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• Updated: Officials: All life rafts from copters found and none used

  19-01-2016 23:58
  
  HONOLULU — The Coast Guard has found the fourth life raft from two Marine helicopters that crashed off Hawaii, but no sign has emerged of any of the 12 missing crew members. All the rafts aboard the helicopters have been recovered and all had been empty, Marine Capt. Timothy Irish said. A good Samaritan spotted […]
  
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• La Fonda remodeling moves to public spaces

  19-01-2016 23:45
  
  The third and final phase of a revitalization project will include the lobby, La Fiesta Lounge, the gift shop and other ground floor spaces.
  
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• Updated: Judge rules against Justice Dept. in Fast and Furious fight

  19-01-2016 23:10
  
  WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday rejected the Justice Department’s claim of executive privilege used to withhold certain documents tied to the Fast and Furious “gun-walking” scandal from release to a congressional committee. House Republicans sued in federal court in 2012 to obtain thousands of emails related to the botched effort by the Bureau […]
  
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• Judge rules against Justice Dept. in Fast and Furious fight

  19-01-2016 23:10
  
  WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday rejected the Justice Department’s claim of executive privilege used to withhold certain documents tied to the Fast and Furious “gun-walking” scandal from release to a congressional committee. House Republicans sued in federal court in 2012 to obtain thousands of emails related to the botch effort by the Bureau […]
  
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• Arizona Dems introduce death with dignity measure

  19-01-2016 23:10
  
  PHOENIX — A Democratic lawmaker has introduced a bill granting terminally ill patients the right to take their own lives with prescription life-ending drugs. The measure by Sen. Barbara McGuire, D-Kearny, says patients with an incurable disease and six months left to live can request medication to end their lives under the care of a […]
  
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• Iowa governor calls for anti-Cruz vote on ethanol issue

  19-01-2016 23:09
  
  ALTOONA, Iowa — Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz received an anti-endorsement from the governor of Iowa, Tuesday, host of the country’s lead-off presidential caucus, on account of his failure to support renewable fuels like ethanol. Gov. Terry Branstad, a Republican who has not endorsed any of the GOP presidential candidates for president, said at a […]
  
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• In besieged Syrian city, hungry residents sell gold for food

  19-01-2016 23:09
  
  BEIRUT — In Syria’s eastern city of Deir el-Zour, supplies are running so short that desperate residents are selling their gold, valuables and even their homes for food or an exit permit allowing them to escape a siege by both government troops and Islamic State militants. The extremists have blockaded government-held areas of the city […]
  
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• IS acknowledges death of ‘Jihadi John’ in magazine

  19-01-2016 23:08
  
  NEW YORK — The SITE Intelligence Group says the Islamic State group is acknowledging the death of the masked militant known as “Jihadi John” who appeared in several videos depicting the beheadings of Western hostages. SITE, which tracks terrorist activity, says IS published a “eulogizing profile” on Tuesday of Jihadi John in its English-language magazine […]
  
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• Average movie ticket up to a record high of $8.70

  19-01-2016 23:05
  
  NEW YORK — The average movie ticket has hit a record high of $8.70. The National Association of Theatre Owners said Tuesday that was the average ticket price in the fourth quarter of 2015. It’s up 40 cents, or almost 5 percent, from the same period the year prior. Over the full year of 2015, […]
  
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• New: Gov. Susana Martinez: Future of NM at stake in 2016 session

  19-01-2016 21:59
  
  SANTA FE — Gov. Susana Martinez is calling on a divided New Mexico Legislature to focus on education, job creation and tougher penalties for repeat criminal offenders in the 30-day session that began today. In her sixth State of the State Address since taking office in 2011, the state’s two-term Republican governor says the issues could determine the […]
  
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• Lawyer, former firm say they gave former SEAL proper advice

  19-01-2016 21:57
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A Fort Wayne attorney and his former law firm are defending advice they gave to a former Navy SEAL who wrote a book describing the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Kevin Podlaski and his former firm, Carson Boxberger LLC, say in court documents filed in U.S. District Court in Fort […]
  
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• Updated: Arizona city made famous by Eagles song celebrates Frey

  19-01-2016 21:56
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Winslow, Arizona, was all but forgotten when Interstate 40 displaced Route 66 and began whisking travelers around its downtown in the late 1970s. But it still had one thing going for it: Everybody wanted to stand on a corner in the small city after hearing Glenn Frey and the Eagles make it […]
  
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• Woman found dead, son frostbitten after 3-day Wyoming search

  19-01-2016 21:55
  
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Sheriff’s officials found a woman dead of exposure and her teenage son suffering from frostbite Tuesday, ending a three-day search for a family of three that went missing while snowmobiling in the Medicine Bow Mountains. Searchers had found the father in good condition Monday after he went for help and became separated […]
  
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• 9th Circuit sides with federal agency in Nevada grazing case

  19-01-2016 21:55
  
  RENO, Nev. — Siding with the government in a decades-old battle over grazing rights, a federal appeals court overturned a lower-court ruling in favor of a Nevada rancher and strongly admonished a judge in Reno for abusing his power and exhibiting personal bias against U.S. land managers. In a pair of decisions issued on Friday, […]
  
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• Protesters hold pizza party at Capitol

  19-01-2016 21:54
  
  Pizza with pepperoni, please — and a side of politics. Critics of Gov. Susana Martinez gathered outside the Capitol on the legislative session’s opening day to denounce the governor at a pizza party of sorts. They gave away slices, made speeches criticizing the Republican governor, and carried signs calling for her impeachment or resignation. It […]
  
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• ABQ home construction hits six-year high

  19-01-2016 21:45
  
  A burst of activity in the final months of the year pushed up single-family home construction in 2015.
  
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• Updated: Millennials drive rise of Hispanic voters in 2016

  19-01-2016 21:40
  
  NASHUA, N.H. — Despite a growing pool of potential Hispanic voters in the United States, driven largely by young people, Latinos are likely to be underrepresented at the polls in 2016, a study released Tuesday has found. The Pew Research Center found that a record number of Hispanic voters could head to the polls in […]
  
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• Cruz backers: Should he temper conservatism with moderation?

  19-01-2016 21:39
  
  WHITEFIELD, New Hampshire — Ted Cruz says he is the first true conservative running for president since Ronald Reagan — and that will carry him to the Republican nomination come July. But as he campaigns through New Hampshire, which tends to favor more moderate Republicans, many undecided voters — and even some of his supporters […]
  
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• Winrock adds to restaurant mix

  19-01-2016 21:34
  
  Winrock is beefing up its restaurant roster. The Uptown development has inked a deal for a new Red Robin, adding the burger chain to a food lineup that already includes BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse, Dave & Buster’s, Garduño’s and Genghis Grill. Red Robin plans to build a 6,000-square-foot restaurant with a 1,000-square-foot patio on land […]
  
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• Police search for 2 stabbing suspects in NE ABQ attack

  19-01-2016 21:20
  
  Police are searching for two men who they say stabbed a man so many times he nearly died outside a Northeast Albuquerque convenience store last month. Officers were called to a stabbing at the Circle K at 900 Eubank on December 23, said police spokesman Tanner Tixier. There they found a man in critical condition […]
  
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• Peet-zah and protest

  19-01-2016 20:55
  
  One of the upsides of living in the state Capitol is the entertainment value of the peripheral events that break out during the legislative session. (Something has to make up for the lawmakers, lobbyists and assorted hangers-on who gobble up all the parking spaces.) With today’s opening of the session, the silly season got to […]
  
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• UNM bans ‘hoverboards’ on campus, branch campuses

  19-01-2016 20:28
  
  The University of New Mexico has temporarily banned the use of “hoverboards” on campus and branch campuses, citing safety concerns. Hoverboards, sadly, don’t actually hover. Rather they’re a set of wheels attached to a motorized board that supposedly creates the sensation of hovering. They also can cause fires. UNM announced the ban Tuesday. “The hazards […]
  
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• Short-lived blogger ban greets reporters

  19-01-2016 20:28
  
  Not all news reporters were welcomed at the Roundhouse on the first day of this year’s session. Bloggers, who produce news for online commercial, nonprofit or individual enterprises, were met with a “No Bloggers Allowed” sign on the room used by media observing the Senate. Reporters and media watchers were abuzz about the sign, which […]
  
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• Florida mansion owned by Pablo Escobar set for demolition

  19-01-2016 19:37
  
  MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — A vestige of the drug wars that made Miami notorious for violence and smuggling is set for demolition. A pink waterfront mansion in Miami Beach owned in the 1980s by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar will be torn down Tuesday. The U.S. government seized the property in 1987. It was acquired […]
  
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• Ready, set… Legislature readies for start of 30-day session

  19-01-2016 19:34
  
  A 30-day New Mexico legislative session that promises political drama and fierce debate on anti-crime, ethics and Real ID-related bills is just minutes away from starting. The session officially begins at noon today, and Gov. Susana Martinez will deliver her sixth State of the State Address to lawmakers shortly thereafter. The two-term Republican governor is […]
  
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• Man shot after confronting burglars in Texas parking lot

  19-01-2016 19:21
  
  TYLER, Texas — Police say a man was shot in the arm after confronting three people who were in the process of burglarizing his vehicle in the parking lot of an East Texas restaurant. Tyler police say all three suspects in the Monday night shooting have been arrested. Police say the victim had been eating […]
  
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• Texas set to execute convicted killer of female impersonator

  19-01-2016 19:01
  
  HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas inmate scheduled to be executed this week for strangling a female impersonator 15 years ago insists the death was an accident during sex and has made multiple appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court. A jury had rejected Richard Masterson’s testimony that 35-year-old Darin Honeycutt was accidentally asphyxiated. The 43-year-old Masterson […]
  
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• Ethan Couch’s lawyer: Teen may be in Mexico against his will

  19-01-2016 18:29
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas — Attorneys for a Texas teenager known for using an “affluenza” defense said Tuesday that they’re investigating whether the 18-year-old fled to Mexico or was taken against his will. Ethan Couch’s attorney, Scott Brown, said after a hearing in the case that whether his client “was voluntarily or involuntarily taken to Mexico […]
  
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• Mexico probes possible money tie between actress, drug boss

  19-01-2016 18:25
  
  MEXICO CITY — There are indications that drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman had business dealings with actress Kate del Castillo, who arranged a meeting between the drug boss and actor Sean Penn, Mexico’s attorney general said in an interview published Tuesday. Arely Gomez told the newspaper El Universal that officials are investigating possible money […]
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner is planning a memoir

  19-01-2016 18:25
  
  NEW YORK — Caitlyn Jenner has a book deal. Grand Central Publishing announced Tuesday that it plans a spring 2017 publication for a memoir by Jenner, the transgender activist and reality star and former Olympic athlete. The book, currently untitled, will be co-written by “Friday Night Lights” author Buzz Bissinger, who wrote a Vanity Fair […]
  
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• Updated: Faced with array of risks, CEOs increasingly pessimistic

  19-01-2016 17:53
  
  DAVOS, Switzerland — Facing a cocktail of risks from the economic slowdown in China to the rise of the Islamic State group, chief executives around the world are more pessimistic about the global economy than at any time in three years — a development that has the potential to seriously affect their investment and growth […]
  
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• Updated: Astronaut nurses zinnia to full bloom after mold invasion

  19-01-2016 17:28
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The International Space Station now has a bright pop of orange, thanks to commander Scott Kelly’s green thumb. Kelly showed off his gardening results — a thriving zinnia with a beautiful orange-yellow bloom — over the weekend. He posted photos of the flower on his Twitter account. “Yes, there are other […]
  
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• Gov’t report: Budget deficit to rise to $544B this year

  19-01-2016 17:28
  
  WASHINGTON — A new government report estimates that this year’s budget deficit will rise to $544 billion, an increase over prior estimates that can be attributed largely to tax cuts and spending increases passed by Congress last month. The estimate from the Congressional Budget Office also sees the economy growing at a significantly slower pace […]
  
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• Phoenix police: Officers shoot man after he points gun

  19-01-2016 17:27
  
  PHOENIX — Phoenix police say officers fatally shot a man when he pointed a gun at his head and then at the officers following a lengthy standoff. Police did not immediately release the name of the 39-year-old man killed early Tuesday morning outside his home. According to police, the incident began Monday evening when the […]
  
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• Updated: New Mexico poll weighs support for campaign finance reforms

  19-01-2016 17:03
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — A statewide poll about proposed campaign finance and ethics reforms in New Mexico highlighted broad support among registered voters for more public disclosure of political funding sources. Common Cause New Mexico, an advocate of new campaign disclosures and ethic regulations, commissioned the survey and published its results Tuesday as the Legislature […]
  
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• Probation violation hearing delayed in Texas for Ethan Couch

  19-01-2016 17:02
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas — A hearing has been delayed to consider whether a Texas teenager known for using an “affluenza” defense violated his probation in a fatal drunken-driving wreck. Attorneys for Ethan Couch, who is being held in Mexico, convinced a judge to recess the Tuesday hearing shortly after it started in Fort Worth. They […]
  
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• Convicted killer of Houston officer loses at Supreme Court

  19-01-2016 17:02
  
  HOUSTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review an appeal from a Texas death row inmate convicted of killing a Houston police officer more than 25 years ago. The high court, without comment Tuesday, rejected the case of 58-year-old Robert Mitchell Jennings. Jennings was condemned in 1989, a year after undercover Houston vice […]
  
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• High court rejects Arizona sheriff’s appeal over immigration

  19-01-2016 17:01
  
  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from an Arizona sheriff seeking to halt President Barack Obama’s plan to spare millions of people from deportation. The justices on Tuesday let stand a lower court ruling that said Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio had no legal basis to challenge the program. Arpaio claimed the […]
  
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• 6-year-old dies in golf cart accident in East Texas

  19-01-2016 17:00
  
  TRINITY, Texas — Officials say a 6-year-old girl has died after the golf cart she was riding in, which was being operated by an 8-year-old, overturned in East Texas. The Lufkin Daily News (http://bit.ly/1PnYE8l ) reports that the Texas Department of Public Safety said the girl died Sunday. The child driving the golf cart in […]
  
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• Updated: Supreme Court sets election-year clash on immigration

  19-01-2016 16:59
  
  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to an election-year review of President Barack Obama’s executive action to allow up to 5 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally to “come out of the shadows” and work legally in the United States. The justices said they will consider undoing lower court orders that blocked the […]
  
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• Hickenlooper administration backs North Fork coal mining

  19-01-2016 16:59
  
  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Gov. John Hickenlooper’s administration is urging the U.S. Forest Service to reinstate an exemption that would allow underground coal mining in Gunnison County. The Forest Service previously agreed to carve out nearly 20,000 acres from conservation protections to allow Arch Coal to build the methane vents needed to safely mine coal […]
  
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• Oskar Blues donates 50,000 cans of water to Flint, Michigan

  19-01-2016 16:58
  
  DENVER — Oskar Blues and Ball Corp. has sent 50,000 cans of fresh water to residents of Flint, Michigan, with more headed to the city, which is currently struggling with lead-contaminated tap water. The Denver Post reports (http://dpo.st/1RR4KoO ) that the water is being shipped from Oskar Blues’ brewery in North Carolina in cans provided […]
  
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• Frey, prolific Eagles singer-songwriter-bandleader, dies

  19-01-2016 16:58
  
  NEW YORK — As the Eagles co-founder, singer and songwriter Glenn Frey mastered the mix of rock ‘n’ roll and country music, and the band’s hits — including “Hotel California” and “Take It Easy,” both co-written by Frey — helped define the 1970s. Frey died Monday of complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and […]
  
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• Twitter disruption silences swaths of Europe, parts of US

  19-01-2016 15:49
  
  SEOUL, South Korea — Some Twitter users had to do without early Tuesday after sporadic outages knocked the social media site offline in Europe. Reports of malfunctions began to appear in the U.S. as well, but it was unclear how widespread the outages were. Twitter Inc. which has 320 million active users, tweeted that it […]
  
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• Delta posts $980 million 4Q profit on lower fuel prices

  19-01-2016 15:49
  
  DALLAS — Cheaper jet fuel thanks to falling oil prices helped Delta Air Lines earn $980 million in the fourth quarter despite lower revenue than a year ago. The results fell slightly short of Wall Street expectations. Delta officials said demand for travel remained solid, but they forecast another decline in a key revenue measure […]
  
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• Coca-Cola consolidates marketing for namesake colas

  19-01-2016 15:49
  
  NEW YORK — Coca-Cola, under pressure for selling sugary drinks, is unveiling a new global campaign that for the first time unites its flagship cola with diet versions. The Atlanta company says the “Taste the Feeling” campaign will feature Coke, Diet Coke, Coke Light, Coke Zero and Coke Life, a newer version of the soda […]
  
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• Tiffany’s holiday sales fall, weak conditions remain

  19-01-2016 15:48
  
  NEW YORK — Tiffany reported a worldwide decline in jewelry sales during the holiday period as consumer spending remained tepid in an uncertain global economy. The company reported a 9 percent drop in global same-store sales, or sales at stores open at least a year. Every region experienced a decline, except for Japan. “We believe […]
  
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• Financial stocks lead an early gain on Wall Street

  19-01-2016 15:48
  
  NEW YORK — U.S. stocks are opening higher, led by gains in banks and technology companies. Morgan Stanley gained 1 percent early Tuesday after the investment bank reported better earnings and revenue than analysts were expecting. Bank of America also edged up. Not all the earnings news was good. Tiffany sank 6 percent after reporting […]
  
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• France’s Renault recalls 15,000 diesels for emissions fixes

  19-01-2016 15:47
  
  PARIS — Renault has recalled 15,000 diesels to update their emissions filters, France’s environment minister said Tuesday, describing the current filters as inadequate in warm weather. Segolene Royal told RTL radio the French carmaker had agreed to the recall and she acknowledged that previous tests, which weren’t conducted in real driving conditions, were insufficient. Renault […]
  
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• Central bank head warns of banking crisis in Poland

  19-01-2016 15:46
  
  WARSAW, Poland — The head of Poland’s central bank is warning that a bill offering relief to holders of Swiss franc mortgages combined with new taxes on banks amount to a “recipe for a banking crisis.” Marek Belka’s comments Tuesday in an interview to the private broadcaster TVN come amid heightened political uncertainty under a […]
  
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