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• The Latest: California lawmakers OK highest minimum wage

  31-03-2016 23:41
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Thursday approved the nation’s highest statewide minimum wage of $15 an hour to take effect by 2022 after it was hailed by Democrats as an example to the nation as it struggles with a growing gap between rich and poor. The legislation now goes to Gov. Jerry Brown, who […]
  
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• Nusenda to open 98th street branch

  31-03-2016 23:31
  
  Nusenda Credit Union will expand to 18 locations in New Mexico with the opening of a new 2,000-square-foot branch at 120 98th Street NW. The opening of the new branch is slated for late April or early May in the Shops at 98th retail center north of Central, according to Anneliese Elrod, the credit union’s […]
  
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• US reps seek Park Service survey on sexual harassment

  31-03-2016 23:21
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A group of U.S. representatives is asking the National Park Service to survey its employees on sexual harassment. The request comes months after the Interior Department’s Office of Inspector General found a long-term pattern of sexual harassment at the Grand Canyon. The report focused on the park’s now-defunct river district. The representatives […]
  
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• Police: Suspect in bus station shooting dead; 3 others hurt

  31-03-2016 23:13
  
  RICHMOND, Va. — The suspect in a shooting at a Richmond bus terminal that wounded a trooper and two civilians has died, Virginia State Police said. The suspect shot the trooper and died after two other troopers returned fire. State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said the trooper had life-threatening injuries, while the two civilians were […]
  
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• Cruz wins citizenship case in Pennsylvania Supreme Court

  31-03-2016 23:07
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has won a case in Pennsylvania’s highest court that had challenged his eligibility to appear on the state’s GOP primary ballot and serve as president. The state Supreme Court order Thursday upheld a lower-court judge’s decision to dismiss the case. A Pittsburgh resident and registered Republican voter, Carmon […]
  
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• Teeniors teams with Walgreens on tech event

  31-03-2016 22:48
  
  Seniors having difficulty navigating or operating their smart phones, tablets or laptops can get free, one-on-one coaching from tech-savvy teenagers at a special event Tuesday at the West Side Walgreens at Coors Boulevard and Sequoia Road. Teeniors, an Albuquerque startup that matches teens with seniors who need technical assistance, is partnering with Walgreens for the […]
  
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• Study: Amateur football hits linked to later-life difficulty

  31-03-2016 22:34
  
  BOSTON — The more hits to the head an amateur football player takes, the greater his risk of developing depression, difficulty making decisions and other forms of cognitive impairment as an adult, a preliminary study suggests. The study by Boston University researchers published in the Journal of Neurotrauma on Thursday is the first of its […]
  
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• Anti-abortion movement unified in swift rebuke of Trump

  31-03-2016 22:20
  
  NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s remark that women getting abortions were they to be banned should be punished drew swift, unified condemnation from the anti-abortion movement — evidence of the distinctive role it plays at a time when many right-of-center constituencies are struggling with their responses to the Republican presidential front-runner. Trump soon backtracked from […]
  
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• Monaco, UK probe ‘vast corruption scandal’ in oil business

  31-03-2016 22:12
  
  PARIS — Monaco’s government is joining British investigators in unraveling “a vast corruption scandal” implicating an unspecified number of international oil companies, the tiny European principality said in a statement released late Thursday. The statement said several executives of the Monaco-based company UNAOIL had been questioned over the past few days and that their homes […]
  
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• Small plane crashes 8 miles south of Shiprock; Pilot injured

  31-03-2016 21:57
  
  SHIPROCK, N.M. — Authorities say a small plane has crashed eight miles south of Shiprock and the pilot has been airlifted to a hospital. New Mexico State Police say the plane was landing at the Shiprock airport about noon Thursday when it got caught in a crosswind and was pushed off the runway. The plane […]
  
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• Updated: Man gets 30 years in boy’s fatal beating over missing cake

  31-03-2016 21:43
  
  HAGERSTOWN, Md. — A man accused of fatally beating his girlfriend’s 9-year-old son over a missing piece of birthday cake pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Thursday and was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a judge who likened the boy’s treatment to torture. For weeks before the beating, Jack Garcia was a virtual prisoner […]
  
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• Man gets 30 years in boy’s fatal beating over missing cake

  31-03-2016 21:43
  
  HAGERSTOWN, Md. — A Maryland man accused of fatally beating his girlfriend’s 9-year-old son over a missing piece of birthday cake has been convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Thirty-one-year-old Robert Wilson took the plea deal Thursday in Hagerstown. He tearfully told the judge he regretted his actions but he […]
  
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• Ex-judge fined $5,000 for ordering defendant shocked

  31-03-2016 21:43
  
  GREENBELT, Md. — A former Maryland judge who ordered a defendant to be physically shocked in his courtroom was sentenced Thursday to participate in anger-management classes and pay a $5,000 fine. Robert C. Nalley of La Plata, Maryland, will also have to spend a year on probation. Nalley, 72, pleaded guilty earlier this year to […]
  
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• Violent times encourage a step to the right in some nations

  31-03-2016 21:42
  
  BRUSSELS — The Brussels attacks have given a boost to the far right in Belgium and beyond, and their anti-Islam language is finding a special resonance after another bloodbath by Islamic State extremists. Just as the Paris attacks that killed 130 people in November reinvigorated the right-wing National Front in regional elections, last week’s bombings […]
  
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• Medicare opens new push on hip, knee replacement

  31-03-2016 21:42
  
  WASHINGTON — From Albuquerque to Tampa Bay, from New York City to San Francisco, Medicare on Friday launches an ambitious experiment changing how it pays for hip and knee replacements in an effort to raise quality and lower costs. The idea is to follow patients more closely to smooth their recovery and head off unwanted […]
  
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• California OKs highest minimum wage in nation

  31-03-2016 21:42
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Assembly on Thursday green-lighted a plan that would create the highest statewide minimum wage in the nation of $15 an hour by 2022. The proposal now moves on to the state Senate for consideration. The state of New York is considering a similar measure. Gov. Jerry Brown and Democrats who […]
  
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• Man with 13 dead chickens in trees draws neighbor’s ire

  31-03-2016 21:41
  
  TIVERTON, R.I. — A Rhode Island man who has 13 dead chickens hanging from trees outside his home is drawing complaints from a neighbor and a police inquiry. The Newport Daily News (http://bit.ly/1SBeIbn ) reports that the Tiverton man told police Wednesday that he is simply drying the chickens out before properly disposing of them. […]
  
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• Trump stumbling in Wisconsin as forces coalesce against him

  31-03-2016 21:37
  
  MADISON, Wis. — Next Tuesday’s Wisconsin presidential primary is emerging as a crucial lifeline for Republicans desperate to stop Donald Trump’s march to their party’s nomination. One of his worst weeks of the 2016 campaign is colliding with a state already skeptical of his brash brand of politics. A big loss for Trump in Wisconsin […]
  
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• Head of NM Museum of Natural History Foundation to retire

  31-03-2016 21:32
  
  New Mexico Museum of Natural History Foundation president and CEO Jotina Trussell, who has been with ...
  
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• Governor urges wildfire prevention

  31-03-2016 21:01
  
  Flanked by Smokey Bear, two dozen firefighters and the Rio Grande bosque, Gov. Susana Martinez on Thursday urged New Mexicans to prepare for the already-arrived wildfire season and to help prevent fires. At a morning news conference at Rio Grande Nature Center State Park, the governor said this year’s fire season is already proving to […]
  
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• A not-so-bad quarter for funds brings sighs of relief

  31-03-2016 20:10
  
  NEW YORK — Investors made very little, if anything, from most mutual funds last quarter. Phew. A relatively flat quarter feels like a victory because investors were bracing for much worse earlier this year, when the Standard & Poor’s 500 index was in the midst of its worst start of a year in history. Only […]
  
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• Texas teen dies in crash in Portales after police chase

  31-03-2016 19:37
  
  PORTALES, N.M. — A 16-year-old Lubbock, Texas, girl has died from injuries sustained when a vehicle crash in Portales after a police chase. The Portales News-Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/1pNYWjM ) that Portales police say officers were dispatched early Tuesday after reports of a suspicious vehicle in an alleyway. When officers arrived, the vehicle fled, leading to […]
  
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• Extradition approved for Paris suspect Abdeslam

  31-03-2016 19:36
  
  BRUSSELS — The Latest on the extremist attacks in Brussels and Paris (all times local): 6:10 p.m. Belgian judicial authorities have approved in principle the extradition of Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam to France. After two court sessions on Thursday, the federal prosecutor’s office said “the transfer is allowed,” and added that French and Belgian […]
  
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• ‘Everytown’ ad urges veto of Georgia campus carry bill

  31-03-2016 19:36
  
  ATLANTA — A national group is urging Georgia’s Republican governor to veto legislation allowing guns on college campuses. Everytown for Gun Safety is a group backed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The group says it will spend $25,000 on ads to air in metro Atlanta from Thursday through Monday. The bill allows […]
  
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• Kasich pitches himself as a sturdy alternative to GOP rivals

  31-03-2016 19:34
  
  CONCORD, N.H. — Often an afterthought in the chaotic GOP presidential contest, John Kasich is soldiering on with the belief that he can convince hundreds of delegates to swing his way at a contested summer convention by warning that the alternative could be detrimental to the party and the country. Kasich’s fight to win the […]
  
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• Thousands take to streets in France to protest labor reform

  31-03-2016 19:13
  
  PARIS — Tens of thousands of workers and youths took to the streets of France to protest, sometimes violently, a government reform meant to make it easier to hire and fire employees and to relax the country’s strict 35-hour workweek. As train drivers, teachers and others went on strike, student organizations and seven employee unions […]
  
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• Smithsonian to acknowledge Cosby allegations at new museum

  31-03-2016 19:12
  
  WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian now plans to acknowledge the sexual-assault allegations against Bill Cosby at its new African-American history museum on the National Mall, which will display two items related to Cosby’s career in television and standup comedy. The National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opens Sept. 24, will include the cover […]
  
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• Las Cruces schools brace for bus driver strike

  31-03-2016 19:11
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. — Leaders of a bus drivers’ union in New Mexico say there will likely be a strike among drivers for Las Cruces Public Schools. The Las Cruces Sun-News reports (http://bit.ly/1Uv9PnA ) that representatives of the Las Cruces Transportation Federation Local 6341 say negotiations broke down between the union and STS New Mexico, […]
  
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• La. sheriff pleads not guilty to ordering inmates’ beatings

  31-03-2016 19:11
  
  LAFAYETTE, La. — A Louisiana sheriff has pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he ordered inmates to be beaten in retaliation for a lewd comment and complaints about jail conditions. Justice Department spokeswoman Dena Iverson says Iberia Parish Sheriff Louis Ackal entered the plea during his arraignment Thursday on charges of conspiracy and deprivation […]
  
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• The Latest: Jurors deliberating fate of ex-Colorado deputy

  31-03-2016 19:05
  
  GREELEY, Colo. — The Latest on the trial of a former Colorado sheriff’s deputy accused of killing his wife in 2012 (all times local): 10:50 a.m. Jurors are now deciding whether they think a former Colorado sheriff’s deputy killed his wife in 2012 or if she took her own life. They began deliberating the fate […]
  
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• Breaking: MMA: Jones must take anger management course

  31-03-2016 18:46
  
  Albuquerque MMA fighter Jon Jones must complete an anger management course, a driver improvement course and complete an additional 60 hours of community service after having been issued five traffic citations late on March 24. In 2nd Judicial District Court Thursday morning, Judge Michael Martinez declined to impose a 10 p.m. driving curfew as recommended […]
  
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• DOE designates surplus plutonium for disposal at WIPP

  31-03-2016 18:45
  
  The Department of Energy has decided it wants to send six metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium to WIPP as part of its effort to reduce the threat of nuclear arms proliferation — despite the repository’s current closure due to radiological contamination. In a record of decision signed Wednesday by the head of the DOE’s National […]
  
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• Augmented reality mapping out tech’s next mind-bending trip

  31-03-2016 18:44
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — Virtual reality is a trip, but an even wilder ride could be around the corner as mind-bending startups and technology trendsetters try to emblazon the world with interactive holograms that enlighten, entertain and empower us. The concept, known as augmented reality, looks like something out of a science-fiction movie. Think Tony Stark, […]
  
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• Drone photography taking off in Bay Area real estate

  31-03-2016 17:48
  
  SARATOGA, Calif. — Curt Walton’s DJI Phantom 2 zipped this way and that, up and down and around corners of the sleek hillside property that recently listed here for $4 million. Equipped with an HD video camera, the copter dipped and hovered like a hummingbird at the top of a row of silvery olive trees. […]
  
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• Real estate Q&A: Homeowners association must accommodate religious belief

  31-03-2016 17:46
  
  Q: Our homeowners association is considering replacing keys with electronic fobs on all pedestrian gates, clubhouse doors and pool entrances. A sizable portion of our community can’t use electronic devices on the Sabbath due to their religious beliefs. If the renovation gets done, must it include a non-electronic method to accommodate the requirement of certain […]
  
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• The Latest: Possible tornado touches down in Mississippi

  31-03-2016 17:45
  
  NEW ORLEANS — The latest on severe weather in the southern U.S. (all times local): 9:35 a.m. The National Weather Service office in Jackson, Mississippi, says a possible tornado touched down Thursday morning in Lamar County. Meteorologist Joanne Culin says trees are down in two areas of Purvis and one crashed into a house. There […]
  
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• California diver dies in underwater New Mexico cave

  31-03-2016 17:12
  
  SANTA ROSA, N.M. — An eastern New Mexico police chief says an experienced California diver has died in an underwater cave beneath a swimming hole. Santa Rosa Police Chief Jude Gallegos says the initial investigation suggests 43-year-old Shane Thompson’s death Saturday below the Blue Hole was an accidental drowning. The Blue Hole is a deep […]
  
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• Aspen police report early season bear sightings

  31-03-2016 17:11
  
  ASPEN, Colo. — April isn’t here yet but bears have been spotted in the Aspen area. The Aspen Times reports (http://bit.ly/1Y22JFb ) that the Aspen Police Department has received two calls about bear sightings in the past four days, with bears spotted on Sunday and Monday. Aspen police community response supervisor Gretchen Born says it […]
  
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• Closing arguments in former Colorado deputy’s murder trial

  31-03-2016 17:08
  
  GREELEY, Colo. — The case of a former Colorado sheriff’s deputy accused of killing his wife in 2012 is about to go to the jury. Closing arguments are scheduled Thursday morning in Greeley after about two weeks of conflicting testimony on whether Tom Fallis killed his wife or whether she took her own life. Ashley […]
  
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• Chinese returns part of Bangladesh funds stolen by hackers

  31-03-2016 17:08
  
  MANILA, Philippines — A Chinese casino junket operator on Thursday returned $4.63 million of the $81 million that hackers stole from the Bangladesh central bank’s account in the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank and laundered in Manila’s casinos, officials said. Kam Sin Wong, a longtime Manila-based businessman, surrendered the money from one of the world’s largest […]
  
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• Forecasters warn of tornado threat after 7 hurt in Oklahoma

  31-03-2016 17:07
  
  TULSA, Okla. — Forecasters warned of possible tornadoes as thunderstorms rolled across parts of the South on Thursday, a day after at least seven people were injured when severe storms spawned multiple tornado touchdowns in northeastern Oklahoma. Hail and damaging winds were moving across the lower Mississippi River Valley, and the National Weather Service said […]
  
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• Day care death ruled sudden unexplained death

  31-03-2016 17:07
  
  LEWISVILLE, Texas — The death of a nearly year-old baby at an unlicensed home day care center near Dallas has been ruled a sudden unexplained infant death. The Tarrant County medical examiner Thursday indicated the manner of death for Kayden Bolden was undetermined. The boy was found dead Feb. 5 at a day care in […]
  
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• Toddler dies after procedure at Austin dental clinic

  31-03-2016 17:06
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — Investigators are trying to determine what caused the death of a 14-month-old girl after she had a dental procedure in Austin. Autopsy results were pending on Daisy Lynn Torres. The Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office says Daisy was declared dead Tuesday at an Austin hospital. The procedure took place earlier Tuesday at […]
  
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• Resident ruled incompetent in 2 Houston nursing home deaths

  31-03-2016 17:05
  
  HOUSTON — A man charged in the 2014 beating deaths of two of his roommates at a Houston nursing home has been found not competent to stand trial. KPRC-TV (http://bit.ly/1UEBJxX ) reports 58-year-old Guillermo Correa was ruled incompetent Wednesday by a judge in Houston. Correa was arrested on capital murder charges following the April 22, […]
  
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• Flock of sheep escape, wander along suburban Atlanta road

  31-03-2016 17:05
  
  BROOKHAVEN, Ga. — Police in suburban Atlanta found themselves counting sheep after a flock escaped an enclosure and blocked a road. Brookhaven police said in a news release that about 20 grazing sheep and their security dogs were spotted along a road early Wednesday. Police say they were able to contact the herder, who used […]
  
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• In Minneapolis, distrust flares after officers cleared

  31-03-2016 17:04
  
  MINNEAPOLIS — Activists from Minneapolis’ black community spent four months demanding the release of videos and other evidence after a black man was fatally shot in a confrontation with two white police officers. When it finally was made public and a prosecutor announced the officers wouldn’t be charged, they were enraged. Hennepin County Attorney Mike […]
  
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• Hearing set over proposed changes to 2 polygamous towns

  31-03-2016 17:03
  
  PHOENIX — A judge has scheduled an Oct. 24 hearing to consider proposed changes to two polygamous communities in Arizona and Utah that were found to have discriminated against nonbelievers. Three weeks ago, a jury concluded that Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, had violated the constitutional rights of nonbelievers by denying them police protection, […]
  
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• Arizonans can begin obtaining REAL ID-compliant licenses

  31-03-2016 17:03
  
  PHOENIX — Arizona residents starting Friday can begin converting their current driver’s licenses into a new version called the new “voluntary travel ID” that complies with the federal REAL ID law. The Motor Vehicle Division says customers will be able to use the servicearizona.com website to make appointments at MVD offices in Flagstaff, Phoenix, Prescott […]
  
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• Indian education director feared loss of job over report

  31-03-2016 17:02
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — On three different occasions starting in 2013, Charles “Monty” Roessel pulled strings to get a woman a job with the federal agency that oversees education for American Indian children, a report by a federal watchdog found. It said in one case, he asked a human resources official how he could bring her […]
  
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• 2 facing charges in AZ puppy mill shut down last year

  31-03-2016 17:02
  
  PHOENIX — A man and woman are each facing 208 charges in connection with a puppy mill that authorities shut down last year in Tonopah. Maricopa County Sheriff’s officials arrested 55-year-old Kevin Main and 61-year-old Catherine Hutchison at their Tonopah home Tuesday night. Hutchison and Main each face 75 misdemeanor charges of failure to provide […]
  
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