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• CSI buys new aicraft, installs high-tech medical systems

  14-07-2016 23:56
  
  CSI Aviation Inc. has coordinated medical flights for providers and patients for more than a decade, but it’s now directly operating its own medical aircraft in partnership with Albuquerque Ambulance Service. Albuquerque-based CSI, a 37-year-old company that offers charter flights, aircraft leasing, management services and more for businesses and government agencies, began offering medical flight […]
  
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• Updated: Property owners: Get off my lawn, Pokemon!

  14-07-2016 23:16
  
  LOS ANGELES — As throngs of “Pokemon Go” players traipse around to real-world landmarks in pursuit of digital monsters, some ticked-off property owners are asking to have their locations in the fictional Poke-verse removed. For Valerie Janovic, a 19-year-old psychology major at Brandeis University, the game went too far when the image of a poison-gas-emitting […]
  
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• 2 walk near tracks, get hit by passing train in Flagstaff

  14-07-2016 23:15
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Authorities say two people are being treated at a Flagstaff hospital after walking between railroad tracks and getting clipped by a passing train. Flagstaff police and firefighters responded to the scene about 7 a.m. Thursday and say it was not near a pedestrian crossing. Police identified the two injured as 32-year-old Jasmine […]
  
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• LGBT rights trial could take place close to Election Day

  14-07-2016 23:04
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. — Dueling lawsuits over a North Carolina law limiting protections for LGBT people will likely go to trial around Election Day, putting the divisive issue in the spotlight as voters prepare to cast ballots in the closely watched governor’s race. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Schroeder issued an order on Thursday saying he […]
  
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• Updated: AP EXCLUSIVE: Militant with US bounty walks free in Pakistan

  14-07-2016 23:03
  
  LAHORE, Pakistan — The United States has put a $10 million bounty on his head, labeling him a terrorist. He is one of the most wanted men in India. Yet, Hafiz Saeed walks free in his home country of Pakistan, denouncing Washington and New Delhi in public speeches. Now the man identified by the U.S. […]
  
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• Updated: Amid VP speculation, Kaine joins Clinton on campaign trail

  14-07-2016 23:03
  
  WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton campaigned alongside Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine on Thursday afternoon, making a high-profile appearance with one of the leading contenders for a spot alongside her on the presidential ticket. Kaine, a popular lawmaker from an important general election battleground state, is considered to be a safe pick, one that could help Clinton […]
  
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• Rocky Mountain National Park reminds visitors of fire ban

  14-07-2016 22:17
  
  ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. — Amid high fire danger, officials at Rocky Mountain National Park are reminding visitors that campfires are banned in most of the park. Park spokeswoman Kyle Patterson says two illegal campfires were discovered this week and the people who set them were issued citations. A small wildfire that started Monday […]
  
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• Man changes plea to guilty in Tempe shooting and chase case

  14-07-2016 22:17
  
  PHOENIX — A man has changed his plea to guilty to charges stemming from an attempted drug transaction and shooting in Tempe and a subsequent lockdown of a Phoenix airport terminal. Maricopa County Superior Court officials say Layron Dejarnette entered his plea Thursday to conspiracy to commit sale or transportation of marijuana, unlawful flight, armed […]
  
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• Updated: Classic Nintendo Entertainment System returning to stores

  14-07-2016 20:13
  
  REDMOND, Wash. — If you have fond memories of battling King Koopa or tossing barrels as Donkey Kong, you can relive them this fall. Nintendo is leaping into the nostalgia market by bringing back the classic Nintendo Entertainment System. The NES Classic edition comes complete with 30 built-in games, including all three “Super Mario Bros.,” […]
  
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• REDW names new principal in ABQ

  14-07-2016 20:05
  
  REDW LLC has announced Dennis Davis as been promoted to principal in its Albuquerque office. “Dennis has been an invaluable leader within our retirement plan administration team for 13 years,” Carol Cochran, a principal of REDW LLC and its entity Alliance Benefit Group Southwest, said in a news release announcing the promotion. Davis has more […]
  
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• Anderson names COO

  14-07-2016 19:57
  
  Anderson Air Corps has announced it has promoted Kyle Redford from vice president to chief operating officer. Redford will be responsible for overseeing daily operations, insurance, advertising, corporate relationships and communications, according to a news release from the company. Kyle joined Anderson Air Corps as an estimator in 1994. Prior to joining the Anderson team, […]
  
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• New: ‘Better Caul Saul’ picks up 7 Emmy noms; ‘Game of Thrones’ leads with 23

  14-07-2016 19:25
  
    Seven. It’s a lucky number and also the number of Emmy nominations New Mexico-filmed “Better Call Saul” received on Thursday. In its sophomore season, the series matched the same number of nominations of its haul in 2015. The AMC series is gearing up to return for its third season later this summer in Albuquerque […]
  
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• Deal lets Green Party pick on Arizona presidential ballot

  14-07-2016 19:14
  
  PHOENIX — Arizona Secretary of State Michele Reagan and the Arizona Green Party have struck a deal allowing the party’s presidential candidate on the November ballot despite the party’s failure to file its nomination papers for Electoral College delegates on time. The party and Reagan asked a federal judge earlier this week to enter an […]
  
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• Updated: Congress OKs bill requiring first GMO food labels

  14-07-2016 19:06
  
  WASHINGTON — Consumers wanting to know if their foods contain genetically modified ingredients will be able to find out for the first time. Congress sent legislation to President Barack Obama on Thursday that would require most food packages to carry a text label, a symbol or an electronic code readable by smartphone that indicates whether […]
  
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• Updated: Obama marks anniversary of nuke deal; GOP aims to undermine

  14-07-2016 18:54
  
  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is marking the anniversary of the nuclear deal with Iran with a vow that the United States and its partners will uphold their commitments as long as Iran abides by the pact. Congressional Republicans repeatedly are trying to undermine the international accord. Obama said in a statement Thursday that the […]
  
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• Feds push back lease sale over transparency concerns

  14-07-2016 17:25
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Bureau of Land Management is delaying next week’s lease sale in the heart of New Mexico oil and gas country after activists raised concerns about transparency. Environmentalists who have been protesting lease sales across the West consider the decision a small victory as they push for the agency to do large-scale […]
  
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• Report: Train didn’t heed stop signal in deadly Texas wreck

  14-07-2016 17:23
  
  AMARILLO, Texas — Federal inspectors say a preliminary investigation reveals that a train failed to heed a stop signal before it barreled head-on into another freight train last month in the Texas Panhandle, killing three. The National Transportation Safety Board says in the report released Thursday that an eastbound BNSF Railway train failed to slow […]
  
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• College Station police: 60 vehicles damaged by BB gun vandal

  14-07-2016 17:23
  
  COLLEGE STATION, Texas — College Station police say windows on at least 60 cars and trucks in some subdivisions and at an apartment complex have been shot out with BB guns. Authorities say they began getting calls Tuesday night from owners of vehicles reporting the damage. The damage reports continued Wednesday. No arrests have been […]
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Pence speaks, quickly exits planned event

  14-07-2016 17:22
  
  WASHINGTON — The Latest on Campaign 2016 ahead of the Republican and Democratic National conventions (all times EDT): 11:18 a.m. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence quickly exited a planned speaking event in Indianapolis shortly after releasing details about a new economic development initiative. The Republican governor is considered a top contender to become Donald Trump’s vice […]
  
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• Historic theaters gain new life as retail stores

  14-07-2016 17:10
  
  LOS ANGELES — Downtown’s LA’s Broadway Theater District, home to one of the largest concentrations of historic movie palaces in the nation, is gaining a new lease on life that doesn’t involve showing films. Some of the dozen remaining theaters are turning to other uses: There’s a hotel, the occasional church and retail. The theaters […]
  
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• Updated: Truck driver charged in deadly Georgia pleads guilty

  14-07-2016 16:55
  
  PEMBROKE, Ga. — A Louisiana truck driver charged in a fiery interstate crash in Georgia that killed five nursing students last year pleaded guilty Thursday to nine counts, including five counts of first-degree vehicular homicide. A judge sentenced 56-year-old John Wayne Johnson to five years in prison, plus five on probation. He would have faced […]
  
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• Updated: Prince Harry takes instant HIV test; results are fine

  14-07-2016 16:54
  
  LONDON — Britain’s Prince Harry has taken a nearly instant HIV test as part of his campaign to raise awareness about the virus. The results of the simple finger-prick test were negative and Harry seemed relieved to find that he was not infected with the virus. Harry admitted before the test that he was nervous. […]
  
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• Updated: A man and his hair: Hollande criticized for expensive barber

  14-07-2016 16:54
  
  PARIS — French President Francois Hollande doesn’t look like a man who spends 10,000 euros ($11,000) a month on his hair. Yet the deeply unpopular Socialist leader, who was elected on a populist mandate of taxing the super-wealthy, is embroiled in an embarrassing scandal over the exorbitant price of his hair care that detractors have […]
  
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• Updated: IS recruits in SE Asia a rising threat despite weak attacks

  14-07-2016 16:53
  
  JAKARTA, Indonesia — Ineffectual attacks by the Islamic State group’s followers in Southeast Asia have shown them to be fragmented and lacking in the expertise that has produced devastating death tolls elsewhere in the world. But terrorism experts say the threat from the militants, spread across predominantly Muslim Indonesia, Malaysia and the southern Philippines, should […]
  
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• Updated: China’s actions in South China Sea seen as defying ruling

  14-07-2016 16:53
  
  HANOI, Vietnam — Two Chinese aircraft landed on disputed reefs and Beijing’s coast guard reportedly blocked a Filipino boat from a contested shoal, in acts of defiance after a landmark ruling found China’s vast claims in the South China Sea legally baseless. Vietnam protested Thursday that the recent Chinese actions seriously violated Vietnamese sovereignty. Chinese […]
  
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• New: Cabela’s coming to Albuquerque

  14-07-2016 13:45
  
  Outdoor retailer will anchor new mixed-use development
  
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• Sweltering summer in Albuquerque

  14-07-2016 08:05
  
  No relief from the heat in sight as temperatures hover around 100
  
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• Reedy chooses principal as interim superintendent for HR

  14-07-2016 08:05
  
  Atrisco Heritage Academy High leader gets one-year appointment
  
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• Insuring individuals costly, even outside of Obamacare

  14-07-2016 08:05
  
  Presbyterian will quit selling plans on state exchange
  
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• Government keeps tight lid on names of bidders for Sandia contract

  14-07-2016 08:05
  
  NNSA won't even reveal how many firms put in proposals to manage labs
  
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• Ginsburg will follow Trump blast with New Mexico appearance

  14-07-2016 08:05
  
  Justice has called Trump a 'faker'; he says she should apologize and step down
  
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• ‘The Hunger Games’ warned us that reality TV would take over our politics

  14-07-2016 06:58
  
  (c) 2016, The Washington Post. (EDITORS: Latest in a week-long series about the end of America in fiction.) — In “The Hunger Games,” Suzanne Collins’s trilogy about a ruined America mesmerized by a vicious reality series, the precise nature of America’s downfall remains purposefully vague. The official who runs the Reaping in the first novel […]
  
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• 2 people injured after being stabbed at Texas Wal-Mart

  14-07-2016 06:28
  
  PRINCETON, Texas — Officials say a Wal-Mart employee is in custody after stabbing two people in a North Texas store. Princeton police Chief James Waters says the incident happened Wednesday afternoon. He says the two people stabbed were taken by helicopter to a hospital and are both in stable condition. Princeton City Manager Derek Borg […]
  
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• APNewsBreak: Half of arrestees where Castile died are black

  14-07-2016 06:27
  
  MINNEAPOLIS — Police in the suburban St. Paul area where a black man was shot and killed during a traffic stop have disproportionately arrested African-Americans, according to an analysis of data provided by the department that shows nearly half of the people arrested this year in the heavily white community were black. The St. Anthony […]
  
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• APD: Pedestrian killed near Gibson and Carlisle

  14-07-2016 06:26
  
  A pedestrian was struck and killed in a crash near Gibson and Carlisle SE Wednesday night, according to a spokesman for the Albuquerque Police Department. Officer Fred Duran said Gibson is shut down between Girard and Carlisle SE while officers with the southeast area command investigate the crash. He did not identify the pedestrian or […]
  
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• Baby is first in Texas born with birth defect linked to Zika

  14-07-2016 06:25
  
  DALLAS — A baby has been born with a Zika-related birth defect, officials in Harris County said today. The baby’s mother was infected with the Zika virus in Latin America and passed the virus to the baby in the womb. The child is the first in Texas to be born with a birth defect linked […]
  
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• Holm wins ESPY for upset win over Rousey

  14-07-2016 05:54
  
  From Journal wires LOS ANGELES — Holly Holm may not have the UFC women’s bantamweight championship belt anymore, but Wednesday night she won some new hardware at the ESPY Awards. Holm won the fan vote for best upset with her knockout of then-champ Ronda Rousey at UFC 193 in November. Holm was not in Los […]
  
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• Roswell ties record for consecutive days at 100, Weather Service says

  14-07-2016 05:49
  
  Roswell is on a hot streak. The southeastern New Mexico city on Wednesday tied a record for consecutive number of days above 100 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. The 13-day stretch matches the mark set from June 7-19 in 2011, the agency said, adding that “chances are good” for the record to be […]
  
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• Woodward leaves UNM women’s hoops team

  14-07-2016 05:38
  
  Sammie Woodward, a 5-foot-7 freshman guard from Racine, Wis., has been granted a scholarship release and is leaving the University of New Mexico women’s basketball program. UNM said Wednesday it is accommodating the “wishes of Woodward, as a personal choice unrelated to basketball.” Woodward was a participant in UNM team activities led by new head […]
  
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• Topes Today (July 14)

  14-07-2016 05:36
  
  Vs. Memphis, 7:05 p.m. Radio: 610 AM Probable starters: TBD Wednesday: Lehigh Valley’s Edward Mujica and nine other relievers threw seven scoreless innings in the International League’s 4-2 victory over the Pacific Coast League in the Triple-A All-Star Game in Charlotte, N.C. Jordan Patterson, the lone Isotope in the game, grounded out in the eighth […]
  
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• Updated: Bregman insists he is focused on Triple-A

  14-07-2016 05:33
  
  What do you do after starring on a national stage in an exhibition game featuring the best baseball...
  
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• APD: Suspect leads officers on I-25 pursuit

  14-07-2016 03:30
  
  A man matching the description of a “wanted sexual offense offender” led police on a pursuit on Interstate 25 Wednesday evening, according to a spokesman for the Albuquerque Police Department. Officer Simon Drobik said police were dispatched to 4400 Montgomery NE due to the man sitting in the parking lot of the Sun Plaza apartment […]
  
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• Fire burns 100 acres, 10 structures and two fire trucks in Otero County

  14-07-2016 03:22
  
  A forest fire has burned through more than 100 acres, engulfing 10 structures and two fire trucks, in Timberon, NM, Wednesday evening, according to a spokesman for the Otero County Sheriff’s Office. Sgt. Steve Odom said the fire started around 3:30 p.m. in the Lincoln National Forest southeast of Alamogordo. It was initially heading northeast, […]
  
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• PRC sets hearing on PNM-Facebook deal

  14-07-2016 02:09
  
  The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission has reserved Aug. 9 for a public hearing on a deal between the state’s largest utility and Facebook. Public Service Company of New Mexico is requesting an expedited approval process for a special services agreement with Facebook. Facebook is considering building a data center in New Mexico and told […]
  
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• Updated: Bond set for Juan de Dios Cordova as vehicular homicide case heads for retrial

  14-07-2016 02:00
  
  SANTA FE — A man who had a vehicular manslaughter conviction overturned by the state Court of Appeals last year had new conditions of release set for him Wednesday as he waits for a new trial. In December 2012, Juan de Dios Cordova was found guilty of killing 51-year-old motorcyclist Mark Wolfe of Algodones on […]
  
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• ART has to wait for landmarks board approval

  14-07-2016 01:52
  
  Mayor Richard Berry’s administration had hoped to win approval Wednesday from a city landmarks board considering the Albuquerque Rapid Transit project. But the board couldn’t consider the request — by court order. Second Judicial District Judge Victor Lopez issued an emergency writ this week directing the City Council to make time to hear an appeal […]
  
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• Santa Fe, Taos sign occupancy tax collection agreements with Airbnb

  14-07-2016 01:13
  
  In a joint announcement Wednesday, the city of Santa Fe and the town of Taos said the online vacation rental service Airbnb will start collecting lodgers’ taxes from its hosts and remit them back to the municipalities beginning Aug. 1. “Lodgers’ taxes help support the local economy and are already being paid by guests of […]
  
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• Man arrested for allegedly threatening a census worker

  14-07-2016 01:04
  
  A man annoyed by the efforts of a persistent U.S. Census Bureau worker was arrested after police said he threatened the worker with a gun Tuesday evening. According to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court, 43-year-old Dale Fishgrab pushed a 9 mm gun into a census worker’s chest after the man knocked on his […]
  
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• Woman accused of murder in 1982 cold case released from jail

  14-07-2016 01:02
  
  A woman accused of murder in a 1982 cold case has been released from jail and won’t be extradited to Colorado where the bodies of a man and woman were found decades ago, according to authorities. Antoinette Palmer, 58, was arrested on a warrant for murder and conspiracy in Mesa, Ariz., on July 1. Alex […]
  
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• Updated: What’s next for Brady, Garoppolo and the Patriots?

  14-07-2016 00:40
  
  Tom Brady will miss the first four games of the upcoming NFL schedule. Unless he doesn’t. “Deflategate” has crept into a third NFL season, and with the federal court’s rejection on Wednesday of the New England quarterback’s appeal of his suspension, it certainly appears that Brady will be sidelined into early October. Brady still has […]
  
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