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  09-08-2016 23:58 via news.blogs.nytimes.com
  Get recommendations from New York Times reporters and editors, highlighting great stories from around the web. Today, great reads from Fernanda Santos, Steven Erlanger and others.
  
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• Man indicted for role in Fort Worth officer’s shooting

  09-08-2016 23:54
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas — A Tarrant County grand jury has indicted a 21-year-old man on charges stemming from the shooting of a Fort Worth police officer in a gunbattle that left the man’s father dead. The grand jury indicted Ed Russell McIver Jr. on charges of hindering apprehension and evidence tampering. Both charges carry potential […]
  
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• Updated: Couple indicted for leaving son alone to play Pokemon Go

  09-08-2016 23:53
  
  FLORENCE, Ariz. — An Arizona couple accused of leaving their 2-year-old son alone for up to 90 minutes to go play the “Pokemon Go” smartphone game have been indicted by a grand jury. Pinal County prosecutors say 27-year-old Brent Daley and his 26-year-old wife Brianna Daley each are facing one count of child abuse. They […]
  
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• Closing costs in NM 12th highest

  09-08-2016 23:44
  
  With mortgage rates bumping below 4 percent, now may time to buy a house in New Mexico. But be prepared for higher-than-average closing costs, thanks to new rules enacted by Uncle Sam. The Land of Enchantment has the 12th-highest closing costs in the country, a new Bankrate.com report showed. Closing costs in the state averaged […]
  
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• Updated: US preparing to announce findings on Baltimore police force

  09-08-2016 23:34
  
  BALTIMORE — The Justice Department is expected to announce Wednesday the findings of a yearlong investigation into possible unconstitutional practices at the Baltimore police force, according to an official familiar with the probe. The report, which examined how officers used force and conducted traffic stops, is likely to promote changes in fundamental policing practices. The […]
  
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• Breaking: Gov. Martinez directs state agencies to trim spending by 5 percent

  09-08-2016 21:12
  
  SANTA FE — In the latest round of New Mexico budgetary belt-tightening, Gov. Susana Martinez has directed state agencies to trim their approved spending levels by at least 5 percent. The two-term Republican governor gave the directive to state agencies today via a memo. All departments were given the instructions, including agencies that already had […]
  
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• Updated: Sandwich chain worker accused of drugging officer’s drink

  09-08-2016 19:42
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah sandwich shop employee has been arrested on accusations he put methamphetamine and THC into the drink of a uniformed police officer. A probable cause statement filed Tuesday says the Layton police sergeant immediately felt impaired after getting the drink at a Subway restaurant Monday. He struggled to find the […]
  
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• Sandwich chain worker accused of drugging officer’s drink

  09-08-2016 19:42
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah sandwich shop employee has been arrested on accusations he put methamphetamine and THC into the drink of a uniformed police officer. Authorities said Tuesday that a Layton police sergeant immediately felt impaired after getting the drink at a Subway restaurant Monday. He struggled to find the brake pedal of […]
  
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• Updated: Police seek public’s help to solve Google worker’s slaying

  09-08-2016 19:32
  
  BOSTON — Authorities asked for the public’s help Tuesday as they struggled to find the killer or killers of a New York City woman whose body was found in woods near her mother’s home in central Massachusetts after she went out for a jog and didn’t return. Residents of Princeton, a sleepy town of about […]
  
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• Updated: Pakistanis mourn attack on lawyers and a deadly culture war

  09-08-2016 19:30
  
  QUETTA, Pakistan — Many Pakistanis were in deep mourning on Tuesday, a day after a suicide bombing that targeted lawyers killed 70 people in the city of Quetta, touching a chord in the country’s long-simmering culture war. By targeting lawyers, Islamic radicals appeared to take aim at a pillar of the country’s budding civil society […]
  
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• Widening aim, Clinton commits resources to Georgia, Arizona

  09-08-2016 19:28
  
  ATLANTA — Hillary Clinton is expanding her presidential battleground map to include the traditionally Republican states of Georgia and Arizona, according to officials aware of the plans. A source with knowledge of the campaign’s plans says aides at Clinton’s New York headquarters spoke Monday with Democratic Party officials in Georgia and Arizona to discuss a […]
  
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• Police say boy, 3, dies after found in Beaumont motel pool

  09-08-2016 19:21
  
  BEAUMONT, Texas — Beaumont police say a 3-year-old boy has died after being found at the bottom of a motel swimming pool. Police and Child Protective Services are investigating Monday night’s death of Romilio Madina. Officer Carol Riley says the child was wearing an inflatable device prior to his death. A police statement says officers […]
  
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• Updated: Beyond ‘Obamacare’: State initiatives refocus health debate

  09-08-2016 18:15
  
  WASHINGTON — Moving beyond “Obamacare,” political activists are looking to state ballot questions to refocus the nation’s long-running debate over government’s role in health care. This fall, California voters will decide whether to lower some prescription drug prices, while Coloradans will vote on a state version of a “single-payer” government-run health system, similar to what […]
  
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• Updated: Play It Forward: ‘Pokemon Go’ players encouraging donations

  09-08-2016 17:51
  
  CONCORD, N.H. — Some “Pokemon Go” players are asking participants to bring a canned food item or cash for charities to gatherings for the popular game. Players in Concord and Manchester, New Hampshire, have started Poke-Aid. The Facebook group asks fellow players searching for the digital creatures on their smartphones to bring the donations to […]
  
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• Facebook, PNM sign deal but Utah is still in running

  09-08-2016 17:50
  
  The state’s largest utility has already signed a contract with Facebook, according to the testimony of a Public Service Company of New Mexico executive at a regulatory hearing. Gerard Ortiz, PNM’s vice president of regulatory affairs, said at a New Mexico Public Regulation Commission public hearing today that the company had already executed a special […]
  
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• State works to preserve petroglyphs discovered on shoreline

  09-08-2016 17:37
  
  HONOLULU — State officials are working to protect Hawaiian petroglyphs believed to be more than 400 years old after their recent discovery along the coast of Oahu. Lonnie Watson and Mark Louviere had been visiting the island from Texas when they came across the petroglyphs in July off the Waianae Coast. “For some reason there […]
  
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• French club Nice plans match tribute to victims of attack

  09-08-2016 17:37
  
  NICE, France — French club Nice will pay a tribute to victims of the deadly attack in the Riviera city by playing in a white outfit with no sponsor logos for its season-opening game. The club will trade its traditional red-and-black colors for a white kit when it hosts Rennes in the French league on […]
  
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• Updated: Police: Kansas boy suffered fatal neck injury on waterslide

  09-08-2016 17:14
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas waterslide billed as the world’s tallest remained off-limits as authorities pressed to figure out how a state lawmaker’s 10-year-old son died of a neck injury while riding it. Details remained murky about what happened Sunday to Caleb Thomas Schwab on the 168-foot-tall “Verruckt” — German for “insane” — that […]
  
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• Updated: Newlyweds’ truck stolen during stop in Phoenix

  09-08-2016 17:12
  
  PHOENIX — A recently married Oregon couple who stopped in Arizona to visit friends has had almost all of their possessions stolen while in Phoenix. KTVK-TV in Phoenix reports (http://goo.gl/NftN0c) that the couple’s Ford F-250 V10 was stolen outside a Phoenix apartment complex. Ashley Castro says inside the truck were irreplaceable items like family photos. […]
  
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• Texan claimed to be ‘voice of God’ guilty in immigrants case

  09-08-2016 17:12
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas — Prosecutors say a Texan who claimed to be the “voice of God” faces up to 60 years in prison for forcing two immigrants to work for years without pay. Olga Sandra Murra of Fort Worth was convicted of two counts of forced labor and two counts of harboring an illegal immigrant. […]
  
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• Updated: Putin, Erdogan agree on steps to mend relations

  09-08-2016 17:02
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday after talks with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin that the two nations can rebuild their damaged ties and make them even closer, promising to back major energy projects with Russia. Calling Putin his “dear friend,” Erdogan said Turkey is ready to implement a natural gas […]
  
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• Activists want baseball team’s monkey rodeo barred

  09-08-2016 17:01
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. — For animal rights activists across the country, one minor league baseball team’s tradition of having capuchins ride atop dogs isn’t some harmless monkey business. The News Journal of Wilmington (http://delonline.us/2aVNnkh ) reports that the Wilmington Blue Rocks hold the Cowboy Monkey Rodeo multiple times each season as chaps-wearing monkeys straddle border collies […]
  
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• Updated: US worker productivity falls in 2Q, causing annual decline

  09-08-2016 16:09
  
  WASHINGTON — American workers’ productivity slipped in the April-June quarter, feeding into a 12 month decline in how much people are producing for each hour worked. Productivity fell at an annual rate of 0.5 percent in the second quarter after a 0.6 percent drop during the first three months of the year, the Labor Department […]
  
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• Updated: ‘Tonight Show,’ ‘SNL’ coming to Snapchat under deal with NBC

  09-08-2016 16:09
  
  NEW YORK — NBCUniversal has agreed to make customized episodes of “The Tonight Show,” “Saturday Night Live” and several other shows for Snapchat under a multiyear deal between the broadcast network and social media app. NBC says episodes of “The Voice” and “E! News” from E! Entertainment Television, which is owned by NBCUniversal, will be […]
  
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• Updated: HRW renounces conviction of Egypt’s anti-graft chief

  09-08-2016 16:09
  
  CAIRO — Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday that the dismissal by Egypt’s president of the country’s top anti-graft official and his subsequent conviction for “disseminating false news” violated free speech and set a dangerous precedent. Hesham Genena was convicted last month over a report he issued claiming that corruption has cost Egypt 600 billion […]
  
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• Updated: Delta cancelling nearly 250 flights Tuesday morning

  09-08-2016 16:09
  
  DALLAS — Delta’s travails, and those of its customers, move into day two with the airline canceling nearly 250 flights. The cancellations Tuesday follow about 1,000 cancelled flights Monday and almost 3,000 delayed flights after an outage at its Atlanta headquarters initiated a global meltdown of its booking and communications systems. The airline was back […]
  
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• China ridicules Trump’s criticism of its trade practices

  09-08-2016 16:09
  
  BEIJING — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is playing the “China-bashing card” in an attempt to rescue his falling poll numbers but has no real ideas to resolve the two nations’ differences, China’s official news agency said Tuesday. Responding to a speech Monday in which the candidate accused China of breaking trade rules “in every […]
  
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• State’s rainy season has finally kicked in this month

  09-08-2016 08:05
  
  Reticent season has dropped between 2 inches and 5 inches of rain across the state during the first seven days of August
  
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• PNM: Worst outage in 15 years

  09-08-2016 08:05
  
  Powerful bolt sidetracked lightning rods, tripped circuits up and down the grid
  
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• Judge denies challenge of APS school bond

  09-08-2016 08:05
  
  Citizens were able to cast an informed vote, ruling says
  
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• In NM city, border’s getting more visible

  09-08-2016 08:05
  
  Chain-link fence being replaced by taller, steel fence
  
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• Effort continues to keep Sunspot observatory open

  09-08-2016 08:05
  
  SUNSPOT–Mark Klaene is not sitting back and waiting for the National Science Foundation to ...
  
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• Eastdale reaches championship game

  09-08-2016 06:40
  
  For the third time in Southwest Region Tournament history New Mexico will be in the championship game after Eastdale Little League’s 9-6 win over McAllister Park of San Antonio in Waco, Texas Monday in the battle of unbeaten teams in the eight team double elimination bracket. McAllister Park has to return today to face South […]
  
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• Updated: ‘A double tragedy’: Man ends life 2 years after wife’s skull crushed by rock-throwing teens

  09-08-2016 06:02
  
  Randy Budd spent the last two years passionately pushing for new laws requiring highway overpass fences after his wife was nearly killed by a large rock thrown at their windshield. On Saturday, Budd, 55, was pronounced dead at his home in Uniontown, Ohio. The cause: a self-inflicted gunshot, PennLive.com reported. However, those close to him […]
  
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• ‘A double tragedy’: Man ends life 2 years after wife’s skull crushed by rock-throwing teens

  09-08-2016 06:02
  
  Randy Budd spent the last two years passionately pushing for new laws requiring highway overpass fences after his wife was nearly killed by a large rock thrown at their windshield. On Saturday, Budd, 55, was pronounced dead at his home in Uniontown, Ohio. The cause: a self-inflicted gunshot, PennLive.com reported. However, those close to him […]
  
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• How common procedures became 20 percent cheaper for many Californians

  09-08-2016 06:00
  
  At a time when health care spending seems only to go up, an initiative in California has slashed the prices of many common procedures.
  
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• Trump suggests Clinton emails linked to Iranian’s execution

  09-08-2016 05:02
  
  NEW YORK — Republican Donald Trump is suggesting that rival Hillary Clinton’s emails may be responsible for the death of an Iranian nuclear scientist who was executed for spying for the United States. Clinton’s campaign says he’s making up those “people.” Hours after an unusually disciplined speech on his economic plan for the country, Trump, […]
  
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• Prep football preview: Menaul

  09-08-2016 04:51
  
  First-year Menaul School head football coach Josh Baca has his work cut out for him. Not only is he taking over a program that has struggled for years, but he has some large shoes to fill. Former coach Gus Brock was a Menaul legend, having coached both the 8-man squad and taken Menaul to a […]
  
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• Prep football: Keeping track of the classes

  09-08-2016 04:45
  
  Here’s a quick primer on the juggling that’s been done in relation to classifications and district alignments in prep football for the next two-year block: Class 6A If you take notice of the accompanying chart, you will observe that there are now four districts instead of five. Deming and Alamogordo were dropped to 5A, and […]
  
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• Updated: State says it has grounds to go after licenses of embattled Española basketball coach

  09-08-2016 03:27
  
  ESPAÑOLA — Embattled Española Valley High School boys basketball coach Richard Martinez still has a fight on his hands. After negotiating an agreement with school administration last month to return to coach the team for a 14th season — following his firing by the then-superintendent in April — the state Public Education Department on Monday […]
  
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• Updated: Father of three named as victim in fatal wreck in south Santa Fe during power outage

  09-08-2016 03:12
  
  SANTA FE — Jerry Hicks helped buy supplies for his college-bound daughter on Sunday evening just before a power outage hit Santa Fe. But Hicks won’t be able to see her off as she starts classes at UNM. Hicks, 39, was riding a motorcycle northeast on Cerrillos Road at about 7:44 p.m. Sunday when he […]
  
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• 15-year-old identified as Sandoval County crash victim

  09-08-2016 02:44
  
  The person killed in a serious crash in Sandoval County Saturday has been identified as Nicole O’Quinn, 15, from Pena Blanca. Family members have set up a GoFundMe page to raise money for her funeral. On the page, her name is spelled Nichole O’Quinn. Authorities say her mom, 33-year-old Maryann O’Quinn, was speeding and tried […]
  
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• DA: No charges for deputy who fatally shot man in May 2015

  09-08-2016 02:40
  
  The 2nd Judicial District Attorney’s Office will not press criminal charges against the deputy who shot and killed a man after being called to a domestic dispute on a South Valley road in May 2015, a spokesman announced Monday. Deputy Greg Grundhoffer fatally shot 44-year-old Billy Grimm after Grimm refused to get out of a […]
  
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• Facebook plan gets public airing Tuesday

  09-08-2016 01:35
  
  Los Lunas mayor says water use would be "substantially less" than estimates raised at a competing site in Utah
  
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• Española Walmart will close for 8 weeks starting mid-September

  09-08-2016 01:30
  
  The Walmart store in Española will be closing for about eight weeks starting in mid-September for foundation and drainage repairs. In a statement, company spokesman Delia Garcia said, “During the temporary store closure, associates will continue their regular employment with Walmart and the pharmacy will remain open to customers. We know how important our store […]
  
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• Updated: Phelps is touting the benefit of cupping but does it work?

  09-08-2016 01:29
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — Michael Phelps woke up on the morning of the first race of his fifth Olympic Games with some soreness in his right shoulder. At 31 years old, the swimming superstar could not afford to have anything slowing him down. So he went to a Team USA athletic trainer for some cupping […]
  
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• Man who did time for hit-and-run death killed in hit-and-run

  09-08-2016 01:01
  
  DALLAS — A Dallas man who served two years in prison for the hit-and-run death of a landscape worker has, himself, been killed by a hit-and-run driver. George Thomas Kohoutek (koh-HOO’-tehk) was hit by a car on July 20 while jogging in the Pleasant Grove district of southeastern Dallas. Kohoutek, who was 64, died a […]
  
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• Iran bans ‘Pokemon Go’ over security concerns

  09-08-2016 01:01
  
  TEHRAN, Iran — Iranians are no longer allowed to catch Pikachus after authorities decided to ban the “Pokemon Go” mobile game because of security concerns. The Monday report by the semi-official ISNA news agency quotes Abolhasan Firouzabadi, the head of Iran’s Supreme Council of Virtual Space as saying that the game is “not appropriate” because […]
  
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• Led Zeppelin can’t get ‘Stairway’ defense fees

  09-08-2016 00:56
  
  LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has denied Led Zeppelin nearly $800,000 in legal fees and other costs in its defense against claims it stole a riff for the intro to “Stairway to Heaven.” Judge R. Gary Klausner ruled Monday in Los Angeles federal court that the lawsuit against the band was not frivolous and […]
  
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• Obamacare is helping more poor patients get to the doctor, study shows

  09-08-2016 00:33
  
  WASHINGTON — Poor Americans in states that have expanded Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act are going to the doctor more often and having less trouble paying for it, new research finds. At the same time, two years of experience with the expansion offer additional indications that the improved access to care will ultimately improve […]
  
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