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• Airport worker punches passenger holding a baby

  30-07-2017 23:45
  
  The passenger had complained about the flight delay.
  
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• Tree tents get campers off the ground and into the air

  30-07-2017 23:18 via krqe.com
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Campers and outdoor enthusiasts are embracing a fun, unique way to sleep under the stars on hybrid hammock-tents that are strung up between trees.
  Some of the portable treehouses were on display this week in Salt Lake City at the Outdoor Retailer show.
  Matt Powell, a sports industry analyst with the market research firm NPD Group, says retailers report the so-called tree tents are generating growing demand from customers.
  Powell says millennial campers are drawn to a
  
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• Starbucks to shutter all Teavana stores as sales disappoint

  30-07-2017 22:12 via krqe.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks is shutting down its struggling Teavana chain, and relying on customers who spend more on pricier drinks and food to drive up sales at its namesake coffee stores.
  The company reported disappointing global sales growth on Thursday, and said it will close all 379 Teavana locations over the coming year. It had acquired the U.S. mall-based chain in 2012, with then-CEO Howard Schultz citing the huge potential for the tea market. But in April, the company said it was re
  
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• Shooting between motorcycle clubs prompts brief hospital lockdown

  30-07-2017 22:06 via krqe.com
  SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – A shooting between two motorcycle clubs with a history of conflict prompted a brief lock down at a Santa Fe hospital Saturday.
  According to Santa Fe Police Cpt. Robert Vasquez, the shooting happened Saturday evening outside of a home near Camino del Gusto and Alamosa.
  In the shooting, a member of the Vagos MC was hit and suffered a non-life threatening injury.
  Police say another member of the Vagos MC is in custody for questioning.
  Vasquez says members of the Bandid
  
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• Man gets prison for tossing dogs from top of 5-story parking garage

  30-07-2017 21:59
  Prosecutors said the man posed as the dogs' owner and paid a reward to someone who had found the two toy poodles.
  
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• Silver Alert cancelled after Albuquerque man found

  30-07-2017 21:47
  
  Albuquerque police have cancelled a Silver Alert issued after an 81-year-old man with dementia went missing Saturday afternoon.
  
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• Report: School violence, bullying down in US public schools

  30-07-2017 21:03 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of violent attacks and incidents of bullying in American public schools has gone down in recent years, according to a federal report published Thursday.
  Violence and bullying were more frequent in middle schools than in high schools or elementary schools, said the study by the Education Department’s National Center for Education Statistics.
  The report said the rate of violent incidents in middle schools dropped from 40 incidents per 1,000 students in the
  
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• Putin says U.S. embassy in Moscow will cut staff by 755 after US sanctions

  30-07-2017 20:46
  
  Vladimir Putin says the U.S. embassy in Moscow will cut staff by 755 because of US sanctions against Russia.
  
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• Santa Fe police investigate shooting between two motorcycle clubs

  30-07-2017 20:41
  
  Shooting prompted a lockdown at Christus St. Vincent Hospital Saturday night
  
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• Only son of Nashville mayor dies of apparent drug overdose

  30-07-2017 20:12
  
  The only son of Nashville mayor Megan Barry has died of an apparent drug overdose.
  
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• How scientists redesign DNA codes

  30-07-2017 19:53 via krqe.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists are working to create yeast that operates with custom-made DNA.
  They have long been able to make specific changes in an organism’s DNA. Now, they’re pushing into the more radical step of starting over, and building redesigned versions from scratch.
  Their work is part of a bold and controversial pursuit aimed at creating custom-made DNA codes to be inserted into living cells to change how they function, or even provide treatments for diseases. It could
  
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• Here's why you may want to avoid blowing out candles on a birthday cake

  30-07-2017 19:53
  
  Blowing out candles on a birthday cake is a longtime tradition, but here's why you may want to avoid it.
  
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• Caeleb Dressel ties Michael Phelps' world record

  30-07-2017 19:51
  
  Caeleb Dressel has tied Michael Phelps' world record with 7 gold medals.
  
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• 'Dunkirk' defeats 'Emoji,' 'Atomic Blonde' at box office

  30-07-2017 19:21
  
  'Dunkirk' topped the box office again this weekend.
  
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• Whole Foods’ key sales dip shows Amazon buying a fixer-upper

  30-07-2017 18:42 via krqe.com
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Amazon is set to have a fixer-upper on its hands, with Whole Foods reporting another key sales decline.
  The grocery chain said Wednesday that sales fell 1.9 percent at established locations for the three months that ended July 2. That marks the eighth straight quarter the figure has declined as Whole Foods sees more competition from traditional grocers, big box retailers and others that are offering more organic choices.
  Facing pressure from investors to improve its pe
  
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• White House to Senate: Repeal, replace Obamacare

  30-07-2017 18:42
  
  White House to Senate: Repeal, replace Obamacare - or else.
  
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• Jon Jones stops Cormier in 3rd, regains UFC title belt

  30-07-2017 18:29
  
  Jon Jones reclaimed his UFC light heavyweight title Saturday night, stopping Daniel Cormier in the third round with a vicious head kick and a finish on the ground at UFC 214.
  
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• Daryl Chestnut is ready to stand out in 2017

  30-07-2017 17:45 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – UNM Football’s Fall Camp is now underway, and after three days of work the team looks focused heading into their 2017 season. The goal over the past few seasons has been to make this UNM offense more balanced in the run game and pass game. Coach Davie believes with a good core of receivers and a senior QB in Lamar Jordan, that is possible in 2017, but Davie also believes that you cannot veer away from your identity.
  The Lobos led the country in rushing yard
  
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• Dallas Cowboys add Luke McCown; Sean Lee discusses team’s mentality

  30-07-2017 17:39 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE N.M. (KRQE) – The Dallas Cowboys have added on 36-year-old veteran QB Luke McCown. NFL reporter Ian Rapoport reported on Friday that McCown had agreed to a one year, $250,000 deal. The team needed a back up and with 13 seasons of NFL Experience, McCown could be the craft veteran to help even out the very young QB core in Dallas, which of course has Dak Prescott, Kellen Moore, and Cooper Rush.
  In other news from Cowboy Camp, the team found out officially that Defensive End, Damo
  
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• Shell preparing for world economy that shifts away from oil

  30-07-2017 17:32 via krqe.com
  LONDON (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell is planning for the day when demand for oil starts fading as major economies move away from oil and increasingly turn to electric-powered cars, Chief Executive Ben van Beurden said Thursday.
  Van Beurden welcomed recent proposals to phase out passenger vehicles powered by fossil fuels in Britain and France, saying they are needed to combat global warming. Shell is looking at “very aggressive scenarios” as it makes plans to remain competitive in a
  
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• Saturday night shooting in Santa Fe caused hospital lockdown

  30-07-2017 17:14
  
  Shooting was near the facility and was precautionary, one person injured
  
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• I-40 at Juan Tabo reopened after police activity

  30-07-2017 16:36
  
  Albuquerque Police Department officials say I-40 is closed in both directions at Juan Tabo as police deal with a person who has reportedly climbed the safety fence lining the Juan Tabo overpass.
  
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• Pope calls for greater commitment to fight human trafficking

  30-07-2017 16:35 via krqe.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is urging the world to show a greater commitment to fighting human trafficking, which he called “a form of modern slavery.”
  The pope made the appeal during his traditional Sunday prayer on the U.N.’s world day against trafficking.
  Francis said “every year, thousands of men, women and children are innocent victims of labor exploitation, and sex and organ trafficking.”He added that it has become something considered normal:&ldquo
  
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• Car bomb blast in Somalia’s capital kills at least 5

  30-07-2017 16:35 via krqe.com
  MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A car bomb blast near a police station in Somalia’s capital on Sunday killed at least five people and wounded at least 13 others, police said. The explosion shattered a month of relative calm in Mogadishu, often a target of the extremist group al-Shabab.
  The blast near Waberi police station along the busy Maka Almukarramah road may have been a suicide bomber, Capt. Mohamed Hussein told The Associated Press.
  The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab often carries out dea
  
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• Al-Shabab attack on African Union convoy kills 8 in Somalia

  30-07-2017 16:35 via krqe.com
  MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Fighters with the al-Shabab extremist group ambushed an African Union convoy in southern Somalia and killed at least eight soldiers on Sunday, a Somali military officer said. The attack came hours after a car bomb in the capital killed at least five people, most of them civilians, shattering a month of relative calm in Mogadishu.
  The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab fighters attacked the convoy near Bulo-Marer town in Lower Shabelle region, Col. Muhyadin Yasin said.
  Ugan
  
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• Ohio fair officials say rides to reopen after fatal accident

  30-07-2017 16:34 via krqe.com
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Officials say rides shut down at the Ohio State Fair after a thrill ride broke apart and killed a man are open after being re-inspected.
  Fair officials made the announcement Sunday morning. Some rides, mostly in the fair’s Kiddie Land, had previously reopened.
  All rides were shut down Wednesday night after a swinging and spinning ride called the Fire Ball broke apart, killing 18-year-old high school student Tyler Jarrell and injuring seven others, several critic
  
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• Jon Jones reclaims UFC title belt

  30-07-2017 16:34
  
  Jon Jones reclaimed his UFC title belt on Saturday night.
  
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• Cellphone service could be spotty for rural eclipse-watchers

  30-07-2017 16:33 via krqe.com
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — If you plan to livestream next month’s solar eclipse from one of the prime viewing spots, here’s a thought: Keep your phone in your pocket, put on your paper shades and just enjoy the celestial wonder.
  The Aug. 21 solar eclipse, when passage of the moon completely blocks out the sun, will be seen first in Oregon and cut diagonally across 14 states to South Carolina. It will be the first total solar eclipse visible coast-to-coast since 1918.
  The best places to s
  
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• California seeks to solutions to homeless sex offender rate

  30-07-2017 16:33 via krqe.com
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California has as many homeless sex offenders now as it did 2½ years ago, when a state Supreme Court ruling that overturned restrictions on where they could live was seen as a way to increase housing options and allow law enforcement to better track them.
  Sex offenders must register with the state and provide new addresses when they move. Those who are homeless are less apt to keep their locations updated and more likely to commit new crimes.
  The number of
  
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• Too many Great American Eclipse viewers could wreak havoc on cellphone service

  30-07-2017 16:28
  
  Too many people viewing the eclipse next month could overburden cellphone service in some areas.
  
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• Rare birds, wildflowers: ‘Secret garden’ opens after century

  30-07-2017 16:23 via krqe.com
  TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — Pink and yellow wildflowers burst from a lush bed of grass hidden from public view for more than a century. Towering trees and snow-capped mountains encircle the wild meadow, beckoning visitors to a largely untouched piece of California’s Sierra Nevada.
  Conservation groups bought the land in Lower Carpenter Valley north of Lake Tahoe and are opening it for tours. It contains rare carnivorous plants and threatened birds and serves as a migration corridor for oth
  
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• Scotland to Britain: Protect Scotch whisky after Brexit

  30-07-2017 16:06 via krqe.com
  LONDON (AP) — Scotland has called for Scotch to be defined in U.K. law so its vital whisky industry can be protected after Brexit.
  Scottish Economy Secretary Keith Brown has written to officials asking for strong legal protections for the industry, which is worth around 4 billion pounds ($5.3 billion) in exports. A European Union definition of whisky currently protects sales from substandard products — but EU laws will no longer apply to Britain after the country exits the bloc in 20
  
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• Morocco’s king pardons some protesters jailed in unrest

  30-07-2017 16:05 via krqe.com
  TETOUAN, Morocco (AP) — Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has pardoned some people jailed during a protest movement that has affected an impoverished northern region for months, slamming politicians and public officials for their “unprecedented irresponsibility.”
  The king said in a speech Saturday night that he granted early releases and reduced sentences to 1,178 inmates and other convicts, including an undisclosed number of protesters detained during unauthorized demonstration
  
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• Kenya: Intruder killed at VP’s home after 18-hour siege

  30-07-2017 16:05 via krqe.com
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s police chief says an intruder killed a police guard at the home of the deputy president and armed himself with a rifle before he was shot dead more than 18 hours later.
  Police Chief Joseph Boinnet said the man kept police special forces engaged overnight at Deputy President William Ruto home on the outskirts of Eldoret, a town 194 miles (312 kilometers) northwest of Nairobi.
  Capital FM Radio reports that the unknown gunmen entered the residence around no
  
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• The Latest: Venezuelans line up to vote for new assembly

  30-07-2017 16:04 via krqe.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Latest on Venezuela’s political crisis and the vote for a constitutional assembly (all times local):
  9 a.m.
  Dozens of Venezuelans are gathering early at voting centers in Caracas’ Petare neighborhood, saying they plan to cast ballots because they hope for improvements in their lives.
  Hairdresser Luisa Marquez said she hoped to get a house as she waited with her daughter in a line outside a center to vote Sunday for an all-powerful constitutional as
  
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• Telegram denies Iran’s claim it installed servers there

  30-07-2017 16:04 via krqe.com
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s communications and information technology minister was quoted Sunday as saying the widely used Telegram messenger service has transferred some of its servers into the country, but the encrypted application’s founder swiftly denied the claim.
  The report from Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency quoted Mahmoud Vaezi as saying: “As a result of meetings with Telegram managers, some of its servers have been moved to the country.”
  But Tel
  
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• Venezuela’s leader casts unusual vote, decries ‘terrorism’

  30-07-2017 16:03 via krqe.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro asked for global acceptance on Sunday as he cast an unusual pre-dawn vote for an all-powerful constitutional assembly that his opponents fear he’ll use to replace his country’s democracy with a single-party authoritarian system.
  Accompanied by close advisers and state media, Maduro voted at 6:05 a.m. local time, far earlier and less publicly than in previous elections. The run-up to the vote has been marked by months
  
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• Venezuelans stay away from polls to protest government vote

  30-07-2017 16:03 via krqe.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans stayed away from the polls in massive numbers on Sunday in a show of protest against a vote to grant President Nicolas Maduro’s ruling socialist party virtually unlimited powers in the face of a brutal socio-economic crisis and a grinding battle against its political opponents and groups of increasingly alienated and violent young protesters.
  The government swore to continue its push for total political dominance of this once-prosperous OPEC nati
  
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• Venezuelans appear to abstain from government vote

  30-07-2017 16:03 via krqe.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans appeared to be abstaining in massive numbers on Sunday in a show of silent protest against a vote to select a constitutional assembly giving the government virtually unlimited powers.
  Associated Press journalists toured more than two dozen polling places in neighborhoods across the capital, including many traditional strongholds of the ruling socialist party in southern and western Caracas. Virtually all the polling places saw hours-long lines of thous
  
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• Clinton lost, but Republicans still want to investigate her

  30-07-2017 16:03 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to President Donald Trump, but some Republicans in Congress are intensifying their calls to investigate her and other Obama administration officials.
  As investigations into Russian meddling and possible links to Trump’s campaign have escalated on both sides of the Capitol, some Republicans argue that the investigations should have a greater focus on Democrats.
  Democrats who have pushed the election probes “have s
  
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• US tests defense system after North Korea missile launch

  30-07-2017 15:24
  
  US Forces tested the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system by launching a ballistic missile over the Pacific Ocean.
  
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• Pet of the week: Accient

  30-07-2017 14:57
  
  Pet of the week: Accient
  
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• Huge balls of hail destroy car windows

  30-07-2017 14:33
  
  Enormous balls of hail smashed car windows during a storm.
  
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• US bombers fly over South Korea after North’s 2nd ICBM test

  30-07-2017 14:05 via krqe.com
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States flew two supersonic bombers over the Korean Peninsula on Sunday in a show of force against North Korea following the country’s latest intercontinental ballistic missile test. The U.S. also said it conducted a successful test of a missile defense system located in Alaska.
  The B-1 bombers were escorted by South Korean fighter jets as they performed a low-pass over an air base near the South Korean capital of Seoul before returning to Andersen
  
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• Trump threat: End health payments unless there’s an overhaul

  30-07-2017 14:04 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened once more to end required payments to insurance companies unless lawmakers repeal and replace the Obama-era health care law.
  In apparent frustration over Friday’s failure by the Senate Republican majority to pass a bill repealing parts of the Affordable Care Act, Trump tweeted: “If a new HealthCare Bill is not approved quickly, BAILOUTS for Insurance Companies and BAILOUTS for Members of Congress will end very soon
  
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• 20,000 fans flee huge fire at music festival in Barcelona

  30-07-2017 14:04 via krqe.com
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A huge fire at a music festival in Spain forced the evacuation of over 20,000 concertgoers and incinerated the event’s stage in Barcelona, the regional government said Sunday.
  The fire Saturday night consumed the large outdoor stage at the “Tomorrowland” electronic music festival held at Barcelona’s Parc de Can Zam. Twelve firefighting units needed around an hour to extinguish the flames just before midnight.
  Firefighters said they were inves
  
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• Roomba 'will never sell your data', says CEO

  30-07-2017 13:52
  
  iRobot, the maker of Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners, won't sell customer data to other companies, according to its CEO.
  
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• Documentary set to air Princess Diana's recordings on marriage to Charles

  30-07-2017 12:29
  
  The documentary will highlight conversations Diana had with the Queen regarding her failing marriage
  
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• Lady Gaga subpoenaed in Dr. Luke vs. Kesha defamation Lawsuit

  30-07-2017 10:34
  
  The legal fireworks between music producer Dr. Luke and singer Kesha have gone on since 2014
  
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• Police arrest man accused of setting fire to LGBTQ center

  30-07-2017 10:04
  
  Authorities say a suspect in an arson that damaged a Phoenix LGBT youth center has been arrested
  
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