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• Father of Arizona boy taken off plane over allergies dies

  25-03-2016 23:26
  
  PHOENIX — A terminally ill Arizona man has died after his family’s removal last month from a plane made headlines when passengers were accused of applauding. George Alvarado died Thursday at a hospice facility after battling esophageal cancer, his wife, Christina Fabian of suburban Phoenix, said Friday. Alvarado, Fabian and their 7-year-old son, Giovanni, visited […]
  
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• Andy Grove was the godfather of modern tech CEOs

  25-03-2016 23:10
  
  Much has been made in recent years about tech CEOs who don’t have an office. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg sits at a desk among his employees. When Meg Whitman took over at HP, she moved executives out of their offices and into cubicles for better collaboration. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s desk is in the open with […]
  
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• Denver voters could consider allowing marijuana clubs

  25-03-2016 23:08
  
  DENVER — Denver voters could authorize over-21 marijuana clubs. A ballot measure submitted Friday would ask voters whether the city should allow marijuana clubs, as long as the clubs don’t sell the pot or even sell alcohol. Denver already has some private pot clubs, but law enforcement raids have kept the industry somewhat underground. Colorado […]
  
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• AP-NORC Poll: Most Americans see drugs as a big problem

  25-03-2016 23:07
  
  Sharon Johnson calls herself an addict, although she’s been sober for three years now. She started by smoking pot and eventually moved to crack cocaine. Her daughter has tried heroin and “I believe I’m going to pull her out of the gutter someday,” Johnson laments. Johnson has seen firsthand the ravages of drug abuse reflected […]
  
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• Pope Francis presides over Good Friday Colosseum procession

  25-03-2016 23:06
  
  ROME — Pope Francis at the traditional Good Friday cross procession denounced those committing “terrorist acts” while profaning God’s name and decried “cowardly silence” over the barbarous killing of Christians. Francis also renewed his condemnation of what he has called indifference and inhospitality to those risking their lives in unseaworthy smugglers’ boats in hopes of […]
  
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• Tech giants join rebuke of law blocking LGBT rights

  25-03-2016 22:39
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. — Technology giants Apple, Google and Facebook are among a dozen big companies or their top executives objecting to a North Carolina law that bars municipalities from adopting their own anti-discrimination ordinances. Facebook, Google and Apple each run massive data-processing complexes in western North Carolina. They joined American Airlines, IBM and others in […]
  
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• Anti-Semitic fliers appear on campuses across the country

  25-03-2016 22:33
  
  PRINCETON, N.J. — Several colleges across the country are investigating after a rash of anti-Semitic fliers began printing from their network-connected printers or fax machines. The fliers began appearing Thursday at schools including New Jersey’s Princeton University, Rhode Island’s Brown University, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The […]
  
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• Updated: Wildfire at Arizona-New Mexico border stoked by wind

  25-03-2016 22:28
  
  DOUGLAS, Ariz. — Firefighters dealing with gusty winds and dry conditions are battling an Arizona wildfire that has now crossed into New Mexico. The fire near Douglas is up to 10.6 square miles and is 15 percent contained, but firefighters have an uphill battle thanks to dangerous weather conditions. Fire spokesman Jon Cambra says the […]
  
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• Albuquerque man pleads guilty to mail theft; Facing prison

  25-03-2016 22:19
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Albuquerque man has pleaded guilty in federal court to a theft of mail charge and is facing up to five years in prison. Prosecutors say 29-year-old David G. Martin entered his plea Friday. Martin was arrested on Jan. 20 on a criminal complaint. Prosecutors say Martin unlawfully possessed a large quantity […]
  
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• Feds say the nabbed Arizona gun smuggling ring

  25-03-2016 22:18
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. — Federal authorities say they’ve busted a firearms trafficking ring that tried to smuggle weapons and ammunition from Arizona to Mexico. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it worked with another federal law enforcement agency and has identified 21 suspects in the southern Arizona ring. Authorities arrested 19 of the suspects in the […]
  
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• Updated: NMSU coach Marvin Menzies to interview for UNLV job

  25-03-2016 22:10
  
  New Mexico State men’s basketball coach Marvin Menzies will fly to Las Vegas, Nev., in the next 24 hours to interview for the vacant UNLV Runnin’ Rebels coaching position, the Journal has confirmed. A message left with Menzies was not returned to the Journal on Friday afternoon, though the Journal has confirmed from multiple sources […]
  
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• Prestigious Texas lab cited again for animal deaths

  25-03-2016 21:59
  
  DALLAS — A prestigious laboratory in Texas already under federal investigation after inspectors determined it didn’t do enough to prevent the suffering of primates is facing more scrutiny after animals in another study were found dead. In the latest probe, a U.S. Department of Agriculture inspector cited the Galveston National Laboratory last month for improper […]
  
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• Updated: Lockdown lifted at Army hospital in Texas

  25-03-2016 21:44
  
  EL PASO, Texas — The lockdown has been lifted at an Army hospital near Fort Bliss, hours after a witness reported seeing a man toting two rifles. William Beaumont Army Medical Center spokeswoman Amabilia Payen says the facility in El Paso was given the all-clear Friday afternoon. She says the gate to the hospital would […]
  
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• Updated: Grand Canyon dissolves unit that ran river trips for workers

  25-03-2016 21:41
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The unit of Grand Canyon National Park that ran river trips has been dismantled following a report by a federal watchdog that found a longstanding pattern of sexual harassment there. Grand Canyon Superintendent Dave Uberuaga notified staff earlier this month of the decision to dismantle the river district, National Park Service spokesman […]
  
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• New Mexico reviews water injection wells for damages

  25-03-2016 21:36
  
  SANTA FE — New Mexico’s state land commissioner is ordering a broad examination of easements for injection wells used by the oil and natural gas industry to dispose of waste saltwater, in response to environmental damage at a site in the southeast of the state. State regulators blame Midland, Texas-based Siana Operating for spills of […]
  
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• Illinois prosecutor: Man couldn’t have slain girl in 1957

  25-03-2016 21:28
  
  CHICAGO — A man convicted in the 1957 abduction and slaying of a 7-year-old girl in northern Illinois couldn’t have committed the crime, a prosecutor said Friday, marking a stunning turnaround in one of the oldest unsolved crimes in American history to make it to trial. DeKalb County State’s Attorney Richard Schmack said his court-ordered, […]
  
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• Tabloid TV payment may have led to Houston slaying

  25-03-2016 21:23
  
  HOUSTON — A $4,000 payment from a tabloid TV show may have contributed to the fatal shooting in Houston of a man who was arrested last month for having sex on a Las Vegas Ferris wheel. Court documents related to the arrest this week of Bryant Watts and Aaron Jones for the March 19 slaying […]
  
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• US teen survived attacks in both Boston and Belgium

  25-03-2016 21:22
  
  GHENT, Belgium — An American teenager wounded in the Brussels Airport attack is lucky to be alive. And he knows it. Mason Wells, his face covered in bandages, was in a hospital in the Belgian city of Ghent on Friday, where he told The Associated Press about surviving his second terror attack. Three years ago, […]
  
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• Board of Finance gives secretary of state money for publicly financed candidates

  25-03-2016 21:12
  
  The state Board of Finance agreed today to give Secretary of State Brad Winter’s office more than $300,000 so that publicly financed candidates in this year’s primary and general elections can be fully funded. Winter’s office said there wasn’t enough money in the Public Election Fund to appropriate as much as candidates for statewide judicial […]
  
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• Dogs may be the best line of defense against subway attacks

  25-03-2016 21:03
  
  NEW YORK — Even in an era of high-tech crime-fighting, the best line of defense against a Brussels-style attack on airports and subways has four legs and a tail. Dogs, with their exquisitely sensitive noses, have been trained in recent years to pick up the scent of explosives on people moving through crowded concourses, And […]
  
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• Thousands in AZ cast ballots for candidates who ended bids

  25-03-2016 21:02
  
  PHOENIX — Nearly 100,000 people who voted in Arizona’s presidential primary cast their ballots for candidates who are no longer seeking their party’s nomination. More than 70,000 of them voted for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who ended his campaign March 15, the Arizona Capitol Times reported (http://bit.ly/1PvaihA). Ben Carson, who dropped out March 4, received […]
  
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• For first time, drone delivers package to residential area

  25-03-2016 20:41
  
  RENO, Nev. — A drone has successfully delivered a package to a residential location in a small Nevada town in what its maker and the governor of the state said Friday was the first fully autonomous urban drone delivery in the U.S. Flirtey CEO Matt Sweeney said the six-rotor drone flew about a half-mile along […]
  
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• Denver student art of cop in KKK hood pulled

  25-03-2016 20:36
  
  DENVER — Denver police unions complained when they saw that a student artwork in the school system’s annual best-of-city show depicted an officer wearing a KKK hood and pointing a gun at a black child in a white hoodie, his hands up. A school official shared reaction with the 10th grader, and authorities say the […]
  
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• Baby seal found 4 miles from water in San Francisco Bay Area

  25-03-2016 20:35
  
  FREMONT, Calif. — Authorities say a baby seal made it 4 miles from the water to the front yard of a home in the San Francisco Bay Area. Rescuers nicknamed the seal Ozzie after she was found Thursday on Osgood Road in Fremont. The female northern fur seal had no visible signs of injury and […]
  
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• Dallas infant is state’s 1st state flu fatality this year

  25-03-2016 20:34
  
  DALLAS — Dallas County public health officials say a 2-month-old child has become the state’s first flu fatality for the 2015-2016 flu season. Specifics of the death were not disclosed Friday by Dallas County Health and Human Services. The agency said 20 pediatric flu deaths have been reported nationally. At least 19 children in Texas […]
  
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• Cruz says Trump spreading false rumors about personal life

  25-03-2016 20:34
  
  OSHKOSH, Wisconsin — Ted Cruz accused Republican presidential rival Donald Trump of stoking false rumors about his personal life on Friday, charging that the billionaire businessman and GOP front-runner is trafficking in “sleaze” and “slime.” Speaking to reporters in Wisconsin, Cruz said the campaign has taken a “darker turn.” He accused Trump and “his henchmen” […]
  
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• Wildfire burns over 10 square miles in Arizona, New Mexico

  25-03-2016 20:22
  
  DOUGLAS, Ariz. — A wildfire burning in sparsely populated areas of southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico continues to grow but still doesn’t threaten any buildings or other structures. The fire has been burning grass and brush since starting Monday morning 28 miles northwest of Douglas, Arizona. Land burned by the fire is mostly west […]
  
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• Texas air crew involved in 5.5-ton cocaine sub bust in Pacific

  25-03-2016 20:22
  
  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A Customs and Border Protection air crew from Corpus Christi has been involved in the arrest of four people aboard a mini-sub that authorities say was carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine worth nearly $200 million and headed for the U.S. The crew aboard a long-range surveillance aircraft detected the vessel in […]
  
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• Texas terminates foundation formed to manage lizard species

  25-03-2016 20:21
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas comptroller has terminated oil and gas industry-funded organization responsible for overseeing the protection of a rare lizard in West Texas. State records show the Texas Habitat Conservation Foundation failed to perform habitat restoration or monitor drillers and other landowners to ensure protections for the dunes sagebrush lizard. The Austin American-Statesman […]
  
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• 3 inmates charged in murders at Arizona’s prisons

  25-03-2016 20:21
  
  PHOENIX — Three inmates were charged with carrying out murders while they were serving time in Arizona’s prisons. Court records released Friday say 26-year-old Randy Payton and 27-year-old Wesley Wailes were charged with first-degree murder in the July 2014 strangulation death of Gordon E. Lee. Lee was serving a sentence for child molestation convictions when […]
  
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• Obama: New England undersea mountain not a national monument

  25-03-2016 20:20
  
  PORTLAND, Maine — President Barack Obama is not considering an underwater mountain in the Gulf of Maine for designation as a national monument. Environmental groups want Obama to permanently protect Cashes Ledge, an underwater mountain and offshore ecosystem. But a spokesperson for the White House Council on Environmental Quality said Friday that Cashes Ledge is […]
  
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• Updated: IS claims suicide bombing on stadium in Iraq that killed 29

  25-03-2016 19:30
  
  BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber blew himself up in a soccer stadium south of the Iraqi capital on Friday, killing 29 people and wounding 60, security officials said, as the military announced new gains on the ground against the Islamic State group. The bombing took place during a match in the small stadium in the […]
  
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• Thank you ceremony for Vietnam Vets Tues in ABQ

  25-03-2016 19:23
  
  Vietnam veterans who are enrolled for VA health care are invited to a Vietnam War Commemoration Cere ...
  
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• Roswell proposal would cite parents for kids missing school

  25-03-2016 19:17
  
  ROSWELL, N.M. — A proposal under consideration in Roswell, New Mexico, would make it a minor crime to allow a child to accumulate 10 or more unexcused school absences. The Roswell Daily Record reports (http://bit.ly/1RkzjBC ) that Mayor Dennis Kintigh unveiled a proposal Thursday that would make the “educational neglect” of a child 13 or […]
  
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• Prosecutors move to drop charges against skier Picabo Street

  25-03-2016 19:12
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — Utah prosecutors moved to drop domestic violence charges against Olympic gold-medal skier Picabo Street after she was accused of throwing her father down the stairs and locking him in the basement of her home. Street faced misdemeanor domestic violence and assault charges after the fight with her 76-year-old father near Park […]
  
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• Colo. coach apologizes for anti-gay remark in front of gay player

  25-03-2016 19:12
  
  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — A Colorado Mesa University assistant baseball coach has apologized for using what an investigation concluded was an anti-gay remark in front of a gay player who said he eventually left the game because of homophobia. Sean McKinney apologized Thursday for the remark he made while talking about the 1998 murder of […]
  
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• Nine companies get nearly $1M in job-training funds

  25-03-2016 17:49
  
  The New Mexico Economic Development Department’s Job Training Incentive Program board approved more than $900,000 in training funds for nine companies in March. The funds are tied to the creation of 47 jobs, according to a news release from the state. “JTIP continues to be a vital tool in helping New Mexico grow and diversify […]
  
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• 4.3 million hobbyist drones will be sold by 2020, FAA predicts

  25-03-2016 17:03
  
  The Federal Aviation Administration is predicting a bright future for the growth of the commercial and hobbyist drone industries after final regulations are approved. The FAA said in a report that unmanned aircraft systems will be the “most dynamic growth sector within aviation.” It noted that venture capitalists have already sunk “considerable” funds into the […]
  
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• NM job totals trail pre-recession levels

  25-03-2016 16:20
  
  New Mexico is among 10 states that have not regained all jobs lost in the Great Recession, even after 6-1/2 years of recovery, according to a report released Friday. Many more states have seen only modest gains. The figures help illustrate the uneven nature of the economic rebound since the Great Recession ended in June […]
  
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• Cuba gears up for historic free concert in Havana

  25-03-2016 15:57
  
  HAVANA — Cuba is gearing up for an historic free concert by The Rolling Stones on Friday night in the country where rock and roll music was once silenced. The band arrived Thursday evening in the Cuban capital where the concert will be held. “Obviously something has happened in the last few years,” lead singer […]
  
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• Thousands trace Jesus’ footsteps on Good Friday in Jerusalem

  25-03-2016 15:56
  
  JERUSALEM — Thousands of Catholics and Protestants are commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ by following the path in Jerusalem’s Old City where, according to tradition, he walked on the way to the cross. The Good Friday procession passes along the Way of the Cross, or Via Dolorosa, the route believed to have been walked […]
  
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• Obama: GOP could break judicial nominations ‘beyond repair’

  25-03-2016 15:56
  
  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says Republicans’ refusal to consider his Supreme Court nominee will threaten the integrity of the justice system and prove that the judicial nomination process is “beyond repair.” In an op-ed in the Houston Chronicle, Obama says the fight is bigger than “a single election.” He argues that the election-year blockade […]
  
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• Chief Joseph in Clovis calls for dry spring

  25-03-2016 15:40
  
  It’s going to be a dry spring in Clovis this year — at least that’s what a local weather predictor says. Almost every year on March 22, Clovis resident Chief Joseph Weldon Crim, 80, observes the weather at sunrise on his ranch in Lazbuddie, Texas. By looking at the direction of the wind blowing through […]
  
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• Boutique coffee shops jolt chains to step up sophistication

  25-03-2016 15:40
  
  WASHINGTON — The coffee obsession has reached a new peak: You can now know the altitude at which the beans used for your morning cup of java were grown. Spurred by the popularity of boutique coffee purveyors, Starbucks and other chains are taking steps to appeal to the growing ranks of coffee aficionados. They are […]
  
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• Lawsuit to allege harassment in Portales police case

  25-03-2016 15:39
  
  Internal Portales police documents show former Officer Larry Garrison was accused of falsifying records prior to his being fired by the department in October, according to documents provided by a Portales attorney who is planning to sue the city. Attorney Eric Dixon said he intends to use the report in a lawsuit against the city. […]
  
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• Rare falcon hurt by Texas hail while flying home to Canada

  25-03-2016 15:35
  
  HUTCHINS, Texas — A rare peregrine falcon is being treated at a rehabilitation center outside Dallas after officials believe it was hurt by hail in a North Texas storm while migrating home to Canada. Kathy Rogers, founder of the Rogers Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, tells Fort Worth TV station KXAS (http://bit.ly/1PuZBvr ) a band on the […]
  
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• New Mexico state museums, historic sites to close for Easter

  25-03-2016 15:35
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — Officials with New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs say state museums and historic sites will be closed Easter Sunday. The closure includes the New Mexico Museum of Art and New Mexico Historic Museum near the Santa Fe Plaza as well as the Museum of Indian Art and Culture and the Museum […]
  
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• Michigan lawmakers: As Congress bickers, Flint suffers

  25-03-2016 15:34
  
  WASHINGTON — Two years after problems began with the drinking water in Flint, Michigan, and nearly six months after officials declared a public health emergency, a bipartisan congressional effort to aid the predominantly African-American city is idling in the Senate — stalled by the objections of a single senator from Utah. Rep. Dan Kildee, a […]
  
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• Police: Upon finding Taco Bell closed, angry man smashes car

  25-03-2016 15:33
  
  PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Police in Massachusetts have charged a man they say got so angry when he found out that Taco Bell was closed that he sped off in his car, crashed into a free-standing ATM building, and knocked himself unconscious. Police say Derrick LaForest pulled up to the drive-thru in Pittsfield at 1:30 a.m. […]
  
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• Ex-con charged with death of El Paso police officer

  25-03-2016 15:33
  
  EL PASO, Texas — A 45-year-old man with an extensive record has been arrested on capital murder charges for the death of an El Paso police officer in a traffic wreck that originally was considered an accident. Jail records reviewed by the El Paso Times (http://bit.ly/1LKKX8K ) show John Paul Perry was booked into the […]
  
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