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• 'Ghosts' caught on camera at the hotel that inspired 'The Shining'

  11-10-2017 23:47
  
  What do you think, phantom or fake?
  
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• Luxury goods company Coach changing its name

  11-10-2017 23:35
  
  Luxury handbag and accessories maker Coach shakes it up, changes its corporate name.
  
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• Supreme Court denies petition for help from public defenders

  11-10-2017 23:22 via krqe.com
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Supreme Court says it will not intervene on behalf of public defenders who say they are overwhelmed by cases from poor defendants.
  Court officials on Wednesday confirmed the Supreme Court’s unanimous denial of a petition for relief from the state’s chief public defender.
  The Law Offices of the Public Defender has said its attorneys in various parts of the state are wrongfully being forced to take on more cases than they can handle without ne
  
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• District attorney drops charges against protest leader

  11-10-2017 23:19 via krqe.com
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped felony and misdemeanor charges against a California woman accused of striking two Santa Fe police officers with a cardboard sign while protesting a re-enactment of Spanish conquistadors reclaiming the city from Pueblo Indians.
  The Santa Fe New Mexican reports Jennifer Marley’s attorney says the charges were dropped on the eve of a hearing scheduled for Wednesday, at which prosecutors would have had to detail evidence against Marley and t
  
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• Trump nominates Kirstjen Nielsen as DHS secretary

  11-10-2017 23:16
  
  Nielsen previously worked as John Kelly's chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security and then followed him into the White House
  
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• Bus driver accused of sending sexual texts to student

  11-10-2017 23:08
  
  A school bus driver was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of exchanging inappropriate texts with a 15-year-old student.
  
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• Get lost mom and dad! Amazon lets teens shop on their own

  11-10-2017 23:07 via krqe.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Remember when your parents first let you shop at the mall by yourself? Amazon is trying to replicate that feeling for the digital generation.
  The online retail giant said Wednesday that teens can now shop at Amazon on their own, if their parents let them. Adults can add up to four teenagers to their account, giving youngsters their own login information to buy stuff through the Amazon app. Parents can set spending limits, cancel orders and get
  
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• 10th hurricane of 2017 season forms in Atlantic

  11-10-2017 23:01
  
  Hurricane Ophelia formed Wednesday in the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
  
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• Trump turns back to tax overhaul; pitch aimed at truckers

  11-10-2017 22:53 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — After days dominated by friction with his secretary of state and a Republican senator, President Donald Trump is trying to refocus on his top legislative priority, using a Pennsylvania visit to pitch his tax overhaul as a boon for truckers.
  Trump speech in Harrisburg was to be set against a backdrop of big rigs, with lots of truckers in attendance, according to the White House. The president has been traveling the country to promote a plan that wo
  
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• Hundreds missing amid California fires; loved ones go online

  11-10-2017 22:46 via krqe.com
  SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — Friends and relatives desperately checked hospitals and shelters and pleaded on social media for help finding loved ones missing amid California’s wildfires, with hundreds of people unaccounted for Wednesday.
  Robert Tunis picked through the debris where his mother’s house once stood at Journey’s End mobile home park in Santa Rosa, searching for clues to what happened to her. Linda Tunis, 69, talked to her daughter from her burning home on Monday,
  
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• Records: Sex offender granted joint legal custody of child

  11-10-2017 22:36 via krqe.com
  DETROIT (AP) — A judge on Tuesday put an order on hold that granted a convicted sex offender joint legal custody of a child born to a woman who said the man raped her, and she became pregnant, when she was 12.
  Sanilac County prosecutors said the case started when the now-21-year-old mother requested state assistance this summer for her 8-year-old son. As a condition of receiving that financial assistance, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services required her to cooperate with p
  
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• An incredibly rare Leonardo Da Vinci painting has been found

  11-10-2017 22:21
  
  The story behind this work of art is fascinating.
  
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• Trump pledges $1 million to Las Vegas law enforcement

  11-10-2017 22:12
  
  The president announced the award on Twitter saying he wanted to help local law enforcement who worked overtime to respond to the Oct. 1 mass shooting
  
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• Lawsuit filed as new questions raised over Las Vegas shooting timeline

  11-10-2017 22:00
  
  A college student claims the hotel owners, concert promoter and bump stock manufacturers were all liable in the mass shooting.
  
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• Tamagotchis are officially making a comeback

  11-10-2017 21:42
  
  Try to remember to feed them this time!
  
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• 'Networking issue' knocks out Facebook, Instagram for brief period

  11-10-2017 21:40
  
  A widespread Facebook and Instagram outage is being reported by users in the U.S. and elsewhere.
  
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• Trump criticizes news, questions First Amendment rights

  11-10-2017 21:28
  
  President Donald Trump questioned the accuracy of news reports about his intentions with the country’s nuclear arsenal while challenging news outlets’ rights under the First Amendment.
  
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• Death toll rises, relentless wildfires grow in Northern California

  11-10-2017 21:26
  
  "Make no mistake: This is a serious, critical, catastrophic event," a state fire official said.
  
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• Andy Cohen to replace Kathy Griffin on CNN's New Year's Eve show

  11-10-2017 21:23
  
  CNN has found a new co-host to ring in the New Year alongside Anderson Cooper
  
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• Ghost pizza bagels are the spooktacular treat for any Halloween party

  11-10-2017 21:17
  
  These frightfully flavorful ghost pizza bagels are a scary-good way to celebrate the Halloween season.
  
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• Mom, daughter battle breast cancer together

  11-10-2017 21:09
  
  Genetics plays an important role when it comes to breast cancer, especially as doctors learn more about the BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 genes. But for one mother and daughter duo, their battles with breast cancer are a bit more unusual.
  
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• Thanksgiving arsonist pleads guilty

  11-10-2017 21:04
  
  The man accused of setting a string of destructive fires during the Thanksgiving season last year pleaded guilty in federal court.
  
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• Three APS schools to benefit from $7.8 million grant

  11-10-2017 20:47 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Some Albuquerque Public School students got a new lab to mold the engineers of the future.
  Wednesday APS announced a $7.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to build new labs at Mission Avenue Elementary, Garfield Middle and Valley High School.
  The labs will allow students to learn about science, technology, engineering and math.
  Students can also stay in the program from the time they enter school until they graduate.
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• Federal grant to expand STEM education for Albuquerque students

  11-10-2017 20:47 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A federal grant is about to help better prepare Albuquerque students for careers in science, technology, engineering and math.
  Nearly $8 million will go towards expanding STEM education with new labs at Mission Avenue Elementary, Garfield Middle and Valley High School.
  APS says it’s part of the district’s push to create more magnet schools, catered to students’ particular goals.
  “It is capturing what out students want and then offering it
  
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• Man admits to starting series of fires including at Old Navy, The Carlisle, several Starbucks

  11-10-2017 20:42 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The man who firebombed an Albuquerque Old Navy store last year admitted to it Wednesday and to a series of other fires.
  David Hickman pleaded guilty to five counts of damaging or destroying a building with explosives Wednesday morning but admitted to a total of nine fires.
  The fires happened last November right around Thanksgiving.
  An officer saw Hickman running from the Old Navy on I-40 and San Mateo just before it erupted into flames.
  When Hickman was
  
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• Man admits to setting nine fires in Albuquerque, faces up to 20 years

  11-10-2017 20:42 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The man who firebombed an Albuquerque Old Navy store last year admitted to it Wednesday, along with eight other fires set around the same time.
  Wednesday morning in Federal Court, David Hickman pleaded guilty to five counts of damaging or destroying a building with explosives, but admitted to a total of nine arsons or attempted arsons.
  The fires happened last November right around Thanksgiving between November 16 and November 26.
  Hickman admitted to tar
  
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• Relentless wildfires grow in Northern California as officials deal with 'pure devastation'

  11-10-2017 20:40
  
  The wildfires already rank among the deadliest in state history, and officials expected the death toll to increase as the scope of destruction becomes clear.
  
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• Trump expected to name Kelly deputy as DHS secretary, sources say

  11-10-2017 20:39
  
  Kirstjen Nielsen "would have far more knowledge than any secretary entering that job," a source said.
  
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• Serial arsonist pleads guilty in federal court

  11-10-2017 20:37
  
  An Albuquerque man accused of setting a series of fires around Thanksgiving last year pleaded guilty Wednesday.
  
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• Google admits its new smart speaker was eavesdropping on users

  11-10-2017 20:37
  
  "My Google Home Mini was inadvertently spying on me 24/7 due to a hardware flaw," tech blogger says.
  
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• Former Tucumcari fire chief accused of drugging, raping woman

  11-10-2017 20:34 via krqe.com
  TUCUMCARI, N.M. (KRQE)- Tucumcari’s now former fire chief is behind bars. He is accused of drugging and raping a woman.
  The Eastern New Mexico News says Shane Warner is accused of giving drugs to control nausea to a female employee at a fire station back in March.
  The woman told police she passed out and Warner drove her home. The next day she went to the hospital and was given a sexual assault exam.
  The report says the test later showed a sedative was in her system.
  Warner was f
  
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• This location featured on 'Game of Thrones' just had to ban cars

  11-10-2017 20:33
  
  Fans of the show have been flocking to the famous road, known as the Dark Hedges.
  
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• Man accused of killing man then dumping body pleads guilty

  11-10-2017 20:26 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – One of the three accused of killing a man then dumping his body near Wyoming and Academy last year pleaded guilty Wednesday.
  Dakota Cook pleads to second-degree murder and armed robbery.
  Cook admitted he helped kill 46-year-old Larry Sanchez last June.
  His alleged accomplices were Joe Newsom and Antoinette Martinez.
  Cook will serve 15 years in prison as part of the deal.
  Filed under: Albuquerque - Metro, Home, News
  
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• Trump returns to tax overhaul; appeal geared toward truckers

  11-10-2017 20:25
  
  President Donald Trump is turning his attention back to overhauling the U.S. tax system, and he's trying to make the case that it'll offer big benefits for truckers.
  
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• Facebook, Instagram outage reported

  11-10-2017 20:19
  
  A widespread Facebook and Instagram outage is being reported by users in the U.S. and elsewhere.
  
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• New moms overdose in SUV with babies onboard

  11-10-2017 20:18
  
  Two Florida mothers overdosed in an SUV while both of their babies were in the back seat.
  
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• 5 natural ways to stop snoring

  11-10-2017 20:17
  
  No one wants to sound like — or sleep next to — a snorchestra.
  
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• Boy Scouts to admit girls into Cub Scouts program, offer path to Eagle Scout

  11-10-2017 20:07
  
  The organization will expand programming to include girls into the Cub Scout program and give them a path to Eagle Scout.
  
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• In historic change, Boy Scouts to let girls in some programs

  11-10-2017 19:59 via krqe.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Embracing a historic change, the Boy Scouts of America announced Wednesday plans to admit girls into the Cub Scouts starting next year and to establish a new program for older girls using the same curriculum as the Boy Scouts.
  Under the plan, Cub Scout dens — the smallest unit — will be single-gender, either all-boys or all-girls. The larger Cub Scout packs will have the option to remain single gender or wel
  
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• Veteran who lost both legs running a marathon every day for a month

  11-10-2017 19:50
  
  Rob Jones lost both legs due to an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan.
  
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• Haunting or hoax? Irish school posts video of 'ghosts' caught on camera

  11-10-2017 19:46
  
  Either this is the most haunted school ever or their theatrics department deserves an award!
  
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• Vegas Strong: Golden Knights recall tragedy before triumphant home opener

  11-10-2017 19:29
  
  The NHL's newest team held a poignant pregame ceremony to honor the victims in last week's mass shooting.
  
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• 25 fun facts that will make you smile

  11-10-2017 18:42
  
  Did you know baby puffins have an adorable name?
  
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• Crews create rainbow crosswalk outside of Pulse nightclub

  11-10-2017 18:40
  
  A rainbow-colored crosswalk was installed near the Pulse nightclub to honor the 49 people killed in a mass shooting there last year.
  
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• Adorable beluga calf found stranded, being nursed back to health

  11-10-2017 18:35
  
  The rescued beluga is being fed every three hours, and he’s eating from a tube rather than a bottle because it is easier for him, according to Alaska SeaLife Center staff.
  
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• Abandoned dog dragging 6-pound tumor gets second chance at life

  11-10-2017 18:32
  
  He was "way too young for a death sentence" and now is looking for a forever family.
  
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• TIME-LAPSE: Day 5 of Balloon Fiesta kicks off

  11-10-2017 18:22
  
  Check out this time-lapse from Day 5 of the Balloon Fiesta.
  
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• The way babies are bathed after birth is about to change forever

  11-10-2017 18:18
  
  Here's everything you need to know about "swaddle baths."
  
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• Puerto Rico investigates post-hurricane disease outbreak

  11-10-2017 17:52 via krqe.com
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Four deaths in Hurricane Maria’s aftermath are being investigated as possible cases of a disease spread by animals’ urine, Puerto Rico’s governor said Wednesday amid concerns about islanders’ exposure to contaminated water.
  A total of 10 people have come down with suspected cases of leptospirosis, Gov. Ricardo Rossello said at a news conference.
  On a U.S. territory where a third of customers remain without r
  
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• Family sues hospital after stillborn baby discarded in dirty laundry

  11-10-2017 17:44
  
  The family of a stillborn baby who was discarded in a St. Paul hospital's dirty laundry is suing the medical center.
  
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