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• Prosecutors: Couple took $8M grants for fake energy projects

  12-08-2017 23:43
  
  Federal prosecutors say a Massachusetts couple tried to defraud the government out of more than $50 million in clean energy grants.
  
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• Pregnant Mom-of-5 Now Unconscious After Refusing Cancer Treatment to Save Unborn Child

  12-08-2017 22:56
  
  "This is what she wants."
  
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• Car plows into crowd, 1 person dies in Virginia amid violent protest

  12-08-2017 22:07
  
  President Trump decried the violence, urging Americans to "come together as one"
  
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• Mom outraged by video of daycare worker 'tossing' child several feet

  12-08-2017 21:25
  
  A mom says a daycare worker "tossed" her daughter several feet in an incident that was caught on camera.
  
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• Amazon gives refunds to customers over concerns about safety of some eclipse glasses

  12-08-2017 21:06
  
  Customers are receiving refunds from Amazon because of concerns about some eclipse glasses.
  
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• Science report: Who gets hotter, wetter with climate change

  12-08-2017 21:03 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A draft federal science report on the effects of global warming breaks down how climate change has already hit different regions of the United States. It also projects expected changes by region.
  OVERALL (contiguous 48 states)
  —The annual average temperature is already 1.18 degrees warmer the last 30 years than it was from 1901 to 1960, with daytime highs 1 degree warmer and nighttime lows 1.35 degrees higher.
  —If carbon pollution continues unabated, temperatu
  
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• PHOTOS: Violence erupts at White Nationalist rally in Virginia

  12-08-2017 20:35
  
  Violence erupted at a White Nationalist rally in Virginia on Saturday.
  
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• 4 things to know about North and South Korea

  12-08-2017 20:35 via krqe.com
  BOSTON, MA (KRQE) – Professor Ji-Young Lee of American University answers four questions to help put issues related to North Korea’s nuclear weapons capabilities into context.
  Why is there a North and a South Korea?
  Before there was a South and North Korea, the peninsula was ruled as a dynasty known as Chosŏn, which existed for more than five centuries, until 1910. This period, during which an independent Korea had diplomatic relations with China and Japan, ended with
  
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• Meet the new heavyweight champion of dinosaurs: Patagotitan

  12-08-2017 20:13 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A study proclaims a newly named species the heavyweight champion of all dinosaurs, making the scary Tyrannosaurus rex look like a munchkin.
  At 76 tons (69 metric tons), the plant-eating behemoth was as heavy as a space shuttle.
  The dinosaur’s fossils were found in southern Argentina in 2012. Researchers who examined and dated them said the long-necked creature was the biggest of a group of large dinosaurs called titanosaurs.
  “There was one small part of the fa
  
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• World’s oldest man, a Holocaust survivor, dies at 113

  12-08-2017 19:49
  
  From smuggling booze during World War I to surviving Auschwitz and running his own business, "he managed to accomplish a lot."
  
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• Photo of dog dragging weights upsets neighborhood, but police say it's legal

  12-08-2017 19:49
  
  A photo of a dog dragging weights from the leash is upsetting a St. Louis neighborhood, but police say the practice is legal under Missouri's laws.
  
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• State of emergency declared as demonstrators clash ahead of 'Unite the Right' rally in Virginia

  12-08-2017 19:33
  
  President Trump decried the violence, urging Americans to "come together as one!"
  
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• Groups propose ocean refuges for captive dolphins, whales

  12-08-2017 19:30 via krqe.com
  WAIMANALO, Hawaii (AP) — A Hawaii marine park’s purchase of Kina, a 40-year-old false killer whale long used in echolocation research, has reignited a debate about captive marine mammals and the places that care for them.
  Most of the world’s captive cetaceans – dolphins, whales and porpoises – are now born in marine-park breeding programs, though some are still taken from the wild. Since they’re so expensive to care for, even marine mammals used solely for res
  
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• Albuquerque police investigate possible shooting death of child

  12-08-2017 19:15
  
  Police say boy found inside a residence in SE ABQ Friday afternoon
  
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• Trump says he’s open to military intervention in Venezuela

  12-08-2017 18:54 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has said he wouldn’t rule out military action against Venezuela in response to the country’s descent into political chaos following President Nicolas Maduro’s power grab. Venezuela’s government responded by accusing Trump of seeking to destabilize Latin America.
  Speaking to reporters Friday at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club, Trump bemoaned Venezuela’s growing humanitarian crisis and declared that all options rema
  
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• The Latest: Kenya’s leader asks country to ‘shun violence’

  12-08-2017 18:54 via krqe.com
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Latest on Kenya’s presidential election (all times local):
  11:10 p.m.
  Kenya’s president is asking the country to “shun violence” as unrest erupts in some opposition areas after the country’s election commission announced he had won a second term.
  Supporters of opposition candidate Raila Odinga have rejected the results but said challenging them in court is not an option. Odinga made a legal challenge after losing to Kenyatta in 2013,
  
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• Portugal fights record number of wildfires for 1 day in 2017

  12-08-2017 18:54 via krqe.com
  LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal is fighting to put out a spate of wildfires after the southern European country hit a year high of outbreaks for a single day on Friday, authorities say.
  Portugal’s Civil Protection Agency, which coordinates its firefighting efforts, said Saturday that it recorded a record for this year of 220 separate wildfires on Friday.
  Over 2,500 firefighters supported by over 800 vehicles and 15 air units were still mobilized on Saturday morning to combat the fla
  
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• Bolt takes a tumble and can’t complete final race at worlds

  12-08-2017 18:54 via krqe.com
  LONDON (AP) — Usain Bolt was ramping into warp speed when suddenly, stunningly, the sprint turned into a somersault.
  Fifteen steps into the final homestretch of his final race, something gave in his left hamstring. The World’s Fastest Man skittered to a stop — hopping, skipping, jumping, then finally dropping to the ground and tumbling forward before coming to a rest.
  While the winning team from Britain crossed the finish line, Bolt was writhing on the track, where he eventuall
  
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• Bolt gets Jamaica into the relay final for grand farewell

  12-08-2017 18:54 via krqe.com
  LONDON (AP) — Usain Bolt set the stage for his grand farewell, powering down the finishing straight Saturday to qualify Jamaica for the 4×100-meter relay final at the world championships.
  Fittingly, he will face Justin Gatlin and the United States in the final chapter of his unparalleled career.
  Both nations won their heats early Saturday, though the U.S. relay squad got the baton around with more aplomb than Jamaica, which had to rely on Bolt to clinch victory.
  And Bolt relished the
  
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• Bolt ends stellar career with injury; Farah loses, too

  12-08-2017 18:54 via krqe.com
  LONDON (AP) — Usain Bolt ended his stellar career in excruciating pain.
  The Jamaican great crumpled to the track with a left-leg injury as he was chasing a final gold medal for the Jamaican 4×100-meter relay team on Saturday at the world championships.
  Having to make up lots of ground on the anchor leg, Bolt suddenly screamed and stumbled as he came down with his golden farewell shattered by the first injury he has experienced at a major competition.
  That wasn’t the only surpri
  
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• Secessionists push for South to break away from US again

  12-08-2017 18:53 via krqe.com
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — As 21st century activists seek to topple monuments to the 19th century Confederate rebellion, some white Southerners are again advocating for what the Confederates tried and failed to do: secede from the Union.
  It’s not an easy argument to win, and it’s not clear how much support the idea has: The leading Southern nationalist group, the Alabama-based League of the South, has been making the same claim for more than two decades and still has an address in
  
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• Train collision in northern Egypt kills 43; 122 injured

  12-08-2017 18:49 via krqe.com
  ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) — Two passenger trains collided on Friday just outside Egypt’s Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, killing 43 people, according to authorities, the country’s deadliest rail accident in more than a decade.
  Magdy Hegazy, a top health official in Alexandria, said that along with the 43 killed, the crash also injured 122 people.
  The Egyptian Railways Authority said earlier that a train coming from Cairo, Egypt’s capital, crashed into the back of a tr
  
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• UK police: American man wrongly arrested man in jogging-rage case

  12-08-2017 18:47
  
  The search continues for a jogger who shoved a woman into a path of a London bus.
  
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• The Latest: Sub owner ordered held in woman’s disappearance

  12-08-2017 18:28 via krqe.com
  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Latest on a private submarine that sank off Denmark: (all times local):
  5 p.m.
  A Danish court has ordered the owner of an amateur-built submarine to be held in pre-trial detention for 24 days while police investigate the disappearance of a Swedish journalist who had been on the ship.
  Peter Madsen was arrested Friday on preliminary manslaughter charges after his 40-ton, nearly 18-meter-long (60-foot-long) submarine sank off Denmark’s eastern coast. He ha
  
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• Study boosts hope of ‘liquid biopsies’ for cancer screening

  12-08-2017 18:28 via krqe.com
  Scientists have the first major evidence that blood tests called liquid biopsies hold promise for screening people for cancer. Hong Kong doctors tried it for a type of head and neck cancer, and boosted early detection and one measure of survival.
  The tests detect DNA that tumors shed into the blood. Some are used now to monitor cancer patients, and many companies are trying to develop versions of these for screening, as possible alternatives to mammograms, colonoscopies and other such tests. The
  
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• Official: Syria to facilitate chemical weapons team mission

  12-08-2017 18:28 via krqe.com
  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — An international chemical weapons delegation will visit Syria in the coming days and Damascus will facilitate its mission to uncover who used chemical weapons in the country earlier this year, a Syrian official said Saturday.
  Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said the delegation of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and U.N. Joint Investigative Mechanism is scheduled to arrive in Syria within 10 days.
  Mekdad reiterated in an interview with T
  
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• Fear spreads over tainted eggs despite low risk to consumers

  12-08-2017 18:28 via krqe.com
  AMSTERDAM (AP) — Experts say the risk of getting sick from eating an egg tainted with insecticide is low. But that hasn’t stopped stores in Germany and the Netherlands from stripping them from supermarket shelves, or prevented other European food safety agencies from issuing warnings.
  The story about the illegal use of the insecticide Fipronil in spray to rid hens of ticks, fleas and lice has gained traction across Europe. Fears about the safety of an everyday food staple along with
  
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• White nationalist rally, violence rock Virginia city; 1 dead

  12-08-2017 18:25 via krqe.com
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A car plowed into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white nationalist rally Saturday in a Virginia college town, killing one person, sending at least 26 others to hospitals and ratcheting up tension in an increasingly violent confrontation.
  The chaos boiled over at what is believed to be the largest group of white nationalists to come together in a decade: the governor declared a state of emergency, police dressed in riot gear ordered people out and heli
  
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• Virginia city rocked by white nationalist protests; 1 arrest

  12-08-2017 18:25 via krqe.com
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A car plowed into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white supremacist rally in downtown Charlottesville Saturday afternoon, ratcheting up the tension in an increasingly chaotic confrontation in this usually quiet college town.
  It is unclear how many were injured; an Associated Press reporter saw at least one person on the ground receiving medical treatment immediately after the car careened into the line of several hundred people.
  Matt Korbon, a 22-year-
  
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• Officials: White nationalist rally linked to 3 deaths

  12-08-2017 18:25 via krqe.com
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A car plowed into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white nationalist rally Saturday in a Virginia college town, killing one person, hurting at least two dozen more and ratcheting up tension in an increasingly violent confrontation.
  A helicopter crash that killed the pilot and a passenger later in the afternoon outside Charlottesville also was linked to the rally by State Police, though officials did not elaborate on how the crash was connected.
  The chao
  
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• Hundreds face off ahead of white nationalist rally

  12-08-2017 18:25 via krqe.com
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Hundreds of people are facing off in Charlottesville ahead of a white nationalist rally planned in the Virginia city’s downtown.
  Rally supporters and counter-protesters screamed, chanted, threw punches, hurled water bottles and unleashed chemical sprays on each other Saturday morning.
  Men dressed in militia uniforms were carrying shields and openly carrying long guns. Right-wing blogger Jason Kessler planned what he called a “pro-white” rally t
  
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• Experts: Lives at risk if no sleep tests for train engineers

  12-08-2017 18:15 via krqe.com
  U.S. officials are abandoning plans to require sleep apnea screening for truck drivers and train engineers, a decision that safety experts say puts millions of lives at risk.
  The Federal Railroad Administration and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said late last week that they are no longer pursuing the regulation that would require testing for the fatigue-inducing disorder that’s been blamed for deadly rail crashes in New York City and New Jersey and several highway crashes.
  Th
  
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• Tillerson says diplomats in Havana suffered ‘health attacks’

  12-08-2017 18:05 via krqe.com
  HAVANA (AP) — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that U.S. diplomats in Havana had been the victims of “health attacks” that left them with hearing loss — the most definitive U.S. statement yet on a series of mysterious incidents that have puzzled longtime observers of U.S.-Cuban relations.
  His comments Friday came two days after the State Department issued a vaguely worded statement saying there had been “incidents which have caused a variety of physical symptom
  
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• Submarine owner detained over journalist’s disappearance

  12-08-2017 18:05 via krqe.com
  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish court ordered the owner of an amateur-built submarine Saturday to be held in pre-trial detention for 24 days while police investigate the disappearance of a Swedish journalist who had been on the ship before it sank.
  Peter Madsen was arrested Friday on preliminary manslaughter charges, hours after his 40-ton, nearly 18-meter-long (60-foot-long) submarine sank off Denmark’s eastern coast.
  He has denied responsibility for the fate of 30-year-old Kim
  
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• UK police say they arrested wrong man in jogging-rage case

  12-08-2017 18:04 via krqe.com
  LONDON (AP) — The search is still on for a road-rage jogger who shoved a woman into the path of a London bus.
  The Metropolitan Police force said Saturday that a man arrested earlier this week has now been “eliminated from the investigation.”
  The 41-year-old American investment banker was apprehended Thursday on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm.
  His lawyers later released a statement saying he wasn’t involved and could prove he was in the United States at the time
  
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• Stan Lee to make appearance at Boston Comic Con

  12-08-2017 18:04 via krqe.com
  BOSTON (AP) — Comic creator Stan Lee will make the rounds at this weekend’s Boston Comic Con.
  Lee’s Super Heroes propelled Marvel Comics to a leading position in the comic industry.
  More than 60 comic artists are expected to attend the show at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. They include John Romita Jr. of “Suicide Squad,” David Finch of “Batman,” and Mike Zeck of “The Punisher.”
  Artist Drew Struzan also will be at the show. St
  
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• Presley’s friends feel love, pain, 40 years after his death

  12-08-2017 18:04 via krqe.com
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — It isn’t just the legend of Elvis Presley that has unmatched staying power 40 years after his death. The guilt, pain and regret felt by those who knew and loved him lingers, too.
  Prolific session musician and producer Norbert Putnam was on vacation with his family in Hawaii when he heard his friend died of a heart attack. After years of making groundbreaking music and acting in more than two dozen movies, Presley’s career had slowed, and historical account
  
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• It’s not delivery. It’s DiGiorno Pizza … spilled on I-30

  12-08-2017 18:04 via krqe.com
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas highway officials shut down westbound lanes of a cross-country interstate for four hours so crews could pick up pizza.
  An 18-wheeler containing DiGiorno and Tombstone frozen pizzas scraped a bridge support and sliced open its trailer Wednesday, spilling the pies across Interstate 30 in front of the Arkansas Department of Transportation office just south of Little Rock.
  Agency spokesman Danny Straessle said the bridge suffered only cosmetic damage. He says
  
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• 91-year-old Thai woman earns bachelor’s degree

  12-08-2017 18:04 via krqe.com
  BANGKOK (AP) — A 91-year old woman in Thailand has earned a college degree after spending more than 10 years studying for it and has received her diploma from the country’s king.
  Public television broadcaster Thai PBS says Kimlan Jinakul was granted the Bachelor of Arts degree in human and family development Wednesday at the government-run Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University just outside Bangkok.
  “If we do not study, do not read, do not know, then we won’t be able to s
  
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• Lobo football Fan Photo Day set for Saturday

  12-08-2017 17:32
  
  Lobo football fans will get a chance to watch the team practice Saturday, as well as take photos with them.
  
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• House catches fire Saturday after power line falls on it

  12-08-2017 17:28
  
  Bernalillo County officials say a house in the South Valley caught fire early Saturday morning after a power line fell onto the home.
  
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• White nationalists descend on UVA for 'Unite the Right' rally

  12-08-2017 17:21
  
  Alt-right activists held torches and marched late Friday through the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville
  
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• San Francisco street sells for $90K. Neighbors aren’t happy

  12-08-2017 17:15 via krqe.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — These days, the price of a San Francisco home can easily top a million dollars. But one savvy investor has bought up a whole street in the city’s most exclusive neighborhood for a mere $90,000.
  Trouble is, some of the extremely wealthy residents of Presidio Terrace were not aware their street was up for sale and are not pleased it has been sold.
  Presidio Terrace is an oval shaped street sealed off by a gate from the tony Presidio Heights neighborhood. Lined with
  
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• ‘Yeah, if you could win spreadsheet title, that’d be great’

  12-08-2017 16:02 via krqe.com
  DUMFRIES, Va. (AP) — John Dumoulin has never really set foot in an office. He works part time at Chick-fil-a.
  But the 17-year-old from northern Virginia is the undisputed king of that bane to office workers everywhere — the spreadsheet. Dumoulin won an international competition on Microsoft Excel proficiency, earning $10,000 in prize money along the way.
  Dumoulin learned about the competition after taking an IT class at school in which he earned certifications on various office softw
  
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• Veteran attacked by man 63 years younger, but he 'wouldn't put up with that'

  12-08-2017 15:16
  
  “I don't like to give up money that easy; I had to work for it."
  
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• Homicide investigation underway in southeast Albuquerque

  12-08-2017 15:10 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque Police are investigating a homicide in southeast Albuquerque.
  They say officers were called out to a home on the 500 block of San Pablo Street near Zuni Friday around 1:30 p.m. for a shooting.
  When officers arrived they found a boy dead inside the home.
  Anyone with information about this death is asked to contact Crimestoppers.
  Filed under: Albuquerque - Metro, Home, News
  
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• Only woman in SEAL training pipeline drops out, Navy says

  12-08-2017 15:03
  
  She was in a three-week program that comes before being selected to take part in grueling SEAL basic training.
  
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• The opioid crisis is now one of 29 active national emergencies

  12-08-2017 14:54
  
  The list of national emergencies currently in effect stretches back to the Iran hostage crisis.
  
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• Pilot ejects, escapes injury as US fighter jet crash lands in Bahrain

  12-08-2017 14:31
  
  A Navy spokesman says the F-18 suffered an engine problem.
  
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• Friends 'pull a fast one,' award Vietnam vet with long-deserved medal

  12-08-2017 14:22
  
  It took 50 years, but Army Sgt. Ed Hill was finally recognized for his heroism in combat during the Vietnam War.
  
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