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• Man who ran into blaze at Burning Man festival has died

  03-09-2017 22:48
  
  A Nevada sheriff says the man who ran into the flames at the Burning Man festival's signature burning ceremony has died.
  
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• Eye On New Mexico: The NAACP in Albuquerque

  03-09-2017 22:42
  
  With political shifts on the horizon for local communities in the form of mayoral and gubernatorial races, an upcoming conference looks to ensure the voice of New Mexico’s black community is being heard.
  
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• Steely Dan co-founder, guitarist, Walter Becker dies at 67

  03-09-2017 21:25
  
  Walter Becker, the guitarist, bassist and co-founder of the rock group Steely Dan, has died.
  
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• Trump's 'fire and fury' met with defiance by Kim Jong Un

  03-09-2017 21:18
  
  North Korea has conducted a sixth nuclear test after a "man-made" tremor was detected in the country.
  
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• New drug reduces heart attacks, but is that enough?

  03-09-2017 20:46 via krqe.com
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — So-so results for a new type of cholesterol drug have left Merck in a quandary: Does the company try to bring it to market or scrap it?
  A large, long-term study of the drug showed that it prevents heart attacks and reduces the need for heart procedures, while three similar drugs developed by rivals failed. But the drug, anacetrapib, only reduced those complications by 9 percent.
  Now Merck, which has spent 13 years and likely hundreds of millions of dollars testing the
  
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• Former Army Ranger treks through Houston floodwaters to have appendectomy

  03-09-2017 19:51
  
  Former Army Ranger Matt Meloni was in Houston for what was supposed to have been cancer surgery, but then Hurricane Harvey hit.
  
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• Police arrest man that pointed gun at officers and a family

  03-09-2017 19:42
  
  Suspect was caught by a K-9 unit after hours long search
  
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• Dozens of Oregon hikers await rescue amid wildfires

  03-09-2017 19:40
  
  About 140 hikers are trapped on an Oregon trail after a wildfire broke out near the Columbia River Gorge Saturday.
  
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• 500 guardsmen board buses to help Harvey victims in Texas

  03-09-2017 19:37
  
  Packed and ready to go, almost 500 guardsmen from Oklahoma packed into six to seven white buses Saturday and headed south to help people affected by Hurricane Harvey.
  
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• Ships slowing in busy channel to protect endangered orcas

  03-09-2017 18:34 via krqe.com
  SEATTLE (AP) — Ships moving through a busy channel off Washington state’s San Juan Island are slowing down this summer as part of a study to determine whether that can reduce noise and benefit a small, endangered population of killer whales.
  The Puget Sound orcas spend summer months in a major shipping channel in the Salish Sea that is critical habitat for the whales.
  The trial, led by the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, is trying to understand whether reducing commercial vessel spe
  
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• New floods possible in west Houston amid Harvey recovery

  03-09-2017 18:34 via krqe.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities went door-to-door Sunday in parts of storm-battered Houston, warning that more flooding was coming, while a nearby city that lost its drinking water system struggled to restore service and officials kept watch on a crippled chemical plant that’s already triggered explosions.
  Nine days after Harvey ripped its way across Texas, areas of west Houston braced for more water — not from the storm but from controlled releases to relieve swollen reservoirs. Cr
  
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• Indonesian minister to raise Rohingya plight with Suu Kyi

  03-09-2017 18:34 via krqe.com
  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s president has called for an end to violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state and sent his foreign minister to discuss the plight of Rohingya Muslims with the country’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
  There is mounting concern in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, about a military crackdown against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine that has forced tens of thousands to flee into Bangladesh.
  At a press conference, President Joko &ldq
  
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• In line and in life, Harvey’s victims wait and worry

  03-09-2017 18:34 via krqe.com
  PASADENA, Texas (AP) — The line snakes on and on, along a wall inside the shopping mall, each person in search of help after a hurricane swamped their town.
  As they wait, they ruminate.
  Samantha Cusson, a 31-year-old mother of two, found out just before Harvey hit that she’s pregnant with a third. She worries about finding a doctor for checkups and wonders when the Subway shop she works at will reopen. When it finally does, she wonders who she’ll find to baby-sit her girls afte
  
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• ‘I survived’: How 1 woman lived Harvey on social media

  03-09-2017 18:34 via krqe.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — Katlyn Perkins’ first announcement that something was very wrong at her home in northeast Houston came at 8:19 p.m. on Aug. 24, when she updated her Facebook status.
  “I’m scared.”
  Like many 20-year-olds, Perkins lives out her life on social media. She often provides a running commentary on Facebook Live and YouTube videos, posting selfies and photos of her three dogs. As Hurricane Harvey lumbered toward Houston, Perkins had one eye glued to her iPhone
  
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• Houston braces for more flooding, chemical plant fires out

  03-09-2017 18:34 via krqe.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities carried out a controlled burn Sunday at a chemical plant damaged by Harvey, sending small flames and gray smoke into the sky, after saying the highly unstable compounds that had caused previous explosions needed to be neutralized.
  Small flames burning in charred structures were seen, with a limited amount of the smoke, from the Arkema plant in Crosby, outside Houston. Sam Mannan, a chemical safety expert at Texas A&M University, said the gray smoke indicated
  
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• Houston braces for more flooding, chemical plant burns anew

  03-09-2017 18:34 via krqe.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities launched a controlled burn Sunday at a chemical plant damaged by Harvey, sending small flames and gray smoke into the sky, and said the highly unstable compounds that had exploded earlier needed to be neutralized.
  Officials said the “proactive measures” to ignite the six remaining trailers at the Arkema plant in Crosby, outside Houston, wouldn’t pose any additional risk to the community. People living within a mile and a half of the site are sti
  
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• Controlled burn at chemical plant, power off in west Houston

  03-09-2017 18:34 via krqe.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities started a controlled burn Sunday of highly unstable compounds at a Houston-area chemical plant that flooded because of Harvey. Utility crews went door-to-door to shut off power and warn those still at homes in the western reaches of the metro area that more flooding was possible.
  The Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office said in a statement Sunday the decision was made to take “proactive measures” to ignite the remaining trailers at the Arkema pla
  
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• Record-breaking Astronaut Peggy Whitson returns to Earth

  03-09-2017 18:33 via krqe.com
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronaut Peggy Whitson returned to Earth late Saturday, wrapping up a record-breaking flight that catapulted her to first place for U.S. space endurance.
  Whitson’s 665 days off the planet — 288 days on this mission alone — exceeds that of any other American and any other woman worldwide.
  She checked out of the International Space Station just hours earlier, along with another American and a Russian. Their Soyuz capsule landed in Kazakhstan sho
  
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• More Rohingya pour into Bangladesh; camps at full capacity

  03-09-2017 18:32 via krqe.com
  SHAH PORIR DWIP, Bangladesh (AP) — Aid officials said relief camps were reaching full capacity as thousands of Rohingya refugees continued to pour into Bangladesh on Sunday fleeing violence in western Myanmar.
  Some 73,000 people have crossed the border since violence erupted Aug. 25 in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, said U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees spokeswoman Vivian Tan.
  The violence and the exodus began after Rohingya insurgents attacked Myanmar police and paramilitary posts in w
  
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• Italy police nab refugee as last suspect in beach gang rape

  03-09-2017 18:32 via krqe.com
  ROME (AP) — A Congolese asylum-hopeful with permission to stay in Italy for humanitarian reasons was nabbed aboard a train by police early Sunday as the last of a gang of four young males suspected of raping a Polish tourist on a beach, beating her companion unconscious and raping a Peruvian woman barely an hour later in the same Italian resort town of Rimini, authorities said.
  The man, identified as Guerlin Butungu, 20, was the only adult among the four suspects under arrest in the brutal
  
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• Man leads search efforts for Harvey victims from 1,000 miles away

  03-09-2017 18:31
  
  Brad Blanton helps dispatch rescues in Texas from his home in Wisconsin, often working up to 12 hours a day.
  
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• NYC tries fencing in often-violent Caribbean celebration

  03-09-2017 17:46 via krqe.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Before sunrise Monday, tens of thousands of costumed, paint-slathered revelers will gather on the streets of Brooklyn for a joyous Caribbean celebration rooted in emancipation.
  This year, though, they’ll be doing it behind police barricades and metal detectors.
  Brooklyn’s version of the Caribbean carnival, called J’ouvert, has been held for decades in the pre-dawn darkness on Labor Day, but there was serious talk of canceling the party this year because of
  
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• Kenya opposition leader refuses to share power

  03-09-2017 17:46 via krqe.com
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga said Sunday he will not share power, speaking days after the Supreme Court’s decision to annul President Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election and order a fresh presidential election in 60 days.
  Odinga, speaking at a church service in Nairobi Sunday, said his party cannot accept to share power with “thieves.”
  President Uhuru Kenyatta similarly ruled out sharing power when addressing elected members of county
  
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• Trump raises stakes in escalating North Koreans nuke crisis

  03-09-2017 17:38 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump raised the stakes Sunday in an escalating crisis over North Korea’s nuclear threats, suggesting drastic economic measures against China and criticizing ally South Korea as he convened his national security team to consider the North’s latest provocation: its most powerful nuclear test.
  North Korea claimed “perfect success” in an underground test of what it called a hydrogen bomb — potentially vastly more destructive tha
  
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• Trump, asked if he’d attack North Korea, says: ‘We’ll see’

  03-09-2017 17:38 via krqe.com
  TOKYO (AP) — North Korea on Sunday claimed a “perfect success” for its most powerful nuclear test so far, a further step in the development of weapons capable of striking anywhere in the United States. President Donald Trump, asked if he would attack the North, said, “We’ll see.”
  The latest provocation from the isolated communist country reinforces the danger facing America, Trump had said earlier in a series of tweets, adding that “talk of appeasement&r
  
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• Mattis: NKorea threat would bring massive military response

  03-09-2017 17:38 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Sunday shot back at North Korea’s claimed test of a hydrogen bomb with a blunt threat, saying the U.S. will answer any threat from the North with a “massive military response — a response both effective and overwhelming.” Earlier, President Donald Trump threatened to halt all trade with countries doing business with the North, a veiled warning to China, and faulted South Korea for its “talk of appeasement.&rdqu
  
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• Enthusiastic Trump meets with storm victims

  03-09-2017 17:38 via krqe.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — President Donald Trump cupped a boy’s face in his hands and then gave him a high-five. He snapped on latex gloves to hand out boxed lunches of hot dogs and potato chips. And he loaded relief supplies into vehicles, patted storm victims on the shoulder and declared the work “good exercise.”
  An upbeat and optimistic president visited with victims of Harvey on Saturday, touring a Houston mega-shelter housing hundreds of displaced people and briefly walking str
  
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• These foods are more likely to make you sick

  03-09-2017 17:27
  
  Studies show that one out of every six Americans gets food poisoning from contaminated foods.
  
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• Recall Rundown: Everything pulled from shelves Aug. 27 to Sep. 2

  03-09-2017 17:16
  
  Did you miss any of these recalls last week?
  
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• Mnuchin putting together new sanctions to cut off trade with North Korea

  03-09-2017 17:06
  
  North Korea has conducted a sixth nuclear test after a "man-made" tremor was detected in the country's north
  
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• Police ask for help finding missing 29-year-old man

  03-09-2017 16:18 via krqe.com
  LOS LUNAS,  N.M. (KRQE)  – The Los Lunas  Police Department has issued a New Mexico Brittany Alert. It is asking for the public’s help finding a missing man.
  Police say Danny Casares, 29, was last seen Saturday at a Los Lunas home on Longbow Loop and may have walked away just after noon.
  He was last seen wearing blue jeans, a red t-shirt, and a Raiders hat.
  Officers describe Casares as a Hispanic man, 5 feet 3 inches tall, 100 lbs, with black hair (
  
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• Popular TV cable company impacted by data breach of up to 4 million personal records

  03-09-2017 16:00
  
  Do you use this popular cable and internet service provider? It may be time to change your password.
  
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• Pet of the week: Peanut

  03-09-2017 15:29
  
  Pet of the week: Peanut
  
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• Trump says North Korea's 'words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous' to US

  03-09-2017 15:01
  
  North Korea has conducted a sixth nuclear test after a "man-made" tremor was detected in the country's north
  
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• J.J. Watt raises more than $17 million for Harvey victims

  03-09-2017 14:53
  
  J.J. Watt's initial goal was $200,000. Now, the 28-year-old defensive end has raised more than $17 million.
  
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• Texas on long road to recovery following Harvey's destruction

  03-09-2017 14:14
  
  The soggy and battered city of Houston began burying its dead and taking steps toward the long recovery ahead.
  
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• Fires force 140 Oregon hikers to shelter overnight

  03-09-2017 12:56
  
  About 140 hikers are trapped on an Oregon trail after a wildfire broke out near the Columbia River Gorge Saturday.
  
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• Hurricane Irma expected to strengthen in coming days

  03-09-2017 11:58
  
  Hurricane Irma had returned to Category 3 status Sunday morning, moving west-southwest at 15 mph
  
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• Firefighter finds fiancee's wedding dress unharmed inside flooded home

  03-09-2017 11:55
  
  "The one thing that was supposed to make it." A Texas firefighter returned to his flooded home to find his fiancee's wedding dress untouched, just inches away from the water.
  
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• North Korea conducts 6th nuclear test, says it was H-bomb

  03-09-2017 11:16
  
  North Korea has conducted a sixth nuclear test after a "man-made" tremor was detected in the country's north
  
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• Instagram hackers are selling user emails and phone numbers

  03-09-2017 10:17
  
  It appears the bug was exploited before Instagram's fix, and affected more than the most high-profile accounts
  
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• FBI: Woman who reported being kidnapped at rest stop killed herself

  03-09-2017 09:47
  
  A woman who reported being kidnapped at a Montana rest stop and was found dead in the trunk of her car in Washington, killed herself, the FBI announced this week
  
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• Brother-sister twins prepare to celebrate 101st birthday

  03-09-2017 09:04
  
  “As far as we know they are the oldest living brother-sister twins in the United States."
  
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• North Korea confirms tremor was nuclear test

  03-09-2017 08:59
  
  North Korea has conducted a sixth nuclear test after a "man-made" tremor was detected in the country's north
  
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• Woman accused of leaving baby for dead gets probation

  03-09-2017 08:28
  
  An Iowa woman accused of leaving her newborn for dead in a trash can has been sentenced to probation
  
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• High School Football Saturday Round Up

  03-09-2017 07:16 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE N.M. (KRQE)- Week 2 wrapped up in High School Football on Saturday. The Metro played host to multiple games on Saturday. Here are the scores:
  Centennial-21 Manzano-42
  Las Cruces-56 Cibola-19
  Tucumcari-39 Abq. Academy-23
  Miyamura-38 Rio Grande-13
  Taso-27 Hope Christian-14
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• UNM Wins Their season opener over ACU 38-14

  03-09-2017 07:13 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE N.M. (KRQE)- It was a rocky start for UNM, but they would finish strong. UNM betters to 1-0 with a season opening victory over Abilene Christian 38-14.
  The Lobos had their opening drive stuffed at the 1 yard line, as Richard McCorley could not get the punch in. The Wildcats would then follow that big stop on their goal line with a touchdown pass to make it 7-0 in the 1st qtr. The Lobos would answer though in the 1st, as they showcased their passing game with Delane Hart-Johnson being
  
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• Local bars gearing up for more traffic thanks to college football

  03-09-2017 06:45 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – College football is in full swing and as the season kicks off and local bars are expecting some bigger crowds.
  The Lobos wrapped up their first game of the season against Abilene Christian Saturday night. However, the college football spirit is ramping up across the state and some local fans have their roots in other places.
  George Magana came to Spectators to cheer on the USC Trojans. He was pleasantly surprised to see his teams colors in the crowd.
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• On eve of wedding, couple’s venue suddenly shuts down

  03-09-2017 06:43 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s a day that takes a lot of preparation, but brings so much excitement – a wedding day. But this Saturday night, a bride and her soon-to-be husband are confused to the point of tears on the eve of their big day.
  On Thursday, a couple found out “Romanza Falls,” an events center and their venue was shut down by the City.
  They say they never got a call from owner and instead were forced to find a red notice on the venue’s doors.
  
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• Hurricane Ike survivor to bring donations to Houston

  03-09-2017 06:43
  
  With his truck all packed up, Forrest Brandenburg is ready to drive to Houston and give back to his hometown.
  
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