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• Eastland County sheriff’s deputy, 73, dies in head-on crash

  07-09-2016 23:59
  
  EASTLAND, Texas — A West Texas sheriff’s deputy has been killed in a head-on collision while driving his SUV patrol vehicle to work. The Texas Department of Public Safety says 73-year-old Eastland County sheriff’s Deputy Kenneth Maltby died in the accident around 8 a.m. Wednesday. The DPS says a pickup truck driven by 23-year-old Colton […]
  
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• Updated: Marilyn’s ‘Happy Birthday’ gown going to auction in the fall

  07-09-2016 23:57
  
  NEW YORK — The flesh-colored, skin-tight beaded gown Marilyn Monroe wore during her breathless rendition of “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy is going on the auction block this fall. Julien’s Auctions is offering the sequined stunner at a sale in Los Angeles on Nov. 17. The auction house believes the gown could fetch […]
  
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• Updated: Yosemite adding 400 acres of meadow, forest

  07-09-2016 23:45
  
  FRESNO, Calif. — Visitors to Yosemite National Park in California have more room to roam after officials on Wednesday announced a 400-acre expansion of the park — its largest in nearly 70 years. The addition features wetlands and a grassy meadow surrounded by tall pine trees on rolling hills that are home to endangered wildlife. […]
  
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• Updated: Clinton, Trump to square off on national security issues

  07-09-2016 23:40
  
  NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will take the same stage for the first time Wednesday night, aiming to position themselves as best prepared to lead in turbulent times and warning that their opponent would put the country at risk. Questioned back-to-back but not face-to-face, the presidential foes will address an audience of […]
  
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• Updated: US growth weakened slightly this summer, Fed report shows

  07-09-2016 21:43
  
  WASHINGTON — The economy grew at a moderate or modest pace this summer in eight of the Federal Reserve’s 12 U.S. districts, a slowdown from previous reports that may make Fed policymakers more cautious about an interest rate hike. The Fed’s “Beige Book” survey of business conditions, released Wednesday, found that growth weakened in two […]
  
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• Updated: Russian fighter makes ‘unsafe close range intercept’ with US anti-submarine aircraft

  07-09-2016 21:32
  
  A Russian fighter aircraft made an “unsafe close range intercept” with a U.S. Navy jet over the Black Sea on Wednesday. Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. Jeff Davis said in an emailed statement that the Russian Su-27 spent 19 minutes intercepting the U.S. P-8A Poseidon and that the P-8 was conducting “routine operations in international airspace.” […]
  
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• Updated: Authorities to build up presence before oil pipeline ruling

  07-09-2016 21:31
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakota authorities are sending officers from across the state to the site of a protest in anticipation of a federal judge’s ruling on a request by the Standing Rock Sioux to block construction of a four-state oil pipeline. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg is expected to rule Friday on the tribe’s […]
  
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• Oil bust blamed as Texas budget outlook shrinks nearly $1B

  07-09-2016 21:31
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — Texas officials say sagging oil prices has shrunk the budget outlook by nearly $1 billion at a time when state agencies are already facing possible cuts next year. Republican Comptroller Glenn Hegar said Wednesday that “prolonged weakness” in the oil and gas sector caused tax collections for fiscal year 2016 to finish […]
  
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• Fifteen years after 9/11, we can hear the only bit George Carlin ever cut for taste

  07-09-2016 21:31
  
  On Sept. 10, 2001, on a stage in Vegas, a city he loathed, George Carlin performed the red-hot closing bit he planned to use for his latest HBO special. “Would you like me to tell you about something I really like?” he teased the crowd at the MGM Grand. “Fatal disasters. Fatal disasters with a […]
  
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• Police silent on weekend convenience store killing

  07-09-2016 20:02
  
  Albuquerque police are refusing to release any information on the shooting death of a man at a southeast Albuquerque convenience store Saturday night. Police spokesman Tanner Tixier wouldn’t release the victim’s name Wednesday or any details about the crime. “We’re not releasing any information,” he said. And he wouldn’t explain why the department wasn’t releasing […]
  
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• Updated: Woods says he hopes to return next month

  07-09-2016 19:57
  
  CARMEL, Ind. — Out of golf for more than a year, Tiger Woods said Wednesday he hopes to play the first event of the PGA Tour season next month and could play as much as twice more before the end of the year. Woods said if his rehabilitation from back surgeries keeps going well, he […]
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Pliskova rolls past Konjuh, into US Open semis

  07-09-2016 19:56
  
  NEW YORK — The Latest on the U.S. Open (all times local): 1:20 p.m. Karolina Pliskova dominated with her serve to roll past 18-year-old Ana Konjuh and into the U.S. Open semifinals. The 10th-seeded Pliskova won 6-2, 6-2 in just 57 minutes Wednesday, losing only one point on her serve in the first set. She’ll […]
  
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• Major construction work on ABQ Rapid Transit to start in mid-October

  07-09-2016 19:53
  
  Bradbury Stamm is on the clock. Mayor Richard Berry’s administration signed an $82.6 million contract Wednesday that calls for the local construction company to finish work on Albuquerque Rapid Transit in 16 months, or by late 2017. The city is entitled to damages if the work isn’t done on time, city officials said. Heavy demolition […]
  
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• Updated: Goodell doesn’t agree with Kaepernick’s actions

  07-09-2016 19:37
  
  NEW YORK — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell disagrees with Colin Kaepernick’s choice to kneel during the national anthem, but recognizes the quarterback’s right to protest. Asked by The Associated Press about Kaepernick’s decision not to stand before games when the national anthem is played, Goodell said Wednesday: “I don’t necessarily agree with what he is […]
  
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• Updated: For Nate Parker and ‘Birth of a Nation,’ separating artist from the art may be impossible

  07-09-2016 17:46
  
  For the first half of 2016, a powerful narrative was taking shape around the forthcoming release of “The Birth of a Nation,” which is slated for highly anticipated screenings this week at the Toronto International Film Festival. It was not just the narrative told by the period drama, which is based on the true story […]
  
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• Updated: As some states curb high fines, Oklahoma’s go even higher

  07-09-2016 17:45
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY — When riots erupted two years ago in Ferguson, Missouri, some of the tension in the black community was blamed on the city’s use of court fines and fees that burdened many low-income people with debts they could not pay. Since then, Missouri has reduced the maximum fines for traffic tickets and other […]
  
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• Philippines broadens claims of Chinese reach into disputed South China Sea

  07-09-2016 17:40
  
  BEIJING – The Philippines on Wednesday released photos purporting to show Chinese boats near a shoal in the South China Sea, claiming that the presence of new ships in the area could signal another attempt by Beijing to build in disputed fishing grounds. The outcry could add further tensions during a summit of U.S. and […]
  
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• Updated: Hundreds gather to remember Alamogordo officer

  07-09-2016 17:39
  
  ALAMOGORDO, N.M. — Hundreds of people attended a candlelight vigil to remember a police officer killed in the New Mexico city of Alamogordo. The Tuesday ceremony was in honor of 33-year-old Officer Clint Corvinus, who was killed during a shootout with a convicted felon Friday evening. Residents joined the Alamogordo Police Department, the New Mexico […]
  
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• Mexican finance minister Videgaray forced out after Trump visit

  07-09-2016 17:39
  
  MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s finance minister, who pushed to invite U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump to Mexico and then got hit by a public backlash after the visit last week, has resigned from his post, Mexican news organizations reported Wednesday. The departure of Luis Videgaray came days after Trump appeared with President Enrique Peña Nieto […]
  
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• Updated: This beloved children’s author didn’t want a funeral – she said read to a child instead

  07-09-2016 16:32
  
  Anna Dewdney, the best-selling children’s author and illustrator behind the popular “Llama Llama” series, once wrote that “empathy is as important as literacy.” “When we read with a child, we are doing so much more than teaching him to read or instilling in her a love of language,” Dewdney wrote for the Wall Street Journal […]
  
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• Updated: Philippines shows photos of Chinese ships in disputed sea

  07-09-2016 16:31
  
  VIENTIANE, Laos — The Philippine government on Wednesday released what it says are surveillance pictures of Chinese coast guard ships and barges at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, in an apparent diplomatic gambit to publicize its concerns at a regional summit being attended by China’s premier and Southeast Asian leaders. Philippine President […]
  
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• Updated: Japan’s ex-leader backs sick US sailors who blame radiation

  07-09-2016 16:31
  
  TOKYO — Several hundred American service personnel who say they became sick from radiation after participating in relief operations for the 2011 tsunami that set off the Fukushima nuclear disaster are now getting high-profile support in Japan. Junichiro Koizumi, prime minister from 2001 to 2006, told reporters Wednesday he has set up a special fund […]
  
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• Updated: G-20 summit yields hopes for better China-Japan relations

  07-09-2016 16:31
  
  BEIJING — Four years after they went into a nose dive, tense relations between China and Japan may finally be headed for a return to some semblance of normalcy. Those hopes rest largely on a meeting Monday between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, with Xi telling Abe that it was […]
  
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• Updated: WHY IT MATTERS: Education

  07-09-2016 16:30
  
  WASHINGTON — THE ISSUE: Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are spent each year on the country’s public schools. The U.S. has record-high graduation rates, 82 percent, but also stubborn achievement gaps and dismally lagging math and reading scores compared with other countries. And university degrees are leaving millions mired in debt. Few issues touch […]
  
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• Award-winning UNM professor emeritus John A. Yeakel dies at 85

  07-09-2016 08:05
  
  John A. Yeakel, a professor emeritus of management and Latin American studies at the University of N ...
  
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• Editorial: Level the retirement field for private sector workers

  07-09-2016 08:02
  
  For many private sector workers, the concept of saving for retirement is a just a dream. Would if I...
  
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• Editorial: Gun safes in schools could make difference for police

  07-09-2016 08:02
  
  Better safe than sorry.In a nation where school mass shootings have become an increasi ...
  
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• Dems no better on immigration

  07-09-2016 08:02
  
  SAN DIEGO–During a recent speech to a largely Hispanic audience in Reno, Nev., Hillary Cli ...
  
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• Clinton should work with insider status, not against it

  07-09-2016 08:02
  
  WASHINGTON–Despite Hillary Clinton's recent slip in the polls, she has a big political opp ...
  
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• Prep soccer players have a European experience

  07-09-2016 07:17
  
  Their teams tied, and, in a way, that’s a microcosm of what binds Brianna Martinez and Hannah Gallegos together. Martinez, a junior for Volcano Vista, and Gallegos, a Sandia High sophomore, were involved in a 2-2 draw as their high school teams battled Tuesday night at the APS Complex. Both scored a goal in the […]
  
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• Bruere, Gentry once promising quarterbacks

  07-09-2016 04:53
  
  In a way, it seems like a decade ago. That’s what happens when you’ve disappeared from the public eye. Or in this case, the Burque eye. Two years ago, Rio Rancho’s Easton Bruere and Eldorado’s Zach Gentry were just beginning to make 2014 the year of the Metro Area quarterback. Bruere led Rio Rancho to […]
  
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• Numbers seem to favor Lobos over Aggies

  07-09-2016 04:49
  
  How quickly they forget. During his weekly news conference Tuesday, UNM football coach Bob Davie said the Lobos hadn’t won their second game of the season during his tenure as head coach. Actually, they have. In 2013, UNM won game No. 2 over UTEP in El Paso, 42-35 in overtime. What the Lobos haven’t done […]
  
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• Aggies assess UTEP loss, UNM game

  07-09-2016 04:46
  
  Coming off a season-opening loss to rival UTEP, one might have expected a little gloom from Tuesday’s weekly New Mexico State football media conference. On that score, the Aggies exceeded expectations. Not only did NMSU coach Doug Martin point out shortcomings from his team’s 38-22 defeat in El Paso on Saturday, he downgraded star running […]
  
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• Updated: https://www.abqjournal.com/840132/jury-selection-starts-in-case-of-slain-police-officer.html

  07-09-2016 04:21
  
  Attorneys for both sides worked Tuesday to seat a jury to hear the case against a man accused of sho ...
  
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• Jury selection starts in case of slain police officer

  07-09-2016 04:21
  
  Attorneys for both sides worked Tuesday to seat a jury to hear the case against a man accused of shooting and killing a Rio Rancho police officer. Jury selection started for the trial against Andrew Romero, 29, who is facing life in prison without the possibility of the parole in officer Gregg Benner’s death. The […]
  
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• Updated: Top-ranked hoops recruit commits to team playing Lobos next year in the Pit

  07-09-2016 02:39
  
  Not only will Lobo fans have their long-awaited rivalry with Arizona this coming basketball season, but the back end of the home-and-home series just got even more interesting. While UNM travels to Tucson in December to play the Wildcats this season, UA returns the favor with a visit to the Pit in the non-conference portion […]
  
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• Sorry kids: Flu shots, not nasal spray, this year

  07-09-2016 02:37
  
  WASHINGTON — Kids may get more of a sting from flu vaccination this fall: Doctors are gearing up to give shots only, because U.S. health officials say the easy-to-use nasal spray version of the vaccin
  
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• Attempted murder suspect nabbed in Pecos

  07-09-2016 02:26
  
  SANTA FE — A man wanted for shooting a woman in the hand in Glorieta was caught by officers from the U.S. Marshals Service and State Police in Pecos Tuesday, according to a statement from the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office. Jose Javier Medina, 24, was arrested without incident at a home on Double D […]
  
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• Updated: Mora school board accepts superintendent’s resignation

  07-09-2016 02:20
  
  SANTA FE — The resignation of Mora Independent Schools Superintendent LeAnne Salazar-Montoya after less than three months on the job was accepted by the school board during a special meeting on Tuesday. The head of the American Federation of Teachers-New Mexico had called for her resignation after she allegedly fired three district employees, two of […]
  
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• Special prosecutor in Boyd murder case ordered to reprimand DA

  07-09-2016 02:18
  
  In an unusual twist on court proceedings, special prosecutor Randi McGinn was ordered Tuesday to reprimand the woman who hired her, elected 2nd Judicial District Attorney Kari Brandenburg, cautioning her about making comments that could prejudice jurors in the upcoming trial of two former Albuquerque police officers later this month. Defense attorney Monnica Garcia, who […]
  
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• Feds put alleged double murderer on state’s most wanted list

  07-09-2016 01:54
  
  Federal authorities have put alleged double murderer Eric Ferrer on the state’s most wanted list and are offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. Ferrer, 27, is accused of shooting and killing Angelica Herrera, 27, and Adrian Anaya, 28, near Coors and Gun Club last month. Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office detectives have […]
  
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• Updated: Trump won’t talk about being a birther or many other controversial comments

  07-09-2016 01:42
  
  Donald Trump was the mainstream face of a fringe movement five years ago that questioned Barack Obama’s place of birth and qualifications for office, eventually prompting the president to release a long-form certificate proving his birth in Hawaii. Trump has never apologized, recanted his charges or even admitted error. Instead, he tries not to discuss […]
  
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• 2 Yuma man arrested after vehicle driven into crowd; 6 hurt

  07-09-2016 01:32
  
  YUMA, Ariz. — Two Yuma men have been arrested in an aggravated assault case in which a vehicle drove into a crowd of people. Yuma police say 20-year-old Ryan Alexander Albright and 19-year-old Cory Alexander Troy have been booked into the Yuma County Detention Center. Police say the men both are facing six counts of […]
  
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• 13-year-old found dead of apparent drug overdose

  07-09-2016 01:27
  
  Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office deputies are trying to figure out how a 13-year-old boy ended up dead of an apparent overdose in a friend’s RV in the South Valley over Labor Day weekend. Deputies say they believe the boy’s death was an overdose, though they don’t know what drugs he took or where he got […]
  
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• Texas man accused of threatening lives of Las Cruces police

  07-09-2016 01:05
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. — A Texas man is facing a federal charge of using interstate communications to threaten the lives of Las Cruces police officers in New Mexico. Federal prosecutors say 32-year-old Sean Stinson of El Paso made his initial court appearance Tuesday. He remains in custody pending a preliminary hearing and a detention hearing, […]
  
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• Another failed Zika vote could be the start of a resolution

  07-09-2016 01:02
  
  WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats on Tuesday for the third time in two months blocked a $1.1 billion legislative package to help fight the Zika virus, but lawmakers in both parties said they now hope negotiations will begin in earnest to quickly come up with a bipartisan deal to address the potential public health crisis. Congress […]
  
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• Updated: CYFD launches new TV ads promoting child abuse hotline

  07-09-2016 00:29
  
  State officials are urging New Mexicans to call in suspected child abuse and neglect to the state’s abuse hotline. Television ads promoting the  hotline will appear soon as part of the state government’s battle against childhood neglect and abuse. The hotline can be reached by calling #SAFE on a cell phone or 1-855-333-7233 on a […]
  
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• New York’s attorney general investigates EpiPen manufacturer

  07-09-2016 00:29
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. — The state attorney general’s office is investigating whether Mylan Pharmaceuticals unfairly limited competition for its emergency allergy treatment EpiPen, which has been criticized for steep price increases. A preliminary review showed the company “may have inserted potentially anticompetitive terms” into sales contracts with many school systems, Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said […]
  
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• Rockies call up five Isotopes

  07-09-2016 00:22
  
   With the conclusion of the Isotopes season on Sunday, the parent Colorado Rockies announced they have recalled right-handed pitchers Eddie Butler and Germen Marquez and catcher Dustin Garneau.  Additionally, the contracts of first baseman/outfielder Jordan Patterson and infielder Pat Valaika have been selected by the Rockies.  To make room for Patterson and Valaika on the […]
  
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• New book reveals Bill Clinton’s rogue diplomacy against the Iraq War

  07-09-2016 00:15
  
  It was March 2003, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair had summoned his friend Bill Clinton to Chequers Court, his country home in England, to make an urgent request: Could the former president quietly help corral U.N. Security Council members to back a resolution aimed at slowing or, according to Blair, even stopping the Iraq […]
  
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