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• Sandia Credit Union members to share $10 million special dividend

  02-12-2016 23:21
  
  Sandia Laboratory Federal Credit Union’s 83,000 members will share a $10 million special dividend that will come on top of dividends already earned. The extra amount is due to reserves that exceed what is actually needed, President/CEO Robert Chavez said in a news release. The credit union “has weathered the tough economic times of the […]
  
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• California treasurer asks Trump for guidance on pot, banking

  02-12-2016 23:09
  
  LOS ANGELES — California Treasurer John Chiang on Friday appealed to President-elect Donald Trump for guidance on how the state’s projected $7 billion marijuana industry can participate in the nation’s banking system while pot remains illegal under U.S. law. California voters last month approved Proposition 64, which legalized the recreational use of marijuana, beginning in […]
  
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• Wastewater leaks at plant destroying chemical weapons

  02-12-2016 23:07
  
  PUEBLO, Colo. — The Army says about 450 gallons of hazardous wastewater leaked from a tank at a Colorado plant where chemical weapons are being destroyed. Authorities said Friday there was no threat to workers or nearby communities from the Nov. 20 spill at the Pueblo Chemical Depot. They say the wastewater was confined to […]
  
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• Navajo Lake State Park visitor center renovated

  02-12-2016 23:07
  
  NAVAJO CITY, N.M. — The visitor center at Navajo Lake State Park is reopening with renovations and additions including new heating and lighting. New Mexico State Parks said on Friday that it held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the changes. Navajo Lake is the second-largest lake in New Mexico and has campgrounds, marinas and boat […]
  
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• Libya’s Tripoli sees worst militias clashes in 2 years

  02-12-2016 23:02
  
  BENGHAZI, Libya — Clashes continued for the second day among heavily-armed militias in the Libyan capital Tripoli, vying for power and control over the city, with one dislodging another in at least two posts, a five-star hotel and a barracks, in what appears to be the worst outbreak of violence the city has seen in […]
  
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• ABQ “bed and brew” aims to draw tourists

  02-12-2016 22:03
  
  One of the city’s most prolific tourism entrepreneurs has another new idea for attracting visitors to Albuquerque: a “bed and brew.” Jesse Herron, co-owner of ABQ Trolley Co., its parent and sister companies, wants to turn his 135-year-old adobe Wells Park abode into a boutique lodging option with a craft beer bent. He said the […]
  
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• Updated: In Tampa, is this the final burn for Florida’s ‘Cigar City’?

  02-12-2016 21:58
  
  TAMPA — The last standing cigar factory here, in what was once dubbed “Cigar City,” has survived two world wars, the Great Depression, smoking bans and a Cuban trade embargo that wiped out much of its tobacco supply. Its fortunes have long been linked to Cuba, the communist nation that for decades supplied the region’s […]
  
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• Updated: Tucson officer shot progressing

  02-12-2016 21:57
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. — The Latest on a shooting involving two Tucson officers who were injured (all times local): 1:49 p.m. Tucson police say an officer who shot is progressing but remains in critical condition. Officer Jorge Tequida was shot in the shoulder area but the round went into his chest during a shootout with a […]
  
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• Updated: Police: Marksman killed gunman after child ran to porch

  02-12-2016 21:57
  
  SEATTLE — The gunman had already shot a police officer, threatened to kill two children and barricaded himself upstairs in a house for 11 hours when one of the kids, a 6-year-old boy, escaped. As the suspect held a little girl as a human shield, his movements exposed him to a sheriff’s marksman who targeted […]
  
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• Tribal leaders press feds on drilling plan in New Mexico

  02-12-2016 21:56
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Leaders from several American Indian communities want federal land managers to consider the cultural significance of a large swath of land surrounding Chaco Cultural National Historic Park as they plan for more oil and gas development in northwestern New Mexico. The All Pueblo Council of Governors recently passed a resolution calling for […]
  
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• DA: Officer, deputies cleared in two officer-involved shootings

  02-12-2016 19:54
  
  A spokesman for the District Attorney’s office announced Friday that prosecutors have finished reviewing two officer-involved shootings — one by an APD officer in 2013 and one by three BCSO deputies in 2015 — and will not purse charges against any of the officers involved. Albuquerque police officer Hector Marquez was cleared after shooting and […]
  
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• Updated: Prosecutors: Dismissal deal done in Manziel’s domestic case

  02-12-2016 19:43
  
  DALLAS — Johnny Manziel has a dismissal agreement with prosecutors that will require the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback to meet conditions for a year before being cleared of a domestic violence charge against him. Dallas County District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Brittany Dunn said Manziel wasn’t present Friday when the agreement was filed. The former Cleveland player […]
  
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• Judge: APD needs more work on its promotions policy

  02-12-2016 19:39
  
  The Albuquerque Police Department’s new policy for determining which officers get promoted is too vague, a federal judge ruled this week. U.S. District Judge Robert Brack ordered the city administration and police union to work with a court-appointed monitor overseeing APD reform efforts to craft a policy that more clearly defines the promotions policy. The […]
  
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• Someday you may implant your child with a GPS microchip

  02-12-2016 19:26
  
  Want to know what’s up with your kid? Just implant her with a GPS microchip that can track her every move. That will be a real option for parents in 20 years, predicts Adrienne LaFrance in “Baby, Monitored,” in the December issue of the Atlantic. Her article charts how the tech industry has started to […]
  
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• Man suspected of wife’s disappearance arrested in Kentucky

  02-12-2016 19:15
  
  ORMOND-BY-THE-SEA, Fla. — A U.S. Marshal’s task force has arrested a man in Louisville, Kentucky, who is suspected in the disappearance of his estranged wife in Florida. Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Brian Parrish said in a news release that 58-year-old Jarvis “Wayne” Madison was taken into custody on Friday. Authorities say his 44-year-old wife Rachael […]
  
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• Report: Woman driving in fatal crash abandoned sober driver

  02-12-2016 19:13
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — Investigators say a woman who caused a head-on wrong-way crash on Interstate 25 that killed two people had abandoned a sober driver before the crash. Forty-four-year-old Clara Avina and 23-year-old Anton Gress, both from Santa Fe, died Sept. 24 after Avina was driving south in northbound lanes on I-25 near Santa […]
  
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• House passes compromise defense bill, but White House action still uncertain

  02-12-2016 19:05
  
  WASHINGTON – The House voted overwhelmingly on Friday to pass a $618.7 billion defense policy bill after negotiators dropped many of the most controversial proposed policy changes, such as requiring women to register for the draft and allowing federal contractors to make religion-based hiring decisions. The Senate is expected to follow suit next week when […]
  
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• The economies inherited by Obama and Trump are as different as night and day

  02-12-2016 19:04
  
  In the three months before President Obama came to office — the last quarter of 2008 — the nation’s economy was contracting at a rate of 8.2 percent, the biggest quarterly decline in real gross domestic product since 1958. The month before Obama took office, payroll employment fell by 695,000. The unemployment rate was 7.3 […]
  
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• A broken home could lead to the poor house

  02-12-2016 19:04
  
  Sometimes “till death do us part” just isn’t soon enough. The phenomenon of late-life divorce is growing fast – and blowing apart a lot of divorcing spouses’ retirement plans in the process. “It’s almost like a gray divorce boom is unfolding just before our eyes,” said Ann Dowd, vice president of Fidelity Investments. Between 1990 […]
  
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• Updated: Francois Hollande: A leader perhaps too ‘normal’ for France?

  02-12-2016 17:41
  
  PARIS — Francois Hollande has always been an unlikely French president, a guy proud to call himself “normal” and who ended up in the Elysee Palace almost by default. Perhaps the most presidential thing he has done was decide to step down after one term and not run in France’s presidential election next spring. Hollande […]
  
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• Updated: Alabama-Florida for SEC title looks like massive mismatch

  02-12-2016 17:41
  
  ATLANTA — Talk about a mismatch. Alabama’s defense is the best in the nation. Florida’s offense looks like one of the worst. They’ll face off Saturday in the Southeastern Conference championships game, with the top-ranked Crimson Tide (12-0, 8-0 SEC) heavily favored to lock up its third straight trip to the College Football Playoff with […]
  
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• Manitou Incline reopens after 3-month closure

  02-12-2016 17:41
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A popular hiking route near Manitou Springs is back open following three months of repair work. The Manitou Incline reopened Friday morning and hikers immediately began climbing the route, which rises more than 2,000-feet in about a mile. The Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/2fYaKhK) that the incline closed in August for the second […]
  
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• Updated: Mayor: 13 people have died from Tennessee fires

  02-12-2016 17:40
  
  GATLINBURG, Tenn. — The Latest on the wildfires in eastern Tennessee (all times local): 11:15 a.m. A Tennessee mayor says 13 people have died from wildfires that ravaged the Great Smoky Mountains, including a person who appears to have had a heart attack while fleeing the flames. Sevier County Mayor Larry Waters announced the additional […]
  
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• Mexican gets life term over 2013 lawyer slaying in Texas

  02-12-2016 17:39
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas — A Mexican man must serve life in a U.S. prison for stalking and helping arrange the 2013 Texas slaying of a lawyer who’d been the acting head of a Mexican drug cartel. Jose Luis Cepeda-Cortes was sentenced Thursday in Fort Worth. The case involved the shooting death of Juan Jesus Guerrero […]
  
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• Updated: Lodging near highest mountain peak in Northeast US proposed

  02-12-2016 16:17
  
  CONCORD, N.H. — Owners of a historic cog railway that climbs New Hampshire’s Mount Washington, the highest peak in the Northeast, want to build an upscale hotel a mile from the summit, in keeping with hotels that once graced the mountain in the 1800s. The 6,288-foot Mount Washington has been attracting more tourists in New […]
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Michigan attorney general seeks to block recount

  02-12-2016 16:16
  
  LANSING, Mich. — The Latest on presidential recount efforts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania (all times local): 10 p.m. Michigan’s attorney general has asked the state Supreme Court to block a potential recount of the state’s presidential vote, which was won by his fellow Republican, Donald Trump. Attorney General Bill Schuette, like the Trump campaign, […]
  
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• Updated: Stocks start higher as big dividend payers jump

  02-12-2016 16:16
  
  NEW YORK — Stocks are mixed Friday morning as companies that pay large dividends trade higher. Real estate and phone companies are rising. Technology companies are recovering from a steep loss a day ago. Banks are slipping after a huge rally following the presidential election last month, and the Dow Jones industrial average is slightly […]
  
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• Updated: Forest Service slammed over sexual-harassment and civil rights complaints

  02-12-2016 16:16
  
  WASHINGTON – Members of Congress took the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its Forest Service to the woodshed Thursday, following years of sexual harassment and whistleblower retaliation complaints. The bipartisan whipping followed tearful and disturbing testimony from a wild land firefighter about sexual abuse. With a halting voice, Denise Rice, a fire prevention technician in […]
  
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• Updated: Empowered Shiite militias poised to dominate key Iraq town

  02-12-2016 16:16
  
  AIN AL-JEHESH, Iraq — On the road to Tal Afar, an Iraqi city near Syria that’s been key to sectarian catastrophes in both countries over the past decade, a mosaic of rag-tag troops advancing against Islamic State militants have one symbol in common. The image of Imam Hussein, the revered Shiite figure emblematic of ancient […]
  
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• Updated: Open for business: Signs point to recovery after wildfires

  02-12-2016 09:09
  
  GATLINBURG, Tenn. — The charred city of Gatlinburg is still days away from reopening after devastating and deadly wildfires, but all around the city, communities in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains are welcoming back residents and visitors. In Pigeon Forge, the Comedy House rented an electronic billboard message that said it was open. […]
  
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• Russia warns of planned cyber attacks on its banks

  02-12-2016 09:09
  
  MOSCOW — Russia’s main domestic security agency says unspecified foreign special services are plotting a series of cyber attacks aimed at destabilizing the nation’s financial system. The Federal Security Service, known under its Russian acronym FSB, said the computer servers involved in the planned attacks are located in the Netherlands and belong to Ukrainian company […]
  
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• How a Trump administration could shape the internet

  02-12-2016 09:09
  
  Under a President Donald Trump, cable and phone companies could gain new power to influence what you do and what you watch online — not to mention how much privacy you have while you’re at it. Many experts say that Republicans who generally oppose regulation are likely to take charge at the Federal Communications Commission, […]
  
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• This time, ENMU means business

  02-12-2016 08:05
  
  The Eastern New Mexico Greyhounds, led by a quarterback sharpened by playing eight-man football at L ...
  
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• Project creates ‘digital backbone’ along Central

  02-12-2016 08:05
  
  New fiber optic line aims to ignite affordable, high-speed internet access from Lousiana to Coors
  
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• Lobos struggle out of gate

  02-12-2016 08:05
  
  It's not how you start, it's how you finish.But the Lobos haven't been thrilled with h ...
  
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• Justice system focus of ‘talking circle’ held at UNM

  02-12-2016 08:05
  
  Students, community members and law enforcement officials share stories and frank discussions
  
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• 12-0 Robertson to face Portales

  02-12-2016 08:05
  
  But, oh, that one.The Class 4A No. 1-ranked and undefeated Robertson Cardinals have re ...
  
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• Santa Fe SWAT team in standoff Thursday night

  02-12-2016 04:00
  
  Santa Fe police were involved in a SWAT situation Thursday night (Nov. 30) at a trailer park off Airport Road. A police spokesman said no information would be available until Friday. KOAT reported that the standoff at the Country Club Trailer Park was with a man wanted for armed robbery and assault. About 5:30 p.m., […]
  
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• Updated: Broncos special teams were spectacularly bad

  02-12-2016 03:11
  
  ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — One game, Denver special teams coordinator Joe DeCamillis is getting a game ball from coach Gary Kubiak in a jubilant locker room after a blocked extra point led to the first defensive 2-point game-winner in NFL history. The next, he’s wincing as the Broncos muff two punts, allow an 86-yard touchdown return […]
  
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• Great Barrier Reef threatened by climate change, chemicals, sediment

  02-12-2016 03:00
  
  SYDNEY — Climate change and the flow of farm chemicals and coastal sediment into the waters that wash over one of Australia’s most significant nature areas, the Great Barrier Reef, pose the biggest th
  
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• Updated: Chaves County hit with 6 cases of Legionnaire’s disease

  02-12-2016 01:17
  
  Six Chaves County residents have developed confirmed cases of Legionnaire’s disease since early October, and two have died, state health officials said Thursday. The bacterial illness sickens a few New Mexicans each year, but an outbreak of six patients within two months is unusual, said Chad Smelser, medical epidemiologist for the New Mexico Department of […]
  
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• Chaves County hit with 6 cases of Legionnaire’s disease

  02-12-2016 01:17
  
  Six Chaves County residents have developed confirmed cases of Legionnaire’s disease since early October, and two have died, state health officials said Thursday. The bacterial illness sickens a few New Mexicans each year, but an outbreak of six patients within two months is unusual, said Dr. Chad Smelser, medical epidemiologist for the New Mexico Department […]
  
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• BREAKING: Ex-homebuilder Kalinowski found guilty of fraud and embezzlement in Santa Fe

  02-12-2016 01:08
  
  SANTA FE – Former luxury-home builder William Kalinowski, described  as a brilliant charmer before he was financially ruined by the housing market crash in 2008, was found guilty today of multiple counts of fraud and embezzlement. He was accused of leaving investors, contractors and homebuyers high and dry, costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars, […]
  
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• Updated: The election is over, but the Trump rallies continue

  02-12-2016 01:03
  
  CINCINNATI – Donald Trump has not changed. At his first rally since being elected president, Trump only occasionally read from his teleprompters, instead entertaining the audience with whatever was on his mind. He recounted in great detail all of the ways that he won, noted that world leaders now call him from “their magnificent rooms” […]
  
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• The election is over, but the Trump rallies continue

  02-12-2016 01:03
  
  CINCINNATI – The line of Donald Trump fans eagerly waiting in the cold outside a rally venue has returned. So, too, have the “Make America Great Again” hats and campaign signs. And the vendors selling anti-Hillary Clinton buttons and T-shirts proclaiming: “Hillary for prison.” And protests organized by at least three different groups, including one […]
  
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• Texas governor vows to cut funds to ‘sanctuary’ campuses

  02-12-2016 01:01
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is promising to cut funds to public universities that become what he described as “sanctuary” campuses for immigrant students. The Republican provided no other details. Abbott tweeted the vow Thursday in response to a story about Texas State University students urging school leaders to declare the campus a […]
  
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• David Hamilton, photographer celebrated as artist and condemned as pornographer, dies at 83

  02-12-2016 00:46
  
  David Hamilton, a widely published British photographer whose alluring images of young women were variously celebrated as art and condemned as pornography, died Nov. 25 in Paris. He was 83 and had recently professed his innocence after a former child model accused him of raping her three decades ago. Emergency officials told the Associated Press […]
  
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• Ex-NFL player Joe McKnight killed in argument with motorist

  02-12-2016 00:19
  
  TERRYTOWN, La. — Former NFL player Joe McKnight has been shot to death following an argument at an intersection with another motorist. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand says it happened about 2:43 p.m. Thursday in Terrytown, a suburb of New Orleans. Normand says 28-year-old McKnight was standing outside his car when he was shot by […]
  
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• Wells Fargo splits chairman, CEO roles after sales scandal

  02-12-2016 00:07
  
  NEW YORK — Wells Fargo said it will split the jobs of chairman and CEO and will make other major changes to the composition of its board of directors in an effort to make the bank more accountable following a scandal over its sales practices. The bank said Thursday it was amending its corporate bylaws […]
  
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