New Mexico news

• Development of old Indian school property continues

  27-09-2016 23:56
  
  Indian Pueblos Marketing Inc. is continuing its development of 6.2 acres of trust land near Interstate 40. The pueblo-owned corporation’s subsidiary, IPMI 6, broke ground this month on a 728-unit self-storage facility at 1901 8th NW, just south of Interstate 40. The corporation has already built two billboards on the tract. The storage project will […]
  
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• SpaceX chief envisions 1,000 passenger ships flying to Mars

  27-09-2016 23:47
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX founder Elon Musk envisions 1,000 passenger ships flying en masse to Mars within a century, “Battlestar Galactica” style. During a speech Tuesday in Mexico, Musk outlined his plan to establish a city on Mars. He wants to make humans a multi-planetary species, and says the best way to do that […]
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Bomb squad investigating package at Charlotte PD

  27-09-2016 23:41
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Latest on protests following the shooting of a man by a Charlotte police officer last week (all times local): 5:30 p.m. Charlotte police say they are evacuating headquarters and a bomb squad is investigating a suspicious package. Police made the announcement on Twitter on Tuesday, a week after a black man […]
  
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• Debate may help Clinton reclaim young voters from Johnson

  27-09-2016 23:41
  
  Hillary Clinton’s performance in Monday night’s debate with Donald Trump may help her staunch the flow of young voters gravitating toward third-party alternatives, according to pollsters and political analysts. Libertarian Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico, is drawing an average of only about 8 percent support nationally, but polling shows he’s pulling slightly […]
  
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• How advertisers turned the presidential debate into a new Super Bowl

  27-09-2016 23:14
  
  Beer commercials, bad jokes and multimillion-dollar deals: TV ads for the “Super Bowl of politics” looked a lot like, well, the Super Bowl. About 81 million viewers tuned in Monday night to watch Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump square off during what early numbers suggest was the most-watched presidential debate in U.S. history. But the […]
  
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• Want to keep your grown kids in your life? Learn to be the impartial neighbor.

  27-09-2016 23:01
  
  When all four of our children were 8 years old or younger, and I felt one, or all of them, weren’t getting the best of my attention, I’d ask them to draw me a picture of what happened during their day, so we could talk about it later. It was a young-parent method that worked. […]
  
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• New direct digital link between tower and cockpit will speed planes on their way

  27-09-2016 23:01
  
  WASHINGTON – The Federal Aviation Administration has taken another step into the 21st century, replacing an archaic system that required a pencil and paper with a digital link between pilots and the control tower. The computer link with planes awaiting takeoff has been installed in 45 major airports – including New York’s three, all three […]
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Texts raised worry before Fernandez boat crash

  27-09-2016 22:49
  
  MIAMI — The Latest on Marlins-Fernandez Killed (all times local): 4:30 p.m. A friend of one of the men who died in a boating accident with Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez raised concerns in text messages before their fatal late-night trip. Will Bernal says he sent several texts to 25-year-old Eduardo Rivero after midnight Sunday, […]
  
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• Updated: Pilots, air traffic controllers shifting to text messaging

  27-09-2016 22:48
  
  CHANTILLY, Va. — Airline pilots and air traffic controllers are on schedule to switch to text communications at most of the nation’s busiest airports by the end of the year, a milestone that holds the potential to reduce delays, prevent errors and save billions of dollars in fuel cost, says the Federal Aviation Administration. Controllers […]
  
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• Crisis negotiator at Boyd scene testifies

  27-09-2016 21:42
  
  Albuquerque police officer Mikal Monette was a "go to" crisis negotiator who had diffuse ...
  
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• ‘Bull,’ ‘Designated Survivor’ have promising ratings starts

  27-09-2016 21:28
  
  NEW YORK — Nielsen’s first “most likely to succeed” list is out, and it includes Michael Weatherley, Mandy Moore, Kiefer Sutherland and Kevin James. They are among the stars in new series that performed well during the first week of the new TV season, the Nielsen company said. The best performer was “Bull,” CBS’ series […]
  
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• Bag of baseballs that washed ashore is another sad detail in death of Jose Fernandez

  27-09-2016 21:28
  
  A bag of baseballs autographed by Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez washed ashore Monday on Miami Beach, the latest tragic detail to emerge after Fernandez and two friends were killed in a boating accident. A black bag containing Fernandez’s checkbook and four signed balls was turned over to a lifeguard at 24th Street, about a […]
  
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• New Mexico judiciary cuts spending amid state budget crunch

  27-09-2016 21:25
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico’s judiciary system is cutting travel reimbursements to help rein in spending as the state wrestles with a budget shortfall. The Administrative Office of the Courts announced Tuesday plans to save about $500,000 this fiscal year by lowering the mileage reimbursement rate for travel by judges, court staff, jurors, interpreters […]
  
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• Updated: Battle for besieged Syrian city of Aleppo intensifies

  27-09-2016 21:23
  
  BEIRUT — With international diplomacy in tatters and the U.S. focused on its election, the Syrian government and its Russian allies are seizing the moment to wage an all-out campaign to recapture Aleppo, unleashing the most destructive bombing of the past five years and pushing into the center of the Old City. Desperate residents describe […]
  
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• Creative Startups hosts new cohorts in NM and North Carolina

  27-09-2016 19:40
  
  Veteran Santa Fe math instructors Edward Worden and Pi Luna decided the best way to teach students financial literacy and every day use of math skills is to engage learners in real-world problems. So they started Engaged Publications LLC to market their own creative, story-telling approach to teaching. They wrote and illustrated a new colorful, […]
  
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• Health officials report 3 new West Nile illnesses

  27-09-2016 19:34
  
  Three New Mexico men have been hospitalized with a neuroinvasive form of West Nile virus, bringing the total number of cases this year to five, health officials said. The mosquito-borne virus may continue to circulate until the first hard frost, Health Secretary Lynn Gallagher warned today. The new cases included a 53-year-old Bernalillo County man, […]
  
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• Updated: Unhappy Target customers send strong message on pill bottles

  27-09-2016 19:28
  
  Longtime customers of Target’s pharmacies are finding a change in pill bottle design hard to swallow. After CVS began operating Target’s drugstores earlier this year, distraught customers have been asking — in some cases begging — the drugstore chain to bring back the retailer’s red prescription bottles, which came with color-coded rings, labeling on the […]
  
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• Breaking: Teen in ‘mobbing’ killing takes plea deal

  27-09-2016 19:28
  
  One of the six teens charged in the “mobbing” killing of local bartender Steven Gerecke in June 2015 pleaded guilty Tuesday to seven charges. If sentenced as an adult, Andrew Hubler faces up to 21 years in prison under the terms of his plea agreement with the District Attorney’s Office. He pleaded guilty to charges […]
  
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• Georgia sheriff seeks clues after deputy’s home is shot at

  27-09-2016 19:09
  
  DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. — A Georgia sheriff is offering a $10,000 reward for information that results in an arrest and conviction after someone opened fire on the home of one of his deputies. Douglas County Sheriff Phil Miller said in a statement that someone Monday evening “shot up the house” of the Douglas County deputy, who […]
  
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• Updated: Ex-ally: Gov. Christie seemed happy about bridge gridlock

  27-09-2016 18:10
  
  NEWARK, N.J. — A former ally of Gov. Chris Christie who pleaded guilty in the George Washington Bridge lane-closing scandal testified Tuesday that he told the governor about the traffic jam while it was underway and that Christie appeared happy about it. David Wildstein, a former executive at the agency that oversees New York-area bridges […]
  
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• How to figure out why your knee hurts

  27-09-2016 18:10
  
  I started running again this spring. I began slowly, with intermittent walking. All was good until the day both my knees started complaining. A twinge of pain accompanied every footfall. This new-to-me pain came from inside the knee, not below the kneecap, my usual sore spot. The other movement that gave me a flash of […]
  
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• Elon Musk to discuss his vision for how he plans to colonize Mars

  27-09-2016 18:10
  
  GUADALAJARA, Mexico – It takes an audacious visionary to set out to colonize Mars – a planet no person has ever set foot on – in a venture to make humans a multi-planetary species. But that’s the goal Elon Musk has always had for SpaceX, the upstart space company that has pulled off a series […]
  
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• West Texas man gets life term over 2014 wrench-beating death

  27-09-2016 18:09
  
  ABILENE, Texas — Authorities say a West Texas man must serve life in prison for his role in the 2014 fatal beating of a man he found at an ex-girlfriend’s home. John Patrick Gutierrez pleaded guilty Monday in Abilene to tampering with evidence. Court records show the 40-year-old Abilene man also faced a murder charge, […]
  
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• Houston transit police officer accused in beating resigns

  27-09-2016 18:09
  
  HOUSTON — A Houston transit police officer has resigned after the release of a surveillance video that shows him beating a man he found slumped on a seat on a rail platform. An internal review recommended Officer Jairus Warren’s dismissal for using excessive force in the Sept. 14 beating of Darrell Giles. Authorities say Warren […]
  
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• Updated: WHY IT MATTERS: Social Security

  27-09-2016 16:05
  
  WASHINGTON — THE ISSUE: More than 60 million retirees, disabled workers, spouses and children rely on monthly Social Security benefits. That’s nearly one in five Americans. The trustees who oversee Social Security say the program has enough money to pay full benefits until 2034. But at that point, Social Security will collect only enough taxes […]
  
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• Updated: Password breach could have ripple effects well beyond Yahoo

  27-09-2016 16:04
  
  LONDON — As investors and investigators weigh the damage of Yahoo’s massive breach to the internet icon, information security experts worry that the record-breaking haul of password data could be used to open locks up and down the web. While it’s unknown to what extent the stolen data has been or will be circulating, giant […]
  
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• Updated: European stocks falter amid Deutsche Bank, trade worries

  27-09-2016 16:04
  
  LONDON — European stocks faltered Tuesday as investors worried over Deutsche Bank’s outlook, a big decline in oil prices and a sharp downgrade in global trade predictions. The reaction in markets to the first U.S. presidential debate of this campaign was fairly minimal. KEEPING SCORE: In Europe, France’s CAC-40 rose 0.6 percent to 4,381 while […]
  
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• Updated: Britain’s Johnson: Rude poem was not brought up in Turkey

  27-09-2016 16:04
  
  ANKARA, Turkey — Visiting Turkey, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Tuesday that his hosts had not brought up the controversy caused by a rude poem he composed mocking Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Speaking at a joint news conference with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu, Johnson said his country hopes to sign a “new […]
  
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• Updated: Air France workers on trial over ripping off bosses’ shirts

  27-09-2016 16:04
  
  BOBIGNY, France — Fifteen current and former Air France workers went on trial Tuesday for alleged violence during a union protest last year at the airline’s headquarters that saw two company executives flee over a fence with their shirts ripped off. The incident, caught on camera, was an extreme example of the often strained relations […]
  
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• Trump win returns America to constitutional lines

  27-09-2016 08:05
  
  After initially opposing his candidacy for president, I have come around to another point of view
  
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• Millennial support leaving Clinton

  27-09-2016 08:05
  
  Not that they were ever so sweet on her to begin with
  
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• Local viewers not impressed with debate: ‘It was 90 minutes of waste’

  27-09-2016 08:05
  
  Both Clinton and Trump were thought to have behaved badly
  
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• Editorial: UNM regents go 0-2 in dealings with president

  27-09-2016 08:05
  
  It would be helpful–and responsible–if University of New Mexico regents would le ...
  
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• Too much licorice can be deadly for the heart

  27-09-2016 08:02
  
  Q: My naturopath prescribed licorice to ease nausea and acid reflux. A month later, I was in the eme ...
  
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• APD: Homeowner shot during break in

  27-09-2016 05:53
  
  A homeowner is in critical condition after catching someone who had broken into their house on the 3500 Monte Vista Blvd NE Monday evening, according to a spokesman for the Albuquerque Police Department. Officer Fred Duran said police were called to the house around 6 p.m. where they found the homeowner with one gunshot wound. The homeowner was […]
  
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• Updated: Cheers and jeers: Americans tune into Trump-Clinton debate

  27-09-2016 05:15
  
  LAS VEGAS — From senior centers to college campuses and bars featuring campaign-themed cocktails, Americans laughed, cheered and jeered through the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Viewers tuned in Monday on their TVs, cellphones and radios to watch and listen to the showdown between the two major presidential candidates. Here are some […]
  
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• It’s been two years since 43 Mexican students disappeared, and it is still a mystery

  27-09-2016 05:14
  
  MEXICO CITY — Two years after 43 Mexican college students vanished in the southwestern city of Iguala, the case remains a grisly mystery and a dark stain on the administration of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. The public anger was on display Monday — the anniversary of the presumed mass killing — in Mexico City, […]
  
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• Bumblebee skilled at ‘buzz pollination’ may soon join endangered species list

  27-09-2016 05:11
  
  A type of bumblebee native to North America may soon be named to the endangered species list. It would be the first bee species to be considered endangered in the United States. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week formally proposed that the Bombus affinis, or rusty patched bumblebee, be listed as endangered under […]
  
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• Updated: Debate Takeaways: Clinton gets under Trump’s skin in debate

  27-09-2016 05:09
  
  HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Donald Trump repeatedly clashed with Hillary Clinton during Monday’s first presidential debate, interrupting her and appearing agitated at times as they tangled over the economy, her use of a private mail server and his unwillingness to release his income tax returns. Clinton maintained an even demeanor, smiling indulgently when Trump turned aggressive. […]
  
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• Dylann Roof jury selection begins in federal death penalty trial

  27-09-2016 03:22
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. — The first of some 3,000 potential jurors in the Dylann Roof death penalty trial began reporting Monday to federal court in Charleston. Jurors were summoned, some 80 at a time, before U.S. Judge Richard Gergel, whose questions were aimed at weeding out those who cannot serve or will not serve for reasons […]
  
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• North Dakota says no Indian artifacts found at pipeline site

  27-09-2016 03:20
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. — A North Dakota state inspection of an oil pipeline site has found no sign of the Native American artifacts or human remains that an American Indian Tribe says are present, the state’s chief archaeologist said in a draft memo. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe had cited the potential for burial grounds and […]
  
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• California wildfire forces evacuation of 300 homes

  27-09-2016 03:19
  
  CLOVERDALE, Calif. — A fast-moving wildfire prompted the evacuations of 300 homes in the Santa Cruz Mountains, while fire crews continued to battle a blaze burning close to a massive geothermal power producing facility in Sonoma County, officials said Monday. The blaze that started Monday on the southern edge of Santa Clara County quickly spread […]
  
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• Updated: First responders can’t save 23-year-old after Santa Fe wrong-way collision

  27-09-2016 03:00
  
  SANTA FE — First responders tried to get a still-conscious Anton Gress out of his burning car after he was hit by a wrong-way driver on Interstate 25 east of Santa Fe Saturday night. But they couldn’t free the 23-year-old before flames completely engulfed his car, according to the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office. Gress […]
  
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• Third-party candidates at the debate: Little heard, and definitely not seen

  27-09-2016 02:42
  
  HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — For weeks, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein had invited her supporters to join her in handcuffs. There would be “civil disobedience” before the presidential debate at Hofstra University, and as in 2012, when she first ran as the Green’s nominee, she would get arrested. “We may decide to have supporters attempt […]
  
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• Restaurant worker arrested for Santa Fe Plaza bomb threat

  27-09-2016 01:57
  
  SANTA FE — A 19-year-old man who worked for a downtown restaurant was arrested over the weekend and charged with calling in the bomb threat that forced the shutdown of the Santa Fe Plaza for about an hour Friday afternoon. Ronald Ayala-Santos was taken into custody about 3 p.m. Saturday at the venerable Plaza Café […]
  
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• Federal agency has final word on citizenship proof for voting, court says

  27-09-2016 01:26
  
  A U.S. appeals court panel that barred Kansas, Alabama and Georgia from adding a proof-of-citizenship requirement to a federal voter registration form wrote Monday that federal law leaves it to a federal elections agency – not the states – to determine whether such a change is necessary. The 2-to-1 written opinion follows a Sept. 9 […]
  
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• So why are presidential debates moderated by journalists, anyway?

  27-09-2016 01:18
  
  A couple weeks ago, Donald Trump wondered why presidential debates include moderators. “I think we should have a debate with no moderators – just Hillary and I sitting there, talking,” he said on CNBC. Over the weekend, Trump reporter Sopan Deb of CBS News wondered why the moderators are journalists: “If reporters aren’t supposed to […]
  
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• Updated: One man’s quest to preserve the haunting black history of Pocahontas Island

  27-09-2016 01:06
  
  POCAHONTAS ISLAND, Va. — He roams from house to house along the quiet streets of this little neighborhood, giving voice to its history and spirits. The collection of modest homes, tucked between an empty lumber factory and an abandoned rail yard, doesn’t look like a rare and haunted place. But in Richard Stewart’s eyes, Pocahontas […]
  
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• Updated: A car bomb killed Orlando Letelier 40 years ago; a mural by his son marks the tragedy and the progress it inspired

  27-09-2016 01:05
  
  WASHINGTON – Francisco Letelier gazes up at the bigger-than-life portrait he has just painted of his late father, Orlando, who, in turn, is depicted also gazing up, searchingly, toward something unseen. What is the man in the mural yearning for? The defeat of the dictator? Justice for the torturers? Mercy for the disappeared? Three days […]
  
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• Donald Trump keeps asking foreign leaders for money. The latest: Vicente Fox.

  27-09-2016 00:42
  
  Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, received a plaintive fundraising request this weekend. “You are our country’s only hope,” read the email, which urged him to make “a generous contribution.” The sender? Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. It was the second missive that Fox received to his personal email address this month seeking donations […]
  
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