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• Updated: Clinton says ‘Deplorables’ comment is ‘grossly generalistic’

  10-09-2016 23:13
  
  WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Hillary Clinton said Saturday that she was wrong to put half of Donald Trump’s supporters in a “basket of deplorables,” but she didn’t back down from describing his campaign as largely built on prejudice and paranoia. The Republican accused her of a “grotesque attack on American voters.” Less than 24 hours […]
  
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• Updated: Clinton: ‘Deplorables’ comment was ‘grossly generalistic’

  10-09-2016 23:13
  
  WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Hillary Clinton said Saturday that she was wrong to put half of Donald Trump’s supporters in a “basket of deplorables,” but didn’t back down from a description of his campaign the Republican nominee said smeared many Americans and would take a political toll. Less than 24 hours after she made the […]
  
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• Experts baffled by northern Colorado West Nile cases

  10-09-2016 22:55
  
  FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Experts are trying to determine why a county in northern Colorado has a high number of West Nile virus cases, compared with Los Angeles, Dallas and Phoenix, which also have a high number of cases. Larimer County had 28 human cases this year as of Tuesday, the most in the state. […]
  
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• New: Fallen Alamogordo police officer laid to rest

  10-09-2016 21:33
  
  ALAMOGORDO — Dozens of American flags billowed and snapped in a stiff wind, as two columns of law enforcement awaited the funeral procession for officer Clint Corvinus. Helicopters whirred over the distant scream of sirens, but the final arrival of a white hearse was silent. Corvinus was a four-year veteran of the Alamogordo Police Department. […]
  
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• Suspect arrested in fatal convenience store shooting, police say

  10-09-2016 17:22
  
  An arrest has been made following the fatal shooting at a SE Albuquerque 7-11 last Saturday, according to an Albuquerque Police Department spokesman. Benjamin Bruce Vigil, 31, was arrested and booked late Friday night in connection to the shooting death of Michael Lucero, 39, of Zia Pueblo, officer Tanner Tixier said. Lucero was shot and […]
  
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• Updated: AP Explains: What’s the Dakota Access oil pipeline?

  10-09-2016 16:24
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. — After months of protests by the Standing Rock Sioux and other Native Americans, a federal judge denied the tribe’s request to stop construction of the four-state, $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline. But the federal government quickly stepped in Friday by stopping work on one section and asking the pipeline company to do […]
  
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• Updated: Samsung tells Korean customers to stop using Galaxy Note 7

  10-09-2016 08:38
  
  SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung Electronics on Saturday recommended South Korean customers to stop using the new Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, which the company is recalling worldwide after several dozen of them caught fire. In a statement posted on its website, the South Korean technology giant advised local users to visit the company’s service centers […]
  
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• Updated: Samsung tells consumers to stop using Galaxy Note 7

  10-09-2016 08:38
  
  SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung Electronics on Saturday urged consumers to stop using Galaxy Note 7 smartphones immediately and exchange them as soon as possible, as more reports of the phones catching fire emerged even after the company’s global recall. The call from the South Korean company, the world’s largest smartphone maker, comes after U.S. […]
  
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• Updated: Federal government halts work on part of pipeline project

  10-09-2016 08:37
  
  NEAR THE STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, N.D. — The federal government stepped into the fight over the Dakota Access oil pipeline Friday, ordering work to stop on one segment of the project in North Dakota and asking the Texas-based company building it to “voluntarily pause” action on a wider span that an American Indian tribe […]
  
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• Updated: Rhetoric or real? N. Korea nuclear test may be a bit of both

  10-09-2016 08:35
  
  SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s latest nuclear test, its most powerful to date, is a game-changer … according to North Korea. As with anything reported by Pyongyang, an authoritarian state run by a third-generation dictator who allows zero dissent or outside investigation, there’s reason to be skeptical. But even if the North’s assertion that […]
  
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• Prep football roundup: Rams, Foley blast Clovis, move to 3-0

  10-09-2016 08:05
  
  CLOVIS–Two long road trips, two blowout victories for the Rio Rancho Rams.Ri ...
  
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• Prep football: Hawks overcome flurry of penalties in rout

  10-09-2016 08:05
  
  While Volcano Vista junior cornerback Josh Escobedo carried the game-sealing interception across the ...
  
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• A road in dispute

  10-09-2016 07:55
  
    Far North Edith enclave resident Phil Montoya, who has lived in the neighborhood abutting Sandia pueblo for nearly 60 years, said there were signs marking the pueblo section of Edith decades ago. But he said fire and EMS officials responding to emergencies on the other side of the signs, in county territory, would stop […]
  
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• Updated: Clinton says it’s time for ‘rethinking’ U.S. approach to North Korea

  10-09-2016 06:45
  
  NEW YORK–Hillary Clinton said Friday it was time for a "rethinking" of America's strategy...
  
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• Missing cash at Eldorado ‘more like 3K’

  10-09-2016 06:45
  
  The former girls basketball coach and athletic director at Eldorado High School says there is "more...
  
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• PREPS: Volleyball Albuquerque Metro Tournament Sept. 9 – 10

  10-09-2016 06:44
  
  ALBUQUERQUE METRO TOURNAMENT at Del Norte Sept. 9-10 Silver Bracket First Round – Friday Abq. Academy 3, Rio Grande 0 Abq. High 3, Highland 0 Manzano 3, Del Norte 2 West Mesa 3, Valley 0 ■ Semifinals – Today Match 9: Rio Grande vs. Highland, 9 a.m. Match 10: Del Norte vs. Valley, 9 a.m. […]
  
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• College soccer: Hansen scores late to give Lobo men a win

  10-09-2016 06:26
  
  The clock was draining away into its final seconds Friday night and the New Mexico soccer team was staring at an ugly, scoreless draw. But apparently, the Lobos were hiding an offensive weapon deep in their own end and were just waiting to unveil until the last possible moment. With 30 seconds left in the […]
  
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• Lobo women’s soccer blanks Grand Canyon

  10-09-2016 03:42
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.  — New Mexico got second-half goals from Casey Murphy and Maddie Irwin and defeated Grand Canyon 2-0 in women’s soccer on Friday, the first day of the NAU Classic. Tayler Hammock made two saves and shared the shutout with Emily Johnson, who came in the game in the 75th minute, as the Lobos […]
  
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• Aggies look to get even in rivalry games

  10-09-2016 03:32
  
    (Click here to see the Journal’s GameDay page and how the Lobos and Aggies match up.) LAS CRUCES — The New Mexico State Aggies are not really history buffs where the Rio Grande Rivalry football series is concerned. Few if any of NMSU coach Doug Martin’s players care that New Mexico won the series […]
  
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• Updated: Native American groups protest Santa Fe’s ‘Entrada’ staging of Spanish re-occupation

  10-09-2016 02:36
  
    SANTA FE — While actors sang a hymn and knelt to pray to the Virgin Mary Friday afternoon, protesters about 30 feet from a stage on the Santa Fe Plaza chanted “The Entrada is racist.” The Entrada — an annual re-enactment of the Spanish re-occupation of Santa Fe 12 years after the 1680 Pueblo […]
  
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• Updated: Entrada endures loud protest

  10-09-2016 02:36
  
  Police say demonstration never got out of hand and no arrests were made
  
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• Aggie soccer loses to Weber State, falls to 1-6

  10-09-2016 02:07
  
  OGDEN, Utah — Weber State scored twice in the first five minutes and held on for a 2-1 women’s soccer victory over visiting New Mexico State on Friday. The road trip continues for the Aggies (1-6-0), who head north to Pocatello, Idaho, for a battle against Idaho State at 1 p.m. on Sunday. Sunday’s game […]
  
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• Exhibit series gives both guest curators and emerging artists a chance to shine

  10-09-2016 01:18
  
  Art collectives that have sprung up around Santa Fe out of frustration over trying to have their works seen by the public are getting a significant chance for exposure with a series of exhibitions planned at the David Richards Gallery. Called The Santa Fe Art Project, the series of two-week exhibitions, with the first opening […]
  
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• Woman killed in dune buggy crash in Grand Junction

  10-09-2016 01:10
  
  DENVER — Authorities say a 21-year-old woman was killed in a dune buggy crash in western Colorado. The Denver Post reports (http://goo.gl/AzQBgh ) Tiana Williams was killed in the wreck in Grand Junction on Thursday night. Her death has been ruled an accident. Williams was not wearing a helmet, but she was secured with a […]
  
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• N. Korea closer to being able to hit U.S.

  10-09-2016 01:05
  
  TOKYO – North Korea has taken a key step toward its goal of developing a nuclear-tipped missile capable of reaching the mainland United States, analysts said Friday after Kim Jong Un ordered yet another nuclear test. The test, which Pyongyang said was a “nuclear warhead explosion,” appeared to be North Korea’s biggest yet. “It’s a […]
  
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• Updated: California prosecutor to charge 7 officers in sex scandal

  10-09-2016 01:04
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. — Seven current and former San Francisco Bay Area police officers will be charged in a sexual misconduct scandal involving a teenager who was later arrested in Florida in an unrelated assault case, a prosecutor said Friday. The wide-ranging scandal surfaced in June when the teenager, who described herself as a prostitute, said […]
  
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• New report: 3 men tried to stop San Bernardino massacre

  10-09-2016 01:04
  
  LOS ANGELES — An in-depth report of the San Bernardino terror attack released Friday revealed new details about the chaotic massacre, including an effort to stop the shooters and how the husband and wife who carried them out died in a police shootout. It was not clear if any of the three who tried to […]
  
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• 70-year-old man shoots and kills alleged intruder after hockey stick beating

  10-09-2016 00:32
  
  A homeowner shot and killed a 48-year-old man apparently in self-defense after sheriff’s deputies say the suspect broke into his East Mountains home and beat him with a bamboo stick and a hockey stick early Friday morning. Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Felicia Romero said deputies were called to the shooting on Campo Road in […]
  
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• Official: Victim didn’t know 14-year-old school shooter

  10-09-2016 00:30
  
  ALPINE, Texas — The superintendent of the Texas school district where a 14-year-old girl shot and injured a student before turning the gun on herself says investigators don’t believe the girls knew each other. Alpine Independent School District Superintendent Becky Watley said Friday officials are still looking into possible motives for Thursday’s shooting at Alpine […]
  
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• 18 more ballots to be counted in razor-thin Arizona race

  10-09-2016 00:30
  
  PHOENIX — A judge has ordered Maricopa County to count 18 additional ballots in the Republican primary in a Phoenix-area congressional district in which the two leading candidates are separated by only nine votes. Following the Friday ruling, election officials began work to count the additional ballots to add them to the some 85,000 votes […]
  
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• University of Oregon will rename dorm that honored a professor who was a KKK leader

  10-09-2016 00:23
  
  The University of Oregon will rename a dormitory that honored a classics professor who was a leader in the Ku Klux Klan, responding to student protesters who objected to the name. It was the latest university to confront its own history, after a wave of student protests last year amid racial tensions nationally. The University […]
  
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• Updated: Key points of judge’s ruling in Dakota Access pipeline case

  10-09-2016 00:17
  
  MINNEAPOLIS — A federal judge in Washington denied Friday an attempt by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe to halt construction of the disputed Dakota Access oil pipeline that passes near its reservation in North Dakota. Here’s a look at some key points from U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s 58-page opinion: ___ KEY QUOTE “This Court […]
  
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