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• ABQ’s 3D Glass gearing up for mass production

  27-11-2015 23:00
  
  3D Glass Solutions, an Albuquerque startup that created a new type of glass to make advanced semiconducting chips, is gearing up for launch next year of its first standard product line. The company, which launched in 2006, has been using its proprietary glass ceramic, dubbed APEXGlass, to do custom design and production of semiconductor chips […]
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Civilians, 4 officers injured in Colorado attack

  27-11-2015 22:56
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The latest on the shooting near Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado. (All times local) 2:45 P.m. Police say civilians have been injured in a shooting in Colorado Springs. Police Lt. Catherine Buckley also said a fourth officer was wounded Friday inside a Planned Parenthood building in the latest exchange of gunfire […]
  
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• Updated: Four cops shot, civilians injured at Planned Parenthood Clinic in Colorado Springs

  27-11-2015 22:56
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A gunman opened fire at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic on Friday, wounding multiple people and engaging in gun battles with police as patients and staff members ducked behind tables to hide and keep away from the crossfire. At least nine people were taken to hospitals amid the shooting that spanned […]
  
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• Albuquerque’s popular luminaria tour sells out in hours

  27-11-2015 22:09
  
  Tickets for Albuquerque’s annual luminaria tour have sold out in record time. The city’s transit system, ABQ RIDE, says the 3,600 tickets that were available for the Christmas Eve event were gone in about four hours. It took 12 hours to sell out last year. ABQ Ride has been helping with the tour for more […]
  
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• Now is the time to think small

  27-11-2015 21:07
  
  Albuquerque merchant Andy Hageman spends all year singing the “shop local” tune. Saturday, at least, he feels like he has some backup. There’s a whole chorus of voices — from public officials to major corporations —  encouraging Americans to support their community’s mom-and-pop establishments as part of Small Business Saturday, a nationwide movement now in […]
  
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• Updated: Standoff ends at Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic

  27-11-2015 20:59
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A gunman was arrested Friday hours after opening fire at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic, wounding multiple people and engaging in gun battles with police inside the building, officials said. At least 11 people, including five police officers, were taken to hospitals, police Lt. Catherine Buckley said. Authorities were still […]
  
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• Breaking: Police: Active shooter near Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic

  27-11-2015 20:59
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Police were responding Friday to a report of an active shooter near a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. The situation has not been stabilized, police Lt. Catherine Buckley said. She had no further details. Ambulances and police vehicles were lined up near an intersection and police told people via […]
  
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• Stocks inch higher in quiet trading, but Disney stumbles

  27-11-2015 20:36
  
  NEW YORK — Stocks finished mostly higher Friday as they wrapped up a quiet week of trading. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fluctuated early on, but managed to eke out a small gain as telecommunications and financial stocks rose. Disney dragged down the Dow Jones industrial average after the company said ESPN lost 3 […]
  
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• Older workers seeking options for reducing hours on the job

  27-11-2015 20:28
  
  Roberton Williams’ plan was to retire on his government pension and take a part-time job to make up the difference in salary. It didn’t quite work out that way. Williams, 68, did retire but then started another full-time job with the Tax Policy Center, a Washington think tank. “The plan was to work full time […]
  
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• Gay marriage is legal but not on tribal lands

  27-11-2015 19:42
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Cleo Pablo married her longtime partner when gay weddings became legal in Arizona and looked forward to the day when her wife and their children could move into her home in the small Native American community outside Phoenix where she grew up. The Ak-Chin Indian Community doesn’t recognize same-sex marriages and has […]
  
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• As many African-American see it, there are 2 Ben Carsons

  27-11-2015 19:42
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Ayauna King-Baker loved Ben Carson’s “Gifted Hands” memoir so much that she made her daughter Shaliya read it. So when Carson showed up in town to sign copies of his new book, King-Baker dragged the giggly 13-year-old along to the bookstore so they could both meet him. To King-Baker, Carson’s “up-by-your […]
  
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• After Paris, US political shift on privacy vs. security

  27-11-2015 19:41
  
  WASHINGTON — The Paris attacks have renewed debate on the U.S. government’s post-Sept. 11 domestic surveillance laws, leading to efforts to revive the issue on Capitol Hill and handing Marco Rubio an opening against Ted Cruz in the Republican presidential race. The two senators were on opposite sides earlier this year when Congress eliminated the […]
  
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• Where’s the beef? Trucker steals 40,000 pounds of meat

  27-11-2015 19:25
  
  LOGANTON, Pa. — Where’s the beef? That’s what authorities would like to know after someone stole 40,000 pounds of it from a meat plant in central Pennsylvania. State police say it happened Nov. 21 at Nicholas Meat near Loganton. According to troopers, a trucker loaded $110,000 worth of meat into a trailer during a scheduled […]
  
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• Ski Santa Fe opens to crowds, bus to slopes mostly empty

  27-11-2015 19:25
  
  SANTA FE — Ski Santa Fe opened to crowds of skiers but the new bus route from downtown Santa Fe to the ski basin remained mostly empty. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports (http://bit.ly/1OvexML ) that about 2,000 showed up to the slopes on Thursday, which was the opening day of Ski Santa Fe’s 2015-16 […]
  
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• New Mexico court orders new trial in excessive force case

  27-11-2015 19:24
  
  SANTA FE — The New Mexico Court of Appeals is ordering a new trial in a civil case against the city of Clovis and three police officers accused of using excessive force in restraining a man in 2006. The court ruled this week that a wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of the estate of […]
  
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• Chicago man, 27, charged in fatal shooting of 9-year-old

  27-11-2015 19:24
  
  CHICAGO — Chicago Police say a 27-year-old man has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting this month of a 9-year-old boy on the city’s South Side. Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said at a news conference Friday that Corey Morgan of Chicago is in custody. He says the boy was killed […]
  
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• Gunmen mercilessly mowed down guests in Mali hotel siege

  27-11-2015 19:23
  
  BAMAKO, Mali — The early breakfast crowd sipped coffee and picked at croissants in the Radisson Blu’s dining room, swiping through emails and the morning headlines on their smartphones. Outside the luxury hotel, the dusty, red-earth streets were coming alive with traffic, the whine of motorbikes mixed with the rumble of minibus taxis amid the […]
  
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• Colorado pot shops again hold Black Friday sales

  27-11-2015 19:23
  
  DENVER — Call it Green Friday — a new Colorado tradition of marijuana shops drawing customers with discounted weed and holiday gift sets. At Denver Kush Club, about two dozen customers were lined up in subfreezing temperatures and snow showers Friday morning to take advantage of the shop’s doorbuster deals. The first few customers got […]
  
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• Nevada researchers trying to turn roadside weed into biofuel

  27-11-2015 19:00
  
  RENO, Nev. — Three decades ago, a University of Nevada researcher who obtained one of the first U.S. Energy Department grants to study the potential to turn plants into biofuels became convinced that a roadside weed — curly top gumweed — was growing along the road to the future. Now, scientists who’ve been cultivating gumweed […]
  
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• Breaking: Police investigating suspicious death in SW ABQ

  27-11-2015 18:47
  
  Police are investigating what they say is a suspicious death near Iron and 3rd Street in Southwest Albuquerque Friday morning, according to a department spokesman. Officer Simon Drobik said detectives are just beginning their investigation into the death, which took place on the 300 block of Hazeldine SW. Drobik didn’t say if the person who […]
  
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• Home construction loses traction in ABQ metro

  27-11-2015 18:06
  
  Single-family home construction showed signs of a small rally in October in the Albuquerque metro area, logging 115 building permits for the best showing during the month since 121 were issued in October 2012, according to the latest report from DataTraq. Home building has lost traction in the metro so far this year after reaching […]
  
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• Updated: Protest over Chicago teen’s shooting ties up retail district

  27-11-2015 17:46
  
  CHICAGO — Demonstrators angry about the killing of a black teenager who was shot 16 times by a white police officer last year marched through the streets and disrupted Black Friday shopping in Chicago’s ritziest retail district. Despite a cold, drizzling rain, hundreds of demonstrators turned out to protest Friday, the traditional beginning of the […]
  
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• Protest over Chicago teen’s shooting set for retail district

  27-11-2015 17:46
  
  CHICAGO — After days of protests in Chicago since the release of a video showing a black teenager shot 16 times by a white police officer, demonstrators were poised to disrupt Black Friday shopping with a march through the heart of the city’s most famous retail district. Demonstrators scheduled the march on Friday, the traditional […]
  
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• More snow, cold temps expected in parts of New Mexico

  27-11-2015 17:46
  
  More snow, sleet and freezing rain are expected for some parts of New Mexico. Forecasters with the National Weather Service say the wintry weather will persist through early Saturday, making for treacherous driving conditions. Slick and icy roads were reported Friday along Interstate 40 east of Albuquerque and across the eastern plains. Forecasters had issued […]
  
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• The Latest: Body found after water recedes in North Texas

  27-11-2015 17:45
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas — The Latest on severe weather hitting parts of the U.S. on Black Friday (all times local): 10:30 a.m. Authorities say the body of one of two women swept away in fast-moving floodwaters in the Fort Worth area has been found downstream from her car. Johnson County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Tim Jones […]
  
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• 3 Chinese brokerages say they are under investigation

  27-11-2015 17:38
  
  BEIJING — Three of China’s biggest securities firms are under investigation in a fresh aftershock from this summer’s market plunge. Shares in Citic Securities Ltd. and Guosen Securities Ltd. fell Friday by the 10 percent daily limit after both said they were being probed by regulators. A third brokerage, Haitong Securities Ltd., issued a similar […]
  
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• Stocks open mostly lower, led by declines in energy sector

  27-11-2015 17:34
  
  NEW YORK — Stocks are opening mostly lower, led by declines in energy stocks as the price of oil turns lower. Consol Energy sank 4 percent in early trading Friday. The Dow Jones industrial average edged down 17 points, or 0.1 percent, to 17,795 as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time. The Standard & Poor’s 500 […]
  
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• NM housing sales flat; prices inch up

  27-11-2015 17:30
  
  While total home sales numbers were basically flat year over year in New Mexico during the month of October — 1,569 homes in 2015 compared to 1,575 in 2014 — the total dollar volume of the sales increased 2 percent to $362,308,141, according to the Realtors Association of New Mexico. The state’s five most-populous counties […]
  
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• Police: Victim was in captivity for 24 hours

  27-11-2015 16:43
  
  A Portales homicide victim suffered a traumatic brain injury, multiple burns and severe bruising during a series of altercations with his accused killer, according to an arrest affidavit filed in district court on Tuesday. Police said William Vaughn, 45, died of blunt force trauma on Sunday in a Lubbock hospital. David Michael Smith, 40, of […]
  
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• Clovis mother sentenced to 16 1/2 years for abuse

  27-11-2015 16:43
  
  A Clovis mother was sentenced Tuesday afternoon to 16 1/2 years in prison for multiple counts of child abuse. District Judge Drew Tatum delivered the sentence to Kayla Bass, 25, for abusing her then-18-month-old son in 2013 — he suffered bruises all over his body, bite marks, cigarette burns and a broken clavicle bone — […]
  
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• Updated: New Mexico to share in federal energy revenues

  27-11-2015 16:41
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Oil and gas development and mineral production on federal and tribal lands in New Mexico have netted nearly a half-billion dollars in revenues for the state. The U.S. Interior Department announced this week that more than three dozen states, 34 American Indian tribes, numerous counties and thousands of individual Indian mineral owners […]
  
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• State charges dropped in fatal stabbing of New Mexico inmate

  27-11-2015 16:40
  
  LAS CRUCES — State charges were dropped against two New Mexico prisoners suspected of fatally stabbing another inmate, but the prosecutor’s office indicated that the case is going to be filed in federal court. The Las Cruces Sun-News reports (http://bit.ly/1T7vTjP) that no federal charges have yet been filed against Jerry Montoya and Jerry Armenta in […]
  
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• Nuclear waste repository to install safety chambers

  27-11-2015 16:40
  
  CARLSBAD — Managers at the federal government’s troubled nuclear waste repository in southern New Mexico plan to install several safety bunkers. Eight of the refuge chambers — or safety havens as they’re called — were recently delivered to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad. Officials say the havens will be taken into the underground […]
  
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• Hobbs man pleads guilty to fraud, money laundering

  27-11-2015 16:39
  
  HOBBS — A Hobbs man could face up to 18 years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme. State officials announced this week that 40-year-old Hector Vega pleaded guilty to securities fraud and money laundering charges in state district court. He has yet to be sentenced. Authorities accused him of using a Ponzi scheme to […]
  
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• Colorado town passes measures to control cat population

  27-11-2015 16:39
  
  GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. — Officials in a Colorado town have passed a measure that encourages residents to vaccinate, spay, neuter and license their cats, although it stops short requiring those steps. The Post Independent reports (http://bit.ly/1SnEnmZ) that the Carbondale Board of Trustees has been debating for months about how to rein in stray cats, but […]
  
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• Phoenix armed robbery ends in high-speed police chase

  27-11-2015 16:38
  
  PHOENIX — Phoenix police say two people have been arrested after robbing two men at gunpoint and then leading police on a high-speed chase. The Phoenix Police Department says a man and a woman approached two men sitting in their car around 1:30 a.m. Friday and asked for a ride. Officers say that when the […]
  
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• Glitch causes bank customers to see billions in charges

  27-11-2015 16:38
  
  HONOLULU — A technical glitch meant some First Hawaiian Bank customers logged on to their accounts to find that they appeared to be billions, or sometimes more than a trillion dollars in the red. KHON-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1ImxP2g ) that bank officials say the glitch was visible to customers who logged on to their accounts during […]
  
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• 2 people in West Texas killed in collision with trailer

  27-11-2015 16:38
  
  PAMPA, Texas — Two people have died in a two-vehicle crash in West Texas. Courtney Dewayne Scales of Dallas was driving a 2005 Volvo Truck Tractor towing a 2008 Kentucky semi-trailer on Thursday when she lost control in the rainy weather. The truck and trailer slid sideways across both north and southbound lanes, and onto […]
  
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• White House undergoes holiday lockdown after man jumps fence

  27-11-2015 16:37
  
  WASHINGTON — A man draped in an American flag climbed over the fence at the White House on Thursday, prompting a lockdown as the first family celebrated Thanksgiving. The man was immediately apprehended and taken into custody pending criminal charges, the Secret Service said in a statement. The incident took place about 2:45 p.m. EST. […]
  
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• Questions remain for mine spill claims process

  27-11-2015 16:36
  
  FARMINGTON – Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch is continuing to question the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency about the procedure to file claims for damages caused by the Gold King Mine spill. Branch presented her concerns and issues in a Nov. 18 letter to Avi Garbow, general counsel for the EPA. Her letter, which was […]
  
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• Man charged in knife fight at Navajo Dam bar

  27-11-2015 16:36
  
  AZTEC – A 65-year-old man was accused last week of using a knife to threaten a man at a bar in Navajo Dam. Ray Luther was charged No. 20 in Aztec Magistrate Court with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, possession of a firearm by a felon and negligent use of a deadly weapon while […]
  
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• New Veterans Park monument to honor women vets in Las Cruces

  27-11-2015 16:35
  
  LAS CRUCES — Las Cruces native Margaret Prado, who served tours of duty in Iraq and Kosovo, walked leisurely Wednesday through Veterans Memorial Park, on Roadrunner Parkway. “It’s changed, it’s nicer than when I was last here, about five years ago,” said Prado, who now lives in Riverside, Calif., of the park. “The Vietnam monument […]
  
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• Where’s death penalty in push for criminal justice overhaul?

  27-11-2015 16:34
  
  WASHINGTON — Even as President Barack Obama tries to make a hard case for overhauling sentences, rehabilitating prisoners and confronting racial bias in policing, he has been less clear about the death penalty. Obama has hinted that his support for capital punishment is eroding, but he has refused to discuss what he might call for. […]
  
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• Trump called out for appearing to mock disability

  27-11-2015 16:34
  
  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump denied Thursday that he mocked a reporter with a disability in a South Carolina speech, despite appearing to imitate mannerisms of the “poor guy” and make fun of him. A statement posted on his Twitter account said Trump doesn’t know the reporter personally or what he looks like and was only […]
  
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• Russia supports closing of Turkish=Syria border

  27-11-2015 16:33
  
  ANKARA, Turkey — The latest developments regarding the war in Syria. All times local. 4:45 p.m. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says he supports France’s proposal to shut down the Turkish-Syrian border as a way to fight Islamic State fighters in Syria. French President Francois Hollande was in Moscow on Thursday to wrap up a […]
  
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• Pope calls slum conditions in Nairobi an injustice

  27-11-2015 16:33
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya — Visiting one of Nairobi’s many shantytowns on Friday, Pope Francis denounced conditions slum-dwellers are forced to live in, saying access to safe water is a basic human right and that everyone should have dignified, adequate housing. Residents of the Kangemi slum lined the mud streets to welcome Francis, standing alongside goats and […]
  
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• Trump denies mocking disability

  27-11-2015 08:05
  
  Candidate says he was ridiculing NY Times reporter’s journalism
  
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• Refugees tend to prosper, agencies say

  27-11-2015 08:05
  
  Studies say their taxes offset costs of resettling
  
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• Pope in Kenya: Poor are global warming victims

  27-11-2015 08:05
  
  Francis warns not to let ‘special interests’ stop efforts to cut emissions
  
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• NC troopers suing for pay raises

  27-11-2015 08:05
  
  Officers say freezes have cost them tens of thousands of dollars
  
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