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• NM man pleads guilty to sexually abusing minor

  02-04-2023 23:38 via krqe.com
  
  NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – A New Mexico man has pleaded guilty. He's accused of sexually abusing a minor.According to the US Department of Justice, Dexter Whiskers, 44, of Mescalero, New Mexico, pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of a minor. Whiskers is reportedly a member of the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe.Story continues below:Community: What’s happening around New Mexico Mar. 31 – Apr. 6Albuquerque: Fancy food hall, high end shopping coming to Park Square in UptownHealth: New M
  
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• Florida mother stabbed over 100 times before toddler thrown in lake: affidavit

  02-04-2023 23:00 via krqe.com
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — The father accused of murdering his 2-year-old son and the child's mother has been booked into jail in Pinellas County, Florida.
  Thomas Mosley, 21, was charged with the murder of Pashun Jeffery, 20, and her 2-year-old son Taylen Mosley after Taylen's body was found in the mouth of an alligator Friday, according to police.Mosley was accused of killing Jeffery after celebrating his birthday at her apartment, according to arrest affidavits from the St. Petersburg
  
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• Pandemic pounds push 10,000 U.S. Army soldiers into obesity

  02-04-2023 22:22 via krqe.com
  
  After gaining 30 pounds during the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Daniel Murillo is finally getting back into fighting shape.Early pandemic lockdowns, endless hours on his laptop and heightened stress led Murillo, 27, to reach for cookies and chips in the barracks at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Gyms were closed, organized exercise was out and Murillo's motivation to work out on his own was low.“I could notice it,” said Murillo, who is 5 feet, 5 inches tall and weighed as m
  
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• Annual Film Prize Junior New Mexico festival displays 93 student entries

  02-04-2023 21:56 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Young film students from across the state came to Albuquerque to compete for thousands of dollars. Film Prize Junior New Mexico hosted its annual festival Saturday, where middle and high school students shared their films with the public. "This program is giving students the opportunity to tell their stories. It's teaching them important skill sets and lessons such as communication, leadership," said Christopher Chavez, liaison for Film Prize
  
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• High school power lifting champions crowned on Saturday

  02-04-2023 21:50 via krqe.com
  
  RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE) – The state power lifting championships concluded this weekend Rio Rancho high school. All girls and boys classes A-3A competed on Friday while boys 4A-5A competed on Saturday in squats, bench press and deadlifting.Team StandingsBoys 5A
  Rio Rancho: 48Cleveland: 35Roswell: 26
  Boys 4A
  Lovington: 54Silver: 30Espanola Valley: 22
  Boys A-3A
  Hatch Valley: 35Santa Rosa: 28Jal: 22
  Girls A-5A
  Lovington: 27Centennial: 20Rio Rancho: 19
  Girls A-3A
  Cobre
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• Community near Moriarty asked to evacuate due to fire

  02-04-2023 20:53 via krqe.com
  
  MORIARTY, N.M. (KRQE) – A fire has been spotted near Moriarty. The National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed the sightings.According to NWS, a fire warning has been issued for the Echo Ridge community southeast of Moriarty.Story continues below:Community: What’s happening around New Mexico Mar. 31 – Apr. 6Albuquerque: Fancy food hall, high end shopping coming to Park Square in UptownHealth: New Mexico Supreme Court announces end of mask mandate, social distancing in courtCr
  
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• 175 acres burn in wildfire southeast of Moriarty; 3 homes burned

  02-04-2023 20:53 via krqe.com
  
  MORIARTY, N.M. (KRQE) – A fire was spotted near Moriarty Sunday. The National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed the sightings.According to NWS, a fire warning was issued for the Echo Ridge community southeast of Moriarty.The Torrance County Manager backed up the NWS' information and stated the grass fire started around 11 a.m. in the Echo Ridge neighborhood. Yelp list names Taos restaurant “best eggs benedict” in New MexicoResidents were asked to evacuate midday Sunday to th
  
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• 175 acres burn in Echo Fire southeast of Moriarty; 3 homes burned

  02-04-2023 20:53 via krqe.com
  
  MORIARTY, N.M. (KRQE) – The Torrance County Manager says a grass fire started around 11 a.m. Sunday in the Echo Ridge neighborhood. The Echo Fire burned a total of 175 acres and destroyed multiple buildings including three homes and seven outbuildings. Residents in the area were evacuated, but those evacuation orders have been lifted.Yelp list names Taos restaurant “best eggs benedict” in New MexicoOfficials say there was 1 injured firefighter at Sunday’s fire who wa
  
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• 14 acres burn in wildfire southeast of Moriarty; 3 homes burned

  02-04-2023 20:53 via krqe.com
  
  MORIARTY, N.M. (KRQE) – A fire was spotted near Moriarty Sunday. The National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed the sightings.According to NWS, a fire warning was issued for the Echo Ridge community southeast of Moriarty.The Torrance County Manager backed up the NWS' information and stated the grass fire started around 11 a.m. in the Echo Ridge neighborhood. Yelp list names Taos restaurant “best eggs benedict” in New MexicoResidents were asked to evacuate midday Sunday to th
  
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• Witness describes terror as tornado tore through Illinois theater

  02-04-2023 20:52 via krqe.com
  
  BELVIDERE, Ill. (WTVO) — Trista Strommen went to the Apollo Theater in Belvidere on Friday to celebrate her birthday. It was soon marred by an EF-1 tornado that ripped through the Illinois city, destroying the roof of the building and causing it to collapse on concert attendees, killing one and injuring 28 others.Crypta, one of the opening acts for the heavy metal band Morbid Angel had just finished a song when concertgoers were told there would be a 30-minute storm break.Strommen and her
  
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• City of Albuquerque provides more information on property swap with state

  02-04-2023 20:47 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – On Saturday, the City of Albuquerque and state Senator Michael Padilla released more information about an upcoming property swap between the city and state. They said the swap offers solutions to different issues including expanding the city's Rail Trail.“This piece of property is really key in that it can become a redevelopment area to provide some amenities and support for the Rail Trail itself as it gets developed. It was an area where we had s
  
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• Elderly man charged with killing his nephew in Albuquerque

  02-04-2023 20:29 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A man in his 80s has been charged in a murder case. Albuquerque Police Department (APD) announced his arrest Sunday. 1 year of retail cannabis sales: NM regulators now look to complianceAPD claimed Melquaides Garcia, 83, shot and killed his nephew. Witnesses reported Garcia and his nephew, Stephen Garcia, were arguing at their home in the block of 2900 Carlisle Boulevard NE Saturday. Stephen was shot with a revolver and died.
  Authorities said Melquaides told
  
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• Should you swap your bank account for a digital wallet?

  02-04-2023 20:02 via krqe.com
  
  (NerdWallet) - Cashless and contactless payment options have been on the rise for years, spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. Hand-in-hand with these options, digital wallet apps and services have also increased in popularity. An estimated 60% of the global population — 5.2 billion people — will be using digital wallets by 2026, according to a 2022 study from the data analytics group Juniper Research. As digital wallets have become more widespread, are they viable replacements for bank
  
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• What causes hiccups? How can you get rid of them?

  02-04-2023 18:02 via krqe.com
  
  (The Conversation) - We all get hiccups from time to time, and sometimes they just won’t seem to go away. States with the most active-duty military membersHiccups are involuntary contractions of the diaphragm – the muscle separating your chest from your abdomen, which plays a key role in breathing – followed by a sudden closure of the vocal cords.The medical term for hiccups is singultus. This derives from the Latin word singult which means “
  
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• The most and least lucrative college majors in New Mexico

  02-04-2023 18:00 via krqe.com
  
  (STACKER) - Over a dozen medical schools and 40 law schools have elected to withdraw from the U.S. News & World Report annual college rankings as of February 2023. Critics argue that the well-known college ranking system is based on metrics that neglect to consider many qualities that influence student success, such as postgraduate placement rates and course credit transfer applicability.The ongoing exodus has left prospective graduate students with one less all-inclusive tool
  
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• FBI offers $20,000 reward for info on missing Michigan mom of 8, believed to have been killed

  02-04-2023 17:22 via krqe.com
  
  KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — The FBI is offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information that leads to the location of a missing mother of eight. Law enforcement believe the woman, Heather Kelley, of Michigan, has been killed.
  Kelley, 35, has been missing since December. Her car was found burning the next day. Once the fire was out, investigators found her blood and human hair in it. Boyfriend’s tether off for hours when mom of 8 vanished
  When Kelley left home, she told her
  
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• Only 4 states don't have a town named after this water-side location: data

  02-04-2023 17:06 via krqe.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) – It’s not uncommon to visit another state and learn it has a town bearing the same name as a town in your state. Take, for example, Springfield, Illinois. If you visit Missouri, you’ll also find a Springfield. If you love Cleveland, Ohio, you may also love the Village of Cleveland in Wisconsin — though it is vastly smaller. Maybe you’re a history buff and prefer more presidential cities. Presidents George Washington and James Madison have t
  
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• Room-temperature superconductors could revolutionize electronics – an electrical engineer explains the materials' potential

  02-04-2023 17:00 via krqe.com
  
  (THE CONVERSATION) - Superconductors make highly efficient electronics, but the ultralow temperatures and ultrahigh pressures required to make them work are costly and difficult to implement. Room-temperature superconductors promise to change that.The recent announcement by researchers at the University of Rochester of a new material that is a superconductor at room temperature, albeit at high pressure, is an exciting development – if proved. If the material or one like it works relia
  
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• States with the most active-duty military members

  02-04-2023 15:30 via krqe.com
  
  (STACKER) - The largest army in the world as of 2022—with about 2 million active members—belongs to China, according to the CIA's World Factbook; India holds the #2 spot with 1.5 million active-duty members. And the United States follows close behind with roughly 1.3 million service members on active duty—yet the nation's military spending totals more than twice as much as China and India combined.Active-duty service members are based around the world, but the va
  
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• Collection of brains helps scientists with research

  02-04-2023 14:30 via krqe.com
  
  (CBS NEWSPATH) - Doctors say tens of millions of Americans suffer from chronic brain diseases and disorders. Scientists in Europe hope the world's biggest brain bank filled with minds of the past will help patients of the future.It’s a one-of-a-kind cranium collection in Denmark… buckets of knowledge that seemed like a no brainer. “I think it's the largest collection in the world actually; almost ten thousand brains were collected,” says historian Jesper Vaczy Kragh.Star
  
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• Archaeology and genomics together with Indigenous knowledge revise the human-horse story in the American West

  02-04-2023 13:30 via krqe.com
  
  (THE CONVERSATION) - Few places in the world are more closely linked with horses in the popular imagination than the Great Plains of North America. Romanticized stories of cowboys and the Wild West figure prominently in popular culture, and domestic horses are embedded in everything from place names, like Wild Horse Mesa, to sporting mascots, like the Denver Broncos.Horses first evolved in the Americas around 4 million years ago. Then horses largely disappeared from the fossil record by abo
  
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• Albuquerque scavenger hunt returns after pandemic hiatus

  02-04-2023 06:00 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – After the pandemic took its toll, a beloved city scavenger hunt is back. The Map of Enchantment scavenger hunt returned Saturday.“It's super fun to just explore the city. There's so much that we don't know, and we've grown up here,” said one family that attended.Across the Downtown area, people came to take part in a fun way to ring in the spring season.New Mexico’s retail cannabis industry is a year old – is there still room for
  
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• Chocolate, coffee lovers stop by weekend-long Albuquerque event

  02-04-2023 04:54 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – There was a line of people waiting to get their caffeine fix at Expo New Mexico Saturday morning. They were visiting an all-weekend event. Northeast Albuquerque homeowners fed up with ‘sketchy’ alleywayDay one of the 2023 Southwest Chocolate and Coffee Fest offered a lot for guests to enjoy, not just tasty treats.They were able to learn the best way to make them at home from chocolatiers and coffee sommeliers. The organizers said they're expectin
  
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• PHOTOS: Towering Monument Valley buttes display sunset spectacle

  02-04-2023 03:17 via krqe.com
  
  MONUMENT VALLEY, Utah (AP) — A sunset spectacle featuring two mitten-shaped rock formations played out this week at Monument Valley on the Navajo Nation along the Arizona and Utah border. Get it while it’s hot: New Mexico boosts chile productionTwice a year, in late March and mid-September, spectators, photographers and videographers get a visual treat. As the sun sinks, the West Mitten Butte's shadow crawls across the desert valley floor before climbing up the side of the East Mitte
  
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• Get it while it's hot: New Mexico boosts chile production

  02-04-2023 02:55 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico produced more than 53,000 tons of its most famous crop during the last growing season, meaning more chile peppers found their way into salsas and onto dinner plates than the previous year. This ‘Super Mario’ character is more beloved than Mario and Luigi: surveyState and federal agriculture officials rolled out the latest numbers this week as New Mexico’s governor signed legislation that established the sweet smell of green ch
  
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• Albuquerque authorities detain 1 person after deadly shooting

  02-04-2023 02:23 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – One person is dead in an apparent homicide, authorities reported. A deadly shooting occurred on Saturday.New Mexico officer shot during domestic violence callout; suspect in custodyAccording to Albuquerque Police Department, a shooting took place in the 2900 block of Carlisle Boulevard NE. One person was found dead. Another person was detained.
  The Homicide Unit is investigating the matter. No other information has been released as of 6:20 p.m.
  
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• New Mexico officer shot during domestic violence callout; suspect in custody

  02-04-2023 01:13 via krqe.com
  
  DOÑA ANA COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – A suspect is in custody after an officer-involved shooting, New Mexico State Police (NMSP) said. The incident happened in Sunland Park.
  NMSP said the local police department responded to Megan Street for a domestic violence called when the shooting occurred. Sunland Fire Department posted photos of the scene as they also responded to the area. A Sunland Park Police Department officer was shot at the scene.Story continues below:Community: What&rsqu
  
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