New Mexico news

• Updated: Dirt? Mold? Grimy gunk on Jefferson Memorial baffles experts

  10-08-2016 23:37
  
  WASHINGTON — What’s darkening the formerly white rotunda of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial? Is it dirt? Is it mold? No, it’s biofilm! The National Park Service said in a news release Wednesday that biofilm, colony of microscopic organisms, has become increasingly pronounced at the memorial. Officials say biofilm is not unique to the Jefferson Memorial; […]
  
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• Gary Johnson rally in NM postponed until Aug. 20

  10-08-2016 23:31
  
  Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson has postponed until Aug. 20 a rally that was originally planned for Thursday at the Albuquerque Convention Center. A spokesman for the former New Mexico governor’s campaign said the “precise time and location will be announced in coming days.” “We want to be sure the event is done right and provides the […]
  
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• Updated: Singer The Weeknd donates $250K to Black Lives Matter

  10-08-2016 23:29
  
  NEW YORK — Grammy-winning singer The Weeknd is donating $250,000 to the Black Lives Matter movement. The singer made the announcement Wednesday, days after donating $38,000 to the University of Toronto to establish an Ethiopian studies program. The parents of The Weeknd, born Abel Tesfaye, are from Ethiopia, but raised the performer in Canada. Black […]
  
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• Wave of PKK attacks in southeast Turkey kill at least 12

  10-08-2016 23:28
  
  ANKARA, Turkey — A wave of Kurdish rebel attacks targeting police and soldiers in Turkey’s mainly-Kurdish southeast killed at least 12 people on Wednesday, as Turkey was still dealing with the aftermath of a failed military coup attempt that threatened the government. Officials said rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, launched simultaneous bomb […]
  
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• Updated: Man using suction cups tries to scale 58-story Trump Tower

  10-08-2016 23:28
  
  NEW YORK — A man is scaling the all-glass facade of Trump Tower in New York City using suction cups. The climber has a backpack and appears to be using ropes and a harness to fasten himself to the side of the 58-story Manhattan skyscraper. He was several stories up and still climbing Wednesday evening. […]
  
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• Updated: Judge: probable cause to proceed on rape charges for Las Vegas, NM man

  10-08-2016 22:18
  
  LAS VEGAS, NM — A judge has found probable cause to believe a Las Vegas man raped three women...
  
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• US deports former Guatemalan soldier wanted in 1982 massacre

  10-08-2016 22:13
  
  GUATEMALA CITY — A former Guatemalan soldier suspected of helping carry out a massacre of more than 160 people in 1982 during the country’s civil war was deported from the United States on Wednesday after a court refused his plea to stay because he fears for his life. Santos Lopez Alonzo, 64, was flown back […]
  
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• Updated: Alaska fishermen snag nearly 400-pound halibut

  10-08-2016 22:13
  
  PETERSBURG, Alaska — It wasn’t a record breaker, but it was still a helluva halibut. Petersburg radio station KFSK reports (http://bit.ly/2b8JfBE) that fishermen Brian Mattson and Doug Corl hauled in the catch of a lifetime Sunday with a 396-pound halibut in southeast Alaska. The fish was nearly 8 feet long. They used a winch to […]
  
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• South Texas boy, 14, killed when truck hits overturned ATV

  10-08-2016 22:12
  
  GEORGE WEST, Texas — A South Texas boy has died after his ATV overturned on a highway and was hit by a truck as he and a friend were rabbit hunting before dawn. The Department of Public Safety says 14-year-old Reagan Lyne (lin) of George West was killed in the accident around 5:30 a.m. Wednesday. […]
  
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• Updated: Missing weapons among police calls involving murder suspect

  10-08-2016 22:10
  
  ROSWELL, Ga. — A man charged with killing two Georgia teenagers was identified as the suspect in the theft of a rifle from his grandfather’s gun case last year, according to police reports documenting multiple police visits to his house in recent years. Jeffrey Hazelwood was a suspect after the rifle went missing from the […]
  
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• Santa Fe police arrest homicide suspect

  10-08-2016 20:51
  
  SANTA FE — The Santa Fe Police Department announced that homicide suspect Anthony Diaz was arrested without incident around noon Wednesday. Diaz was wanted for the murder of a man found near the rail road tracks by St. Michael’s Drive Aug. 2. Investigators have still not released the name or age of the victim. Police say no […]
  
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• WikiLeaks offers reward to find killer of DNC employee

  10-08-2016 20:46
  
  The speculation started within days of Seth Rich being gunned down in what District of Columbia police think was an attempted robbery near his townhouse in northwest Washington. Some on the Internet wondered if Rich was killed because of his work as a staffer with the Democratic National Committee, even suggesting he had handed WikiLeaks […]
  
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• Garduno’s parent wants to buy Flying Star

  10-08-2016 20:05
  
  Some of Flying Star’s creditors are pushing a plan to sell the cafe chain to new owners, and an established local restaurant company has formally agreed to bid $2.5 million for it at auction. Southwest Brands, parent company of Garduño’s and Keva Juice, has put $100,000 into escrow as part of its plan to buy […]
  
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• Updated: Feds: Plastic gun from 3-D printer seized at Nevada airport

  10-08-2016 19:21
  
  RENO, Nev. — Airport screening agents confiscated a plastic handgun produced with a 3-D printer from a man’s carry-on luggage last week at a Nevada airport in what a federal official said Wednesday might have been the first discovery of its kind in the U.S. A report by Reno-Tahoe International Airport police said the white […]
  
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• TSA: Plastic 3-D printer gun confiscated at Nevada airport

  10-08-2016 19:21
  
  RENO, Nev. — The Transportation Security Administration says screening agents confiscated a plastic handgun produced with a 3-D printer from a man’s carry-on luggage last week at Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Nevada. TSA spokeswoman Lorie Dankers said Wednesday it’s not known if the plastic firearm would work, but it had five .22-caliber bullets with it. […]
  
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• Houston schools could need $1.2M to remove Confederate names

  10-08-2016 19:21
  
  HOUSTON — The biggest school district in Texas will consider paying more than $1.2 million as part of changes to rename eight campuses previously named for Confederate leaders. The Houston Chronicle (http://bit.ly/2b6wgzb ) reports the Houston Independent School District board is expected to vote Thursday on a request by the interim superintendent, Ken Huewitt, to […]
  
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• Texas deputy fatally shot at his home was facing foreclosure

  10-08-2016 19:15
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas sheriff’s deputy who was killed by a bullet from his own gun outside his home last month had been facing foreclosure. Authorities say Travis County Sgt. Craig Hutchinson told dispatchers there were prowlers in his yard before he was found mortally wounded July 25. Investigators initially said he was shot […]
  
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• Judge OKs deal softening Texas voter ID law for November

  10-08-2016 19:15
  
  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A federal judge has approved for November a softer version of Texas’ voter ID law that courts have said discriminated against minorities and the poor. U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos on Wednesday accepted a compromise struck last week between Texas, the U.S. Justice Department and minority rights groups that sued […]
  
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• Updated: In setback for Brazil’s Rousseff, Senate puts her on trial

  10-08-2016 18:51
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s Senate on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to put suspended President Dilma Rousseff on trial, bringing the nation’s first female president a step closer to being permanently removed and underscoring her failure to change lawmakers’ minds the last several months. After some 15 hours of debate, senators voted 59-21 to put her […]
  
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• Updated: Fuel tanks breached on oil rig swept onto Scottish beach

  10-08-2016 18:32
  
  LONDON — Coast guards say two fuel tanks have been breached on an oil rig that was blown onto a remote Scottish beach, though it’s not clear how much diesel has escaped. The Transocean Winner was being towed when it broke free of its tug and ran aground on the Isle of Lewis off Scotland’s […]
  
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• Updated: 4 killed as wildfires driven by heat and wind wrack Portugal

  10-08-2016 18:28
  
  LISBON, Portugal — Wildfires raged unabated in Portugal on Wednesday, killing at least four people, burning down dozens of houses and sending people fleeing in panic, as well as charring huge areas of forest. The National Civil Protection Service reported 14 major wildfires burning out of control in mainland Portugal where almost 4,500 firefighters were […]
  
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• Updated: US stock indexes veer lower in morning trading

  10-08-2016 18:25
  
  U.S. stock indexes declined in morning trading Wednesday, pulled down by a slide in energy companies as oil prices headed lower. Banks and health care companies also weighed on the market, while consumer-focused stocks bucked the trend. Investors were focused on company earnings from retailers, restaurant chains and other companies. KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones […]
  
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• Colorado authorities search for livestock shooter

  10-08-2016 18:14
  
  HUGO, Colo. — Authorities in eastern Colorado are offering a reward for help finding the person responsible for shooting and killing cattle. KMGH-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2aKwjPW ) that the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office says someone is killing cattle north of Hugo and leaving them to lie and rot in the pastures. The most recent shooting was […]
  
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• Breaking: 2 crashes close I-40 eastbound at 98th, westbound at Big I

  10-08-2016 16:44
  
  Two separate crashes on I-40 are causing traffic delays for morning commuters. All lanes of I-40 eastbound were shut down at 98th street for a crash, and I-40 westbound was reportedly closed at the Big I for a different crash, according to Albuquerque police and the Department of Transportation. It’s unclear what caused the crashes, […]
  
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• Updated: Dan Rather: ‘History is watching’ those who support Trump

  10-08-2016 16:37
  
  Dan Rather is slamming Donald Trump’s comment Tuesday suggesting that “Second Amendment people” may be able to find a way to stop Democrat Hillary Clinton from rolling back gun rights if she’s elected. In a Tuesday Facebook post , the former CBS News anchor says the GOP presidential nominee “crossed a line with dangerous potential” […]
  
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• Police: Woman killed by Florida officer in academy exercise

  10-08-2016 16:37
  
  PUNTA GORDA, Fla. — A woman was fatally shot by an officer while participating in a “shoot-don’t shoot” exercise during a two-hour citizens academy hosted by the Punta Gorda Police Department in southwest Florida. Police Chief Tom Lewis said the shooting happened Tuesday night as two of the 35 participants were randomly selected to take […]
  
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• Updated: Rio authorities step up security after bus windows shattered

  10-08-2016 16:36
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — Military police in Rio de Janeiro are stepping up security after projectiles struck a bus carrying journalists to the main Olympic Park, the organizing committee for the games said. While authorities said it was not immediately clear what struck the bus, a retired U.S. Air Force captain who now writes about […]
  
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• What You Get for … $740,000

  10-08-2016 16:01 via nytimes.com
  Contemporaries in Vermont and North Carolina and an adobe in New Mexico
  
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• $740,000 Homes in Santa Fe, North Carolina and Vermont

  10-08-2016 16:01 via nytimes.com
  This week’s properties are contemporaries in Colchester, Vt., Santa Fe, N.M., and Vermont and Durham, N.C.
  
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• Updated: Witnesses: Shots fired in Ferguson after car hits protester

  10-08-2016 08:06
  
  FERGUSON, Mo. — Gunfire broke out during a demonstration in Ferguson, Missouri, on the second anniversary of Michael Brown’s death, disrupting what had been a peaceful gathering Tuesday night but apparently wounding no one. Witnesses told an Associated Press reporter that a car sped through a group of protesters who were blocking a street during […]
  
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• Woman pleads guilty to abusing toddler

  10-08-2016 08:05
  
  She faces up to 18 years in prison after judge initially rejects 'strangest' plea deal
  
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• Pro cycling dreams shattered, but teen’s recovery miraculous

  10-08-2016 08:05
  
  'I'm just blessed to be alive,' Albuquerque youth says
  
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• Police monitor criticizes APD review of clash with suspect

  10-08-2016 08:05
  
  'Serious' use of force by officer was captured on video
  
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• Appeals court allows ex-inmate to sue over care

  10-08-2016 08:05
  
  A federal appeals court says a civil rights lawsuit may go forward in the case of an ex-prisoner, Kr ...
  
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• Updated: Father of Orlando shooter sighted at Hillary Clinton event

  10-08-2016 07:15
  
  KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The father of the Orlando gay nightclub shooter was spotted at a campaign event for Hillary Clinton in central Florida. Seddique Mateen was standing in a crowd behind Clinton during the Monday night event in Kissimmee, south of Orlando. A campaign official told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he wasn’t invited […]
  
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• Tapia shows Isotopes why he is a prospect

  10-08-2016 06:52
  
  It didn’t take Raimel Tapia long to show Albuquerque Isotopes fans what he does best. Tapia hits the ball everywhere. The Colorado Rockies’ 22-year-old outfield prospect made his Triple-A debut in the Isotopes’ home doubleheader against Las Vegas on Tuesday night. He played a key, if not starring role as the ‘Topes pulled off a […]
  
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• Updated: Notorious ‘pillowcase rapist’ back in state mental hospital

  10-08-2016 06:51
  
  LOS ANGELES — A notorious rapist who muffled victim’s screams with a pillowcase was back in a state mental hospital Tuesday, two years after he was released over the protests of prosecutors and women who feared he would attack again. Christopher Hubbart, 65, is not accused of a new crime, but was picked up by […]
  
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• Updated: Amtrak settlements silencing crash victims

  10-08-2016 06:43
  
  PHILADELPHIA — Amtrak has started settling lawsuits with victims of last year’s deadly derailment in Philadelphia, and lawyers involved in the process say a strict confidentiality provision prevents them and their clients from talking about how they’re doing or how much money they’ve received. The railroad reached the first settlements last week, quietly resolving cases […]
  
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• Updated: Heavy rains from Tropical Storm Javier to hit Southwest

  10-08-2016 06:41
  
  PHOENIX — The Southwest will see another round of storms on Wednesday as rains associated with Tropical Storm Javier in Mexico head north. Heavy rain is expected for a second day in Tucson. The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch until Thursday. The storm on Tuesday made streets look like rivers. Water […]
  
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• Lawsuit: Woman dies after choking during corn dog eating contest at nightclub

  10-08-2016 03:37
  
  SANTA FE — Jessie Harbeck and her mother, Debra Harbeck, just wanted to celebrate with drinks the night before Jessie’s 22nd birthday in January. Hours later, Jessie ended up spending part of her birthday taking her mother off life support after the highly intoxicated woman choked during a risqué corn dog eating contest at a […]
  
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• Man charged in death of man whose body found last week in Santa Fe

  10-08-2016 03:30
  
  SANTA FE — Santa Fe police said Tuesday that Anthony Diaz has been charged with an open count of murder in the death of a man whose body was found Aug. 2. Diaz, born in 1989, is considered dangerous, and anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call 911. A man’s body was […]
  
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• Gov. Susana Martinez in Dallas for political meetings

  10-08-2016 02:06
  
  Gov. Susana Martinez made a quick trip to Dallas today to attend unspecified political meetings, according to the Governor’s Office. Martinez, who is the chairwoman of the Republican Governors Association, a national group that supports GOP gubernatorial candidates, has traveled out of state extensively in recent months. Most recently, she headed up New Mexico’s delegation […]
  
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• Chevron Mining agrees to $143 million cleanup of Questa mine

  10-08-2016 01:51
  
  Chevron Mining Inc. has agreed to a $143 million settlement with the state and federal governments to clean up the closed molybdenum mine near Questa, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday. The proposed partial consent decree, if approved by the court, will provide for the next phase of the cleanup at the Superfund site, according […]
  
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• Updated: Dallas County DA in clinic for mental illness, plans return

  10-08-2016 01:38
  
  DALLAS — Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk has been hospitalized at an Arizona clinic since mid-June, the third time she has sought inpatient treatment for mental illness since taking office in January 2015. The Dallas Morning News (http://bit.ly/2bhoi3Q) reports that even though Hawk has reported for work at her courthouse office 66 days this […]
  
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• Updated: Bullet casings found after shootings in serial killer case

  10-08-2016 01:38
  
  PHOENIX — Authorities investigating nine nighttime drive-by shootings in Phoenix believed to be the work of a serial killer recovered bullet casings from at least three of the crime scenes and received detailed vehicle descriptions from witnesses, according to police reports released Tuesday. Witnesses say the victims were standing outside after dark when a man […]
  
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• Updated: Tennessee leaves ride safety approval to private inspectors

  10-08-2016 01:32
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Investigators have not yet determined how a Ferris wheel seat flipped over at a Tennessee county fair, sending three children plummeting 30 to 45 feet to the ground. But the accident that left a 6-year-old girl with a traumatic brain injury sharpened the focus Tuesday on how carnival ride operators are regulated. […]
  
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• Some PNM customers report power surge damage

  10-08-2016 01:29
  
  Several home supply stores in the Albuquerque area on Tuesday reported brisk sales of evaporative cooler thermostat/controllers and motors, with customers attributing the need to replace burned out components to Sunday night’s lightning strike, power surge and blackout. Public Service Company of New Mexico said Monday it was unaware of any damage to businesses or […]
  
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• Alaska restaurant serving elk fined for calling it reindeer

  10-08-2016 01:15
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — This might be an only-in-Alaska problem: A restaurant in Fairbanks that has told customers since 2013 it was serving reindeer tenderloin was actually giving them elk. And now The Pump House has been fined $50,000 by the state for mislabeling the meat. The parent company of the restaurant agreed to pay the […]
  
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• Updated: Turkey unlikely to drop Syria rebels in latest realignment

  10-08-2016 01:09
  
  BEIRUT — Minutes after news broke of a coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, government-held areas in Syria broke out in celebratory gunfire, heralding what they believed was the removal of the leader they blame for fueling their country’s five-year civil war. Erdogan survived the insurrection, and judging by the surprise reversal of rebel […]
  
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• Updated: Firestorm as Trump says gun-rights backers can stop Clinton

  10-08-2016 00:45
  
  WILMINGTON, N.C. — Donald Trump said Tuesday that Second Amendment advocates might find a way to stop Hillary Clinton from rolling back gun rights if she’s elected, setting off a political firestorm as Democrats quickly accused him of encouraging violence against his opponent. Speaking at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, the Republican nominee said […]
  
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