing for the military, President Donald Trump helped hand over the USS Gerald R. Ford to the Navy on Saturday and said the state-of-the-art aircraft carrier will send a “100,000-ton message to the world” about America’s military might when it is ultimately deployed.
  U.S. allies will rest easy, Trump said, but America’s enemies will “shake with fear” when they see the Ford cutting across the horizon.
  The president
  
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• Trump helps commission $12.9 billion aircraft carrier

  22-07-2017 15:44 via krqe.com
  NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump helped commission the USS Gerald R. Ford on Saturday and declared that the most advanced aircraft carrier to join the Navy will cause America’s enemies to “shake with fear” whenever they see its form cutting across the horizon.
  “I hereby place United States Ship Gerald R. Ford in commission,” Trump said after delivering a speech in which he praised the U.S. military and the American labor that went into building the 1
  
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