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• Farmington men arrested in prostitution sting

  28-10-2017 23:48 via krqe.com
  FARMINGTON, N.M. (KRQE) – A prostitution sting in New Mexico landed two men behind bars.
  It targeted Massage Asia and The Blue Home Spa in Farmington.
  The San Juan County Sheriff’s Office says it teamed up with the AG’s Office along with Farmington and Bloomfield Police Departments to conduct the undercover operation.
  One of the men arrested was Logan Crockett, accused of offering to pay for sex with a 15-year-old. He is also facing child abuse charges for leaving his
  
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• Downed pole traps family inside home

  28-10-2017 23:45
  
  "He's trapped in there because all of these wires aren't allowing us to get him out of there.He needs to be wheelchaired out of there, he can't walk."
  
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• Bellinger, Dodgers top Astros 6-2 to tie World Series 2-all

  28-10-2017 23:20 via krqe.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — Cody Bellinger pulled into second base with his first World Series hit and said: “It’s a miracle!”
  With the Dodgers three innings from falling into a deep deficit, the rookie slugger sparked a late comeback that stopped the Houston Astros’ surge.
  Hitless in 13 at-bats, Bellinger doubled and scored the tying run in the seventh inning, then doubled home the go-ahead run off struggling closer Ken Giles in a five-run ninth that lifted Los Angeles to a 6-2
  
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• Astros, Dodgers keep same batting orders for Series’ Game 4

  28-10-2017 23:20 via krqe.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros are staying with the same batting orders for Game 4 of the World Series.
  Center fielder Chris Taylor leads off Saturday night for the Dodgers, followed by shortstop Corey Seager, third baseman Justin Turner, first baseman Cody Bellinger, right fielder Yasiel Puig, second baseman Logan Forsythe, catcher Austin Barnes, designated hitter Joc Pederson and left fielder Enrique Hernandez. Left-hander Alex Wood pitches.
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• Trump promises to release all JFK files

  28-10-2017 23:13
  
  The President said he came to the decision after consulting with his chief of staff, John Kelly.
  
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• 19 dead, more than 30 wounded in Mogadishu hotel blast

  28-10-2017 22:51 via krqe.com
  MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A suicide car bomb exploded outside a popular hotel in Somalia’s capital on Saturday, killing at least 19 people and wounding more than 30, and gunfire continued as security forces pursued the attackers inside the building, police said. Two more blasts were heard, one when an attacker detonated a suicide vest.
  Speaking to The Associated Press by telephone from the scene, Capt. Mohamed Hussein said more than 20 people, including government officials, were tho
  
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• Gurriel banned 5 games in 2018 for racist gesture at Darvish

  28-10-2017 22:19 via krqe.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — Yuli Gurriel of the Houston Astros was suspended Saturday for the first five games of next season for making a racist gesture at Dodgers pitcher Yu Darvish during the World Series.
  Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced the penalty Saturday, a day after Gurriel’s actions during Game 3.
  Manfred acknowledged some people believed Gurriel should have served an immediate ban.
  “I wanted the burden of this discipline to fall primarily on the wrongdoer,
  
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• Northern California may need years to recover from wildfires

  28-10-2017 22:12 via krqe.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sonoma County officials said Saturday it will take at least months and likely years to fully recover from devastating wildfires that ripped through Northern California earlier this month, destroying at least 8,900 structures and killing 42 people.
  “We don’t control these things, and it makes you realize how small you are in the world when something like this happens,” Sheriff Rob Giordano said during a memorial ceremony honoring the 42 lives lost. &ldqu
  
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• Just in time for Thanksgiving dinner: traceable turkeys

  28-10-2017 22:02 via krqe.com
  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Turkey farmer Darrell Glaser buys his Thanksgiving bird at the local grocery store, just like most folks.
  But this Thanksgiving season, the Texas producer will be able to find out where the Honeysuckle White turkey he puts into his shopping cart was raised — and even know if it is one of the birds from his own Milam County farm.
  Turkey buyers in select Texas markets will be able to either text or enter on the Honeysuckle White website the code found on the tag on
  
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• Fantasy Fest returns to Key West after Hurricane Irma

  28-10-2017 22:01 via krqe.com
  KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Things are weird, as usual, in Key West.
  A pair of Vikings push a stroller full of stuffed chimps down Duval Street. A man with a ponytail swallows a steel sword. People dressed only in body paint and glitter wander and jiggle from bar to bar.
  Fantasy Fest — one of Key West’s major tourist draws of the year — is in full swing. And that’s a relief for Florida Keys business owners trying to weather the economic storm that hit after Hurricane Irma
  
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• Fisher-Price recalls 65,000 baby seats due to fire hazard

  28-10-2017 21:25
  
  The CPSC says the seats were sold by Amazon, Walmart, Target and other retailers from November 2015 to this month.
  
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• Study: More evidence links earthquakes to energy waste wells

  28-10-2017 21:15 via krqe.com
  DENVER (AP) — Scientists say they have more evidence that an increase in earthquakes on the Colorado-New Mexico border since 2001 has been caused by wells that inject wastewater from oil and gas production back underground, similar to human-caused quakes in Oklahoma and other states.
  A paper published last week by researchers at the University of Colorado concluded that the wastewater caused a big enough increase in underground pressure to make rock formations slip along fault lines.
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• California surfer makes board using 10,000 cigarette butts

  28-10-2017 20:42 via krqe.com
  SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. (AP) — A California surfer has won a recycled surfboard contest with an entry covered with 10,000 cigarette butts.
  “This is the most polluted item picked up on the beach,” creator Taylor Lane told the Orange County Register. “And no one thinks twice that you can do anything with it.”
  Lane, 24, from Santa Cruz had the top entry amid an assortment of boards made from potato sacks, used packaging and stuff picked up from Dumpster dives. An A
  
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• Poll: 71% of Americans say politics has reached a dangerous low point

  28-10-2017 20:40
  
  The majority of those who believe the political world is hitting bottom say this is a "new normal."
  
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• Police post ‘pumpkin lineup’ after recovering stolen squash

  28-10-2017 20:25 via krqe.com
  MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. (AP) — Police who caught three teenagers orange-handed with 48 stolen pumpkins — and one gourd — are asking residents of a St. Louis suburb to view a “pumpkin lineup” online to see if their Halloween squash are among those recovered. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that pumpkins began vanishing last week from subdivisions of Maryland Heights. Police quickly tracked down the boys and their pumpkin-crammed SUV that Capt. Scott Will says was &
  
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• Pentagon chief says North Korea engages in ‘outlaw’ behavior

  28-10-2017 20:25 via krqe.com
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The threat of nuclear missile attack by North Korea is accelerating, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Saturday, accusing the North of illegal and unnecessary missile and nuclear programs and pledging to repel any strike.
  In remarks in Seoul with South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo at his side, Mattis said North Korea engages in “outlaw” behavior and that the U.S. will never accept a nuclear North.
  The Pentagon chief added that regardless
  
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• JFK files release is Trump’s latest clash with spy agencies

  28-10-2017 20:25 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a showdown 25 years in the making: With the world itching to finally get a look at classified Kennedy assassination files, and the deadline for their release just hours away, intelligence officials were still angling for a way to keep their secrets. President Donald Trump, the one man able to block the release, did not appreciate their persistence. He did not intend to make this easy.
  Like much else surrounding investigations of the 1963 killing of President John F
  
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• Misplaced monarchs: Clusters of butterflies stuck up north

  28-10-2017 20:05 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Monarch butterflies, those delicate symbols of spring and summer, should mostly be in Texas by now, winging their way to Mexico for the winter.
  But Darlene Burgess keeps seeing colorful clusters of them — and she lives in Canada.
  “As nice as this is to see, I really wish I wouldn’t see it because they’re running out of time,” said Burgess, who does evening monarch counts at Point Pelee National Park in Canada. “It’s real
  
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• Legislative subcommittee discusses criminal justice reform

  28-10-2017 19:51
  
  A constitutional amendment aimed to keep New Mexicans safe has now been called now drawn criticism, including from the governor. Legislators invited Gov. Susana Martinez to a meeting to discuss the issue, but she did not attend.
  
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• After 60 years on the road together, woman ready to sell '57 Lady'

  28-10-2017 19:39
  
  Through her six-decade drive, this Wisconsin woman really made the most of her lifetime guarantee on mufflers.
  
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• US considers higher entry fees at 17 popular national parks

  28-10-2017 19:33 via krqe.com
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The National Park Service is considering a steep increase in entrance fees at 17 of its most popular parks, mostly in the U.S. West, to address a backlog of maintenance and infrastructure projects.
  Visitors to the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Zion and other national parks would be charged $70 per vehicle, up from the fee of $30 for a weekly pass. At others, the hike is nearly triple, from $25 to $70.
  A 30-day public comment period opened Tuesday. The Park Se
  
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• Twitter toughens abuse rules – and now has to enforce them

  28-10-2017 19:22 via krqe.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter is enacting new policies around hate, abuse and advertisements, but having rules is only half the battle — the easy half.
  The bigger problem is enforcement, and there the company has had some high-profile bungles recently. That includes its much-criticized suspension of actress Rose McGowan while she was speaking out against Harvey Weinstein, and the company’s ban, later reversed , of an ad from a Republican Senate candidate that ment
  
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• Hurricane Harvey responders get unexpected invite to World Series

  28-10-2017 18:58
  
  A pair of Houston firefighters who were among the many responders working during Hurricane Harvey got a gift from a complete stranger.
  
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• UPS predicts record holiday deliveries, defends price hike

  28-10-2017 18:24 via krqe.com
  DALLAS (AP) — UPS expects another record holiday season, with deliveries up 5 percent over last year, as online shopping continues to grow.
  The company said Thursday that it expects to deliver more than 750 million packages between Thanksgiving and Dec. 31. It expects to haul at least 30 million packages on 17 of the last 21 delivery days before Christmas.
  UPS issued its holiday forecast as it reported third-quarter earnings of $1.26 billion, and just a day after it announced rate increase
  
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• Astros' Gurriel may be punished for gesture at LA's Darvish

  28-10-2017 18:24
  
  The first baseman says he didn't intend to offend the Dodgers pitcher with the racist gesture.
  
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• Tropical storm watch issued for parts of Florida

  28-10-2017 17:28
  
  The upper Florida Keys and southeastern Florida could see tropical storm conditions over the next day.
  
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• Companies are looking for diverse ad teams to avoid blunders

  28-10-2017 17:22 via krqe.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — CoverGirl executive Ukonwa Ojo was struck when the team from an ad agency entered the room to pitch ideas for revamping the cosmetic company’s image. For the first time in Ojo’s more than 20-year career in business, she found herself working with an African-American creative director.
  That meeting would ultimately result in a marketing campaign that challenges conventional ideas about beauty. It features celebrity women from a spectrum of races, ages and profess
  
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• Nose of plane carrying NBA team smashed while mid-air

  28-10-2017 17:14
  
  Airline officials say the plane "likely encountered a bird," but it seems like it must have been a pretty big one.
  
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• Kentucky high school sweethearts, their 3 children killed in crash

  28-10-2017 17:05
  
  "They were a loving family and they are our angels now. They were the perfect family."
  
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• 'And it still fits!' Woman reunited with lost ring after 35 years

  28-10-2017 16:45
  
  A Texas woman was shocked to learn her class ring turned up more than three decades after it was lost, and there was one more surprise to go.
  
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• First charges filed in Mueller's Russia probe, multiple reports say

  28-10-2017 16:38
  
  Someone could be taken into custody as early as Monday.
  
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• Mattis has strong words for 'outlaw' North Korea as nuclear threat accelerates

  28-10-2017 16:14
  
  In a speech in South Korea, the Secretary of Defense said U.S. military and diplomatic collaboration with Seoul has taken on "a new urgency."
  
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• Zombie students want brains focused on drug take back event

  28-10-2017 16:05
  
  Saturday's nationwide event gives people a chance to clear their medicine cabinets of unused prescription drugs.
  
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• US service member killed, 6 injured in Afghanistan helicopter crash

  28-10-2017 13:52
  
  A statement says the crash was not a result of enemy action and it is being investigated.
  
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• 'Stranger Things' actor Charlie Heaton denied US entry over drugs

  28-10-2017 13:48
  
  Officials said Friday that a customs canine sniffed Heaton's luggage when he arrived at Los Angeles International Airport last Saturday and officers found a small amount of cocaine.
  
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• Website with GOP ties sparked funding for research on Trump dossier

  28-10-2017 13:32
  
  The Washington Free Beacon acknowledges it originally retained a political research firm to scour then-candidate Trump's background for negative information.
  
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• Puppy nearly dies after ingesting fentanyl

  28-10-2017 12:42
  
  A 3-month-old puppy that nearly died after accidentally ingesting fentanyl was saved after being administered Narcan.
  
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• Fourth graders protest for longer trick-or-treating hours

  28-10-2017 10:16
  
  "More time equals more walking equals more exercise. Because of road construction, we need more time to walk around."
  
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• Woman missing for 42 years finally found

  28-10-2017 09:47
  
  Flora (Florence) Stevens went missing 42 years ago from New York's Hudson Valley, but was recently found at an assisted living facility in Massachusetts.
  
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• Paul Weir coaches his first game at UNM in Lobos BYU charity exhibition

  28-10-2017 08:31 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.(KRQE) -Paul Weir and his Lobo men’s basketball team fell to BYU 79-73 in a charity exhibition game Friday, but may have won over some fans along the way. The Lobos played like a scrappy bunch from start to finish and was even in position to win against a BYU team that had a definite size advantage.
  The Lobos lost the rebound battle 48-33 and also struggled shooting the ball. The Lobos shot a little over 37 percent for the game while the Cougars hit nearly 52 percent of th
  
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• Foster mother faces child abuse charges

  28-10-2017 06:56
  
  Court documents say the 11-year-boy had bruises all over his body
  
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• Kirtland Air Force Base officer removed from command

  28-10-2017 06:30
  
  Colonel Bohannon refused to sign a certificate of spouse appreciation for a same-sex couple
  
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• Vigil honors native women, girls who've mysteriously vanished

  28-10-2017 06:24
  
  Due to gaps between tribal and federal law enforcement, days or weeks can pass before authorities search for indigenous women and girls who go missing.
  
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• Plaintiff in bogus ADA lawsuits must pay sizable court fees

  28-10-2017 06:17
  
  For months now, the 4 Investigates team has exposed the shady practices of an Arizona-based company that targeted 99 Albuquerque businesses and engineered lawsuits claiming these businesses violated federal disabilities laws.
  
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• Students protest Native American mascot at homecoming parade

  28-10-2017 06:16
  
  Dozens of students protested the event, which included a man in a headdress wearing Native American cultural clothing symbolizing the university's former mascot.
  
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• City-related accidents prove costly for Albuquerque taxpayers

  28-10-2017 06:13 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – When people drive on the road or take a city bus, there’s always a risk something could go wrong. So when it does, how often is the city liable?
  As KRQE News 13 discovered on Special Assignment, the price the public pays for some of these accidents might be surprising.
  When accidents involve city property or city workers hurt on the job, it’s often the public that pays the price.
  In one case from January, a woman exiting a City of Albuquerque bus
  
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• After bike gets stolen, MMA fighter loses only mode of transportation

  28-10-2017 06:13
  
  A mixed martial arts fans might recognize the name Majdeddine Ayadi. He’s a two-time European champion from Paris.
  
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• Tractor Brewery hosts an evening of Strangest Things in Albuquerque

  28-10-2017 06:11 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M (KRQE) – You can get your Strangers Things fix without sitting in front of the TV this weekend.
  Saturday, Tractor Brewing is hosting an evening of the “Strangest Things in Albuquerque” to celebrate season two of the hit TV show.
  You can take a risk in the blind date booth, watch a puppet show or listen to the DJ play hits from the 80s.
  “We have Octopus and the Fox, we have a goose fortune teller, we have a tarot card reader, we have shooting gallerie
  
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• Teens facing felony child porn charges after allegedly sharing nude photos of classmates

  28-10-2017 06:01 via krqe.com
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE) – Las Cruces police say at least two teens are facing felony child pornography charges and several more could soon be, too.
  Detectives with LCPD are looking into four cases of teens taking, sending and sharing lewd photos of other young teens.
  “I think two of them might have been at the same school, but not connected at all,” LCPD spokesman Dan Trujillo said. “…to have four in one week, that’s very unique for us.”
  Each case is sl
  
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• Mattis says threat of nuclear attack by NKorea accelerating

  28-10-2017 05:21 via krqe.com
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Saturday the threat of nuclear missile attack by North Korea is accelerating.
  In remarks in Seoul with South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo at his side, Mattis accused the North of illegal and unnecessary missile and nuclear programs — and vowed to defeat any attack.
  Mattis said the North engages in “over-the-top rhetoric” and behavior. And he said the U.S. will never accept a nuclear North.
  He added
  
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