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• Police say 1 of 2 victims in Houston house fire was shot

  31-12-2015 23:24
  
  HOUSTON — Houston police say one of two people who died in a house fire had been shot. Authorities say 27-year-old Gavonte Antwon Atkins, whose body was found in the house, had suffered apparent gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene early Thursday. A 75-year-old woman, Dorothy Lee Carter, was woman found alive […]
  
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• Influx of teen migrants leads US to open 3 more shelters

  31-12-2015 23:24
  
  DENVER — The U.S. government plans to open three new shelters in three states to house unaccompanied migrant children as officials brace for another influx of young Central American immigrants crossing the border. The temporary shelters in Colorado, Florida and New Mexico, all located on federal property, are in addition to shelters that opened outside […]
  
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• Houston-area woman sentenced for daughters’ drowning deaths

  31-12-2015 23:24
  
  PEARLAND, Texas — A suburban Houston woman has been sentenced to six years in prison for the drowning deaths earlier this year of her 14-month-old twin daughters. Barbara Russo pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of criminal negligent homicide for the deaths of her children, Sabrina and Savannah, at their home in Pearland. Court documents […]
  
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• Spotty service at popular messaging app WhatsApp on NYE

  31-12-2015 23:02
  
  NEW YORK — They’re not ignoring you, it’s just WhatsApp. The popular messaging service owned by Facebook was intermittently unavailable for several hours Thursday, delaying New Year’s Eve messages for some users. Facebook says WhatsApp has about 900 million global users. Facebook Inc. did not immediately answer questions about the cause of the outage or […]
  
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• Bank of Albuquerque sets up in new digs

  31-12-2015 22:03
  
  About 40 employees in the Bank of Albuquerque’s administrative and business offices moved to the fifth floor of the six-story One Sun Plaza Thursday after 17 years Downtown. The bank has a lease for 18,000 square feet at the north end of the building. It had been on  the 14th floor of Albuquerque Plaza at […]
  
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• Sinsabaugh named MEP center director

  31-12-2015 21:33
  
  The board of directors of the New Mexico Manufacturing Extension Partnership has named Jennifer Sinsabaugh MEP Center director. Sinsabaugh has served as interim director for the past five months, and has been with the organization in various capacities since 2003. Sinsabaugh has a BS in Chemical Engineering and an MBA from the University of New […]
  
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• Updated: Texas, New Mexico producers lose more than 30K dairy cows

  31-12-2015 20:40
  
  LUBBOCK, Texas — Dairy producers in West Texas and eastern New Mexico are continuing to assess how many animals died in the winter storm last weekend, but the number will probably climb to more than 30,000, an official with a dairy group said Thursday. Texas Association of Dairymen executive director Darren Turley said an estimated […]
  
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• New: Texas, New Mexico producers lose more than 30K dairy cows

  31-12-2015 20:40
  
  LUBBOCK, Texas — A dairy association official says that West Texas and eastern New Mexico producers continue to assess how many animals died in the winter storm last weekend, but the number will probably climb to more than 30,000 animals. Texas Association of Dairymen executive director Darren Turley said Thursday that about 15,000 mature dairy […]
  
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• Damaged buildings, dairy worries follow New Mexico storm

  31-12-2015 20:39
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Businesses assessed damaged buildings and southeastern New Mexico cities worked Thursday to clear still snow-covered roads following a record storm as more icy weather is expected in the coming days. From Roswell to Hobbs, some employees returned to work only to find that a record weekend snow storm had caused roofs to […]
  
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• Updated: Police: Man accused of road-rage shooting stayed on scene

  31-12-2015 20:38
  
  PHOENIX — A man who was driving with his 4-year-old daughter and is accused of wounding another driver during a road-rage shooting in Arizona called 911 and stayed at the scene to await police, as did the victim, police said Thursday. The victim in the shooting Wednesday evening suffered arm wounds that aren’t life-threatening, said […]
  
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• Police: Man accused of road-rage shooting stayed on scene

  31-12-2015 20:38
  
  PHOENIX — A man who was driving with his 4-year-old daughter and is accused of wounding another driver during a road-rage shooting in Arizona called 911 and stayed at the scene to await police, as did the victim, police said Thursday. The victim in the shooting Wednesday evening suffered arm wounds that aren’t life-threatening, said […]
  
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• Consumer loan balances up in Southern NM

  31-12-2015 19:40
  
  The outstanding balance of all consumer loans in southern New Mexico was $14.9 billion as of June 2015, a nearly 10 percent increase from June 2012. Over the same period of time nationwide, the outstanding balance of all consumer loans increased 3.6 percent.
  
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• Updated: Fire breaks out near Dubai’s New Year’s fireworks display

  31-12-2015 19:18
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Fire broke out Thursday in a residential building near Dubai’s massive New Year’s Eve fireworks display. It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, which ran up at least 20 stories of the building near the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest skyscraper at 828 meters (905 yards). Burning debris […]
  
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• Updated: Dubai's New Year's fireworks kick off amid tower blaze

  31-12-2015 19:18
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A massive fireworks display kicked off for New Year's at the world's tallest tower…
  
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• Updated: Dubai New Year fireworks kick off while nearby tower blazes

  31-12-2015 19:18
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A massive fireworks display kicked off for New Year's at the world's tallest tower…
  
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• Fire breaks out near Dubai’s New Year’s fireworks display

  31-12-2015 19:18
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Fire broke out Thursday in a residential building near Dubai’s massive New Year’s Eve fireworks display. It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, which ran up at least 20 stories of the building near the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest skyscraper at 828 meters (905 yards). Burning debris […]
  
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• ABQ startup partners with Calif. software firm

  31-12-2015 18:51
  
  APPCityLife hopes to rapidly accelerate sales of its mobile app platform for cities through a newly formed partnership with California-based Accela Inc. Albuquerque-based APPCityLife has built an online platform that allows cities to easily create and deploy customized mobile apps to help citizens more easily access public information and interact with local agencies and programs. […]
  
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• Updated: Videos of APD police shooting of carjacking suspect released

  31-12-2015 18:24
  
  Recordings indicate man had a weapon, pointed it at officers
  
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• Police identify officers in last week’s fatal shooting

  31-12-2015 18:24
  
  Albuquerque police today identified the two officers who shot and killed a 19-year-old carjacking suspect last week and said the suspect had pointed a gun at one of the officers when they opened fire. The officers involved are Andrew Quillman and Shawana Romero. Both have been with the department since 2001 and work in the […]
  
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• Police identify officer in last week’s fatal shooting

  31-12-2015 18:24
  
  Albuquerque police today identified the two officers who shot and killed a 19-year-old carjacking suspect last week and said the suspect had pointed a gun at one of the officers when they opened fire. The officers involved are Andrew Quillman and Shawana Romero. Both have been with the department since 2001 and work in the […]
  
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• 58 workers laid off at Montana mine as coal industry slumps

  31-12-2015 17:06
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. — A Montana coal mine has announced that it laid off dozens of workers and is cutting production amid an industrywide slowdown that’s starting to impact the largest coal-producing region of the United States. Signal Peak Energy announced Wednesday that 58 employees had been laid off and eight vacant positions eliminated at its […]
  
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• US applications for unemployment benefits jumped last week

  31-12-2015 17:03
  
  WASHINGTON — More Americans requested unemployment benefits last week, but the level remains near historic lows in a positive sign for the job market. THE NUMBERS: Applications for jobless aid jumped 20,000 to a seasonally adjusted 287,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. The less volatile 4-week average climbed 4,500 to 277,000. Over the past 12 […]
  
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• Target’s turnaround gets shoppers back into stores

  31-12-2015 17:03
  
  NEW YORK — Target’s efforts to draw shoppers back into its stores are paying off. Take Annabel Bernardo, who once bought trendy clothes at Target but cut back after she felt it lost its fashion edge. Now, Bernardo, who lives in Rockville Center, Maryland, is back: “The store is looking much better. It’s looking more […]
  
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• US stocks edge lower, pulling S&P 500 into red for the year

  31-12-2015 17:01
  
  U.S. stocks veered lower on the last day of the year as the market headed for a sluggish end to 2015. The modest losses in early trading Thursday dragged the Standard & Poor’s 500 index back into the red for the year. With dividends included it will have a slight gain. KEEPING SCORE: The Dow […]
  
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• Updated: US stocks edge lower; S&P 500 goes red for the year

  31-12-2015 17:01
  
  U.S. stocks closed lower on Thursday, capping the worst year for the market since 2008. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index ended essentially flat for the year after the day’s modest losses nudged it into the red for 2015. Even factoring in dividends, the index eked out a far smaller return than in 2014. The […]
  
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• Updated: US stocks edge lower, pulling S&P 500 into red for the year

  31-12-2015 17:01
  
  Stocks are edging lower on the last day of the year as the market heads for a sluggish end to 2015. The modest losses in midday trading Thursday dragged the Standard &P Poor’s 500 index back into the red for the year. With dividends included it will have a slight gain. Energy and materials stocks, […]
  
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• Average US rate on 30-year mortgages rises to 4.01 percent

  31-12-2015 17:01
  
  WASHINGTON — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates crossed the 4 percent mark this week, a slight increase in the wake of the Federal Reserve decision this month to hike a key short-term interest rate. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to 4.01 percent from 3.96 […]
  
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• Taos ends New Year’s Eve fest on Plaza at 10 p.m. — but it does have a pig roast

  31-12-2015 17:00
  
  Santa Fe is not alone in the state with a New Year’s Eve celebration on its ancient and historic Plaza. Taos has one too. It ends at 10 p.m. Make fun of Santa Fe all you want for its aging population and set-in-its-ways mindset (although a lot of creative young people are swaying that) — […]
  
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• Updated: Man arrested after SWAT call for allegedly holding 3 at gunpoint

  31-12-2015 16:31
  
  The Albuquerque police SWAT team has arrested a man they say held three people hostage at gunpoint, not letting them leave the Northeast Albuquerque apartment they were in, according to police spokesman Simon Drobik. Curtis Sena, 46, was arrested after an hour-long SWAT call and will face a slew of charges in the incident, Drobik […]
  
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• Breaking: SWAT called to possible armed suspect holed up in SE ABQ

  31-12-2015 16:31
  
  Albuquerque police SWAT officers are trying to negotiate with a suspect they believe is armed and holding someone against that person’s will at a home in southeast Albuquerque. Police spokesman Fred Duran said someone called 911 early this morning to report that someone was holding the caller inside an apartment and wouldn’t let the caller […]
  
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• Breaking: Man arrested after SWAT call for allegedly holding 3 at gunpoint

  31-12-2015 16:31
  
  The Albuquerque police SWAT team has arrested a man they say held three people hostage at gunpoint, not letting them leave the Northeast Albuquerque apartment they were in, according to police spokesman Simon Drobik. Curtis Sena, 46, was arrested after an hour-long SWAT call and will face a slew of charges in the incident, Drobik […]
  
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• US 93 reopens near Kingman after closure due to fatal wreck

  31-12-2015 16:25
  
  KINGMAN, Ariz. — Arizona authorities say the highway that is the main route between Phoenix and Las Vegas has reopened after being closed near Kingman several hours early Thursday morning because of a fatal accident. The Arizona Department of Public Safety says one person was killed in the one-vehicle accident that occurred on U.S. 93 […]
  
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• Arizona utility declines to disclose political donations

  31-12-2015 16:25
  
  PHOENIX — Arizona’s largest utility is declining to disclose the company’s political donations, saying that requiring it to do so would violate its constitutional rights. On Nov. 30, Arizona Corporation Commission member Robert Burns asked Arizona Public Service Co. to disclose within 30 days its direct and indirect contributions to political candidates in the 2014 […]
  
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• Updated: New Mexico lowers speed limits on unmarked country roads

  31-12-2015 16:24
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — Come New Year’s Day, drivers in New Mexico will have to ease off the gas pedal or risk a ticket when traveling country roads with no posted speed limit. A law taking effect Friday reduces the speed limit on unmarked roads across the rural state from 75 mph to 55 mph. […]
  
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• Updated: Burn restrictions imposed for Phoenix for Thursday, Friday

  31-12-2015 16:24
  
  PHOENIX — Government-imposed restrictions prohibit people in metro Phoenix from using wood-burning fireplaces and other open burning on Thursday and Friday. State and Maricopa County officials said the no-burn restrictions are being imposed because of high levels of particulate pollution due to stagnant weather conditions and strong temperature inversions exacerbated by holiday celebrations. The county […]
  
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• Thousands of Gila trout to be stocked in western New Mexico

  31-12-2015 16:24
  
  SILVER CITY, N.M. — Federal officials have plans to stock about 10,000 Gila trout in southwestern New Mexico to boost recreational fishing opportunities. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says recovery stocking goals for the threatened fish were met in 2015 so the excess fish will be released in the Gila River Forks and in […]
  
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• No-burn restrictions imposed for Phoenix area for Thursday

  31-12-2015 16:24
  
  PHOENIX — Health and environmental officials are imposing restrictions that prohibit people in metro Phoenix from using wood-burning fireplaces and other open burning Thursday. The Maricopa County Air Quality Department says the no-burn restrictions are imposed under a health watch issued by the state Department of Environmental Quality because of anticipated high levels of particulate […]
  
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• New: Police shoot burglary suspect in Colorado Springs

  31-12-2015 16:24
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Authorities say a man was shot Wednesday night after firing at police responding to report of a burglary. El Paso County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Jackie Kirby says in a news release that Colorado Springs police responded to a burglary call on the 2400 block of Sierra Springs Drive at 8:48 p.m. […]
  
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• New Mexico lowers speed limits on unmarked county roads

  31-12-2015 16:24
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico drivers will have to ease that foot off the gas pedal when traveling country roads with no posted speed limit or risk a ticket. A law going into effect on New Year’s Day reduces the speed limit on unmarked county roads from 75 mph to 55 mph. State lawmakers […]
  
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• Stuck buck freed from electric fence at Dewey home

  31-12-2015 16:23
  
  DEWEY, Ariz. — Yavapai County authorities say a buck found stuck was freed from an electric fence with assistance from deputies and wildlife officers. Yavapai County Sheriff’s spokesman Dwight D’Evelyn said in a news release that a Dewey homeowner notified Arizona Game and Fish on Tuesday about a trapped buck on its property. A deputy […]
  
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• Forest Service dismisses transfer of ski area water rights

  31-12-2015 16:23
  
  DENVER — The U.S. Forest Service has decided against requiring ski resorts to transfer water rights to the federal government in order to operate on public land. The Denver Post reports (http://dpo.st/1MI0Yp2 ) the agency issued its final decision Wednesday, abandoning the proposal that ski area water rights must be transferred. Ski resorts will now […]
  
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• New: Cheesecake Factory fans, mark your calendars

  31-12-2015 14:00
  
  Did you think the mall was busy during last week’s pre-Christmas rush? It will probably be swarmed again come Tuesday, Feb. 23. That’s the date The Cheesecake Factory will open at Albuquerque’s Coronado Center, according to the restaurant chain’s Website. Fans have been eagerly awaiting the company’s arrival since news broke last June that the chain […]
  
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• Cheesecake Factory fans, mark your calendars

  31-12-2015 14:00
  
  Did you think the mall was busy during last week’s pre-Christmas rush? It will probably be swarmed again come Tuesday, Feb. 23. That’s the date The Cheesecake Factory will open at Albuquerque’s Coronado Center, according to the restaurant chain’s Website.     Fans have been eagerly awaiting the company’s arrival since news broke last June that the […]
  
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• Second suspect arrested in beer pong shooting case

  31-12-2015 08:11
  
  The 22-year-old man suspected of shooting and critically wounding a teenager after a fight broke out ...
  
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• Women’s college basketball: Owens, Lobos pull out victory in Nevada

  31-12-2015 08:05
  
  RENO, Nev.–They didn't do it the easy way, not by any means, but the University of New Mex ...
  
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• Wettest year in a decade for NM and Albuquerque

  31-12-2015 08:05
  
  Above-average precipitation takes state out of short-term drought
  
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• UNM men’s basketball: 7-footer Scekic to transfer

  31-12-2015 08:05
  
  Shortly before tipoff Wednesday, the Lobos had to deal with one more loss.Backup cente ...
  
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• Santa Fe mayor quits real estate job

  31-12-2015 08:05
  
  Gonzales steps down from position at large company to focus on work for city
  
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• RR mom’s shooting may have been accident

  31-12-2015 08:05
  
  A 29-year-old woman was fatally shot in the face by her 34-year-old brother last week, according to...
  
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• Prep hoops: In a game of pace, Hope Christian wins this race

  31-12-2015 08:05
  
  RIO RANCHO–The surest signal that this was an unusual evening was the sound of silence fil ...
  
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