New Mexico news

• Woman charged in fatal crash on I-40 and Coors Wednesday morning

  11-08-2016 23:56
  
  New Mexico State Police arrested the woman who allegedly caused a fatal crash Wednesday morning by rear-ending a car stopped in a traffic on Interstate 40 and Coors NW, according to a department spokeswoman. Sgt. Elizabeth Armijo said officers determined Cynthia Silva, 36, was under the influence of drugs when she slammed into another car […]
  
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• Feds say polygamous fraud scheme about greed, not religion

  11-08-2016 23:52
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — Federal prosecutors say in a new court filing that Lyle Jeffs and other polygamous sect leaders carried out a food stamp fraud scheme so they could live lavish lifestyles while followers lived off of rice and toast. In a court brief filed Thursday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Utah pushes back […]
  
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• Man gets life sentence for Houston-area woman’s 2002 killing

  11-08-2016 23:39
  
  HOUSTON — A 45-year-old Houston man has been given a life prison sentence for the 2002 beating and asphyxiation death of a woman in her north Harris County apartment. A state district judge in Houston sentenced Craig Porter on Thursday after a jury found him guilty of murder in the killing of 22-year-old Cherita Thurman. […]
  
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• Vets invited to biz seminar

  11-08-2016 23:32
  
  Military veterans, Guard/Reserve and transitioning active-duty service members interested in starting or expanding a business are invited to the On the Rez business development seminar from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Isleta Resort & Casino, 11000 Broadway SE. The free seminar is presented by the New Mexico Veterans Business Outreach Center, the New […]
  
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• WE Mean Business conference to focus on women

  11-08-2016 23:30
  
  New Mexico State University’s Arrowhead Center and WESST will hold next month aimed at female entrepreneurs. The WE Mean Business conference will bring together innovators to share personal strategies with early stage entrepreneurs. It will feature guest speakers, a panel and two tracks of breakout sessions. The conference will be held from 10 a.m. to […]
  
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• Markets Right Now: Stocks closing higher on Wall Street

  11-08-2016 22:42
  
  NEW YORK — The latest on developments in global financial markets (all times local): 4:15 p.m. Stocks are closing broadly higher on Wall Street Thursday led by energy companies and retailers. All three major U.S. indexes set record highs. Investors welcomed the latest quarterly results from department store chains Macy’s and Kohl’s. Crude oil prices […]
  
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• Private 100 deadline coming up

  11-08-2016 22:35
  
  Time is running short to get in on this year’s New Mexico Private 100. The annual program features a list of the top 100 privately held companies in the state based on revenue, and the deadline to take part is this Friday. Moss Adams LLP, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Modrall Sperling are sponsoring […]
  
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• Updated: Rio’s Olympic golf course debuts with cameos of wildlife

  11-08-2016 22:26
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — Golf formally returned to the Olympics on Thursday, on a course that saw its construction threatened by lawsuits aimed at protecting the nature preserve on which it was built. The first official Olympic golf shot in 112 years was struck by Brazil’s Adilson da Silva to open the round, and plenty […]
  
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• Updated: AP FACT CHECK: Clinton’s selective history on trade

  11-08-2016 22:25
  
  WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton offered a selective accounting of her history on trade Thursday, leaving out her support for initiatives that have since become unpopular. She also offered a rosier view of the U.S. workforce than the numbers portray. A look at some of the claims in her Michigan economic speech and how they compare […]
  
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• NIH: Last federal chimps to head to sanctuary by fall 2026

  11-08-2016 22:25
  
  NEW ORLEANS — The National Institutes of Health says its last chimpanzees should be moved from Texas and New Mexico to a sanctuary in Louisiana by fall 2026. A retirement plan announced Thursday for about 360 chimps still in federal custody said the moves could be completed in 2023 if Chimp Haven can expand fast […]
  
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• New: Bryan Cranston returning to ABQ on book tour

  11-08-2016 21:24
  
    Bryan Cranston is coming back to the Duke City. The Emmy Award-winning writer will take part in the fundraising series, “A Word with Writers” on Oct. 18 at the KiMo Theater. The series is sponsored by Bookworks and the Albuquerque Library Foundation. Cranston, best known locally for his role as Walter White in the […]
  
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• Hospitals lay out economic spinoff in Sandoval County

  11-08-2016 21:22
  
  Administrators of two Albuquerque-area health care giants on Thursday highlighted the value of medical facility development in helping grow the economy in Sandoval County. Expansion of facilities and medical services and more employment are on the horizon, representatives from Presbyterian Rust Medical Center and UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center said during a presentation before the […]
  
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• Chipotle’s latest attempt to win you back: Cheaper booze

  11-08-2016 21:02
  
  Struggling burrito chain Chipotle is aiming to lure back customers with happy hour deals, including half-off alcoholic beverages and 2-for-1 margaritas and beers for a limited time. The specials are in select markets, vary regionally and are only available from 4 to 8 p.m. in August and September. The specials are limited to one offer […]
  
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• Updated: Roy abruptly resigns as Avalanche coach and executive

  11-08-2016 20:40
  
  In a stunning mid-August shake-up, Patrick Roy has stepped down as coach and vice president of hockey operations for the Colorado Avalanche, citing disagreements with the organization. Roy made the announcement Thursday through a public relations agency, two months before the start of the NHL regular season. “I have thought long and hard over the […]
  
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• Mississippi woman gets 12-year sentence on terrorism charge

  11-08-2016 20:40
  
  OXFORD, Miss. — A Mississippi woman who once sought to disguise a planned journey to join the Islamic State group as her honeymoon was sentenced by a federal judge Thursday to 12 years in prison on a terrorism charge. Vicksburg native Jaelyn Young broke down in heavy sobs during her sentencing by U.S. District Judge […]
  
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• Updated: Inmate set to die for prison officer slaying gets reprieve

  11-08-2016 20:01
  
  HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas prisoner who was set to die later this month for the slaying of a corrections officer has received a reprieve. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has stopped the scheduled Aug. 23 execution of 36-year-old Robert Pruett. Pruett already was in prison with a 99-year sentence when he was condemned […]
  
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• Updated: Studies shine light on mysterious placenta, how it goes awry

  11-08-2016 20:00
  
  WASHINGTON — Scientists carefully probe a placenta donated after birth, bluish umbilical cord still attached. This is the body’s most mysterious organ, and inside lie clues to how this giver of life forms — and how it can go awry, leading to stillbirth, preterm birth, even infections like the Zika virus that somehow sneak past […]
  
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• Texas district known for independence adds girl to team

  11-08-2016 20:00
  
  HARROLD, Texas — The tiny northwest Texas school district in Harrold is known for its independent streak — it was the first to allow teachers to carry concealed handguns and also the first to challenge a federal transgender bathroom policy. The Vernon Daily Record (http://bit.ly/2aP6gpN ) reports that independence has carried over to sports as […]
  
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• SFCSO still looking for attempted murder suspect

  11-08-2016 19:50
  
  SANTA FE — The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office is still looking for a man who is wanted for attempted murder, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and shooting at an occupied dwelling after he shot a woman in the hand in Glorieta Wednesday. Deputies began searching for 24-year-old Jose Javier Medina of Santa Fe […]
  
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• Child falls from coaster at Pennsylvania amusement park

  11-08-2016 19:47
  
  LINGONIER, Pa. — A child has fallen from a roller coaster at a western Pennsylvania amusement park. A Westmoreland County emergency dispatcher says an ambulance was sent to the Idlewild and SoakZone amusement park near Ligonier (lihg-uh-NEER’) just after noon Thursday. She says the child was conscious and airlifted to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, about […]
  
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• Updated: Houston police arrest 2 brothers in synthetic drug Kush case

  11-08-2016 18:17
  
  HOUSTON — Houston police say two brothers have been arrested in the investigation of synthetic marijuana making more than a dozen homeless people sick this summer. Police say 42-year-old Minh Dang and 46-year-old Tuan Dang are charged with engaging in organized criminal activity. The Dangs own a retail chain called the Spice Boutique, which on […]
  
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• Updated: Site of nightclub fire that killed 100 is no longer Pokestop

  11-08-2016 18:16
  
  WEST WARWICK, R.I. — The site of a Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed 100 people has been removed as a stop in “Pokemon Go” after an outcry from survivors and victims’ families. An Associated Press reporter went to the site of the 2003 fire at The Station in West Warwick on Thursday and discovered […]
  
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• Updated: Colorado Planned Parenthood gunman still incompetent

  11-08-2016 18:16
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A judge says a man who acknowledges killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic remains mentally incompetent to continue with his case. Judge Gilbert Martinez made the ruling Thursday based on a report from the state mental hospital, where Robert Dear has been undergoing treatment since he was first […]
  
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• Police: Man shot after being seen beating dog

  11-08-2016 18:16
  
  HOUSTON — Police in Houston are investigating after a man was shot after being seen beating his dog. It happened at a home in the city early Wednesday morning when a man told police he was trying to discipline a dog that he says had been barking throughout the night. The man told police he […]
  
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• Updated: Rihanna to perform and receive top honor at MTV VMAs

  11-08-2016 18:15
  
  NEW YORK — Rihanna’s work work work work work work is being honored at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards. MTV announced Thursday that the 28-year-old pop star, who released her first album in 2005, will earn the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the Aug. 28 show in New York City. Rihanna will also […]
  
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• Updated: Connecticut city moves to demolish 19th century castle

  11-08-2016 17:23
  
  The city of Danbury, Connecticut, is planning to demolish the historic Hearthstone Castle, one of a dwindling number of stone fortresses built more than a century ago by industrial barons across the Northeast. The hilltop castle, built in 1899, has fallen into disrepair and become overgrown with weeds since the city acquired it in 1985. […]
  
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• Hundreds from Texas, Mexico reunite on mostly dry Rio Grande

  11-08-2016 17:23
  
  EL PASO, Texas — Hundreds of people from Texas and Mexico have united on the border for a few precious minutes with relatives on a mostly dry stretch of the Rio Grande. The El Paso Times (http://bit.ly/2b7XzGn ) reports the brief family reunions Wednesday were part of a campaign dubbed “Hugs Not Walls.” Participants were […]
  
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• Companies move forward on nuclear waste storage in Carlsbad

  11-08-2016 17:23
  
  CARLSBAD, N.M. — Efforts to build a temporary nuclear waste storage facility in New Mexico are moving forward after a Denver-based company relinquished its rights to the land. The Carlsbad Current-Argus reports (http://bit.ly/2aJlbQC ) that Holtec International and Eddy Lea Energy Alliance are partnering to create storage for spent nuclear fuel rods from power plants […]
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Clinton to release 2015 tax returns soon

  11-08-2016 17:21
  
  WASHINGTON — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (All times EDT): 9:50 a.m. Hillary Clinton will soon release her 2015 tax returns. A source close to the Democratic presidential nominee says she will release them in “the coming days.” Her running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine and his wife, Anne Houlton, will also release the […]
  
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• Did the earliest Americans pass through ice or cross over water? New study fuels debate

  11-08-2016 17:16
  
  When it comes to ancient human migration, it’s all in the timing. Scientists studying a corridor that could have allowed ancient American settlers to pass the glaciers separating Alaska from the rest of the continent might not have been viable at the right time window to allow some of the earliest human migrations through. The […]
  
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• Updated: Feds propose endangered tag for Texas hornshell mussel

  11-08-2016 16:08
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — Federal officials have proposed designating the Texas hornshell as endangered to protect the freshwater mussel that’s also found in New Mexico. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday announced the recommendation and sought public input about what it calls a “dramatic decline” in the mussel. The deadline to comment is Oct. […]
  
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• Ukraine puts troops along Crimean border on combat alert

  11-08-2016 16:08
  
  MOSCOW — Ukraine’s president ordered the army to be on combat alert Thursday on the country’s de-facto border with Crimea and on the front line in eastern Ukraine following Moscow’s accusations that Ukraine sent in “saboteurs” to carry out attacks in Crimea. Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014 following a […]
  
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• Updated: The Latest: New Zealand win gold in men’s pair rowing

  11-08-2016 16:07
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — The Latest on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local): 11:05 a.m. MEDAL ALERT: NEW ZEALAND WINS GOLD IN MEN’S PAIR ROWING New Zealand rowers Eric Murray and Hamish Bond have defended their Olympic gold and extended their winning streak in the men’s pair. The six-time world champions, who […]
  
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• Louisville’s Petrino: Twitter hacker ‘liked’ adult material

  11-08-2016 16:07
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville coach Bobby Petrino says his Twitter account has been hacked after material including a link to an adult website and sexually suggestive hashtags were “liked” by his profile. Petrino issued a statement Thursday morning after being alerted about the “like.” The third-year Cardinals coach — who was fired by Arkansas in […]
  
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• Updated: A-Rod cost Yankees $317 million for 1 World Series title

  11-08-2016 16:06
  
  NEW YORK — By the time Alex Rodriguez collects his last payment as a player from the Yankees next year, he will have received $317,368,852 from New York, according to a review of his contracts by The Associated Press. Luxury tax caused by his deal totaled an additional $132 million through this year, although the […]
  
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• Libertarians working to get Gary Johnson on Ohio ballot

  11-08-2016 08:07
  
  Ex-governor could complicate race for Trump in swing state
  
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• Updated: 2 1-cent coins from early US sell for combined $869,500

  11-08-2016 08:06
  
  LOS ANGELES — Two rare one-cent coins from the earliest days of the U.S. Mint have sold for a pretty penny. The copper coins, both dating to 1792, went for a combined total of $869,500 at the auction held Wednesday in Anaheim, California. One of them, known as the “Birch Cent,” sold for $517,000. The […]
  
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• Updated: ‘Twist her wrist until she shuts up’

  11-08-2016 08:05
  
  Bernalillo County releases stomach-churning video of MDC incident
  
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• PNM earnings plummet in second quarter

  11-08-2016 08:05
  
  Results put spotlight on rate hike request
  
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• Despite no fingerprints, police link gun to Hawkes

  11-08-2016 08:05
  
  Just released reports sent to DA without recommending any charges in officer's shooting of 19-year-old
  
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• Updated: Experts: 2 killings by police were tragic, likely justified

  11-08-2016 05:54
  
  LOS ANGELES — Two fatal police shootings in the Los Angeles area in the last two weeks began the same way: officers thinking a suspect had a gun. In one, police say a 14-year-old boy fired at them and they found a weapon. In the other, a 27-year-old man police believed was a carjacking suspect […]
  
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• Updated: Trump accuses Obama of being the ‘founder of ISIS’

  11-08-2016 04:44
  
  SUNRISE, Fla. — Donald Trump accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of founding the Islamic State group that is wreaking havoc from the Middle East to European cities. A moment later, on another topic, he referred to the president by his full legal name: Barack Hussein Obama. “In many respects, you know, they honor President […]
  
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• Eastdale Little League loses 13-3 in Southwest Region final

  11-08-2016 03:54
  
  WACO, Texas — Eastdale’s Little League all-stars split two games against a team from San Antonio, Texas, in the Southwest Regional Majors baseball tournament. Unfortunately, the Albuquerque squad picked the wrong one to lose. McAlister Park American used a six-run fourth inning to blow open the game and routed Eastdale 13-3 on Wednesday night in […]
  
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• Woman fell to her death in Sandia Mountains Monday

  11-08-2016 03:21
  
  Deidre Tafoya was with two friends and her two nieces in the Sandia Mountains on Monday night when she climbed on top of the Kiwanis Cabin — a popular hiking destination near the Crest Trail. Her friend Allen Armijo told deputies he and Tafoya sat on top of the rock cabin talking and drinking while […]
  
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• Updated: Young mother dies in fall from Sandias cliff

  11-08-2016 03:21
  
  Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office determines death was accidental
  
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• Mother of four, formerly of Santa Fe, killed by estranged husband in Missouri

  11-08-2016 02:58
  
  SANTA FE — A Santa Fe High School graduate was shot and killed by her estranged husband in Missouri last week, according to local reports. The Gasconade County Republican reports that 30-year-old Inez Chrisilina Gregory, whose maiden name is Inez Tulk, was gunned down by Toby Gregory, 42, outside an Owensville, Mo., motel the evening […]
  
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• Santa Fe unveils new budget transparency web platform

  11-08-2016 02:36
  
  SANTA FE — Santa Fe city government has a new tool it says will increase financial transparency by giving the public unprecedented access to city budget data. The new platform was developed by OpenGov, a Silicon Valley Cloud-based software company founded in 2012 with the aim of utilizing technology to “transform how the world analyzes […]
  
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• Here’s How Racial Bias Plays Out in Policing

  11-08-2016 02:00 via nytimes.com
  In investigations of nearly two dozen police departments around the country, the Justice Department found common tactics that showed widespread bias.
  
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• Updated: Albuquerque police identify victims in fatal double shooting

  11-08-2016 01:58
  
  Albuquerque police on Wednesday identified the two men shot and killed at a home near Wyoming and Copper Monday night. Officer Simon Drobik said officers were called to a shooting at a house on the 300 block of General Marshall St. NE around 11 p.m. Monday. When they arrived, they found Juan Carlos Saenz-Ponce, 23, […]
  
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• Ryan wins big for establishment, but ‘alt-conservatives’ can still cause massive headaches

  11-08-2016 01:46
  
  (c) 2016, The Washington Post. Establishment Republicans continue to run up the score in high-profile congressional primaries, with House Speaker Paul Ryan’s trouncing Tuesday of his obscure opponent the exclamation point to a summer punctuated largely by mainstream triumphs. Ryan, R-Wisconsin, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, and several Republican chairman have all beat back […]
  
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