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• Updated: Signed, sealed: LeBron signs new contract with Cavaliers

  12-08-2016 23:57
  
  LeBron James has signed his three-year, $100 million contract with the NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers. James will make $31 million next season and $33 million in 2017-18, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Friday. James has an option for the third season worth $36 million, said the person who spoke […]
  
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• Mexico arrests alleged founding member of Zetas cartel

  12-08-2016 23:56
  
  MEXICO CITY — Mexican police say they have re-arrested a former soldier who was allegedly one of the founders of the Zetas drug cartel. Federal police said Friday they arrested Luis Reyes Enriquez in a raid in the Monterrey suburb of San Pedro Garza Garcia, one of the country’s richest communities. Reyes Enriquez was arrested […]
  
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• Updated: US boxing medal drought ends with Nico Hernandez’s bronze

  12-08-2016 23:04
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — Nico Hernandez had a gnarly gash over his left eye that left him bloodied, with blurred vision and in need of stitches. He has a better look in mind for Sunday. Hernandez will leave the Rio Games with a bronze medal in the light flyweight division, ending a medal drought for […]
  
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• Ruby Wilson, ‘The Queen of Beale Street,’ dies in Memphis

  12-08-2016 23:04
  
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The manager for singer Ruby Wilson says the blues, soul and gospel performer known as “The Queen of Beale Street” has died. She was 68. Rollin Riggs, a partner at Resource Management Group, said Wilson died Friday at a Memphis hospital. Riggs said she suffered a massive heart attack Saturday and never […]
  
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• Updated: Rhode earns bronze to medal in 6 straight Olympics

  12-08-2016 23:03
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — Kim Rhode stood at the base of the Olympic podium, unsure of what to do with her hands. She tugged at the bottom of her shirt, adjusted the sleeve, dropped her arms to the sides. Scanning the crowd, she locked onto a mop-haired boy sitting on a man’s shoulders, waving wildly […]
  
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• Police: Texas deputy found dead at his home killed himself

  12-08-2016 23:03
  
  ROUND ROCK, Texas — Investigators have determined that a Texas sheriff’s deputy found dead at his home after notifying dispatchers of prowlers in his yard killed himself. Authorities said at a news conference Friday that Travis County sheriff’s Sgt. Craig Hutchinson was suffering from depression and facing foreclosure on his home and other financial pressures. […]
  
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• Man accused of being IS recruiter says he was FBI informant

  12-08-2016 23:03
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A North Carolina man accused of trying to recruit people to join the Islamic State group says he had been paid by the FBI since 2009 to help identify potential terrorists. In a statement his mother delivered to The Charlotte Observer (http://bit.ly/2b42fyx ), Erick Jamal Hendricks said his code name was “Ahkie,” […]
  
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• Updated: US announces plans to protect rare Colorado, Utah birds

  12-08-2016 20:22
  
  DENVER — Federal land managers have announced long-awaited plans to protect the rare Gunnison sage grouse, a bird found only in Colorado and Utah. The Bureau of Land Management released a nearly 1,000-page document late Thursday proposing restrictions on energy development, roads and grazing. The proposals include closing or limiting the use of some areas […]
  
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• Breaking: 104 charged in federal firearm and drug crackdown in Bernalillo County

  12-08-2016 20:22
  
  A multi-agency crackdown on violent offenders — some of whom had quickly bonded out of custody on similar state charges — was unveiled Friday by U.S. Attorney Damon Martinez and Thomas Atteberry, the special agent in charge of the Phoenix office of the lead agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The undercover […]
  
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• Updated: Man charged in Oklahoma mounted polar bear case

  12-08-2016 20:14
  
  TULSA, Okla. — A businessman accused of illegally storing a mounted polar bear at an Oklahoma airport hangar has been charged. The Tulsa World (http://bit.ly/2aYnD99 ) reports that 61-year-old Bryan Adair was charged Thursday with larceny of lost property, possession of an endangered species and possession of prohibited wildlife. Game wardens confiscated the stuffed bear […]
  
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• Updated: Ayana sets world record to open Olympic track program

  12-08-2016 20:14
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — One world record, one Olympic gold. That done, Almaz Ayana can start thinking about her best event. Ayana of Ethiopia delivered a stunning start to track and field at the Olympics on Friday with a world record in the 10,000 meters, wiping away the competition just after the halfway point and […]
  
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• New: SWAT team sets up near Unser and Ouray NW

  12-08-2016 20:10
  
  The Albuquerque Police Department’s SWAT team has set up in a neighborhood near Unser and Ouray NW. Authorities haven’t given any other information about the situation, including why they are in the neighborhood. — This is a developing story. More information will be added as it becomes available.
  
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• Updated: Egyptian judoka refuses to shake Israeli opponent’s hand

  12-08-2016 19:40
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — Middle Eastern politics spilled onto the judo mat Friday at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics when Islam El Shehaby of Egypt refused to shake hands with his winning opponent, Or Sasson of Israel. El Shehaby, an ultraconservative Salafi, had come under pressure before the games from Islamist-leaning and nationalist voices in […]
  
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• Power wire causes long delays on Denver’s airport transit

  12-08-2016 19:40
  
  DENVER — The commuter rail line between downtown Denver and the airport experienced more service disruptions due to a damaged power wire. Regional Transportation District officials say bus shuttles had to take passengers on the A Line to Denver International Airport on Thursday. The interruption follows hours-long delays on Wednesday. On Thursday passengers endured delays […]
  
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• Updated: Trump Tower: Not as ‘huuge’ as Donald Trump says it is

  12-08-2016 19:39
  
  NEW YORK — When a Virginia teenager began scaling the glass walls of Trump Tower this week, journalists covering his dramatic climb live struggled to answer basic questions: Who was he? Why was he doing it? And also, how many stories is Trump Tower anyway? Does it have 68 floors, as the Trump Organization claims […]
  
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• Updated: Pressuring Trump, Clinton releases 2015 tax returns

  12-08-2016 19:39
  
  WASHINGTON — Hillary and Bill Clinton earned $10.6 million last year, according to a tax filing released by her campaign Friday that sought to pressure presidential rival Donald Trump to disclose his tax returns. The filing shows that the Clintons paid a federal tax rate of 34.2 percent in 2015. The bulk of their income […]
  
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• Remains of WWII pilot who died in 1945 buried in Houston

  12-08-2016 19:20
  
  HOUSTON — A World War II pilot from Texas missing since a 1945 cargo flight from Singapore to Malaysia has been laid to rest in his hometown. A graveside service was held Friday in Houston for 25-year-old Army Air Forces Flight Officer Judson Baskett. His flag-draped casket was transported by horse-drawn caisson to Historic Hollywood […]
  
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• Updated: Judge blocks Ohio law to divert Planned Parenthood money

  12-08-2016 18:27
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal judge blocked an Ohio law aimed at keeping public money from going to Planned Parenthood, saying in a Friday ruling that the group stood to suffer “irreparable injury.” The state law targets the more than $1.4 million in funding that Planned Parenthood gets through Ohio’s health department. That money, which […]
  
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• Updated: Olympic pool where water turned green closed for practice

  12-08-2016 18:22
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — Olympic divers say the pool at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Center was closed for morning practice, apparently to allow more time to clean the water. The water suddenly turned green Tuesday, midway through the synchronized diving events. The pool was shut down when some divers arrived Friday morning, though it did […]
  
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• ‘He is risen’: Sheriff’s Easter post costs county $41K

  12-08-2016 18:21
  
  CLEVELAND, Tenn. — An eastern Tennessee sheriff’s Facebook post celebrating Easter has made a group of atheists $15,000 richer. News organizations report that Bradley County reached a settlement Thursday with the American Atheists organization over Sheriff Eric Watson’s post on the department’s Facebook page over Easter. The atheist group and an unidentified resident said Watson […]
  
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• Markets Right Now: Stocks opening lower on Wall Street

  12-08-2016 18:19
  
  NEW YORK — The latest on developments in global financial markets (all times local): 12:00 Stocks are trading lower on Wall Street Friday, retreating from all-time highs reached a day earlier as new data showed weak retail spending and producer prices. The Commerce Department said that Americans spent less at grocery stores, clothing shops, sporting […]
  
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• Updated: Clinton campaign reports 34.2 percent tax rate

  12-08-2016 18:14
  
  WASHINGTON — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times local): 12 p.m. Hillary Clinton’s campaign says the Democratic nominee and her husband paid a federal tax rate of 34.2 percent and donated 9.8 percent of their income to charity last year. The Clintons are releasing their 2015 filings on Friday. Her campaign is […]
  
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• More than 20 passengers, crew hurt in JetBlue turbulence

  12-08-2016 16:48
  
  RAPID CITY, S.D. — JetBlue says more than 20 passengers and crew members were injured when turbulence rocked their flight from Massachusetts to California, forcing the aircraft to be diverted to South Dakota. Flight 429 was traveling from Boston to Sacramento on Thursday with 145 passengers and five crew members on board when it was […]
  
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• Updated: Swimmer Chen Xinyi of China tests positive at Rio Olympics

  12-08-2016 16:47
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — A female Chinese swimmer has tested positive for a banned substance at the Rio Olympics, China’s swimming association said Friday — the first competitor in the sport to fail a test at the games. Chen Xinyi tested positive for the diuretic hydrochlorothiazide after she finished fourth in the women’s 100-meter butterfly […]
  
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• Court sides with efforts to certify Hatch chiles

  12-08-2016 16:47
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — A federal appeals court is refusing to reconsider a decision in favor of an association of green chile growers in the Hatch Valley of Southern New Mexico in a dispute over the use of the renowned Hatch name on food labels. The U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals denied a rehearing […]
  
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• New: Elementary students in Austin to get unstructured play time

  12-08-2016 16:46
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — Starting this fall, all elementary school children in the Austin school district will get 30 minutes of unstructured play time at recess each day under a plan supported by district administrators. The Austin American-Statesman (http://atxne.ws/2aPbQay ) reports previously, unstructured play time has not been required, and in some schools — particularly those […]
  
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• Updated: 3 years into nation’s hemp experiment, crop’s future is hazy

  12-08-2016 16:40
  
  PUEBLO, Colo. — Three years into the nation’s hemp experiment, a 20-acre farm in southern Colorado exemplifies the crop’s hazy potential. Hemp could be enormously profitable, but right now there are just as many questions as answers for Will and Ally Cabaniss, two Florida natives who moved to southern Colorado to embark on the hemp […]
  
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• Updated: Thailand bombs unnerve tourists, and sap industry confidence

  12-08-2016 08:30
  
  HUA HIN, Thailand — An hour before midnight, Andrea Tazzioli was fetching his own birthday cake, looking forward to celebrating with friends in this balmy beach resort town, a world away from his stressful military work in Afghanistan. Then the bomb went off. “I saw light, white light, big explosion and immediately it hurts here […]
  
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• Updated: Bombs shake Thailand tourist towns, and industry confidence

  12-08-2016 08:30
  
  BANGKOK — Tourists huddled in their hotel rooms and ducked inside buildings after bombs, one after another, exploded in at least four areas of Thailand, including popular beach cities, killing at least four people and wounding dozens more. “The security in the bar told me to get back into the bar and they just shut […]
  
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• WWII sailor’s remains head to Colorado Springs for burial

  12-08-2016 08:19
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The remains of a sailor killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor are set to arrive in Colorado Springs for burial. The Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/2aLb2Db ) that Medal of Honor recipient John Charles England died aboard the USS Oklahoma on Dec. 7, 1941. His unidentified body had been buried along […]
  
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• Questa tries to change its image, post-mining

  12-08-2016 08:05
  
  QUESTA – Two tragedies struck the village of Questa in recent years: the crumbling of the San Antonio de Padua Catholic Church, heart of the community for more than 150 years, and the closing of the Chevron molybdenum mine, the community's economic driver for more than 50 years.
  
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• PNM ‘shocked’ by rate case recommendation

  12-08-2016 08:05
  
  $123.5M hike requested by company slashed to $41.3M
  
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• Local community activist Rae Perls dies

  12-08-2016 08:05
  
  Stephen Perls was eavesdropping.
  
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• County commission chairman wants oversight board to study jail video

  12-08-2016 08:05
  
  De La Cruz says county staffers should cooperate with panel
  
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• A ‘miracle’ saves historic, once-doomed church

  12-08-2016 08:05
  
  Restored St. Anthony’s in Questa will be dedicated Sunday
  
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• CEO of New Mexico’s health insurance exchange to resign

  12-08-2016 06:55
  
  A spokesman for the exchange, Tom Garrity, on Thursday said that Dowd is leaving to work for Molina Healthcare.
  
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• Updated: Cuba subdued ahead of Fidel Castro’s 90th birthday

  12-08-2016 06:08
  
  HAVANA — Fidel Castro greeted his 80th birthday from his sickbed, gripping a newspaper to show he was alive two weeks after stepping down as president. For the next 10 years the leader of the Cuban revolution watched from home as his brother Raul granted Cubans new economic freedoms and declared detente with the United […]
  
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• Updated: I-25 southbound closed for fatal crash

  12-08-2016 05:44
  
  Deputies have closed southbound Interstate 25 at Rio Bravo due to a fatal single-vehicle crash near Broadway around 8:30 p.m. Thursday, according to a spokeswoman for the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office. Deputy Felicia Romero said a small sport utility vehicle reportedly had a tire blowout, causing it to roll. The driver died at the scene. […]
  
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• I-25 southbound closed for fatal crash

  12-08-2016 05:44
  
  Deputies have closed southbound Interstate 25 at Rio Bravo due to a fatal single vehicle crash near Broadway around 8:30 p.m. Thursday, according to a spokeswoman for the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office. Deputy Felicia Romero said the crash was believed to have been caused by a tire blowout or some other mechanical failure. She said […]
  
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• 05/30/1982

  12-08-2016 04:05
  
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• Police: 3 victims in serial killer case shot sitting in car

  12-08-2016 04:01
  
  PHOENIX — Two women and a 12-year-old girl who died in the deadliest attack in Phoenix’s first serial killer case in a decade were sitting in a car talking and listening to music when they were shot, according to police reports released Thursday. Angela Rochelle Liner, Stefanie R. Ellis and Ellis’ daughter Maleah were shot […]
  
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• Studies shine light on mysterious placenta, how it goes awry

  12-08-2016 03:00
  
  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 about how it gives life — a
  
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• Updated: Harrison defends Olympic judo title, ponders MMA career

  12-08-2016 00:57
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — An Olympic champion yet again, Kayla Harrison now has a chance to become an even bigger star. Harrison earned her second straight gold medal in judo on Thursday, winning the 78-kilogram category at the Rio de Janeiro Games. After the bout, she was asked about turning her attention to a professional […]
  
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• Updated: Former Border Patrol agent pleads guilty in drug case

  12-08-2016 00:20
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. — A former U.S. Border Patrol agent arrested in Arizona for smuggling what he believed was 110 pounds of cocaine has pleaded guilty in federal court. Juan Pimentel was arrested last November near Tucson. He told authorities he was being paid $50,000 to transport the cocaine to Chicago. But court records show Pimentel […]
  
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• Bankers say farm income declining in region

  12-08-2016 00:20
  
  OMAHA, Neb. — The Federal Reserve says farmers are borrowing more to cover their operating expenses because farm income continued to decline in during the second quarter in Midwestern and Western states. The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Missouri, said Thursday that 75 percent of the bankers surveyed reported shrinking farm income. Roughly half […]
  
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• NBC sports chief says Rio Games are a ‘huge hit’

  12-08-2016 00:07
  
  NEW YORK — The chief of NBC Sports said Thursday the Rio Games are a huge hit and that he doesn’t anticipate having to make concessions to advertisers. While NBC’s prime-time viewership for the Rio games hasn’t reached the levels of London 2012, the dip has been offset by increases in people streaming content to […]
  
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• Woman accused of firing shot a Bullhead City police officer

  12-08-2016 00:06
  
  BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. — A woman has been arrested in northwestern Arizona after allegedly shooting at a Bullhead City police officer and then barricading herself in a bedroom. Police say an officer responded about 9:30 a.m. Thursday to a report of a verbal domestic dispute between 47-year-old April Dezerienne Silvis and her mother. When the […]
  
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