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• Authorities search for man in fatal Memphis police chase

  28-01-2016 23:54
  
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Authorities searched the streets of Memphis on Thursday for a suspect who was involved in a police chase that led to the fatal shooting of another man who fired at officers. Law enforcement officers assembled at the scene of the shooting near a church in a south Memphis neighborhood, trying to piece […]
  
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• Goodbye, Gatherings

  28-01-2016 23:53
  
  Albuquerque stationery and gift shop closing after 18 years
  
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• Family: snake drops from tree at Disney park, bites boy

  28-01-2016 23:45
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. — An Alabama family says an escaped snake at Disney’s Animal Kingdom dropped from a tree and bit a boy, which led to the death of the boy’s grandmother. The family’s attorney, Matt Morgan, said Thursday that the family plans to sue Disney World. He says the grandmother saw the snake bite the […]
  
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• Updated: At least 145 sickened from apparent gas leak at Texas school

  28-01-2016 23:27
  
  BEAUMONT, Texas — Authorities say at least 145 students and staff members at a Southeast Texas school received hospital treatment after an apparent carbon monoxide leak. Beaumont emergency personnel say the children and adults from Marshall Middle School were being treated Thursday for injuries not believed to be life-threatening. Officials at Baptist Beaumont Hospital, Christus […]
  
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• Tax preparer indicted on forgery, fraud charges

  28-01-2016 23:21
  
  An Albuquerque tax preparer has been indicted for filing fraudulent tax returns using stolen identities. Flora Mascarenas, 54, was charged with two counts of identity theft, two counts of forgery and two counts of computer access with intent to defraud or embezzle, all felonies, according to the state Taxation and Revenue Department. The charges carry […]
  
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• More airlines offer Zika refunds to pregnant women

  28-01-2016 23:21
  
  DALLAS — More U.S. airlines and cruise operators are offering refunds or letting pregnant women change itineraries if they booked a trip to places dealing with an outbreak of Zika virus. While health officials say most people exposed to the virus suffer only mild symptoms, the risk is far greater for pregnant women. Brazilian officials […]
  
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• Report: Corruption, cronyism stifle NM economy

  28-01-2016 23:11
  
  New Mexico’s reliance on government jobs, its history of corruption and a “poorly compensated” citizen Legislature create a “perfect storm” that is a major reason for the state’s languishing economy, according to a report released Thursday by the non-partisan Committee for Economic Development and the University of New Mexico. “New Mexico’s economy is stagnant, largely […]
  
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• Inquiry finds sales of concert tickets are a ‘fixed game’

  28-01-2016 22:45
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. — Had a hard time getting a ticket to a concert or sporting event? New York’s attorney general says that’s probably because more than half of tickets to many events are held for industry insiders or otherwise unavailable to the general public. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a report released Thursday that […]
  
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• In face of Zika virus, women ponder abortion, childlessness

  28-01-2016 22:45
  
  SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Maria Erlinda Guzman desperately wants a baby, and has been undergoing fertility treatments at El Salvador’s largest women’s hospital. But now, she fears her dream of motherhood may be dashed by Zika. After her country took the extraordinary step of advising women to avoid pregnancies for two years due to […]
  
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• Sunday is deadline for Obamacare coverage

  28-01-2016 22:36
  
  Those who have not enrolled face hefty penalties when they pay their taxes.
  
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• Updated: Pentagon chief seeks to improve family leave, child care

  28-01-2016 22:35
  
  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Thursday unveiled a series of family-friendly proposals for the military that would increase parental leave, child care and health care coverage to bolster efforts to recruit and retain high-quality service members. Carter told a Pentagon news conference that he will double the length of fully paid maternity leave […]
  
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• Pentagon chief seeks to improve family leave, child care

  28-01-2016 22:35
  
  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Thursday unveiled a series of family-friendly proposals for the military that would increase parental leave, child care and health care coverage to bolster efforts to recruit and retain high-quality service members. Carter told a Pentagon news conference that he will double the length of fully paid maternity leave […]
  
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• San Francisco park reopens with new outdoor urinal

  28-01-2016 22:34
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco’s iconic Dolores Park is now home to the city’s first open-air urinal, the latest move to combat the destructive scourge of public urination in the City by the Bay. The cement circular urinal is out in the open, though plants and a screen offer some privacy. It’s a welcome addition […]
  
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• Victim’s mental health an issue in Florida police air rifle killing

  28-01-2016 22:33
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A judge says he’ll decide whether a dead man’s mental health records should be allowed in the manslaughter trial of a Florida sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot the man in 2013. Broward Circuit Judge Michael Usan said at a hearing Thursday that he will privately examine the records of 33-year-old Jermaine […]
  
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• Jamaican Lottery Scam

  28-01-2016 22:24
  
  The Jamaican lottery scam is one of those scams that never goes away...
  
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• Want to feel better? Move to Hawaii, Alaska

  28-01-2016 22:18
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — If you want to improve your sense of well-being, leave the Lower 48. A new report ranking all 50 states based on residents’ sense of well-being puts Hawaii at No. 1, followed by Alaska, which held the top spot last year. Hawaii has been No. 1 in the poll five times since […]
  
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• Corpus Christi schools get teaching tools with misspellings

  28-01-2016 22:17
  
  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Corpus Christi school district has spent about $90,000 on teaching materials that turned out to be peppered with misspelled words or were stamped with another school district’s logo. The Corpus Christi Caller-Times (http://bit.ly/1lWBzC8 ) reported Thursday that the vocabulary-based instruction cards, which also had grammatical errors, were distributed to Corpus […]
  
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• Clinton’s firewall? Black voters the key in South Carolina

  28-01-2016 22:17
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. — At Hillary Clinton’s South Carolina headquarters, a young staffer readies a stack of pictures showing the former secretary of state with her old boss, President Barack Obama. Then the staffer bolts out the door. His destination: African-American businesses across South Carolina’s largest city. “If you don’t have tape, I’ll bring some to […]
  
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• Man with 2 handguns, partner arrested at Disneyland Paris

  28-01-2016 22:16
  
  PARIS — A man who tried to bring two handguns into a hotel at Disneyland Paris was detained Thursday along with his female partner, authorities said, amid lingering jitters around the French capital following attacks last year. No one was hurt in the incident, and the park — Europe’s most-visited tourist attraction — remained open […]
  
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• Albuquerque tax preparer is indicted for identify theft

  28-01-2016 22:16
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Authorities say a tax preparer in Albuquerque has been indicted for filing fraudulent tax returns using stolen identities. They say 54-year-old Flora Mascarenas has been charged with two felony counts each of identity theft, forgery and computer access with intent to defraud or embezzle. Authorities say the charges carry a maximum sentence […]
  
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• With Duran impeachment a moot point, House special panel wraps up work

  28-01-2016 21:50
  
  SANTA FE — New Mexico lawmakers were considering meeting in a rare extraordinary session last fall to issue subpoenas for evidence in the criminal case against former Secretary of State Dianna Duran, the counsel for a special House panel said today. Duran ultimately resigned from office — and pleaded guilty to felony charges of misusing […]
  
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• 1 tree-killing outbreak is over in Colorado, 2nd still going

  28-01-2016 21:32
  
  DENVER — Forestry experts say the mountain pine beetle epidemic that ravaged Colorado’s lodgepole pines for two decades is over, but a second bug that attacks spruce trees is still spreading. A yearly report on the state’s forests released Thursday also had good news about aspen trees, which splash mountainsides with bright colors every autumn: […]
  
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• Weekend blizzard ranks 4th worst among Northeast snowstorms

  28-01-2016 21:31
  
  HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Last weekend’s crippling blizzard was the fourth most powerful snowstorm to hit the Northeast in at least 60 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday. The agency gave the storm a rating of 7.66 on the Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale, which ranks storms according to inches of snowfall, geographic reach […]
  
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• Sanders releasing new ad on Goldman Sachs’ role in economy

  28-01-2016 21:30
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will release a tough new television ad critical of Goldman Sachs’ role in the financial meltdown and use of speaking fees as he ramps up criticism of Hillary Clinton’s ties to Wall Street. The 30-second ad, circulated Thursday ahead of its scheduled Friday release makes no […]
  
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• UK police arrest suspect with 38 phones in his trousers

  28-01-2016 21:26
  
  LONDON — British police have arrested a suspected thief with 38 mobile phones stuffed down his trousers. West Midlands Police say they believe the man stole the phones from concertgoers at a show by band The Libertines in Birmingham, central England. The 30-year-old and a second man, who was also arrested, were spotted at the […]
  
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• 30 years since Challenger: Teacher-in-Space finalists gather

  28-01-2016 21:26
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Dozens of educators who competed alongside Christa McAuliffe to become the first teacher in space gathered Thursday to remember the seven astronauts who perished aboard Challenger 30 years ago. McAuliffe’s son, Scott, now 39, also took part in the emotionally charged ceremony, held on a bleak, drizzly morning just six miles […]
  
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• Arizona governor wants to split 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

  28-01-2016 21:25
  
  PHOENIX — Arizona’s Republican governor is pushing a renewed effort to break up the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, citing reasons besides longstanding GOP complaints that the court is too liberal. Gov. Doug Ducey said Arizona should move into another circuit or Congress should create a 12th. He cited the nine-state circuit’s extreme caseload, […]
  
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• Feds issue reminder: Test students or risk losing funding

  28-01-2016 21:24
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. — The U.S. Education Department is not relenting on requirements to test students on math and language arts abilities, despite the end of No Child Left Behind, and it reminded some states that federal funding could be at stake if too many children skip the annual assessments. But testing opponents say they’re not […]
  
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• Texas traffic stop yields $3M in drugs in picture frames

  28-01-2016 18:04
  
  CONWAY, Texas — A Texas Panhandle traffic stop has yielded $3 million worth of methamphetamine hidden in the frames of religious-themed pictures. The Texas Department of Public Safety on Thursday announced two people were arrested during the stop near Conway while bound for Georgia. A DPS trooper on Tuesday morning pulled over the vehicle for […]
  
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• Poll: 3 out of 5 New Mexicans support marijuana legalization

  28-01-2016 18:04
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — A new poll finds that three out of five residents of New Mexico support the legalization and taxation of recreational marijuana. The survey released on Thursday by Albuquerque-based Polling & Research found that 61 percent of residents support proposed legislation to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana sales among adults of ages […]
  
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• Customs officer in South Texas faces bribery charge

  28-01-2016 18:03
  
  McALLEN, Texas — A Customs and Border Protection officer in South Texas has been charged with accepting a bribe and illegally using a government computer in visa cases. Julio Trujillo (troo-HEE’-yoh) of Mission was arrested Thursday. The 30-year-old officer faces a federal detention hearing Friday in McAllen. Trujillo is charged with bribery and exceeding his […]
  
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• Aux Dog’s ‘Other Mozart’ is compelling in all facets

  28-01-2016 17:48
  
  Very few people are aware that the great musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had a sister, and that Maria Anna Mozart was, like her brother, a musical prodigy. However, because women were not expected to pursue music as a vocation — it was meant to be merely “ornamental,” a means to catch a husband — […]
  
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• McDonald’s to test expanded all-day breakfast with McGriddle

  28-01-2016 17:30
  
  NEW YORK — Basking in the fanfare over its all-day breakfast menu, McDonald’s is pushing its operational limits by testing the addition of another morning favorite to the lineup: the McGriddle. The world’s biggest burger chain plans to start offering an expanded all-day breakfast menu that includes McGriddle sandwiches in 72 restaurants in Tulsa, Oklahoma […]
  
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• Average US rate on 30-year mortgage falls to 3.79 percent

  28-01-2016 17:18
  
  WASHINGTON — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates fell this week for a fourth straight week amid persisting turmoil in stock markets and global economic worries. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage slipped to 3.79 percent from 3.81 percent a week earlier. That means it stays below the symbolically […]
  
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• Mexico puts ‘affluenza’ teen on plane to Texas

  28-01-2016 17:01
  
  MEXICO CITY — Uniformed Mexican immigration agents put “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch aboard a commercial flight to Dallas Texas Thursday morning, ending his monthlong stay in Mexico. Mexico’s immigration institute said that Couch, who used an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving accident, was taken to the Mexico City airport from an immigration holding center […]
  
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• School board responds to Skandera’s rebuke

  28-01-2016 16:59
  
  LAS CRUCES – Las Cruces school board members responded Wednesday to a letter sent Tuesday by state Education Secretary Hanna Skandera citing numerous alleged violations of the state’s Open Meetings Act and instances in which Skandera feels the board has acted beyond its authority. “I have read the Secretary’s letter and I am deeply troubled […]
  
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• Colorado man gets prison time for 10th DUI

  28-01-2016 16:59
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A Colorado Springs man has been sentenced to three years in prison after his 10th DUI conviction. The Colorado Springs Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/20uzygl ) that 54-year-old William Randall Nance was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to drunken driving. His most recent DUI charge comes from a Labor Day crash in Colorado […]
  
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• 3 more arrested as Bundy urges refuge occupiers to leave

  28-01-2016 16:58
  
  BURNS, Ore. — Three members of an armed group occupying an Oregon wildlife refuge surrendered to authorities, officials said, hours after their jailed leader urged the remaining occupiers to go home. The three arrests Wednesday came a day after the arrests of leader Ammon Bundy and seven others and the death of another occupier in […]
  
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• NMSU regents approve Paulson honor

  28-01-2016 16:57
  
  LAS CRUCES – The New Mexico State University Board of Regents met briefly Wednesday morning to name a room at Aggie Memorial Stadium after Lori Paulson. The motion — the sole agenda item for Wednesday’s special meeting — passed on a 5-0 vote. A dedication ceremony is scheduled Thursday afternoon at Aggie Memorial Stadium’s Hall […]
  
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• Texas jury orders maximum 99 years in toddler sex assault

  28-01-2016 16:56
  
  GALVESTON, Texas — A Southeast Texas man must serve the maximum 99 years in prison for sexual assault of a toddler in a cellphone-recorded attack. Jason Michael Grant was sentenced Wednesday after being convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child in the 2012 assault. The case involved a then-14-month-old victim. The Galveston County Daily […]
  
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• Prostitution sting closes 9 massage parlors

  28-01-2016 16:56
  
  LEAGUE CITY, Texas — A recent prostitution investigation in Southeast Texas has led to the closure of six massage parlors in League City and nine arrests. The Galveston County Daily News (http://bit.ly/1QuII7H ) reported Thursday that the businesses operated along Main Street and Marina Bay Drive. Police Sgt. Stephen Antley says two massage businesses were […]
  
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• More than 400 permit-tags left to hunt javelina

  28-01-2016 16:55
  
  PHOENIX — The Arizona Game and Fish Department has more than 400 permit-tags left for hunters looking to apply to hunt spring javelina. Hunters wanting to apply for a permit-tag can file a paper application and drop it off or mail it to an Arizona Fish and Game Office. There are also more than 170 […]
  
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• Iconoclastic presidential hopefuls worry Dems, GOP in House

  28-01-2016 16:54
  
  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders are energizing grassroots voters as the first balloting of the 2016 presidential race draws near. Yet the three maverick contenders are also alarming political operatives over the damage each could wreak on their own parties’ House candidates this November. The worry is that each man’s take-no-prisoners […]
  
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• Protesters sprayed outside a Planned Parenthood in Tempe

  28-01-2016 16:53
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. — Some people protesting outside a Planned Parenthood facility in Tempe say they were sprayed with an unknown substance and police are investigating. The protesters say a blonde woman in an SUV used a large toy water gun to spray them with a brown substance Wednesday morning. Police are testing the substance to […]
  
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• 19 arrested in connection with drug, gambling ring

  28-01-2016 16:53
  
  SAN DIEGO — Nineteen people from four states were arrested in connection with an international drug trafficking and illegal gambling ring that authorities allege was headed by a former college athlete. Arrests were made Wednesday in Southern California, Sacramento, Phoenix, Louisiana and Virginia, the U.S. attorney’s office said. Two other people were previously arrested, including […]
  
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• Police unable to ID body of man found in Tempe Town Lake

  28-01-2016 16:52
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. — Authorities in Tempe have not yet identified the body of a man found in Tempe Town Lake. Police said Wednesday that detectives are asking for anyone with information about the incident to come forward. According to police, two passers-by saw the body floating in the lake Jan. 14. The two waved down […]
  
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• Inmate hospitalized after chewing off thumb

  28-01-2016 16:52
  
  FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A Larimer County inmate has returned to jail after receiving treatment at a nearby hospital for biting off his thumb. The Coloradoan reports (http://noconow.co/1QEQnCy ) that the sheriff’s office said in a release that a deputy had been conducting a routine inmate check Wednesday when he noticed something being slid from […]
  
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• Traffickers seek safe haven amid legal marijuana

  28-01-2016 16:51
  
  DENVER — Seeking a safe haven in Colorado’s legal marijuana marketplace, illegal drug traffickers are growing weed among the state’s sanctioned pot warehouses and farms, then covertly shipping it elsewhere and pocketing millions of dollars from the sale, according to law enforcement officials and court records consulted by The Associated Press. In one case, the […]
  
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• Health official doubts Zika virus poses major threat to US

  28-01-2016 13:52
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading Obama administration health official says he doubts the United States is vulnerable to a widespread outbreak of a virus linked to a wave of birth defects in Brazil.
  
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• Updated: 3 more linked to occupied federal site in Oregon arrested

  28-01-2016 08:12
  
  BURNS, Ore. — Three more suspects linked to the armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon surrendered Wednesday, hours after their jailed leader urged the handful of remaining militants to abandon the site they have occupied for more than three weeks. After militant leader Ammon Bundy made his first court appearance in Portland […]
  
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