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• AZ advances free speech protections on college campuses

  11-04-2016 23:53
  
  PHOENIX — The Senate has given preliminary approval to a measure protecting students’ rights to free speech on college campuses. Rep. Anthony Kern of Glendale is sponsoring a bill that would prevent colleges and universities from restricting free speech in a public forum. The bill also specifies when restrictions can be placed on free speech. […]
  
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• Goat breaks free, goes on Starbucks run in California

  11-04-2016 23:22
  
  ROHNERT PARK, Calif. — Police say a goat apparently needed a caffeine fix when it wandered into a Starbucks in Northern California. Rohnert Park police Sgt. Rick Bates says dispatchers received several calls Sunday morning about a goat named Milly wandering around a strip mall on the city’s eastern edge. Bates says employees who were […]
  
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• Breaking: Deputies searching for abducted 9-month-old girl

  11-04-2016 23:19
  
  Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office deputies are searching for a 9-month-old child who they say was abducted. BCSO spokeswoman Felicia Romero said someone in a 2004 maroon Acura SUV abducted 9-month-old Ariana Smith. The car was last spotted eastbound on I-40 near Nine Mile Hill. It has an Arizona license plate with the number BEX719. Romero […]
  
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• 95 Mississippi authors call for repeal of anti-LGBT law

  11-04-2016 23:17
  
  JACKSON, Miss. — John Grisham and Donna Tartt are among 95 Mississippi authors urging state officials to repeal a law that will let workers cite religious beliefs to deny services to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people. The writers said in a letter released Monday that House Bill 1523 (http://bit.ly/1Mq4DyE ) has prompted hateful rhetoric […]
  
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• Backers fight for children’s health insurance in Arizona

  11-04-2016 23:16
  
  PHOENIX — A fight is intensifying in the Arizona Legislature over the Senate leader’s refusal to restore a program providing health insurance to poor children, a decision that would maintain the state’s position as the only one in the nation that doesn’t participate in the plan. Advocates who want the program restarted rallied at the […]
  
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• Police: Texas teen kills mom, brother before killing himself

  11-04-2016 23:10
  
  DALLAS — Investigators are trying to determine what led a Texas teenager to fatally stab his brother and his television-personality mother before mortally wounding himself, police said Monday. Police in the Dallas suburb of Plano said 19-year old McCann Utu Jr. attacked his 45-year-old mother, Stacy Fawcett, and his 17-year-old brother early Friday before stabbing […]
  
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• New: Review: ‘Terra Nova’ hitting the right spot at Vortex

  11-04-2016 20:13
  
    Sitting in his prison cell shortly before the Nazi regime would execute him, Lutheran Pastor Dietrich Bonheoffer wrote, “protected from nature’s menace there arises a new one,” mankind itself. “He has managed to deal with everything, only not with himself. He can insure against everything, only not against man.” Having putatively won the battle […]
  
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• Discrimination lawsuit over writing test goes to trial

  11-04-2016 19:24
  
  DENVER — A class-action discrimination lawsuit against the City and County of Denver is set to go to trial Monday. KCNC-TV reports (http://cbsloc.al/1S0MKDP ) that 912 plaintiffs say the city used a discriminatory writing test during the hiring process around 2007 and 2008. According to the lawsuit, more than 40 percent of black and Hispanic […]
  
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• Four Las Crucens killed in crash on I-25

  11-04-2016 19:09
  
  LAS CRUCES – Four Las Cruces residents, including a mother and her two young children, were killed in a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 25 early Sunday morning when a collision caused their car’s fuel tank to rupture and catch fire, state police said. The victims have been identified as 28-year-old Antoinette Harwood; her two children, […]
  
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• Paris-Brussels attacks network a ‘supercell’ of extremism

  11-04-2016 19:08
  
  PARIS — The number of people linked to the Islamic State network that attacked Paris and Brussels reaches easily into the dozens, with a series of new arrests over the weekend that confirmed the cell’s toxic reach and ability to move around unnoticed in Europe’s criminal underworld. From Belgium’s Molenbeek to Sweden’s Malmo, new names […]
  
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• Warrant: Ex-Saints player Will Smith was shot in back, torso

  11-04-2016 19:07
  
  NEW ORLEANS — Former New Orleans Saints player Will Smith was killed in a case of road-rage, by a Humvee-driving man who rear-ended his Mercedes and then shot him in the back and side, according to a police warrant read in court. Cardell Hayes, 28, was ordered held on $1 million bond Sunday night after […]
  
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• Updated: ‘Dreamland’ author speaks about New Mexico’s opiate crisis

  11-04-2016 19:05
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The author of an award-winning book that calls attention to the nation’s opiate epidemic is in New Mexico as the U.S. Attorney pushes to raise awareness of the state’s rising overdose death rate. Author and journalist Sam Quinones plans to speak Monday evening at the African American Performing Arts Center in Albuquerque […]
  
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• Israel to release young female Palestinian prisoner

  11-04-2016 17:28
  
  JERUSALEM — Israel’s prison service says it has approved the early release of a 12-year-old Palestinian girl who confessed to planning to carry out a stabbing attack in a West Bank settlement. Prison service spokesman Assaf Librati said Monday that authorities have decided to release the girl on April 24 — six weeks before her […]
  
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• Three men accused of robbing women in Fruitland home

  11-04-2016 17:24
  
  FRUITLAND, N.M. — San Juan County authorities say three Fruitland men are accused of robbing two women in their home. The Sheriff’s Office says one of the victims was an 81-year-old woman who was forced to lie face down on a bed so she couldn’t call police before the robbers left Sunday. According to the […]
  
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• Updated: UNM med student says he was punished for Obama Facebook post

  11-04-2016 17:23
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A University of New Mexico medical student says the school unfairly punished him for a Facebook post that was critical of President Barack Obama’s re-election and compared Democrats to Germans during Nazi rule, according to federal lawsuit. In court papers filed last week in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque, lawyers for Paul […]
  
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• New Mexico gets first glimpse at campaign cash

  11-04-2016 17:22
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — Control of the New Mexico House and Senate are at stake as candidates and political committees stockpile cash in advance of a June primary and November general election. Political candidates and committees are filing campaign finance reports as a Monday-night deadline approaches for disclosing contributions and expenditures for the past six […]
  
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• Memorial service for doctor killed in Centennial shooting

  11-04-2016 17:21
  
  ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — A memorial service is being held Monday for the man allegedly shot to death by his neighbor in Centennial. Friends and family are gathering at Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church in Englewood to honor 65-year-old physician Kenneth Atkinson. Neighbors say he was shot as he ran to help others in the shooting outside […]
  
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• Prince William, wife Kate pay respect to Gandhi in India

  11-04-2016 15:47
  
  NEW DELHI — The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge paid respect to Indian independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi on Monday and met with young entrepreneurs in India’s financial capital of Mumbai to speak with the country’s next generation of business leaders. On the second day of their weeklong royal tour of India, Prince William and […]
  
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• Police evacuate protesters at Paris’ Republique square

  11-04-2016 15:47
  
  PARIS — French police on Monday evacuated protesters angry over labor reforms who have been gathering at Paris’ Republique square over the past 11 nights, ordering them to tear down structures set up on the iconic plaza. Paris police said the evacuation, which took place after some protesters rioted over the weekend, went without incident. […]
  
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• Hertz seing a glut, trims revenue outlook; shares tumble

  11-04-2016 15:47
  
  NEW YORK — Hertz is cutting its revenue expectations for the year, saying that the rental car market is suffering from excess capacity. CEO John Tague says that overflow will likely moderate heading into the peak summer season. Hertz Global Holdings Inc. now expects full-year revenue to range from flat to dropping by 1.5 percent. […]
  
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• Updated: Puerto Rico unveils new restructuring deal as cash dwindles

  11-04-2016 15:46
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico on Monday released a new proposal to restructure part of its $70 billion debt to buy time to implement a fiscal growth plan as multimillion-dollar payments loom for a U.S. territory facing dwindling cash reserves. Government officials propose to exchange $49 billion of debt into up to $28 […]
  
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• Researchers: Newer type of ransomware is harbinger of danger

  11-04-2016 15:45
  
  WASHINGTON — An unusual strain of virus-like hacker software that exploits computer server vulnerabilities — without requiring human interaction — is a leading example of a new generation of “ransomware,” according to a new report by Cisco Systems Inc. Hackers use such software to target large-scale networks and hold data hostage in exchange for bigger […]
  
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• Trump champions the politically incorrect

  11-04-2016 08:05
  
  Donald Trump's inflammatory statements about Mexican immigrants, Muslim refugees and women who get a ...
  
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• Presidential candidates turn to hunt for delegates

  11-04-2016 08:05
  
  WASHINGTON–The Democratic and Republican presidential candidates are coming to terms with...
  
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• Service academies require nominations

  11-04-2016 08:02
  
  Members of New Mexico's congressional delegation are now accepting applications for nominations to U ...
  
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• Jury to decide child abuse death case

  11-04-2016 08:02
  
  A highly emotionally charged child abuse death case is the hands of a state court jury, which heard...
  
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• Topes Today, Monday April 11

  11-04-2016 04:56
  
  at Reno 7:35 p.m. Radio: 610-AM Probable starters: Isotopes LHP Ryan Carpenter (0-0, — ) vs. Aces TBD Sunday: The Tacoma Rainiers smashed 15 hits and slashed the visiting Isotopes 13-1 in the series finale. The Isotopes scored their lone run in the top of the seventh, after Jordan Patterson and Will Swanner led off […]
  
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• Davie wants his Lobos to be physical

  11-04-2016 04:54
  
  Notes and quotes from week three of University of New Mexico spring football practice: This spring, UNM is adding significantly to an already multi-faceted offensive scheme. The Lobos also are working to improve their execution of a blitzing defense meant to confuse and disrupt. It’s about keeping the opposition off balance in hopes of building […]
  
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• Point guard commits to Lobos

  11-04-2016 04:50
  
  The Lobos didn’t want Jalen Harris to slip through any more cracks. The 6-foot-2 high school senior from Word of God Academy in Raleigh, N.C., announced Sunday he would accept a scholarship offer from the University of New Mexico basketball team for the coming season, teaming with rising sophomore Jordan Hunter to man the point […]
  
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• Lobo baseball sweeps Fresno State

  11-04-2016 04:49
  
  Another day, another comeback victory for the University of New Mexico baseball team. Granted, Sunday’s 7-4 win over Fresno State couldn’t match the dramatics of the previous day’s extra-inning, 14-13 classic, but UNM coach Ray Birmingham and his players found it satisfying enough. This time New Mexico rallied from a 3-1, sixth-inning deficit to win […]
  
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• BCSO: Torture tools found near beaten man

  11-04-2016 03:57
  
  An Albuquerque man faces multiple felony charges after keeping another man in his South Valley home for a day, tying him to a chair and “torturing” him, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court. Marcel Bland, 47, is charged with kidnapping, false imprisonment and aggravated battery resulting in great bodily harm. Deputies were […]
  
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• Science on the Hill: Why space weather matters

  11-04-2016 00:00
  
  Many people think of space as a silent, empty void and the sun as a distant source of light and heat. Not true. The sun and the Earth are connected in complex, intimate and sometimes dangerous ways.
  
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