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• Few Zika samples being shared by Brazil

  03-02-2016 23:53
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — U.N. and U.S. health officials tell The Associated Press that Brazil has yet to share enough samples and disease data needed to answer the most worrying question about the Zika outbreak: whether the virus is actually responsible for the increase in the number of babies born with abnormally small heads in […]
  
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• Study: Texas birth control fell after Planned Parenthood cut

  03-02-2016 23:40
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — A new study finds that Texas saw a drop in women obtaining long-acting birth control after Republican leaders booted Planned Parenthood from a state women’s health program in 2013, which researchers say may explain an increase in births among some poor families. The research examined the effects of Texas severing taxpayer ties […]
  
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• AZ schools chief rails about bill ending education board fight

  03-02-2016 23:15
  
  PHOENIX — Arizona schools chief Diane Douglas has issued a fiery broadside against a state senator who is pushing legislation to settle ongoing fights between Douglas and the state Board of Education. Douglas on Wednesday said she was “shocked” at the “repulsive nature” of Republican Sen. Jeff Dial’s proposal. Senate Bill 1416 would essentially end […]
  
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• Cam Newton took fancy pants where other pros dare not go

  03-02-2016 23:10
  
  NEW YORK — Lots of athletes have style, but could they rock the Cam pants? Super Bowl 50 is just days away and already has a breakout star: the $849 Versace skinny pants of Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton. Newton was snapped Sunday in the zebra stripe, gold swirl rocker pants as he boarded a […]
  
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• The Latest: Meijer donates $500,000 to 3 Flint nonprofits

  03-02-2016 23:09
  
  DETROIT — The latest on developments in the lead contamination of Flint’s water (all times local): 5 p.m. Michigan retailer Meijer Inc. says it’s donating $500,000 to three Flint nonprofits involved in relief efforts related to the crisis caused by lead in the city’s drinking water. The Grand Rapids-based company announced Wednesday it’s contributing $250,000 […]
  
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• Trump calls for Iowa election do-over

  03-02-2016 23:08
  
  NASHUA, N.H. — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is accusing rival Ted Cruz of stealing the Iowa caucuses and is demanding a do-over. “Based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa Caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified,” Trump tweeted Wednesday. “Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, […]
  
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• Updated: Marble wrapping up $4 million expansion

  03-02-2016 23:04
  
  Marble, which has struggled for years to make enough beer to meet demand, is now in a position to produce as much as 30,000 barrels annually.
  
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• Marble wrapping up $4 million expansion

  03-02-2016 23:04
  
  Marble, which has struggled for years to make enough beer to meet demand, is now in a position to produce as much as 30,000 barrels annually.
  
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• Updated: PRC to open new case on renewable energy charge

  03-02-2016 22:16
  
  Regulators will look into whether large electricity customers are receiving undue fuel savings as a result of Public Service Co. of New Mexico's investments in renewable energy.
  
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• Bob Elliott, of comic duo Bob and Ray, dies at 92

  03-02-2016 22:10
  
  PORTLAND, Maine — Bob Elliott, half of the enduring television and radio comedy team Bob and Ray, has died, He was 92. Elliott, father of actor-comedian Chris Elliott, died Tuesday at his home in Cundy’s Harbor, Maine, part of the town of Harpswell, Rick Gagne, director of the Brackett Funeral Home, said Wednesday. The cause […]
  
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• 50 Years of Super Bowl Rings

  03-02-2016 22:07
  
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• PRC to review large-user renewables charge

  03-02-2016 21:56
  
  The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission voted 5-0 on Wednesday to open a new regulatory case to examine whether large electricity customers are receiving undue fuel savings as a result of Public Service Co. of New Mexico’s investments in renewable energy. The vote effectively separates the issue from approval of PNM’s renewable energy procurement plan […]
  
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• Phoenix council to take up hot potato of prayer at meetings

  03-02-2016 21:36
  
  PHOENIX — The devil won’t be just in the details when the Phoenix City Council takes up a political and religious hot potato. The council is poised Wednesday afternoon to consider whether a group that uses Satan in its name should be allowed to present the opening prayer during a future council meeting. The issue […]
  
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• Video shows only known US jaguar roaming Arizona mountains

  03-02-2016 21:35
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. — The only known wild jaguar in the United States is seen roaming around a creek and other parts of a mountain range just south of Tucson in the first publicly released video of the giant cat. “El Jefe” — Spanish for “the boss” — has been living in the Santa Rita Mountains […]
  
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• AZ lawmakers introduce bill to split 9th Circuit court

  03-02-2016 21:35
  
  PHOENIX — A U.S. senator and U.S. representative from Arizona have introduced legislation to break up the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Sen. Jeff Flake and Rep. Matt Salmon say the court is oversized and overworked. Efforts to split the circuit covering the Western U.S. have been floated for decades but failed in Congress […]
  
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• Mystery meat: Was it really woolly mammoth on the menu?

  03-02-2016 21:34
  
  A Yale researcher says a lavish 1951 Explorers Club dinner in New York City didn’t include 250,000-year-old extinct woolly mammoth, despite folklore about the event. Nor did the feast include meat from a giant ground sloth, as the menu promised. A new DNA analysis from a fist-sized piece of meat that survived the soiree featuring […]
  
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• More charges filed in kidnap-child sex slave case

  03-02-2016 21:34
  
  LAS VEGAS — Dozens more charges have been filed against a North Las Vegas man accused of kidnapping and keeping a 14-year-old Arizona girl as his sex slave for about a month. A revised complaint brings to 83 the number of charges against 26-year-old Jimmy Carter Kim. It stems from allegations involving three more alleged […]
  
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• Zika affects plans for destination weddings, babymoons

  03-02-2016 21:33
  
  Some travelers are trading in Caribbean and Latin American vacations for ski trips and Hawaii as they rethink destination weddings, babymoons and other getaways in light of the Zika virus. The mosquito-borne virus can cause mild illness, but some travelers are worried about a possible link between the virus and babies born with smaller-than-normal heads, […]
  
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• Slate of changes to Colorado’s amendment process filed

  03-02-2016 21:33
  
  DENVER — There’s one thing Democrats and Republicans always seem to agree on in Colorado — that it’s too easy for citizens to change the state constitution. A bipartisan civic group renewed the effort Tuesday by filing a slate of ballot measures to make it harder. The measures would require ballot petition signatures to be […]
  
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• The Latest: Florida governor declares emergency due to Zika

  03-02-2016 21:28
  
  PARIS — The Latest on the mosquito-born Zika virus, which is linked to brain deformities in babies (all times local): 9:15 p.m. Florida Gov. Rick Scott has declared a health emergency in four counties of the state because of the Zika virus. At least nine cases of the mosquito-borne illness have been detected in Florida. […]
  
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• Breaking: BCSO identifies man shot and killed after alleged crime spree

  03-02-2016 21:01
  
  The man shot and killed by two deputies and an officer Tuesday has been identified by authorities as Edgar Alvarado, 21. Bernalillo County Sheriff Manny Gonzales said that Alvarado fired at least once and struck a BCSO deputy’s car before two deputies and an Albuquerque police officer opened fire. Gonzales said one deputy fired two […]
  
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• Intel finds no pay gap between men and women at the chipmaker

  03-02-2016 20:51
  
  (c) 2016, The Washington Post. On Wednesday, Intel released what in some ways has become de rigueur for a technology company: Its annual report on diversity. This exercise in public humility, in which tech companies admit to the relatively low numbers of women and minorities in their tech and leadership ranks, generated huge interest when […]
  
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• Raton man charged for brick assault on postman, who was seriously injured

  03-02-2016 20:47
  
  A Raton man who maintained federal agents were following him faces a federal charge for striking a mail carrier in the head with a brick last month, resulting in serious injuries for the postman that included severed vertebrae and paralysis of the left side of his body. Cody Martinez, 29, of Raton, is charged with […]
  
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• Isotopes hold job fair on Saturday

  03-02-2016 20:24
  
  The Albuquerque Isotopes hold their annual job fair Saturday from 9 a.m.-noon at Isotopes Park. The job fair is for people seeking game-day, seasonal employment at Isotopes Park and generall attracts more than 1,000 people. All interested applicants should enter the ballpark on the third base side. The Isotopes and Spectra Food Services and Hospitality […]
  
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• Tornadoes in the South; snow in Plains and Upper Midwest

  03-02-2016 19:24
  
  JACKSON, Miss. — A tornado-damaged women’s prison was running partly on backup power and heavy rain prompted an apartment evacuation in northwest Georgia on Wednesday, a day after storms spawned tornadoes in Mississippi and Alabama and dumped snow on places farther west. The administration building at the Federal Correctional Institution Aliceville, near the town of […]
  
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• NYC mayor vets public-info requests for ‘sensitivity’

  03-02-2016 19:18
  
  NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio denied he was micromanaging his image last year when his lawyers issued a sweeping mandate to review all public records requests that could “reflect directly on the mayor.” But the first batch of more than 50 requests forwarded to City Hall, and obtained by The […]
  
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• UN envoy announces ‘temporary pause’ to Syria peace talks

  03-02-2016 19:15
  
  GENEVA — The Latest on Syrian peace talks in Geneva (all times local): 7 p.m. The U.N. envoy for Syria has announced a “temporary pause” in peace talks in Geneva amid intensified fighting, saying the process will resume later this month. Speaking to reporters after a meeting with opposition leaders, Staffan de Mistura insisted “this […]
  
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• Lawyer for man shot by deputy: He should get $24 million

  03-02-2016 19:01
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — An unarmed black man shot and paralyzed by an Asian-American sheriff’s deputy will need more than $6 million to cover medical expenses over the course of his life and should receive total compensation of $24 million, his lawyer argued Wednesday. Dontrell Stephens, 22, deserves at least $18 million for pain and […]
  
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• Slain 13-year-old was caught between childhood, adulthood

  03-02-2016 19:00
  
  BLACKSBURG, Va. — Nicole Madison Lovell was, by all accounts, at that awkward stage of growing up that all kids go through: clinging to childhood ways while beginning to venture into the adult world. The 13-year-old still played in the snow with much younger children, a neighbor said. Her mom said she loved pandas and […]
  
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• Report: It’s ethical to test embryos from DNA of 3 people

  03-02-2016 18:46
  
  WASHINGTON — Creating babies from the DNA of three people — a man and two women — one day might prevent mothers from passing on devastating genetic diseases, and advisers to the government now say it’s ethical to test the procedure under certain conditions. At issue is a kind of DNA that children can inherit […]
  
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• Central Europe guardedly welcomes US military spending boost

  03-02-2016 18:46
  
  WARSAW, Poland — Countries in Central and Eastern Europe are welcoming a U.S. plan to quadruple military spending in Europe in reaction to Russia’s military resurgence, yet the tone from several governments appears guarded as it remains unclear how much of the spending will translate into a real and lasting presence of troops and weapons […]
  
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• Updated: Anti-abortion activist indicted in Texas turns herself in

  03-02-2016 18:40
  
  HOUSTON — One of the two anti-abortion activists indicted last month after making undercover videos about Planned Parenthood turned herself in Wednesday to Texas authorities. Sandra Merritt appeared in a Houston courtroom and posted bond, which was reduced from $10,000 to $2,000. The other indicted activist, David Daleiden, was scheduled to turn himself in Thursday. […]
  
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• Afghan insurgents kill 10-year-old boy who joined militia

  03-02-2016 18:39
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan — A 10-year-old Afghan boy who was declared a hero after fighting the Taliban has been shot dead by insurgents while on his way to school, officials said Wednesday. Wasil Ahmad, who had fought the Taliban alongside his uncle on many occasions, was killed Monday near his home in Tirin Kot, the capital […]
  
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• Scientists in Germany switch on nuclear fusion experiment

  03-02-2016 18:38
  
  GREIFSWALD, Germany — Scientists in Germany flipped the switch Wednesday on an experiment they hope will advance the quest for nuclear fusion, considered a clean and safe form of nuclear power. Following nine years of construction and testing, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald injected a tiny amount of hydrogen […]
  
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• Why voters should take NH polls with a grain of road salt

  03-02-2016 18:26
  
  WASHINGTON — Voters might want take all those presidential polls coming out of wintry New Hampshire with a grain of road salt. The Iowa caucuses showed that survey-takers had a tough time pinning down the state’s fickle electorate, and pollsters face of the same challenges in next-up New Hampshire. A polling primer: IOWA’S SURPRISE Most […]
  
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• Colorado snowpack up to more than 100 percent above average

  03-02-2016 18:26
  
  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Colorado’s snowpack has jumped to more than 100 percent above average which means runoff to reservoirs in the spring should be plentiful. The Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction reports (http://bit.ly/1QcnoBq ) that with snowpack 117 percent above average as of Tuesday, runoff should be strong if the state sees even average […]
  
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• Jimmy Buffett musical to premiere at California theater

  03-02-2016 18:25
  
  NEW YORK — The Jimmy Buffett musical will make its world premiere next year somewhere nice and warm — the La Jolla Playhouse in California. Producers said Wednesday that the show, which combines Buffett’s blend of rock and country tunes with an original story by writers Greg Garcia and Mike O’Malley, will start grooving onstage […]
  
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• In Colorado, fears about InBev’s entry into craft beer

  03-02-2016 18:25
  
  DENVER — In a former bakery south of downtown Denver, Matthew Fuerst makes beer flavored with ingredients like Hatch green chiles that he chops by hand. He saves money on heating bills by pushing up space heaters against his fermenting tanks and covering the tops with blankets. He’s invited homebrewers who want to break into […]
  
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• Sheriff’s Office: Teacher rearrested, faces new allegations

  03-02-2016 18:22
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — Santa Fe County authorities say a teacher accused of inappropriately touching a 6-year-old girl has been rearrested after authorities received new information about additional alleged victims. The Sheriff’s Office says 47-year–old Aaron Dean Chavez faces four new counts of criminal sexual contact with minors in addition to the one he faced […]
  
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• Las Vegas fans scramble as cable fight threatens Super Bowl

  03-02-2016 18:01
  
  LAS VEGAS — Thousands of Las Vegas football fans are scrambling to figure out if they’ll be able to watch the Super Bowl. Cox Communications cable customers haven’t been able to watch any CBS programs since Saturday, when local affiliate KLAS-TV pulled the channel off the Cox lineup. The move followed five months of failed […]
  
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• Fugitive real estate heir to have change-of-plea hearing

  03-02-2016 18:01
  
  NEW ORLEANS — A fugitive New York real estate heir pleaded guilty in Louisiana on Thursday to a weapons charge and has agreed to a sentence of seven years and one month imprisonment. U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt said Wednesday that he would provisionally accept the plea and make a final decision after he receives […]
  
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• Syrian TV: Army breaks long rebel siege of Shiite villages

  03-02-2016 17:44
  
  GENEVA — Syrian troops and allied militiamen blasted their way into two Shiite villages in northern Syria on Wednesday, breaking a long-running rebel siege during a major offensive, Syrian TV reported. The government advance angered the opposition, further undermining prospects for peace talks underway in Geneva. The two villages, Nubl and Zahra, are located in […]
  
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• Rubio could see campaign fortunes rise from Iowa finish

  03-02-2016 17:41
  
  WASHINGTON — Marco Rubio’s strong third-place finish in Iowa could sound like a starting gun to the Republican Party’s top donors. For months, many of these benefactors have been sitting on their wallets or spreading their money around to multiple presidential candidates as they waited to see whether one of four experienced politicians could rise […]
  
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• Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul quits 2016 GOP presidential race

  03-02-2016 17:41
  
  WASHINGTON — Rand Paul is dropping out of the 2016 race for president. Paul said in a statement that he will turn his full attention to his Senate re-election campaign in Kentucky. The 52-year-old ophthalmologist is favored to win that race. The first-term senator from Kentucky exits the race having never caught on with Republican […]
  
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• Comcast loses fewest TV customers in 8 years

  03-02-2016 17:39
  
  NEW YORK — Comcast is trumpeting its best year for traditional TV services in nearly a decade, even though it continues to lose TV subscribers. As the number of traditional TV customers declines across the industry, Comcast is stemming its losses by luring them with new TV-Internet packages, while keeping TV customers around for longer […]
  
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• Updated: Cosby lawyer says comedian was assured he was in the clear

  03-02-2016 17:25
  
  NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby’s top legal adviser said Wednesday that he never would have let the comedian testify in a 2005 lawsuit if he thought Cosby could still face sexual assault charges in the matter. Lawyer Jack Schmitt testified that Cosby’s legal team considered the criminal case “irrevocably concluded” after a suburban Philadelphia district […]
  
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• Your doctor is arriving now

  03-02-2016 17:24
  
  SAN DIEGO — The doctor will see you now. But not where you think. Thanks to on-demand health care app Heal, your next doctor’s visit could take place on your turf — home, office, hotel, even coffee shop — and on your terms. The web and mobile app offers the equivalent of the modern-day house […]
  
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• Some Colorado Springs homeowners struggle against the abyss

  03-02-2016 16:51
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Rick Sisco’s home in the Skyway neighborhood has been riding a landslide for months. It started as a crack, became a chasm, then a 13-foot cliff. But because Sisco’s circa-1964 home was built long before Colorado Springs passed its geological hazards ordinance, city officials know very little about the landslide that […]
  
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• Denton City Council rejects white only-cemetery restriction

  03-02-2016 16:50
  
  DENTON, Texas — The Denton City Council has renounced an unenforced 1933 deed requirement at a city cemetery that limited burial plots to white people. Council members Tuesday night unanimously approved an ordinance formally declaring the deed restriction to be illegal, unenforceable and unconscionable. The race burial restriction was part of the agreement with the […]
  
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• Pepper gurus talk chile in yearly Las Cruces event

  03-02-2016 16:49
  
  LAS CRUCES – A yearly gathering attracted about 200 people Tuesday to Las Cruces to trade the latest information about New Mexico’s hottest crop. Chile farmers, processors, vendors and researchers — including some from around the globe — met at Hotel Encanto for the 2016 New Mexico Chile Conference, an event in its 39th year. […]
  
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