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• Kirtland woman arrested in death of her husband

  10-02-2016 23:59
  
  FARMINGTON — Police in Farmington say a Kirtland woman has been arrested in connection with the death of her husband. They say 27-year-old Lynell Kieyoomia is being held on suspicion of vehicular homicide, aggravated DWI, two counts of child abuse, driving on a revoked license, leaving the scene of an accident and failing to render […]
  
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• Updated: T-Mobile in talks to take over closed Sprint call center

  10-02-2016 23:48
  
  T-Mobile is in negotiations to take over the Rio Rancho call center closed earlier this month by rival Sprint.
  
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• T-Mobile in talks to take over closed Sprint call center

  10-02-2016 23:48
  
  T-Mobile is in negotiations to take over the Rio Rancho call center closed earlier this month by rival Sprint.
  
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• Slain teen’s father says he found out about her death on TV

  10-02-2016 23:35
  
  RICHMOND, Va. — The father of a 13-year-old girl who police say was slain by a Virginia Tech student says he found out about his daughter’s death on TV. During an episode of “Dr. Phil” that aired Wednesday, David Lovell told host Phil McGraw that authorities forgot to tell him before they told reporters that […]
  
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• Latest: Government files civil rights suit against Ferguson

  10-02-2016 23:34
  
  FERGUSON, Mo. — The latest on efforts by Ferguson to reach a consent agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to improve police and court practices in the St. Louis suburb (all times local): 4:20 p.m. The Justice Department has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Ferguson, one day after the city […]
  
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• Colorado mountain bike dog attack suit settled for $1M

  10-02-2016 23:28
  
  EAGLE, Colo. — Lawyers for a woman attacked by two sheep dogs during a Colorado mountain bike race say they’ve settled a lawsuit against the dogs’ owners for $1 million. Renee Legro was mauled by two Great Pyrenees dogs while riding her bike at Camp Hale, a former Army training camp in Eagle County, in […]
  
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• But is she honest? Caring? Clinton grapples with questions

  10-02-2016 23:27
  
  WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton’s campaign has spent months fighting the perception that she has a shaky relationship with the truth and is disconnected from the problems facing Americans. So far, the campaign’s effort hasn’t worked. Less than half the voters in New Hampshire’s Democratic primary found Clinton to be honest and trustworthy, while about 90 […]
  
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• ABQ’s music giant getting ready to downsize

  10-02-2016 23:00
  
  Micky Patten walks a path through a back storage room at Grandma’s Music & Sound wide enough for an elephant. The place used to be packed. He offers a showroom tour at the West Side Albuquerque store, pointing out a few barren hooks and a couple of empty guitar displays. “You can see holes where […]
  
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• Updated: Russia proposes March 1 ceasefire in Syria; US wants it now

  10-02-2016 22:50
  
  MUNICH — Russia has proposed a March 1 ceasefire in Syria, U.S. officials said Wednesday, but Washington believes Moscow is giving itself and the Syrian government three weeks to try to crush moderate rebel groups. The United States has countered with demands for the fighting to stop immediately, the officials said. Peace talks are supposed […]
  
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• Texas attorney general faces ethics probe over gay marriage

  10-02-2016 22:50
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — Already indicted on felony securities fraud charges, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will face an ethics investigation for advising local officials they could refuse to issue same-sex marriage licenses on religious grounds. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled gay marriage legal in June. A month later, a complaint filed and co-signed by more […]
  
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• Senate panel votes to hold website in contempt over sex ads

  10-02-2016 22:50
  
  WASHINGTON — A Senate panel voted on Wednesday to hold the classified advertising website Backpage.com in civil contempt for failing to comply with a congressional subpoena into how it screens ads for possible sex trafficking. The Homeland and Governmental Affairs Committee backed a resolution setting up a legal fight with the company. The full Senate […]
  
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• Obama administration struggles to craft ceasefire in Syria

  10-02-2016 22:50
  
  MUNICH — The Obama administration’s struggle to craft a ceasefire in Syria’s civil war has resulted in a confusing mix of shifting priorities that have exposed a policy toward Syria that few understand, and even fewer see working. As it tries to navigate a truce to spur peace talks, the administration has become increasingly torn […]
  
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• Mayor shows love to skateboarders, lifts ban in Love Park

  10-02-2016 22:49
  
  PHILADELPHIA — Skateboarders in Philadelphia are feeling the love from Love Park now that the mayor has temporarily lifted a ban on skating there until it closes for renovations. Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney made the announcement Wednesday during a groundbreaking ceremony for the park and welcome center’s $20 million facelift. The park is a skateboarding […]
  
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• Judge: new order against enforcing Louisiana abortion law

  10-02-2016 22:49
  
  NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in Louisiana has issued a new order blocking the state from enforcing an abortion law that he says would prevent most women from getting abortions. Attorneys for the state immediately asked Judge John deGravelles to stay Wednesday’s order while they appeal it and his Jan. 26 finding that the […]
  
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• Prosecutor: Ex-LA sheriff to plead guilty in corruption case

  10-02-2016 22:48
  
  LOS ANGELES — Former Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca has agreed to plead guilty to lying to investigators during a federal corruption probe that tainted his career, prosecutors said Wednesday. Baca stepped down from the helm of the nation’s largest sheriff’s department in 2014 amid the probe that led to charges against underlings for beating […]
  
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• Government will consider Google computer to be car’s driver

  10-02-2016 21:41
  
  DETROIT — Computers that control cars of the future can be considered drivers just like humans, the federal government’s highway safety agency has found. The redefinition of “driver” by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is an important break for Google, taking it a step closer to its goal of self-driving cars without steering wheels, […]
  
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• Updated: Federal government expected to sue Ferguson, Missouri

  10-02-2016 21:40
  
  FERGUSON, Mo. — The federal government was expected to file a civil-rights lawsuit against the city of Ferguson on Wednesday, one day after the city council voted to revise an agreement aimed at improving the way police and courts treat poor people and minorities in the St. Louis suburb. The lawsuit was confirmed by a […]
  
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• Ferguson mayor: City is willing to challenge feds in court

  10-02-2016 21:40
  
  FERGUSON, Mo. — If the federal government refuses to make changes to an agreement to reform Ferguson’s police and court systems, city leaders are willing to confront the matter in court, the mayor said Wednesday. The Ferguson City Council has asked the Justice Department for seven changes to the proposed settlement that the city spent […]
  
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• 2 deputies wounded, suspect dead in shopping center shootout

  10-02-2016 21:40
  
  ABINGDON, Md. — A man shot a sheriff’s deputy in the head inside a crowded restaurant at lunchtime Wednesday and wounded another deputy during a shootout, authorities and witnesses said. The gunman was killed and, remarkably no bystanders were hurt, Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said. The first shooting took place inside a Panera restaurant […]
  
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• Senate bill aims to derail NKorea’s nuclear weapons program

  10-02-2016 21:33
  
  WASHINGTON — Seeking to derail North Korea’s drive for nuclear weapons, senators set aside their partisan differences on Wednesday to support legislation aimed at starving Pyongyang of the money it needs to build an atomic arsenal. The Senate is scheduled to vote later Wednesday on a bill to impose more stringent sanctions on North Korea. […]
  
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• 2 Texas researchers under fire for Planned Parenthood study

  10-02-2016 21:32
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — Two state health researchers in Texas are under fire for co-authoring a study suggesting what Republican leaders have long disputed: cuts to Planned Parenthood are restricting access to women’s health care. Texas Health Commissioner Chris Traylor has not said whether the researchers, one a high-level director with more than 20 years in […]
  
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• MADD: Car-locking systems have stopped 1.77 million drivers

  10-02-2016 21:31
  
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Car-locking systems have stopped more than 1.77 million people from driving drunk since states first passed laws requiring offenders to install them in 1999, Mothers Against Drunk Driving said in a first-of-its-kind report on the devices nationwide. The data come from the 11 major manufactures of the ignition interlock systems, and the […]
  
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• Boy found dead in Denver home; deputy hurt on way to scene

  10-02-2016 21:30
  
  DENVER — Authorities say they found a 6-year-old boy dead and a man suffering self-inflicted stab wounds inside a suburban Denver home where a woman said she was sexually assaulted at knife-point. A deputy rushing to the scene behind an ambulance Wednesday morning was also injured after his patrol car was hit by a turning […]
  
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• 28 percent of female CU undergrads report assault

  10-02-2016 21:30
  
  BOULDER, Colo. — More than a quarter of female undergraduate students at the University of Colorado who responded to a survey say they have experienced sexual assault while in college. The Daily Camera reports (http://bit.ly/1PNAkl0 ) that preliminary results from a sexual misconduct survey found that 28 percent of female respondents say they experienced assault […]
  
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• Virginia House OKs electric chair as backup in executions

  10-02-2016 21:29
  
  RICHMOND, Va. — A bill that would allow Virginia prison officials to execute inmates in the electric chair if lethal-injection drugs are unavailable sailed through the state’s Republican-dominated House of Delegates on Wednesday. The measure will now face its real test in the Senate, where Republicans hold a slim majority and a similar measure got […]
  
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• Christie expected to end 2016 White House bid

  10-02-2016 21:29
  
  NASHUA, N.H. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is expected to end his campaign for the Republican nomination for president after a disappointing finish in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. That’s according to a two people familiar with his plans, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized […]
  
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• Pope visit to Mexico basilica highlights Guadalupe influence

  10-02-2016 21:28
  
  MEXICO CITY — A weathered pastel image of the Virgin of Guadalupe hangs from German Herrera Hernandez’s dashboard, watching over his passengers from her perch next to his cigarettes, gum and the handful of coins he uses to make change. “We believe in her,” said Herrera, a 55-year-old who has been driving a cab in […]
  
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• APNewsBreak: Kenya athletes allege doping bribery

  10-02-2016 21:28
  
  EMBU, Kenya — Two Kenyan athletes serving four-year bans for doping at the 2015 world championships say the chief executive of Athletics Kenya, the country’s governing body for track and field, asked them each for a $24,000 bribe to reduce their suspensions. Joy Sakari and Francisca Koki Manunga told The Associated Press that CEO Isaac […]
  
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• 2 female bombers kill 56 in northeast Nigerian refugee camp

  10-02-2016 21:28
  
  MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a northeast Nigerian refugee camp, killing at least 56 people, health and rescue officials said Wednesday. A third woman bomber was arrested and has given officials information about other planned bombings that helped them increase security at the camp, said an official of the […]
  
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• French lawmakers approve divisive citizenship bill

  10-02-2016 21:27
  
  PARIS — French lawmakers have approved a divisive bill aimed at making it possible to revoke the citizenship of people convicted on terrorism charges. The bill, presented by Socialist Prime minister Manuel Valls in the wake of the Paris attacks last year, passed by 317-199 Wednesday in parliament’s lower house, the National Assembly. The measure […]
  
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• Deputies shot: ‘I saw him fall back out of his chair’

  10-02-2016 21:26
  
  ABINGDON, Md. — The Latest on the shooting of two sheriff’s deputies and another person (all times local): 2:45 p.m. A 15-year-old girl who says she witnessed the shooting of a deputy at a crowded sandwich shop says she was in a booth with her mother about 10 feet away when it happened. Sophia Faulkner […]
  
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• Hold the onions! Panera works to quell rage of wrong orders

  10-02-2016 21:24
  
  NEW YORK — Panera wants to eliminate one of the biggest scourges of eating out — bungled orders. The devil, as they say, is in the details, particularly when it comes to all the adjustments people want for the sandwiches and salads on Panera’s menu. And the requested additions and subtractions are only increasing as […]
  
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• New Mexico official blasts EPA over Colorado mine spill

  10-02-2016 21:23
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The head of the New Mexico Environment Department is blasting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, saying federal officials are downplaying the long-term effects of the Gold King Mine spill. Environment Secretary Ryan Flynn on Wednesday told members of a state legislative committee that the agency plans to monitor water quality for one […]
  
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• New Mexico broadcasters work to resolve delayed Amber Alert

  10-02-2016 21:22
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico broadcasters and law enforcement agents are meeting to make sure Amber Alerts go out on time. Officials issued an Amber Alert Tuesday after police say an Albuquerque man took his 2-year-old daughter from her mother at gunpoint and fled to Colorado. Police located the man and his daughter that morning. […]
  
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• Rep. Salazar to run again; Sen. Wilson Beffort to retire

  10-02-2016 20:40
  
  New Mexico’s longest-serving legislator, state Rep. Nick Salazar, says he’s decided to run for re-election. But a longtime state senator, Sen. Sue Wilson Beffort, announced today she won’t run for another term. The lawmakers are at the Capitol for the 30-day legislative session, which ends Feb. 18. Salazar, a Democrat from Rio Arriba County, said today he will […]
  
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• NRF forecasts retail sales growth of 3.1 percent in 2016

  10-02-2016 19:32
  
  NEW YORK — The National Retail Federation is forecasting retail spending growth of 3.1 percent in 2016, a slowdown from the group’s annual estimate a year ago. The country’s largest retail trade industry group had forecast growth of 4.1 percent for 2015, then revised that figure down to 3.5 percent over the summer after slower-than-expected […]
  
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• Farmington unemployment increase largest in U.S.

  10-02-2016 19:32
  
  Farmington had the largest increase in its unemployment rate in 2015 among 296 metropolitan areas nationwide, according to a federal report released Wednesday. The northwestern New Mexico city saw its unemployment rate rise 2.1 percentage points last year, to 7.3 percent, said the U.S. Department of Labor. The San Juan Basin in the Four Corners […]
  
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• Updated: Los Alamos lab would get $2.1 billion in Obama’s proposed budget

  10-02-2016 18:57
  
  The Obama adminstration’s proposed fiscal 2016 budget for the Department of Energy, released Tuesday, allocates $2.1 billion for Los Alamos National Laboratory. That’s down from $2.2 billion that the new budget document says was “enacted” for the current fiscal year but up from $1.9 billion in Department of Energy funding that was included in the […]
  
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• Los Alamos lab would get $2.1 million in Obama’s proposed budget

  10-02-2016 18:57
  
    The Obama adminstration’s proposed fiscal 2016 budget for the Department of Energy, released Tuesday, allocates $2.1 billion for Los Alamos National Laboratory. That’s down from $2.2 billion that the new budget document says was “enacted” for the current fiscal year but up from $1.9 billion in Department of Energy funding that was included in […]
  
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• Burger King’s next conquest: Hot dog king

  10-02-2016 18:56
  
  NEW YORK — Burger King is looking for a new crown: Hot Dog King. The Miami-based chain says it plans to put hot dogs on its menu nationally for the first time starting Feb. 23. It may seem like a jarring addition for those who know the chain for its Whoppers. But Burger King says […]
  
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• Eurozone concerns building again after period of calm

  10-02-2016 18:00
  
  LONDON — Slowly but surely, worries over the 19-country eurozone are building again. After being out of investors’ spotlight for months, the single currency zone is facing a range of new concerns — from questions over Greece to the stability of its financial system. That’s evident from developments in recent days, such as the fall […]
  
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• Updated: Surprise insurance fees often follow medical emergencies

  10-02-2016 17:46
  
  WASHINGTON — Recovering from a medical procedure is always a challenge, but getting hit with unexpected insurance fees can add financial hardship to the process. As health insurance plans become increasingly complicated, more patients are facing unexpected fees when they step outside their plan’s coverage network. In many cases, patients don’t realize they’ve received out-of-network […]
  
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• Surprise insurance fees often follow medical emergencies

  10-02-2016 17:46
  
  WASHINGTON — Recovering from a medical procedure is always a challenge, but getting hit with unexpected insurance fees can add financial hardship to the process. As health insurance plans become increasingly complicated, more patients are facing unexpected fees when they step outside their plan’s coverage network. In many cases, patients don’t realize they’ve received out-of-network […]
  
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• The Latest: Cruz finishes third in NH primary, Bush fourth

  10-02-2016 17:12
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. — Here’s the latest on the 2016 presidential race as Republican and Democratic candidates head from New Hampshire to South Carolina and beyond. All times local: 10:47 a.m. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has finished third in the New Hampshire primary behind winner Donald Trump and runner-up John Kasich. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush […]
  
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• Regulators deny motion against PNM nuclear purchase

  10-02-2016 16:56
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — A New Mexico commission has denied a motion that would prevent a utility from making its customers cover the costs of a nuclear power unit it recently purchased. The Public Regulation Commission’s hearing officer ruled against the motion Tuesday. Renewable energy nonprofit New Energy Economy had accused the Public Service Company […]
  
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• NM commission denies suit against utility over nuclear unit

  10-02-2016 16:56
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — A New Mexico commission has denied a motion that would prevent a utility from making its customers cover the costs of a nuclear power unit it recently purchased. The Public Regulation Commission’s hearing officer ruled against the motion Tuesday. Renewable energy nonprofit New Energy Economy had accused the Public Service Company […]
  
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• Obama vows to press ahead on Clean Power Plan after setback

  10-02-2016 16:52
  
  WASHINGTON — The administration of President Barack Obama is vowing to press ahead with efforts to curtail greenhouse gas emissions after a divided Supreme Court put his signature plan to address climate change on hold until after legal challenges are resolved. Tuesday’s surprising move by the court is a blow to Obama and a victory […]
  
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• Yellen: Slower rate hikes if economy disappoints

  10-02-2016 16:45
  
  WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the U.S. economy faces a number of global threats that could hamper growth and compel the Fed to slow the pace of future interest rate hikes. She highlighted in her semiannual report to Congress the widening fallout from concerns over China’s weaker currency and economic outlook, which […]
  
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• Analysis: Trump proves GOP establishment can’t stop him

  10-02-2016 16:44
  
  CONCORD, N.H. — The current and former chiefs of the state Republican Party condemned him. New Hampshire’s only two Republican members of Congress refused to endorse him. The conservative owner of the state’s largest newspaper called him “a con man” on the front page. Donald Trump won anyway — big time. So, too, did Bernie […]
  
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• Santa Fe archbishop to host Albuquerque forum on immigration

  10-02-2016 16:41
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester is planning to host a forum around the subject of immigration. The Archdiocese of Santa Fe announced that week the immigration symposium will be held at Our Lady of Guadalupe in Albuquerque on Feb. 24. The forum will come after Wester is scheduled to hear Pope Francis […]
  
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