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• That's no snow: Sea of foam cascades from airport hangar

  18-11-2016 23:57
  
  A bobbing sea of white foam several feet deep in spots has spewed out of a large hangar at Mineta…
  
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• State authorities describe horseman’s mountain rescue

  18-11-2016 23:39
  
  CHAMA, N.M. — State authorities say a 64-year-old man was thrown from his horse in a remote, wilderness area of New Mexico before game wardens rescued him. New Mexico Department of Game & Fish said Friday that horsebackrider Randy Van Zant, of Chama, was airlfited from a field after breaking his arm. He had been […]
  
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• Updated: Democrat’s lead widens in North Carolina governor’s race

  18-11-2016 23:38
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. — Hardly anyone in North Carolina is willing to guess when their excruciatingly close governor’s race will be resolved. A Friday deadline came and went with Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper’s unofficial advantage growing to about 6,600 votes over Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, from nearly 4.7 million cast. McCrory is fighting for his […]
  
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• Judge handling Sandusky’s appeal removes himself from case

  18-11-2016 23:36
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. — The judge who has presided over Jerry Sandusky’s criminal case for five years issued a sternly worded order on Friday removing himself from the former Penn State assistant coach’s appeal. Judge John Cleland said he was taking himself off the case because Sandusky’s lawyers have raised objections to Cleland’s role in a […]
  
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• Updated: China is putting the squeeze on North Korea. But for how long?

  18-11-2016 23:32
  
  DANDONG, China – There’s a chill in the air in Dandong these days, and not just because winter is coming. A steady stream of trucks still rumbles across the single-lane bridge from China to North Korea from dawn until dusk every day, and North Koreans can still be seen in the streets and in the […]
  
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• Updated: 2 moose found frozen mid-fight near remote Alaska village

  18-11-2016 20:58
  
  Two moose were recently discovered frozen in battle and encased in ice near a remote village on Alaska's unforgiving western…
  
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• Breaking: DA contacts feds about allegations APD deleted, altered videos in police shootings

  18-11-2016 20:36
  
  District Attorney Kari Brandenburg said this morning that she has contacted the U.S. Attorney’s office about allegations raised in a court filing on Thursday that the Albuquerque Police Department has erased, corrupted and altered police lapel camera video of several fatal shootings of citizens since 2013.
  
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• Updated: Lennon’s Beatles breakup letter sold at auction for $30,000

  18-11-2016 19:37
  
  BOSTON — An angry letter from John Lennon to Paul and Linda McCartney written shortly after the Beatles’ breakup has been sold at auction for nearly $30,000. The two-page typed draft , with handwritten annotations by Lennon, was sold Thursday by Boston-based RR Auction. RR says the letter is believed to have been written in […]
  
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• Lennon’s Beatles breakup letter sold at auction for $30,000

  18-11-2016 19:37
  
  BOSTON — An angry letter from John Lennon to Paul and Linda McCartney written shortly after the Beatles’ breakup has been sold at auction for nearly $30,000. The two-page typed draft , with handwritten annotations by Lennon, was sold Thursday by Boston-based RR Auction. RR says the letter is believed to have been written in […]
  
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• Fake news on Facebook is a real problem. These college students came up with a fix in 36 hours.

  18-11-2016 19:37
  
  When Nabanita De scrolled through her Facebook feed recently, she felt afraid. There were so many posts with competing information and accusations about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton that she didn’t know how to begin deciphering the fearmongering from the reality. The social media site has faced criticism since the presidential election for its role […]
  
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• Updated: School bus crashes near Nashville, injuring 23 students

  18-11-2016 19:35
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Authorities say a school bus crashed and rolled over on an interstate off-ramp in Nashville, sending 23 students to the hospital, all of whom were expected to survive. Metro Nashville Fire Department spokesman Brian Haas says the school bus from Chester County in western Tennessee crashed Friday morning as it left Interstate […]
  
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• School bus crashes near Nashville, injuring 20 students

  18-11-2016 19:35
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Authorities say a school bus has crashed and rolled over on an interstate near Nashville, Tennessee, injuring 20 students, all of whom are expected to survive. Metro Nashville Fire Department spokesman Brian Haas said the Chester County school bus crashed Friday morning on Interstate 65 northbound. Haas says a 17-year-old student received […]
  
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• Fact Checker: The claim that ’99 percent of women have used birth control’

  18-11-2016 19:34
  
  “More than 99 percent of women have used birth control.” — Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, image shared on Twitter, by Nov. 16, 2016 “99% of women have used birth control in their lives. It needs to be accessible AND affordable. #ThxBirthControl” — Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., post on Twitter, Nov. 16, 2016 “Birth […]
  
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• An urgent request to Trump from civil rights advocates: Speak out against acts of hate

  18-11-2016 19:34
  
  Dozens of labor, faith and civil rights groups are calling on President-elect Donald Trump to speak out against bullying and acts of hate and bigotry that they say have spiked since his election last week, particularly in schools. The effort was led by the American Federation of Teachers, the nation’s second-largest teachers union, and the […]
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Sen. Grassley signals green light on Sessions

  18-11-2016 17:09
  
  NEW YORK — The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump’s transition activities (all times EST): 10:50 a.m. Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley says he is confident his panel would approve the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general. Sessions would still face a vote by the full Senate, but a committee endorsement would be a […]
  
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• Man serves nearly 40 years; police now say he’s not guilty

  18-11-2016 17:09
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina man who served 39 years in prison for a homicide that he says he didn’t commit has been freed from prison. The Herald of Rock Hill reports (http://bit.ly/2g35TKh) that 61-year-old James Robert McClurkin left Broad River Prison on Thursday as a parolee. Police and attorneys now say he didn’t […]
  
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• Denver man fined $11,000 for poaching trophy elk

  18-11-2016 17:09
  
  CRAIG, Colo. — A Denver man has been fined $11,000 for illegally killing a trophy elk. The Craig Daily Press reports (http://bit.ly/2fom3Np ) that the man was sentenced Monday in Moffat County Court after pleading guilty to shooting the six-point bull elk in 2015. The man may lose hunting privileges in Colorado pending a review […]
  
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• Baltimore officer says custody-death charges surprised her

  18-11-2016 17:09
  
  BALTIMORE — One of six Baltimore police officers formerly charged in the death of a black man fatally injured in a police van says she was surprised to hear her name when charges were announced. Sgt. Alicia White, the first accused officer to give a sit-down interview, told WMAR-TV and The Baltimore Sun for stories […]
  
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• About the cover: November 18, 2016

  18-11-2016 14:45
  
  8643 Rio Grande Blvd NW Los Ranchos, NM 87114 $1,995,000 7,138 sq. ft. 5 bed / 7 bath Anji Lang 505.235.7001 Q Realty 505.750.0059 Welcome to 8643 Rio Grande BLVD NW, originally built by Conrad Hilton as his country home. As one of the area’s largest and most significant estates, this elegant house has been impeccably […]
  
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• Updated: Hunt on for spelling-challenged bank robber in Massachusetts

  18-11-2016 14:40
  
  A bank robber dubbed the "spelling bee bandit" because the notes he's passed to tellers contain the same misspelling is…
  
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• Updated: Long Island's 'Amityville Horror' house is being bought

  18-11-2016 13:39
  
  The Long Island home that served as the inspiration for the book "The Amityville Horror" and the subsequent films of…
  
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• John Cleese, Eric Idle of ‘Monty Python’ fame take the stage

  18-11-2016 08:11
  
  John Cleese and Eric Idle are living legends. Period.For about half a century, the two ...
  
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• Updated: In Israel, famed pre-WWII ship survivors relate to refugees

  18-11-2016 08:08
  
  JERUSALEM — While the European refugee crisis has captured the world’s attention, Sol Messinger is one of the few who can personally relate to the harrowing images of desperate families fleeing to safety by sea. The 84-year-old retired pathologist from Buffalo was aboard the SS St. Louis, the famed trans-Atlantic liner carrying nearly 1,000 Jewish […]
  
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• Prep football: Storm, Trojans are familiar rivals

  18-11-2016 08:05
  
  There are some tantalizing matchups on the board for quarterfinal weekend in the prep football playo ...
  
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• Holiday meals cheer homeless

  18-11-2016 08:05
  
  A traditional Thanksgiving meal for the homeless can bring back memories of caring family and friend ...
  
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• Editorial: ABQ needs E ticket today to keep tomorrow’s leaders

  18-11-2016 08:05
  
  Pre-1982, an E ticket entitled the bearer to Disneyland's newest, most advanced, and/or most popular ...
  
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• College football: Balanced Rams have hurt Lobos

  18-11-2016 08:05
  
  Regarding Colorado State's 4-0 record against New Mexico since Bob Davie took over as UNM's head coa ...
  
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• Updated: As Trump talks wall, China builds bridges to Latin America

  18-11-2016 06:09
  
  LIMA, Peru — An expected U.S. economic retreat from Latin America under Donald Trump is causing the region’s leaders to look halfway around the world, to China, for help weathering the possible financial headwinds. They’ll have the perfect opportunity to make their appeal this week when Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a Pacific Rim summit […]
  
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• Updated: South Korea rejects Google request to use mapping data

  18-11-2016 05:48
  
  SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has rejected Google’s request to use local mapping data in the company’s global maps service in a highly-awaited deliberation that divided the country for months. The land ministry said Friday that concerns about national security outweighed benefits from exporting the country’s mapping data to Google, a unit of Alphabet […]
  
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• Intensified by climate change, ‘king tides’ change ways of life in Florida

  18-11-2016 03:00
  
  In South Florida, which takes rising sea levels seriously enough to form a regional compact to deal with global warming, climate change is no abstract issue.
  
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• Breaking: Officers find man dead in SE ABQ home

  18-11-2016 02:22
  
  Officers responding to a report that shots were fired in a southeast Albuquerque neighborhood Thursday afternoon found a dead man inside a home, according to an Albuquerque police spokesman. Officer Daren DeAguero said the man was “possibly” shot and violent crimes detectives were investigating the death. But a friend of the man who lived in […]
  
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• Updated: Congress may let California National Guard soldiers keep millions in bonuses

  18-11-2016 02:09
  
  WASHINGTON — California lawmakers in the House and Senate offered legislative proposals Thursday that would allow nearly 10,000 California National Guard soldiers to keep improper enlistment bonuses they were paid during the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan a decade ago. In a rare sign of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill, Democrats and Republicans […]
  
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• Updated: Report: Mall attack suspect had violent history

  18-11-2016 01:41
  
  SEATTLE — New documents released in a deadly shooting at a Washington state mall reveal the man accused of killing five people had a history of violence against his family and girlfriend. The police reports obtained by The Associated Press also say suspect Arcan Cetin was in a movie theater at the Cascade Mall an […]
  
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• Tucson police investigating an armed robbery at a church

  18-11-2016 00:47
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. — Police in Tucson say they’re searching for five suspects in connection with an armed robbery at a church. They say five young males wearing masks entered a church on the city’s south side where up to 50 women of various ages were attending a faith-based meeting about 7 p.m. Wednesday. The suspects […]
  
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• Russia blocks off Red Square and Kremlin for widespread security exercises

  18-11-2016 00:47
  
  MOSCOW – Russia’s most recognizable landmark has been set ablaze during Napoleon’s occupation, bombed by Germans and completely destroyed by Hollywood courtesy of Tom Cruise. The Kremlin’s occupants, security-conscious to the point of paranoia, are now giving the forces at their disposal a refresher course in protection. On Thursday, entire swaths of downtown Moscow, including […]
  
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• Fed seems poised to increase rates

  18-11-2016 00:47
  
  WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve appears on track to raise interest rates in December, but its plans to continue a gradual tightening of monetary policy next year could shift depending on which policies President-elect Donald Trump and Congress pursue, Fed Chair Janet Yellen signaled Thursday. In remarks to the congressional Joint Economic Committee, and under […]
  
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• Authorities: Flagstaff-area dead in apparent murder-suicide

  18-11-2016 00:42
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Authorities say a Flagstaff-area couple has been found dead in their home and it’s being investigated as a murder-suicide. Coconino County Sheriff’s officials say they were asked to do a welfare check at a residence south of Twin Arrows around 11 a.m. Wednesday. The caller said her co-worker hadn’t shown up for […]
  
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• Updated: Attorney says adoptee from South Korea deported from US

  18-11-2016 00:25
  
  SALEM, Ore. — A man who was adopted from South Korea almost four decades ago by Americans has been deported to his native country, his attorney and a government official said Thursday. Adam Crapser’s supporters say he doesn’t know the language or the culture of South Korea. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ordered Crapser deported […]
  
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