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• Man charged in Oklahoma slaying indicted in 2 Texas slayings

  01-09-2016 23:21
  
  GALVESTON, Texas — A man already charged with abducting and killing a 19-year-old woman in Oklahoma has been indicted in the 1997 Texas slayings of a girl and a teenage woman. The Galveston County grand jury indicted William Lewis Reece on murder counts in the deaths of 12-year-old Laura Smither of Friendswood and 17-year-old Jessica […]
  
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• Updated: The most memorable comedy moments of the Obama presidency

  01-09-2016 23:20
  
  Is there a more perfect expression of the First Amendment than roasting the head of state? Comedy greatly shapes the public’s perception of a president. Recall Will Ferrell’s “Saturday Night Live” impersonation of George W. Bush, which arguably made the president more likable – a lovable buffoon who, sure, couldn’t say “strategy” but would indeed […]
  
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• Huge crowds march in Venezuela to force recall of President Nicolás Maduro

  01-09-2016 23:19
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela — Tens of thousands of chanting protesters marched Thursday in a major demonstration in the Venezuelan capital aimed at forcing a vote on recalling socialist President Nicolás Maduro. Opposition parties hailed the protest, dubbed the “Taking of Caracas,” as the beginning of a new stage in their struggle to end the “revolution” started […]
  
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• ABQ area man diagnosed with plague

  01-09-2016 22:10
  
  A Bernalillo County man, 67, has been diagnosed with New Mexico's third case this year of plag ...
  
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• Judge to allow evidence from search of New Mexico ranch

  01-09-2016 21:54
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A federal judge says he will not suppress evidence gathered by New Mexico State Police during a search of an Indian trader’s ranch. The Gallup Independent reports (http://bit.ly/2bFFZIU ) that U.S. District Court Judge James Parker on Friday rejected a motion by Steve Coleman’s attorney to suppress all the evidence from the […]
  
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• Merkel facing defeat by anti-immigration party in home state

  01-09-2016 21:50
  
  German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble’s election rally in the Baltic Sea town of Rostock was all going according to script until the discussion turned to refugees. After the elder statesman won praise from the crowd of middle-aged and retired party faithful for his role in the country’s reunification, the goodwill quickly evaporated as he defended […]
  
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• Updated: Mounty Airy, N.C., offers a chance to visit TV’s Mayberry-squad cars and all

  01-09-2016 21:49
  
  MOUNT AIRY, N.C. – On “The Andy Griffith Show,” the characters of Mayberry have modest wants on any given day. Aunt Bee wants to be appreciated; Barney asks for respect; Andy wants his son, Opie, to understand the consequences of his actions. But when you go to Mount Airy, North Carolina, the birthplace of Andy […]
  
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• Some Olympic swimmers may have gotten an unfair advantage

  01-09-2016 21:49
  
  A few years ago, researchers from Indiana University discovered a disturbing pattern at the 2013 Swimming World Championships in Barcelona. According to the lap-time data, athletes assigned to the outer lanes of the pool were consistently swimming faster in one direction than the other. A mysterious force seemed to be interfering with the competition. But […]
  
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• Catholics are obligated to care for the planet, just like care for the sick, Pope Francis says

  01-09-2016 21:49
  
  Pope Francis, who has made the environment a clear focus of his papacy over the past three years, deepened his vision Thursday of a green church in which caring for the planet is as important a Catholic commitment as caring for the sick and the hungry. Catholics currently subscribe to seven corporal and seven spiritual […]
  
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• APD: Alcohol not a factor in fatal Wednesday night crash

  01-09-2016 19:56
  
  A driver who made a left hand turn onto San Mateo pulled in front of a motorcycle, causing a crash that left the motorcyclist dead Wednesday night, according to Albuquerque police. Spokesman Tanner Tixier said the driver was turning from San Mateo Lane westbound to southbound San Mateo. The motorcyclist was going north on San […]
  
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• Updated: Univision’s Jorge Ramos: I’d like to be debate moderator

  01-09-2016 19:42
  
  NEW YORK — Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos says he’d like to moderate one of the presidential debates, and doesn’t believe his recent call for people to “take a stand” against Republican Donald Trump should eliminate him from consideration. The chances of Trump agreeing to a Ramos-moderated debate are remote. But the man whose voice […]
  
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• Fact Checker: The White House claim that ‘most’ people on Obamacare pay $75 or less

  01-09-2016 19:42
  
  “Under #ACA, everyone’s insurance got upgraded & most can find a plan on the marketplace for $75/month or less.” –tweet by White House press secretary Josh Earnest, Aug. 30, 2016 — A number of readers asked about this tweet, which was a summary of comments made by Earnest during a White House press briefing. The […]
  
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• Updated: In NY jogger killing, a DNA sample but no one to match it to

  01-09-2016 19:27
  
  NEW YORK — Detectives hunting for the person who strangled a runner in a secluded New York City marsh were encouraged after genetic material found beneath her fingernails, on her phone and on her neck resulted in a DNA profile of her probable attacker. A month later, their optimism has waned. The genetic fingerprint didn’t […]
  
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• The 4 biggest milestones in the history of life on Earth

  01-09-2016 19:26
  
  It’s a great time to be alive and talking about life. We just learned that geologists found what appear to be fossilized stromatolites in 3.7-billion-year-old rocks in Greenland. That suggests life popped up on Earth ridiculously soon after the planet formed. And last we learned about the discovery of a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the […]
  
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• US auto sales expected to drop in August

  01-09-2016 15:49
  
  DETROIT — U.S. sales of new cars and trucks were expected to drop in August, ending summer on a low note for the auto industry. Ford’s sales were down 8 percent compared to last August. More automakers will report sales later Thursday. Overall industry sales were expected to slip 5 percent to 1.5 million vehicles, […]
  
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• Airline mixes up 2 young boys, flies them to wrong cities

  01-09-2016 15:49
  
  NEW YORK — A woman in New York says she hasn’t stopped crying since an airline mistook her 5-year-old for another child and flew him to the wrong city. Maribel Martinez tells New York’s Daily News (http://nydn.us/2chzb8W ) she was shocked when JetBlue staffers presented her with another little boy on Aug. 17 at Kennedy […]
  
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• Updated: New commercial flights mean big change for US-Cuba relations

  01-09-2016 15:30
  
  SANTA CLARA, Cuba — It took an hour and a $330 paper check to buy the printed blue ticket for my one-way charter flight from Havana to Miami, the last I will ever take. Check-in meant nearly two hours in a line that almost spilled out the terminal doors. I barely made it aboard my […]
  
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• Updated: British manufacturing rebounds from post-Brexit plunge

  01-09-2016 15:30
  
  LONDON — Manufacturing in Britain rebounded in August from a slump in the immediate aftermath of the shock vote to leave the European Union, an indication that the economy may be weathering the uncertainty better than expected. A measure of business activity in manufacturing, the purchasing managers’ index, jumped to 53.3 points from 48.8 in […]
  
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• California moves to add methane limits to climate agenda

  01-09-2016 15:30
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Democrats are taking further steps to advance the state’s ambitious climate-change agenda, agreeing to regulate methane emissions from landfills and dairy farms for the first time and approving $900 million in spending on environmental programs. The approval came in the final hours of the two-year legislative session Wednesday following a flurry […]
  
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• Teen’s motto: ‘Do what you can’

  01-09-2016 08:05
  
  Albuquerque 13-year-old's hard work honored after brush with homelessness inspired him to help others
  
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• State: Dismiss LANL cleanup lawsuit

  01-09-2016 08:05
  
  Nuclear Watch suit says new agreement violates original 2005 accord
  
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• Girl’s killing prompts state review of probation

  01-09-2016 08:05
  
  Notice of alleged killer's probation never got to corrections officials
  
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• Child abuse rules followed, APS reports

  01-09-2016 08:05
  
  Two recent killings sparked review of district procedures
  
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• As state budget cuts loom, we must review what we value

  01-09-2016 08:05
  
  Across-the-board reductions likely as governor vows no tax increases
  
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• Updated: G20 governments endorse trade but tighten controls

  01-09-2016 07:34
  
  BEIJING — Leaders of the United States, China and other Group of 20 major economies who meet this weekend say more trade would shore up sluggish global growth but are tightening their own controls on imports. China hopes its status as G20 host will give it more sway in managing the global economy and has […]
  
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• Indonesia screens for Zika as Singapore infections mount

  01-09-2016 07:34
  
  JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia is screening travelers from neighboring Singapore for the mosquito-borne Zika virus as the city-state reports a growing number of infections and its first case of a pregnant woman testing positive. Indonesian Health Ministry spokesman Oscar Primadi said Thursday that health officials are recommending that the Foreign Ministry issue an advisory against […]
  
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• Prep soccer: Penalty kicks lift Sandia, Atrisco Heritage

  01-09-2016 07:28
  
  It was a night for the goalkeepers to shine for the boys. It was also a night for the girls from the City of Vision. Sandia and Atrisco Heritage’s boys both prevailed in penalty kicks Wednesday night in the semifinals of the Albuquerque Metro Soccer Championships, while Rio Rancho and Cleveland’s girls both advanced with […]
  
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• Updated: Hurricane warning downgraded for Hawaii’s Big Island

  01-09-2016 07:14
  
  HILO, Hawaii — Forecasters on Wednesday downgraded Hurricane Madeline to a tropical storm as it veered past Hawaii’s Big Island, but officials reiterated warnings to prepare for heavy rain and strong winds. The National Weather Service downgraded the storm as its sustained winds fell below hurricane strength of 74 mph. By 5 p.m. (8 p.m. […]
  
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• Lobos football team taking selfish approach into season opener

  01-09-2016 06:21
  
  It's all about you, isn't it? That question, the opening salvo of so many domestic tiffs, bothers Bob Davie not at all when directed at his University of New Mexico football team.
  
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• New Mexico high school football schedule (Sept. 1-3)

  01-09-2016 06:16
  
  All games start at 7 p.m. unless noted Thursday Wingate at Santa Fe Indian School Friday Lake Arthur at Reserve, 1 p.m. Questa at Taos JV, 2 p.m. Animas at N.M. School/Deaf, 3 p.m. Floyd at Vaughn, 3 p.m. Cloudcroft at Menaul, 6 p.m. San Jon/Grady at Hondo Valley, 6 p.m. Robertson at Cobre, 6 […]
  
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• Updated: Madigan keeps season, PGA dreams afloat

  01-09-2016 06:05
  
  Basically, what it boiled down to was this:Rio Rancho's Tim Madigan had five holes lef ...
  
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• Sports Speak Up! (Sept. 1)

  01-09-2016 05:54
  
  ■ WHEN COLIN KAPERNICK made his stand by not standing for the anthem, at first I thought that he was just another spoiled millionaire acting out but after reading all of the various negative comments from people who took his action personally I realized that he has bigger cojones than they ever will. It takes […]
  
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• APD: Motorcyclist dies in Northeast Heights crash

  01-09-2016 05:00
  
  A motorcyclist died in a collision with a vehicle at San Mateo and Montgomery NE Wednesday evening, according to a spokesman for the Albuquerque Police Department. “The intersection is currently closed while the investigation is being conducted,” said officer Daren DeAguero. He didn’t provide any information on how the crash occurred, the vehicle involved or […]
  
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• NM Environment Dept. asks that nuke lab cleanup lawsuit be tossed

  01-09-2016 04:17
  
  SANTA FE – The New Mexico Environment Department has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Nuclear Watch New Mexico that seeks invalidation of a new agreement between the state and federal governments over cleanup of radioactive and hazardous waste from nuclear weapons work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Nuke Watch maintains […]
  
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• Native American activists plan protest during Fiestas de Santa Fe

  01-09-2016 03:37
  
  Red Nation, a University of New Mexico Native American rights organization, and activists from New Mexico’s northern pueblos announced in a news release Wednesday that they plan a march in Santa Fe on Sept. 9 to protest the Entrada, a reenactment of what’s often described as a “peaceful” reconquest of New Mexico by Spanish colonists […]
  
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• Trump to outline immigration policy in Phoenix

  01-09-2016 03:31
  
  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is expected to give a major immigration policy speech tonight in Phoenix following a controversial meeting today with Mexico’s president. Trump has made a border wall the drumbeat of his campaign – and he has said he wants Mexico to pay to build it. He kicked off his presidential run […]
  
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• Santa Fe City Council rejects study on narrowing Paseo de Peralta for bike lanes

  01-09-2016 03:09
  
  SANTA FE —The Santa Fe City Council on Wednesday declined to spend $57,000 on a so-called “road diet” study to determine whether it was worth considering reducing about a mile stretch of Paseo de Peralta to one lane in each direction and adding bicycle lanes. Mayor Javier Gonzales cast the deciding vote, saying he’d rather […]
  
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• 3.7 billion-year-old fossils may be oldest signs of life on Earth

  01-09-2016 03:00 via santafenewmexican.com
  
  Scientists claim they have discovered the remnants of microbial mats that lived 3.7 billion years ago.
  
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• Man accused of shooting Clovis police officer turns himself in

  01-09-2016 02:43
  
  A man accused of shooting a Clovis police officer on Monday night turned himself in Wednesday evening. Anthony Baca, 34, was booked into the Curry County Adult Detention Center Wednesday evening after surrendering through his attorney, Brett Carter. Clovis police officer Chris Caron was treated at Plains Regional Medical Center and released early Tuesday. He […]
  
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• APD: 21-year-old accused of driving into, killing man had been ‘picking’ on him

  01-09-2016 02:25
  
  Joseph Perea was reportedly picking on 23-year-old Davon Martinez at a party Monday night. Martinez’s friend had to wrestle Perea out the front door, and after stabbing the door’s security gate, Perea got in his Chevy Camaro with his girlfriend to leave, according to court records. He came back angry, police say. Perea, 21, drove […]
  
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• Donald Trump’s Mexico visit ends with Mexico basically accusing him of lying

  01-09-2016 02:04
  
  Over the past 14 months, Donald Trump has been telling anyone within shouting distance that he will not only build a big, beautiful border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, but also that Mexico would somehow be made to pay for it. It’s among the most brazen claims he has made as a presidential candidate – […]
  
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• UNM not among Big 12’s expansion finalists

  01-09-2016 01:40
  
  The Big 12 Conference this week has put together a list of finalists to consider for expansion of the 10-school league. The University of New Mexico, which was one of a reported 30 schools expressing interest in joining the conference, did not make the cut. UNM President Robert G. Frank confirmed the Lobos have been […]
  
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• Late appeal moves NFL concussion case to Supreme Court

  01-09-2016 00:13
  
  PHILADELPHIA — A last-minute appeal in the NFL concussion case, filed by the son of an all-star and civil rights activist, has sent the proposed settlement to the U.S. Supreme Court and delays payouts for at least several months. The family of the late Buffalo Bills fullback Carlton “Cookie” Gilchrist asked the high court Tuesday […]
  
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