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• Updated: Washington flummoxed over federal Confederate flag displays

  01-07-2016 23:59
  
  WASHINGTON — A year after South Carolina removed the Confederate flag from its capitol grounds, official Washington is struggling with further restrictions on the flag’s display on federal property, including in the U.S. Capitol complex. The National Park Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Army have longstanding guidelines for its cemeteries that permit […]
  
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• Updated: Police identify man fatally shot on Espanola NE

  01-07-2016 23:58
  
  Police have identified the man who was fatally shot in the backyard of a vacant house near Louisiana and Central Wednesday as 53-year-old Antonio Zaragoza. Officers were called to the house on the 200 block of Espanola NE around 9  p.m. to find Zaragoza with a gun shot wound to the leg, according to a […]
  
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• Updated: In VP search, Trump and Clinton eye different priorities

  01-07-2016 23:54
  
  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump wants a running mate who has what he lacks — political experience. Hillary Clinton is putting a premium on diversity as she searches for a No. 2. Yet the presidential rivals are running strikingly similar processes for tapping their vice presidential picks: relying on prominent Washington lawyers to comb through the […]
  
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• Riders temporarily stranded on 6 Flags roller coaster

  01-07-2016 23:50
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas — A roller coaster at Six Flags amusement park in North Texas came to a sudden stop and temporarily stranded about 20 riders before park employees led them to safety. The Shock Wave roller coaster appeared to be making its initial ascent Friday in Arlington when it abruptly stopped. Park spokeswoman Sharon Parker […]
  
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• Game wardens, deputies bust massive marijuana farm

  01-07-2016 23:50
  
  MENARD, Texas — State game wardens and other law enforcement officers have raided what they describe as an illegal large-scale marijuana growing operation in a remote area of West Texas. A Texas Parks and Wildlife Department statement Friday says about 40,000 marijuana plants worth millions of dollars were seized at the scene situated on a […]
  
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• Cultivating Coders partners with Hispano Chamber on boot camps

  01-07-2016 22:35
  
  Cultivating Coders is taking its training boot camps for aspiring web developers to under-served communities in Albuquerque with help from the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce. The two entities are partnering to help 21 disadvantaged individuals gain access to Cultivating Coders’ intensive eight-week training course, which prepares students for high-wage jobs in website and software […]
  
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• Updated: Bill Clinton and his loose-cannon episodes

  01-07-2016 22:27
  
  WASHINGTON — Long regarded as having one of the shrewdest political minds among recent presidents, Bill Clinton has at times angered and alienated Democrats and Republicans alike while campaigning for his wife, Hillary Clinton. His apparently spur-of-the moment decision to chat this week with Attorney General Loretta Lynch even as her agency is overseeing a […]
  
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• CDC: Amoeba didn’t die in whitewater center’s murky churn

  01-07-2016 22:27
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. — The chlorination and filtration systems at an artificial water rapids course where Olympic kayakers train were inadequate to kill a rare, brain-attacking organism, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said after an Ohio teenager died from the amoeba. The rushing water channels at the U.S. National Whitewater Center had become […]
  
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• Updated: Judge: Media can argue to make Bundy case documents public

  01-07-2016 22:19
  
  LAS VEGAS — Media organizations can argue for the release of documents that federal prosecutors want to shield from public view in a criminal case involving Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s 2014 armed standoff with government agents, a judge decided Friday. An order by Magistrate Judge Peggy Leen didn’t immediately open the court filings sought by […]
  
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• Updated: Lowering the flag: Some examples of half-staff tributes

  01-07-2016 22:14
  
  NEW YORK — Nearly 90 percent of days last year, one or more states were flying the American flag at half-staff to memorialize the deaths of military members, public officials, police, first responders, prominent citizens and victims of mass killings and disasters, The Associated Press found in analyzing information from all 50 states and the […]
  
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• Breaking: Forest Service confirms brush clearing started Dog Head Fire

  01-07-2016 20:43
  
  CHILILI — U.S. Forest Service officials on Friday confirmed Journal reports that the cause of the D ...
  
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• Updated: 7,000 baby turkeys die in fire; Thanksgiving orders affected

  01-07-2016 20:40
  
  LANCASTER, Mass. — A barn fire at one of New England’s largest turkey-breeding operations killed 7,000 baby turkeys, and the farm’s owners said that means they won’t be able to meet all of their Thanksgiving orders. The fire happened Thursday at Bob’s Turkey Farm, a family-run business that began in 1954, and killed baby turkeys […]
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Trump: Lynch-Clinton meeting opens Pandora’s box

  01-07-2016 20:14
  
  WASHINGTON — The Latest on the U.S. presidential campaign (all times EDT): 2:15 p.m. Donald Trump says Bill Clinton’s meeting Attorney General Loretta Lynch has “opened up a Pandora’s box.” The presumptive Republican presidential nominee took on the recent private meeting between the former president and Lynch aboard her plane while speaking Friday to a […]
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Democrats release draft of party’s platform

  01-07-2016 20:14
  
  WASHINGTON — The Latest on the U.S. presidential campaign (all times EDT): 3:20 p.m. Democrats are releasing the draft of their party’s platform, calling it the “most progressive” potential platform in the party’s history. The platform is a statement of the party’s values. Highlights include saying that American workers should earn at least $15 an […]
  
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• Updated: Attackers take hostages at Bangladesh restaurant

  01-07-2016 20:14
  
  DHAKA, Bangladesh — A group of as many as nine gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in a diplomatic zone of the Bangladeshi capital on Friday night, taking hostages and exchanging gunfire with security forces, authorities said. The head of the elite anti-crime force, Rapid Action Battalion, or RAB, told reporters Friday night that […]
  
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• Updated: Attackers storm Bangladesh restaurant, take hostages

  01-07-2016 20:14
  
  DHAKA, Bangladesh — As many as nine gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in a diplomatic zone of the Bangladeshi capital on Friday night, taking dozens of hostages and exchanging gunfire with security forces, authorities and a witness said. One police officer died of his wounds at a hospital, according to his nephew Mishu […]
  
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• Updated: Court OKs trial for girl who texted boyfriend urging suicide

  01-07-2016 20:13
  
  BOSTON — A teenager who sent her boyfriend dozens of text messages encouraging him to take his own life and telling him to “get back in” a truck filled with carbon monoxide fumes must stand trial for involuntary manslaughter, the state’s highest court ruled Friday. The Supreme Judicial Court ruled Friday that a grand jury […]
  
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• Clinton campaign says it has $44M in bank for 2016 race

  01-07-2016 20:13
  
  WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton begins July with $44 million in cash to continue hammering Republican Donald Trump in the race for the White House. The presumptive Democratic nominee raised $40.5 million in June. Her campaign announced the numbers Friday. Clinton has spent far more than Trump building up voter contact operations and beginning to advertise […]
  
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• Albuquerque man pleads not guilty in stabbing

  01-07-2016 20:13
  
  An Albuquerque man accused of stabbing a woman multiple times pleaded not guilty Tuesday at his arraignment in 9th Judicial District Court. Aaron Morrisette, 32, appeared before Judge Matthew Chandler via video arraignment from the Curry County Adult Detention Center, where Morrisette is currently being held on $500,000 cash only bond. Morrisette was arrested June […]
  
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• New: Monitor: APD failing to comply in use-of-force investigations

  01-07-2016 19:13
  
  Albuquerque police supervisors are failing to investigate use-of-force cases in a way that is compliant with the settlement agreement between the city and the Department of Justice, according to the third report from the monitoring team overseeing the reform effort. The monitoring team has honed in on one troubling case in particular — a police […]
  
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• MPA: ‘Independence Day’ generated $44M for New Mexico

  01-07-2016 18:02
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Motion Picture Association of America says the movie “Independence Day: Resurgence” generated more than $44 million for New Mexico, where the alien sequel was filmed. Numbers released by Twentieth Century Fox on Friday show the movie hired over 5,750 New Mexico workers and paid them around $19.4 million in wages. The […]
  
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• Updated: US auto sales expected to hit record in first 6 months

  01-07-2016 16:37
  
  DETROIT — U.S. auto sales may be slowing, but they’re still expected to set a record in the first six months of this year. Sales through June were expected to be up 2 percent over last year to 8.66 million, according to Kelley Blue Book. That was partly due to a strong June, which saw […]
  
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• Updated: As desire to acquire mounts, so does risk of losses

  01-07-2016 16:36
  
  NEW YORK — The word suggests compassion, benevolence. It even sounds nice. Goodwill. Mankind needs more of it. But in the financial world, there may be far too much already. Goodwill is the accounting term for the premium that companies pay when they buy each other, over the value of the actual assets being purchased, […]
  
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• Updated: Tesla crash could hurt sentiment on driverless cars

  01-07-2016 16:35
  
  DETROIT — It was the crash the auto industry knew was coming but still feared. The death of a driver who was using Tesla Motors’ semi-autonomous mode could add to the public’s apprehension of driverless cars even before they reach the road in big numbers. Most major automakers and technology companies, including Google and Uber, […]
  
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• Updated: Survey: US manufacturing accelerates in June

  01-07-2016 16:32
  
  WASHINGTON — American manufacturing expanded for the fourth straight month in June, hitting the strongest reading in 16 months as the outlook for new orders and production improved. The Institute for Supply Management said Friday its manufacturing index rose to 53.2 last month from 51.3 in May. Anything above 50 signals growth. The report suggests […]
  
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• Updated: Now isolated, Britain joins France at WWI centenary event

  01-07-2016 16:32
  
  THIEPVAL, France — One week after Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, British Prime Minister David Cameron and members of the royal family were standing side-by-side with France’s president to celebrate their historic alliance at the centenary of the deadliest battle of World War I. More than 1 million people were killed, wounded or […]
  
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• Updated: Xi urges Chinese Communist Party to embrace Marxist roots

  01-07-2016 16:02
  
  BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping urged the 88-million-strong Communist Party to embrace its Marxist roots on Friday as he delivered an emphatic call for ideological discipline and a vigorous defense of party rule. The televised speech on the party’s 95th anniversary represented one of Xi’s most pointed and lengthy addresses laying out his orthodox […]
  
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• Updated: US congressman: Chechen extremist behind Istanbul attack

  01-07-2016 16:02
  
  ISTANBUL — A Chechen extremist masterminded the triple suicide bombing at Istanbul’s busiest airport that killed at least 44 people, a U.S. congressman said. U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, told CNN that Akhmed Chatayev directed Tuesday night’s attack at Ataturk Airport, one of the world’s busiest, which also […]
  
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• Updated: Taiwan misfires anti-ship missile, kills 1 fisherman

  01-07-2016 16:02
  
  TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan’s military said it mistakenly fired a supersonic anti-ship missile Friday that hit a fishing boat, killing one and injuring three people, on the day rival China was celebrating the Communist Party’s anniversary. The 500-ton patrol boat Chinchiang was undergoing an inspection inside a military base when the Hsiung Feng III missile […]
  
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• Updated: Hong Kong pro-democracy protest draws tens of thousands

  01-07-2016 16:02
  
  HONG KONG — Tens of thousands of Hong Kongers took to the southern Chinese city’s streets for an annual pro-democracy protest march Friday, as tensions persisted over the high-profile case of a bookseller secretly detained in the mainland. Protesters waved placards calling for Hong Kong’s independence from China and signs with photos of the bookseller, […]
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Gov. Bryant disappointed by ruling

  01-07-2016 16:01
  
  JACKSON, Miss. — The Latest on Mississippi’s religious objections bill (all times local): 8:05 a.m. Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant says he’s disappointed by a federal judge’s ruling that blocks a law that would let merchants and government employees cite religious beliefs to deny or delay services to same-sex couples. In a statement issued Friday morning, […]
  
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• Updated: Puerto Rico faces historic default as rescue bill approved

  01-07-2016 14:26
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico faced a historic default Friday as the U.S. territory prepared to enter unchartered waters under the guidance of a newly enacted federal control board to oversee the island’s finances amid a dire economic crisis. The anticipated missed payment of $2 billion in debt obligations would be the biggest […]
  
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• Updated: In Brexit, London startups see risk _ and some opportunities

  01-07-2016 14:26
  
  LONDON — Within 24 hours of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, London-based technology startup Netz saw five investors suspend hundreds of thousands of pounds in promised money. Now the company, which provides data to financial companies on potential customers, can’t hire the candidates it had lined up. And should it eventually get the […]
  
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• Updated: Global stocks rise as central banks counter UK turmoil

  01-07-2016 14:26
  
  MANILA, Philippines — Global stocks mostly rose Friday as authorities stepped in to ease the uncertainty surrounding the British vote to leave the European Union. Investors flocked to equities in the face of narrowing choices for investments amid low or negative interest rates on many bonds. KEEPING SCORE: Britain’s FTSE 100 was up 0.5 percent […]
  
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• Updated: The Latest: German minister wants quick timetable from UK

  01-07-2016 14:25
  
  LONDON — The Latest on the British vote to leave the European Union (all times local): 1 p.m. Germany’s foreign minister says Britain should quickly produce a timetable for when it expects to begin talks on leaving the European Union. Frank-Walter Steinmeier was quoted Friday as telling German news website Spiegel Online that he can’t […]
  
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• Updated: EU extends sanctions on Russia another 6 months

  01-07-2016 14:25
  
  BRUSSELS — The European Union has extended sanctions against Russia for six more months to keep pressure on Moscow to respect the peace agreement in Ukraine. The decision, which had been expected, was announced in a statement Friday. It means restrictive measures targeting Russia’s financial, energy and defense sectors, as well as some goods that […]
  
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• Investigators: U.S. lab worker in Colorado faked test results

  01-07-2016 08:45
  
  DENVER — A worker at a federal laboratory in Colorado intentionally manipulated test results for years, possibly tainting research that includes toxic metals in the Everglades, uranium near the Grand Canyon and coal in Afghanistan, investigators say. The falsified data from a U.S. Geological Survey lab may have affected 24 coal, water and environmental research […]
  
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• Tailgate parties and waltzes: Fans look forward to celebrating Santa Fe Opera’s 60th opening night

  01-07-2016 08:21
  
  You'll see many things if you go to the opening of the Santa Fe Opera tonight
  
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• A new city plan may address housing concerns

  01-07-2016 08:21
  
  Planning Commission head wants dialogue
  
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• Jury issues mixed decision in Thornburg fraud case

  01-07-2016 08:20
  
  Former execs cleared on some charges
  
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• Ex-judge Fran Gallegos files in Senate race

  01-07-2016 08:20
  
  Two Green Party candidates – including former Santa Fe Municipal Judge Fran Gallegos – filed Thursday to get on the November general election ballot in legislative races in the Santa Fe area.
  
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• New Mexico reports fourth Hantavirus death

  01-07-2016 07:45
  
  2016 among deadliest years since virus appeared in 1993
  
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• APS has ‘no timetable’ for decision on worker health clinic

  01-07-2016 07:45
  
  District proceeding in a ‘thoughtful manner’
  
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• Volunteers during fire called unsung heroes

  01-07-2016 07:44
  
  Some of the unsung heroes of the Dog Head Fire relief efforts were the volunteers.
  
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• Did fuel clearing effort trigger Dog Head Fire?

  01-07-2016 07:44
  
  Forest Service won't talk, says it will today
  
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• Suspect in officer’s death offered ‘apology of sorts’

  01-07-2016 07:43
  
  Prosecutors want jury to hear comment by suspect
  
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• Gasoline prices hit 13-year low ahead of July 4 holiday

  01-07-2016 06:41
  
  Independence Day travel could be some of this decade’s cheapest, thanks to falling gas prices. They are on track to be at a 13-year low this Fourth of July holiday. As of Thursday, the national average for gasoline was $2.29 a gallon. That’s 48 cents cheaper than last year on the same date and 4 […]
  
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• July 4, 1976

  01-07-2016 06:32
  
  From the Albuquerque Journal, Fourth of July, 1976. #ThrowbackThursday #TBT #JulyFourth #IndependenceDay #ABQ Posted by Albuquerque Journal on Thursday, June 30, 2016
  
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• Nation’s oldest park ranger beaten and robbed in her home

  01-07-2016 06:02
  
  The nation’s oldest national park ranger was beaten this week in her Richmond, Calif., home and robbed of her prized possessions, including a commemorative coin President Barack Obama gave her in December. Betty Reid Soskin, 94, of Richmond was attacked in her townhome about midnight Monday, according to the Richmond Police Department. Soskin told KTVU-TV […]
  
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• SF mortgage executives cleared of five charges

  01-07-2016 06:00
  
  SANTA FE — A federal court jury this week cleared two former executives of Thornburg Mortgage of five counts and was was unable to decide on five others after a month-long trial on civil accounting fraud charges. The now-defunct Santa Fe lender was once New Mexico’s largest publicly held company. The Securities and Exchange Commission, […]
  
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