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• Hundreds of volunteers build memorial park to honor Las Vegas shooting victims

  07-10-2017 23:15
  
  "In times like this, we do need to come together as a community and show that's not going to stop us.."
  
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• Hurricane Nate remains Category 1, expected to make landfall soon

  07-10-2017 23:03
  
  Hurricane Nate is nearing the mouth of the Mississippi River.
  
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• Farm uses corn maze to share a special message with kids

  07-10-2017 22:51
  
  “I believe that the environment you’re in and what you’re exposed to can really teach people a message, and we do have a lot of school tours out here each year, so we just kind of like having kids read them and just get the message to them."
  
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• Facebook begins ‘human review’ of potentially sensitive ads

  07-10-2017 22:22 via krqe.com
  Facebook says it will begin manually reviewing advertisements that target certain groups and address politics, religion, ethnicity and social issues.
  The company has informed some advertisers about the new “human review” requirement, warning them that it might cause delays before their ads can appear on the social media platform.
  Facebook has had to apologize amid recent revelations of rampant abuse of its automated advertising process to broadcast false news or promote divisive and
  
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• Police: Car crash in London is traffic accident, not terror

  07-10-2017 21:50 via krqe.com
  LONDON (AP) — A car crash that injured 11 people outside a major London tourist attraction Saturday sparked fears of a terrorist attack but turned out to be simply a traffic accident, London police said.
  The accident at 2:20 p.m. outside the popular Natural History Museum in the heart of central London brought a gigantic police response, including helicopters and hazardous area response teams, because of terrorist concerns.
  Police said 11 people were injured when a car apparently mounted t
  
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• Dog that can sniff out child porn has 'highly skilled nose' for crime

  07-10-2017 21:40
  
  A black Labrador retriever named Reptar is one of only approximately 50 dogs in the world with his particular abilities.
  
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• NM Football Friday Night Week 8

  07-10-2017 21:36 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.(KRQE) -Week 7 of High School Football had some big games across the state of New Mexico. Manzano and La Cueva was featured as this week’s game of the week, but Van also has a look from the games down south in Las Cruces, as well as here in the Metro with PV and Cibola. Artesia and Goddard are also highlighted in this first block of the show, with the La Cueva Bears finishing things off as this week’s Cheerleaders of the Week.NM Football Friday Night Week 8 Pt. 2
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• Clovis Police investigating fatal motorcycle crash

  07-10-2017 21:27 via krqe.com
  CLOVIS, N.M. (KRQE) – Clovis police are investigating a fatal motorcycle crash that occurred early Saturday morning.
  Around 4:03 a.m. Saturday, police responded to an intersection of Manana and Apache and found a heavily damaged motorcycle and driver laying in the road.
  The driver was identified as 50-year-old Tyler Chitwood. He sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced deceased at the scene.
  This investigation is ongoing. KRQE News 13 will provide updates as they become available.
   
  
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• Hotel manager planned to use bedbugs to sabotage competitor, prosecutors say

  07-10-2017 20:58
  
  The Wisconsin man was planning to hire a homeless man to pull off his plan.
  
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• Suspect still at large after allegedly shooting clerk in NW ABQ

  07-10-2017 20:44
  
  The Friday night shooting happened at a Chevron gas station, where a clerk was shot in the groin.
  
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• Trump hits back against 'unfunny' late night shows

  07-10-2017 20:27
  
  The president suggested “more and more people” are clamoring for more coverage of Republicans.
  
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• Will your job be automated? 70 percent of Americans say no

  07-10-2017 20:24 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans believe their jobs are safe from the spread of automation and robotics, at least during their lifetimes, and only a handful says automation has cost them a job or loss of income.
  Still, a survey by the Pew Research Center also found widespread anxiety about the general impact of technological change. Three-quarters of Americans say it is at least “somewhat realistic” that robots and computers will eventually perform most of the jobs currently do
  
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• Solar energy is fastest growing source of power

  07-10-2017 19:51 via krqe.com
  PARIS (AP) — A report shows that solar energy was the fastest-growing source of power last year, accounting for almost two-thirds of net new capacity globally.
  The International Energy Agency said Wednesday that the rise was due to a boom in photovoltaic panel installations, particularly in China, thanks to a drop in costs and greater support from governments.
  It is the first time that solar energy growth surpasses any other fuel as a source of power. Coal in particular had continued to gr
  
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• Life changes in a flash, other mass shootings survivors say

  07-10-2017 19:36 via krqe.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — Every time there’s a mass shooting, Adrian Littlefield relives the one that nearly killed him half a century ago when a sniper perched high in a tower fired down on a Texas college campus. There have been dozens of rampages since then, each one a reminder of how his life was forever changed by a stranger hell-bent on mayhem.
  “I still get frightened when those things happen,” said Littlefield, now a 70-year-old preacher living in East Texas. “It stirs
  
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• What you need to know about Hurricane Nate

  07-10-2017 19:24
  
  The latest storm to hit the US will have a wide impact on the eastern part of the country.
  
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• London police: 11 injured after car drives into crowd; incident not terror-related

  07-10-2017 19:13
  
  None of the injuries are believed to be life-threatening.
  
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• A photo gallery of an amazing start to the Balloon Fiesta

  07-10-2017 19:12 via krqe.com
  Saturday balloons filled the New Mexico sky for the first day of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Photo gallery of an amazing start to Balloon FiestaFiled under: Albuquerque - Metro, Home, News, Photo Galleries Tagged: Balloon Fiesta Photo Galleries, Post Redirect
  
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• Rapper Nelly arrested after rape accusation

  07-10-2017 18:57
  
  Police have arrested rapper Nelly after a woman said he raped her in a town outside Seattle, an accusation the Grammy winner's attorney staunchly denies.
  
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• Rapper Nelly arrested on rape accusation

  07-10-2017 18:43
  
  Police have arrested rapper Nelly after a woman said he raped her in a town outside Seattle, an accusation the Grammy winner's attorney staunchly denies.
  
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• Hurricane Nate strengthening, expected to be Category 2 at US landfall

  07-10-2017 18:18
  
  The storm should begin lashing the northern Gulf Coast late Saturday before making landfall near New Orleans.
  
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• Hurricane Nate claims lives in Central America, heads for New Orleans

  07-10-2017 18:16
  
  Preparations for Hurricane Nate are being made along America’s south-eastern coast.
  
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• PREPARE NOW: Hurricane Nate Hours From U.S. Impact

  07-10-2017 18:15
  
  Meteorologist Orelon Sidney takes a look at the latest track as Hurricane Nate is making it's way toward the Gulf Coast.
  
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• Murdoch’s UK firm pays damages to ex-spy in hacking scandal

  07-10-2017 18:07 via krqe.com
  LONDON (AP) — Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper company has agreed to pay damages to a former intelligence officer whose computer was hacked by detectives working for Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World tabloid, lawyers said Friday.
  Ian Hurst, who ran agents inside the IRA in Northern Ireland in the 1980s, sued Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers after learning from a BBC news report in 2011 that his emails had been hacked.
  Hurst’s lawyer, Jeremy Reed, said at the
  
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• Issue of race is again a focus in ex-cop’s 4th murder trial

  07-10-2017 18:07 via krqe.com
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Three hung juries in the case of a white former Oklahoma police officer charged with fatally shooting his daughter’s black boyfriend had one thing in common besides unwillingness to convict: Each had only one African-American juror.
  Race has been an undercurrent in ex-Tulsa officer Shannon Kepler’s first-degree murder case, which is headed for a fourth trial. Criminal law experts and U.S. Supreme Court cases point to the importance of racial identity and pol
  
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• ‘He was raised right’: Vegas victims remembered

  07-10-2017 18:07 via krqe.com
  It’s been nearly a week since hundreds of people lost their mothers, their fathers, their brothers, sisters, husbands, wives and friends.
  But it’s only the beginning of grief for the families and friends mourning the lives of the 58 Americans and Canadians who died when a gunman opened fire at a Las Vegas country concert Sunday night.
  The victims were country music enthusiasts, loving parents, friends who always knew how to turn someone’s day around. Their loved ones are honori
  
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• Have wife will carry: Couples vie in wife-carrying contest

  07-10-2017 18:07 via krqe.com
  NEWRY, Maine (AP) — Dozens of participants are vying for cash — and beer — in the North American Wife Carrying Championship.
  More than 60 couples are registered, and more are on a waiting list, for the annual event Saturday at the Sunday River in Maine.
  Contestants carry their partners on their backs on a 278-yard (254-meter) alpine obstacle course. They’re competing for the partner’s weight in beer and five times her weight in cash.
  The legend behind the event is b
  
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• Trump reaches out to Democrats in bid for ‘great’ health law

  07-10-2017 18:01
  
  Democrats are willing to hear his ideas, but scrapping the Obamacare is a nonstarter.
  
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• PHOTOS: Damage from Hurricane Nate

  07-10-2017 18:00
  
  Hurricane Nate formed this week in the Caribbean Sea. The storm took aim at Costa Rica as a tropical storm and is now headed toward the United States.
  
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• TIME-LAPSE: Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta kicks off

  07-10-2017 17:56
  
  Watch live coverage of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.
  
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• Google vies to make even smarter phones, speakers, cameras

  07-10-2017 17:54 via krqe.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google’s upgrades to its Pixel smartphones and other gadgets are its latest steps toward turning its digital services into your backup brain.
  The products the company unveiled on Wednesday are packed with artificial intelligence that Google has accumulated from those very same services. The company’s widely used search engine, Gmail, maps, Chrome web browser and other services have yielded a fountain of data the company has used to smarten up its software a
  
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• TIMELAPSE: Balloon Fiesta Day 1

  07-10-2017 17:33
  
  Watch Day 1 of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.
  
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• For many hotels, terror risks make tight security routine

  07-10-2017 17:33 via krqe.com
  HONG KONG (AP) — Across the globe, risks of extremist attacks and other violence have made tight security at hotels and resorts routine, even in countries where strict gun control laws may help prevent the kind of shooting attack that occurred Sunday night in Las Vegas.
  Security varies widely from place to place: in many cities luxury hotels have entrances that open straight into shopping malls. Hotel lobbies often serve as a refuge from noisy, chaotic city streets, and are generally easil
  
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• Fabian Gonzales' cell phone could contain new info in Martens' case

  07-10-2017 16:49
  
  Relative of suspects in Victoria Martens’ case turns in electric devices to authorities
  
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• 'Unaccompanied' Air Force vet gets the funeral he deserved

  07-10-2017 16:45
  
  "I never want to see a soldier or any service member buried without words being said over his grave."
  
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• Police: Man detained, multiple injuries after vehicle runs into crowd near London museum

  07-10-2017 16:28
  
  There are reports of minor injuries and police have blocked off the scene.
  
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• Welcome to Vegas: Billboards ask for tips on gunman’s motive

  07-10-2017 16:14 via krqe.com
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tourists coming to gamble and party on the Strip will soon find something other than bright lights welcoming them to “Fabulous Las Vegas.”
  Billboards will serve as a stark reminder that investigators remain stumped about what drove a gunman to mow down concertgoers from a perch in a high-rise casino hotel last Sunday.
  “We still do not have a clear motive or reason why,” a frustrated Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill said Friday. “We hav
  
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• The Latest: Tropical storm warning issued for Alabama

  07-10-2017 16:14 via krqe.com
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on Hurricane Nate (all times local):
  12:20 p.m.
  The National Weather Service is placing much of Alabama under a tropical storm warning.
  Forecasters said Saturday that Hurricane Nate could bring wind gusts of up to 60 mph (95 kph) across much of the central part of the state, which includes Birmingham, the state’s largest city.
  The storm is expected to down trees and cause significant power outages. Isolated tornadoes were also possible Sunday afternoon.
  
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• The Latest: Oil platforms shut as storm churns through Gulf

  07-10-2017 16:14 via krqe.com
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on Hurricane Nate (all times local):
  1:45 p.m.
  More than 40 percent of manned oil- and gas-producing platforms in the Gulf of Mexico have been evacuated, according to an update from the Interior Department, as Hurricane Nate churns toward the U.S. mainland.
  The Department said Saturday that workers were evacuated from 312 of the 737 manned platforms in the Gulf.
  Crews also have been taken off 13 of 20 manned drilling rigs and other rigs have been moved out of
  
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• The Latest: Nate moves closer to Mississippi coast

  07-10-2017 16:14 via krqe.com
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on Hurricane Nate (all times local):
  10 p.m.
  Hurricane Nate is moving closer to the Mississippi coast and is expected to come ashore near Biloxi with winds of about 85 mph (137 kph).
  The National Hurricane Center said Nate was about 35 miles (56 kilometers) south of Biloxi. Forecasters say it will make landfall within the next hour or two. After that, the center of the storm will move across the Deep South, Tennessee Valley and central Appalachian Mountains th
  
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• The Latest: Nate makes landfall near mouth of Mississippi

  07-10-2017 16:14 via krqe.com
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on Hurricane Nate (all times local):
  7 p.m.
  Hurricane Nate has made landfall at the mouth of the Mississippi River as a Category 1 storm with winds of 85 mph (137 kph).
  The National Hurricane Center said Saturday night that Nate is expected to make a second landfall along the coast of Mississippi on Saturday night and then pass over parts of Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee.
  The storm has weakened slightly and is moving north a little slower at 20 mph (32 kp
  
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• The Latest: Hurricane Nate heads to mouth of Mississippi

  07-10-2017 16:14 via krqe.com
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on Hurricane Nate (all times local):
  4:30 p.m.
  The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Hurricane Nate is about 50 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River at Louisiana’s southeastern tip. The storm is moving north-northwest toward the Gulf Coast at an unusually fast 23 mph (37 kph).
  With maximum sustained winds of 90 mph (150 kph), Nate had not gained strength as of the center’s 4 p.m. advisory. But forecasters said it might still reac
  
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• The Latest: Hurricane Nate gains strength over central Gulf

  07-10-2017 16:14 via krqe.com
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Latest on Hurricane Nate (all times local):
  8 a.m.
  Hurricane Nate has gotten a little stronger as it races across the central Gulf of Mexico.
  The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Nate is moving toward the north-northwest at about 22 mph (35 kph) and the core of the hurricane is expected to make landfall Saturday night on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
  The center says a hurricane hunter aircraft found maximum sustained winds in the Category 1 storm have risen to nea
  
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• The Latest: Governors implore residents to brace for storm

  07-10-2017 16:14 via krqe.com
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on Hurricane Nate (all times local):
  1 p.m.
  Governors in Louisiana and Florida are urging residents to make final preparations for Hurricane Nate’s impending arrival.
  In Louisiana, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Saturday that people in the southeastern part of the state should hunker down by 3 p.m.
  He says the storm’s eye is expected to make landfall about four hours later, likely bringing limited rain but powerful storm surges and strong winds.
  The st
  
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• In Vegas, Pence praises US resolve to find hope after horror

  07-10-2017 16:14 via krqe.com
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence praised the heroic response by police and the resolve of the American people at a prayer service Saturday in Las Vegas before organizers released 58 white doves in memory of each victim killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
  At the same time, federal agents started hauling away piles of backpacks, baby strollers and lawn chairs left behind by fleeing concertgoers who scrambled to escape raining bullets from a gunman who was
  
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• FBI begins removing belongings left after Las Vegas shooting

  07-10-2017 16:14 via krqe.com
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nearly a week after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, federal agents on Saturday started hauling away the piles of backpacks, purses, baby strollers and lawn chairs left behind when frantic concert-goers scrambled to escape raining bullets from a gunman who was shooting from his high-rise hotel suite.
  FBI agents fanned out across the crime scene near the Las Vegas Strip throughout the week stacking the belongings left from last Sunday’s shooting int
  
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• Rome with a view: Colosseum opens its top levels to public

  07-10-2017 15:44 via krqe.com
  ROME (AP) — Visitors to the Colosseum can now enjoy even more of the ancient amphitheater and the spectacular views it offers of Rome.
  Officials on Tuesday showed off the newly restored fourth and fifth levels of the Colosseum, which are opening to the public for guided tours starting Nov. 1. Included in the visit is a connecting hallway that has never before been open to tourists.
  Italian Culture Minister Dario Francheschini was on hand Tuesday to visit the new levels, which during ancien
  
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• Rainfall from Hurricane Nate could reach 100 million people

  07-10-2017 15:42
  
  Much of the eastern U.S. will be impacted by Nate in one way or another.
  
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• Hurricane Nate intensifying over Gulf of Mexico on its push to US

  07-10-2017 15:21
  
  The storm should begin lashing the northern Gulf Coast late Saturday before making landfall near New Orleans.
  
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• Woman shot in Las Vegas suffering flashbacks and PTSD, mother says

  07-10-2017 15:03
  
  Shelby Perry's story, however, contains an act of heroism.
  
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• WATCH LIVE: Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta kicks off

  07-10-2017 14:49
  
  Watch live coverage of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.
  
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