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• New Mexico health officials confirm first case of Zika virus

  18-03-2016 23:54
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico health officials say they have confirmed the state’s first case of the Zika virus. Deputy Health Secretary Lynn Gallagher, state epidemiologist Michael Landen and other officials planned to release more details at a news conference Friday evening in Santa Fe. The rare tropical disease has become an epidemic in […]
  
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• Breaking: New Mexico health officials confirm first case of Zika virus

  18-03-2016 23:54
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico health officials say they have confirmed the state’s first case of the Zika virus. Deputy Health Secretary Lynn Gallagher, state epidemiologist Michael Landen and other officials planned to release more details at a news conference Friday evening in Santa Fe. The rare tropical disease has become an epidemic in […]
  
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• Best-selling author to speak at Anderson business breakfast

  18-03-2016 23:27
  
  Bestselling author Steven Kotler will be the featured speaker at the Anderson School of Management Boerigter Business Breakfast Program on March 30. Kotler’s presentation is based on his New York Times bestselling book “Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World.” Kotler will explain how a shift in mindset can increase performance […]
  
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• Breaking: Police make 4th arrest in inmate escape case

  18-03-2016 23:08
  
  Police have made a fourth arrest in connection with the two inmates who escaped from a prisoner transport van last week. New Mexico State Police spokeswoman Elizabeth Armijo said police on Friday arrested Celeste Salcido, 45, for allegedly helping Joseph Cruz and Lionel Clah after they escaped. Salcido is the girlfriend of Olivia Cruz, who […]
  
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• Breaking: Police arrest getaway driver in inmates’ escape

  18-03-2016 23:08
  
  Jesus Quintana was at the Allsup’s gas station in Artesia putting gas in his white Mustang when he saw two fully shackled inmates walk out the back of a prisoner transport van the night of March 9. He didn’t call authorities. Instead, police say he loaded inmate Joseph Cruz, 32, and Lionel Clah, 29, into […]
  
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• Updated: ASU, UofA, NAU release their tuition proposals for 2016-17

  18-03-2016 22:55
  
  PHOENIX — Arizona State University, the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University have released their tuition proposals for the 2016-17 academic year. NAU is proposing no tuition hikes for 96 percent of continuing undergraduate students on the Flagstaff campus, but a $366 increase for incoming in-state undergrads, $383 for resident graduate students and $732 […]
  
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• WSMR to get new commander

  18-03-2016 22:47
  
  Brig. Gen. Eric L. Sanchez, a graduate of New Mexico State University and current commander of the 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command in Fort Shafter, Hawaii, will become commander of White Sands Missile Range later this year, Army officials announced Friday. “I have a lot of roots in the Las Cruces community… and […]
  
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• Updated: Abbey Brewing, Crackin’ Crab and more joining Downtown grocery store

  18-03-2016 22:46
  
  Milk, bread, eggs and … a pint of Monks’ Ale? Abbey Brewing Co. has confirmed it will open its first taproom as part of the new Downtown Albuquerque grocery store project. The brewery, which makes its beer at the Monastery of Christ in the Desert in Abiquiu as well as in Moriarty, is one of […]
  
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• Brewery, Crackin’ Crab and more coming to Downtown grocery space

  18-03-2016 22:46
  
  Milk, bread, eggs and … a pint of Monks’ Ale? Abbey Brewing Co. has confirmed it will open its first taproom as part of the new Downtown Albuquerque grocery store project. The brewery, which makes its beer at the Monastery of Christ in the Desert in Abiquiu as well as in Moriarty, is one of […]
  
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• ABQ hits the limelight at innovation conference

  18-03-2016 22:31
  
  More than a dozen local startups pitched their products, launched new apps and networked with entrepreneurs and investors at this year's South by Southwest conference in Austin.
  
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• Fox found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in second trial

  18-03-2016 22:28
  
  An Albuquerque jury Friday found Michael Fox  guilty of voluntary manslaughter in connection with the stabbing death of Kenneth Boyd in September 2014. Fox, 34,  had been facing second-degree murder, kidnapping and tampering charges, but the jury only found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Jurors began their deliberations Wednesday evening. After the verdict, 2nd District […]
  
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• Los Angeles skyscraper plunge investigated as suicide

  18-03-2016 22:20
  
  LOS ANGELES — Authorities are investigating whether an electrician intentionally leaped to his death from the 53rd floor of Los Angeles’ tallest skyscraper onto an intersection humming with a normal weekday’s bustle, the coroner said Friday. The coroner is also investigating the possibility of Thursday’s death being a workplace accident, because it happened at a […]
  
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• APD holding up reform process, federal monitor says

  18-03-2016 21:36
  
  The independent monitor overseeing Albuquerque police reform said problems with the police’s policy development process remain a concern that is holding up the reform process. James Ginger, the monitor, had previously issued a status report that was critical of the police department’s policies, but only through the end of November. He said Friday that problems […]
  
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• Microsoft, Lowe’s to help remodelers through virtual reality

  18-03-2016 20:52
  
  SEATTLE — Why buy a refrigerator before seeing what it might look like in a remodeled kitchen? Microsoft and Lowe’s are going to test customers’ appetite for that type of experience starting this month with a pilot program using the HoloLens headset inside a store in the Seattle area, where Microsoft is based. Customers will […]
  
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• General Mills to label products with GMOs ahead of Vt. law

  18-03-2016 19:13
  
  NEW YORK — General Mills said Friday it will start labeling products across the country that contain genetically modified ingredients to comply with a law that is set to go into effect in Vermont. The maker of Cheerios cereal, Progresso soups and Yoplait yogurt notes it is impractical to label its products for just one […]
  
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• Sanchez out as UNM Lobos women’s basketball coach

  18-03-2016 18:27
  
            Yvonne Sanchez’s five-year tenure as University of New Mexico women’s basketball coach ended suddenly but not quietly Friday. UNM athletic director Paul Krebs informed Sanchez in a 9 a.m. meeting that she had been fired one year into a four-year contract extension. He addressed the media regarding Sanchez’s dismissal a […]
  
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• Breaking: Sanchez out as UNM Lobos women’s basketball coach

  18-03-2016 18:27
  
  Yvonne Sanchez is out as the head coach of the University of New Mexico women’s basketball team, the university announced Friday morning. A press conference with UNM athletic director Paul Krebs to formally announce the decision is scheduled for 1 p.m. Friday. Last April, UNM and Sanchez agreed to a new contract through 2019 that […]
  
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• Updated: UNM fires women’s basketball coach Sanchez

  18-03-2016 18:25
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico is set to announce it has fired women’s basketball coach Yvonne Sanchez. The school said in a statement Vice President for Athletics Paul Krebs will host a press conference Friday to formally announce that Yvonne Sanchez has been relieved of her duties. New Mexico (17-15) fell in the first round […]
  
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• Breaking: UNM fires women’s basketball coach Sanchez

  18-03-2016 18:25
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico is set to announce it has fired women’s basketball coach Yvonne Sanchez. The school said in a statement Vice President for Athletics Paul Krebs will host a press conference Friday to formally announce that Yvonne Sanchez has been relieved of her duties. New Mexico (17-15) fell in the first round […]
  
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• Updated: Family of girl found on side of road comes forward

  18-03-2016 18:06
  
  The family of a 3- or 4-year-old girl found walking alone alongside a North Valley road early Friday morning has come forward to say they are missing her, according to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office. “We have found the family members and at this time we are going to do multiple interviews with anyone last […]
  
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• Updated: BCSO: No arrests in case of girl found on the side of the road

  18-03-2016 18:06
  
  Deputies have interviewed the family of a young girl who was found walking alone alongside a North Valley road early Friday morning and have decided not to make any arrests at this time, according to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office. Felicia Romero, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office, said the girl, Unique, was staying with […]
  
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• Updated: Man falls to his death from Los Angeles skyscraper

  18-03-2016 17:45
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — An electrician, who was on just his second day working at what will be Los Angeles’ tallest skyscraper, plunged more than 50 floors to his death, onto a busy city intersection that hummed with a normal weekday’s bustle. It took some time for people below to realize the horror of what […]
  
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• New: Man falls to his death from Los Angeles skyscraper

  18-03-2016 17:45
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — An electrician, who was on just his second day working at what will be Los Angeles’ tallest skyscraper, plunged more than 50 floors to his death, onto a busy city intersection that hummed with a normal weekday’s bustle. It took some time for people below to realize the horror of what […]
  
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• Updated: Top fugitive in Paris attacks captured during Brussels raid

  18-03-2016 17:42
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — Police raiding an apartment building captured Europe's most wanted fugitive Friday, arresting the prime suspect in last…
  
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• Updated: The Latest: More involved in Paris plot than first thought

  18-03-2016 17:42
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — The Latest on developments in Brussels, where officials say Paris attacks fugitive Salah Abdeslam has been captured…
  
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• Updated: Obama to nominate 1st women to head US combatant command

  18-03-2016 17:39
  
  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Ash Carter says President Barack Obama will nominate the first woman to head a major U.S. military combatant command. If confirmed by the Senate, Air Force Gen. Lori Robinson would be the seventh commander to head the Colorado-based U.S. Northern Command. The command was created in the aftermath of the Sept. […]
  
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• Updated: Obama to nominate 1st woman to head US combatant command

  18-03-2016 17:39
  
  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will nominate the first woman to head a U.S. military combatant command, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday, a major milestone in a department that this year opened all combat jobs to women. Air Force Gen. Lori Robinson is being nominated to head U.S. Northern Command and the North American […]
  
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• Police fatally shoot 2 robbery suspects at Houston store

  18-03-2016 17:39
  
  HOUSTON — Officers opened fire on five robbery suspects accused of holding up a Houston furniture store and who had been under surveillance for hours, killing two suspects and injuring two more, police said. Police spokesman John Cannon said five police officers fired their weapons but that none was injured in the incident late Thursday […]
  
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• Sheriff: Man breaks into Tucson animal shelter, steals dog

  18-03-2016 17:33
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. — Authorities are investigating a break-in and theft of a dog from the Humane Society of Southern Arizona’s main facility in Tucson. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department says the dog was stolen late the night of March 5 by a man who damaged a security camera and forced his way into the dog’s […]
  
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• L.L. Bean reports flat sales in tough year for retailers

  18-03-2016 17:23
  
  FREEPORT, Maine — Outdoors specialty retailer L.L. Bean on Friday reported flat sales in 2015, which was a tough year for the retail industry, especially clothing retailers, officials said Friday. Revenue hit $1.6 billion for the family-owned company’s fiscal year that ended Feb. 28, CEO Steve Smith told workers in a memo. The disappointing news […]
  
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• New: Airmen at nuke base probed for illegal drug use

  18-03-2016 16:57
  
  WASHINGTON — The Air Force is investigating about a dozen airmen at a nuclear missile base for alleged use of illegal drugs, in some cases possibly including cocaine, defense officials said Friday. The probe is a fresh blow to a nuclear missile corps that has been under intense scrutiny for a string of lapses in […]
  
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• Phoenix suburb pays $125K to woman arrested while naked

  18-03-2016 16:55
  
  CHANDLER, Ariz. — A Phoenix suburb has approved a six-figure payment to a woman who says a police officer illegally entered her home and handcuffed her while she was naked. The Chandler City Council approved the $125,000 settlement with Esmeralda Rossi on Thursday night. Cell phone and police body camera videos support Rossi’s description of […]
  
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• Updated: Texas pianist finds 2 daughters dead, wife faces mental exam

  18-03-2016 16:40
  
  DALLAS — An internationally renowned concert pianist arrived at his estranged wife’s home in Texas to pick up their two daughters and found the girls slain in their beds, police said Friday. Authorities say their Russian mother, who had suffered knife wounds, faces a mental health exam. Vadym Kholodenko stopped Thursday morning at the suburban […]
  
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• NMSU regents resisting tuition hike plan amid budget woes

  18-03-2016 15:52
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. — New Mexico State University regents are resisting pressures to raise tuition in response to budget woes linked to reduction in state funding and declining enrollment. The Las Cruces Sun-News reports (http://goo.gl/ZYGJgE) that Regent Kari Mitchell was among several regents who signaled this week that there is little interest among regents to […]
  
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• Eastern New Mexico University president announces retirement

  18-03-2016 15:50
  
  PORTALES, N.M. — The president of Eastern New Mexico University has announced plans to retire next year. The Portales News-Tribune reports (http://goo.gl/vUUtH0) that Steven Gamble confirmed this week he has given university faculty and board members “a heads up” that he will be retiring in the summer of 2017. The 69-year-old Gamble says he wanted […]
  
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• Updated: Denver getting snow; Ski areas get over 3 feet this week

  18-03-2016 15:07
  
  DENVER — The latest in a series of storms to hit Colorado this week has brought some snow to Denver as well as the mountains. Flights were being delayed an average of 30 minutes at Denver International Airport on Friday, when a lot of spring break skiers and snowboarders are expected to arrive. Once they […]
  
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• Updated: Britain declares victory in EU tampon tax battle

  18-03-2016 15:05
  
  LONDON — Tampons are the latest battleground in Britain’s difficult relationship with the European Union. The British government has declared victory in its bid to remove an EU-imposed sales tax on women’s sanitary products. But opponents of U.K. membership in the 28-nation bloc say the tax is a prime example of Brussels meddling in national […]
  
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• Updated: No clear path to government-lowered drug prices

  18-03-2016 15:04
  
  WASHINGTON — Most Americans support it. Virtually all other developed countries already do it. And the two leading presidential candidates on both sides of the aisle agree: the federal government should lower drug prices. But experts say the chances for government action in the near-term are close to nil. The reasons are familiar: political gridlock […]
  
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• Boy dies, brother critical after falling into Houston pond

  18-03-2016 14:05
  
  HOUSTON — Police say a 3-year-old boy has died and his 1-year-old brother is in critical condition after they fell into a drainage ditch in northeast Houston. The children’s mother found them in the pond close to their home around 5:15 p.m. Thursday. Their father arrived shortly after, and the parents were unsuccessful in performing […]
  
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• Natural spring near downtown Dallas closer to protection

  18-03-2016 13:57
  
  DALLAS — A natural spring near downtown Dallas is closer to attaining rare historic status in a move usually limited to old buildings. The Dallas City Plan Commission on Thursday approved a proposal for historical protection of the so-called “Big Spring.” The Dallas Morning News (http://bit.ly/1RqxVch ) reports the final decision rests with the Dallas […]
  
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• Mapping premature deaths in NM

  18-03-2016 13:57
  
  Where you live in New Mexico plays a role in whether you are more likely to live to a ripe old age or die prematurely from a traffic injury, violence or a drug overdose. And by one measure — the rate of premature deaths weighted by age — a part of metropolitan Albuquerque bordered by […]
  
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• Appeals Court: Cops don’t have to take DWI suspect for private test

  18-03-2016 13:57
  
  State law says a person arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated has a right to “an opportunity to arrange for” a blood alcohol test with a provider of his or her choosing at the state’s expense. But a Court of Appeals ruling this month says police aren’t required to transport the person to […]
  
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• Zuckerberg’s run in Beijing’s toxic air stirs Chinese public

  18-03-2016 13:35
  
  BEIJING — A photo of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg jogging Friday morning in downtown Beijing’s notorious smog has prompted a torrent of amusing comments and some mockery on Chinese social media. Zuckerberg is a favorite personality among the Chinese public, despite Facebook being banned in the country alongside other overseas social media platforms. He’s also […]
  
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• Paris gets sausages and steaks 24/7 from vending machine

  18-03-2016 13:35
  
  PARIS — With their beloved baguette already available 24 hours a day, it seems only logical that Parisians can now get the Bayonne ham and Basque pate that goes so well with the bread from the first meat vending machine installed in the French capital. In a city filled with small shops where long lunches […]
  
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• Court acquits ex-Porsche executives over VW bid

  18-03-2016 13:35
  
  BERLIN — A German court acquitted Friday former Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedeking and his ex-finance chief of charges of market manipulation connected to the sports car maker’s failed attempt to buy Volkswagen. Prosecutors had accused Wiedeking and his chief financial officer, Holger Haerter, of making misleading statements about the company’s intentions before it moved in […]
  
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• Updated: Uber balks at rules proposed by world’s busiest airport

  18-03-2016 13:34
  
  ATLANTA — Atlanta’s airport, the world’s busiest, is insisting that Uber drivers get fingerprint-based background checks to pick up passengers, but the ride-sharing service is balking at the proposed rule. Officials at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport this month said they were moving toward allowing Uber and other ride-sharing services — a reversal of its practice […]
  
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• Wrongful death suit filed over Massachusetts plane crash

  18-03-2016 13:33
  
  BOSTON — The family of the philanthropist and Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner killed in a Massachusetts plane crash has filed a lawsuit against the aircraft’s manufacturer and seven other parties. The Boston Globe (http://bit.ly/1SXSgeB ) reports that the wrongful death suit filed in Boston this week by the children of Lewis Katz seeks unspecified damages. Katz […]
  
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• In fight against Zika, Brazil battles neglect, cash crunch

  18-03-2016 07:47
  
  CAMPINA GRANDE, Brazil — In May, as the first cases of the Zika virus were being detected in Brazil, Rossandra Oliveira stopped receiving a critical tool she needed to do her job: insecticide. Monthly shipments from the government to her office at the epicenter of the outbreak stopped. Oliveira, who manages mosquito control for this […]
  
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• Updated: Police fatally shoot 2 robbery suspects at Houston store

  18-03-2016 07:42
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Police have fired at five suspected robbers outside a Houston furniture store, killing two and injuring two…
  
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• Updated: Houston police fatally shoot 2 suspects at furniture store

  18-03-2016 07:42
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Police fired at five suspected robbers Thursday night outside a Houston furniture store, killing two and injuring…
  
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