New Mexico news

• Updated: Trump DC hotel attracting foreign envoys and controversy

  06-12-2016 23:40
  
  NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s new luxury hotel in Washington D.C. has been attracting foreign envoys, special interest groups — and a bit of controversy. One of the latest groups to book the hotel is the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank whose big donors will gather there Tuesday night for a speech from Vice […]
  
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• Man who faked Canada link for ‘Star Trek’ tablet gets prison

  06-12-2016 23:40
  
  NEW YORK — An Illinois man who forged the signature of the Canadian deputy health commissioner and defrauded investors in a scheme referencing the “Star Trek” TV series has been sentenced in New York to five years in prison. Howard Leventhal was sentenced Tuesday in federal court. Prosecutors say he claimed he had agreements to […]
  
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• Updated: Iran president: Trump won’t be able to harm the nuclear deal

  06-12-2016 23:32
  
  TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s president said on Tuesday that his country will not allow incoming U.S. President Donald Trump to “tear up” Iran’s landmark nuclear deal with world powers and also warned Tehran will react to any extension of American sanctions. The comments by Hassan Rouhani came during a speech at the University of Tehran […]
  
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• U of Illinois won’t be designated ‘sanctuary’ for immigrants

  06-12-2016 23:32
  
  CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The University of Illinois will not label its three campuses as sanctuaries for immigrant students illegally living in the U.S., school leaders said Tuesday as they pushed aside pressure from faculty and others to make the designation. Petitions from students and faculty at campuses in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield were among efforts […]
  
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• Berry administration: Vacant buildings ordinance could cost $900K

  06-12-2016 23:17
  
  Albuquerque city councilors held off on a proposal to impose new standards on the upkeep of vacant buildings this week after Mayor Richard Berry’s administration said it might cost over $900,000 a year to enforce. Planning Director Suzanne Lubar told the council on Monday that it isn’t clear how many commercial buildings would fall under […]
  
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• More coding boot camps coming to NM high schools

  06-12-2016 21:45
  
  A $25,000 Albuquerque Community Foundation grant and a new partnership with Santa Fe-based nonprofits will rope more students and young adults into Cultivating Coders’ boot camps next year. Cultivating Coders, which offers intensive eight-week training workshops for aspiring web and software developers in underserved communities, will use the Community Foundation grant to support a summer […]
  
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• Updated: Sri Lanka’s former strongman sets stage for comeback attempt

  06-12-2016 21:42
  
  COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A year after losing Sri Lanka’s presidency in a stunning electoral upset, strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa is making unusual political moves to regain power in the South Asian island nation — through a newly launched political party in which he has no actual stake. Not yet, anyway. Rajapaksa has yet to leave […]
  
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• Updated: Ransomed: The race to free 226 Christian hostages in Syria

  06-12-2016 21:42
  
  SAARLOUIS, Germany — Deep inside Syria, a bishop worked secretly to save the lives of 226 members of his flock from the Islamic State group — by amassing millions of dollars from his community around the world to buy their freedom. The Assyrian Christians were seized from the Khabur River valley in northern Syria, among […]
  
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• Updated: Iraqi troops enter another IS-held neighborhood in Mosul

  06-12-2016 21:41
  
  MOSUL, Iraq — The Iraqi army on Tuesday pushed into another neighborhood held by the Islamic State group on the southeastern edge of Mosul, according to a military statement and Iraqi commanders on the ground. The commander of a joint operations center that oversees the Mosul campaign, Lt. Gen. Abdul-Amir Yarellah, said that soldiers from […]
  
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• Updated: German conservatives back Merkel amid tough talk on migrants

  06-12-2016 21:41
  
  BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel won a new term Tuesday as the leader of Germany’s main conservative party after stressing her determination to prevent a repeat of last year’s huge migrant influx and advocating a partial ban on face-covering veils. Merkel, who ran unopposed, won 89.5 percent of delegates’ votes at a congress of her […]
  
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• Updated: LA authorities boost security after threatened rail attack

  06-12-2016 19:59
  
  LOS ANGELES — Heavily armed sheriff’s deputies stood watch Tuesday at a Los Angeles-area subway station named in an unconfirmed threat and Mayor Eric Garcetti took the line to work to show confidence in security measures. Temporary barriers were in place at the entrance to the Red Line station near Universal Studios and some commuters […]
  
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• Beyoncé or Adele? This year’s big Grammy face-off feels a lot like last year’s

  06-12-2016 19:27
  
  For masochists wishing they could live 2016 all over again, Tuesday morning was a fine place to start. That’s when the Recording Academy unfurled its bloated list of nominees for the 58th annual Grammy Awards, which pitted an innovative, politically minded black artist against a conventional, commercially dominant white artist for the evening’s most coveted […]
  
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• Baltimore arts building shuttered days after Oakland fire

  06-12-2016 19:26
  
  BALTIMORE — Baltimore officials have shut down an arts building for safety violations and evicted dozens of tenants three days after a fire at a California warehouse-turned artists’ enclave killed three dozen people. The Baltimore Sun reports (http://bsun.md/2h11FWs ) officials boarded up the two-story Bell Foundry arts building on Monday. Fire department spokesman Roman Clark […]
  
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• Updated: Tribal leader tells pipeline foes to leave camp

  06-12-2016 19:25
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. — The Latest on the protest against the Dakota Access oil pipeline (all times local): 12:10 p.m. Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault (AR’-sham-boh) is renewing a call for Dakota Access oil pipeline opponents to leave a camp in southern North Dakota. A blizzard hitting the region has brought snow, wind gusts up […]
  
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• Steamboat Springs sues over neglected barn near ski area

  06-12-2016 19:25
  
  STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — The city of Steamboat Springs has filed a lawsuit over a historic barn at the base of Steamboat Springs Ski Area city officials say has been neglected for years. The Steamboat Pilot & Today reports (http://bit.ly/2gzcQ5q ) that the city’s lawsuit claims the developer, RP Steamboat Springs, and the property owner, […]
  
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• Updated: Merkel is last of Obama’s key European allies still standing

  06-12-2016 18:01
  
  BERLIN — Just a few months ago, German Chancellor Angela Merkel brought together the leaders of the U.S., Britain, France and Italy to discuss the world’s crises, a moment captured in a photo of the five seated around a conference table. When she hosts a summit of 20 leading global powers in July, she will […]
  
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• Bolivian aviation agent requests help in Brazil after crash

  06-12-2016 18:01
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — A Bolivian woman who pointed out irregularities in the flight plan of a plane that crashed and killed 71 people has traveled to Brazil to seek assistance from prosecutors. Brazil’s federal prosecutors’ office said in a statement Tuesday that the woman presented herself at the border city of Corumba and requested […]
  
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• More time needed before Tiger Woods is judged by his scores

  06-12-2016 17:52
  
  NASSAU, Bahamas — A flop shot that required feel. A wedge to a back pin that he had to trust. Tiger Woods followed those two birdies with a perfect 6-iron that he wanted to be even better, urging it to move “one yard … one yard!” The golf ball didn’t listen. Television viewers did. And […]
  
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• Court filing: In Army’s eyes, Chelsea Manning still a man

  06-12-2016 17:47
  
  A military prison psychologist is refusing to recommend that Chelsea Manning’s gender be officially changed to female in her Army employee-benefits file. Lawyers for the transgender solider imprisoned for leaking classified information made the assertion in a federal court filing Monday in Washington. The document says the chief of mental health at the Fort Leavenworth, […]
  
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• Updated: Presidential recount in Michigan expands to Detroit area

  06-12-2016 17:46
  
  DETROIT — The presidential recount in Michigan expands Tuesday to its largest county, which includes Detroit, and five other counties, and the fate of a statewide recount push in Pennsylvania awaits action in federal court. President-elect Donald Trump narrowly defeated Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in both states and Wisconsin, which started its recount last week. […]
  
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• Judge again denies venue change in murder-for-hire trial

  06-12-2016 16:20
  
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — After giving it a night’s thought, a judge still believes he can find six impartial jurors to hear the trial of a Florida woman accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill her husband. Judge Glenn Kelley said Tuesday that with 55 prospective jurors set to undergo final […]
  
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• Updated: Ransomed: The freeing of 226 Christians from Islamic State

  06-12-2016 16:19
  
  SAARLOUIS, Germany — The millions in ransom money came in dollar by dollar, euro by euro from around the world. The donations, raised from church offerings, a Christmas concert, and the diaspora of Assyrian Christians on Facebook, landed in a bank account in Iraq. Its ultimate destination: the Islamic State group. Deep inside Syria, a […]
  
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• Updated: German chancellor denounces rape-killing of student

  06-12-2016 16:19
  
  BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday denounced the rape and killing of a university student as a “tragic event,” responding for the first time to a case that has inflamed passions since police arrested a 17-year-old Afghan migrant last week. A nationalist party has seized on the death to argue that Merkel’s government […]
  
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• Updated: Dunham and Coates, mutual admirers, talk writing and Trump

  06-12-2016 16:19
  
  NEW YORK — “Girls” creator Lena Dunham and author-essayist Ta-Nehisi Coates, strangers until Monday night, found they had a lot in common. Especially when the subject was the upcoming presidency of Donald Trump. “If what has to happen is that I get metaphorically strung up by my toes because I think we were all born […]
  
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• Updated: Police officer charged with slapping man dressed as bunny

  06-12-2016 13:41
  
  A police officer accused of slapping a man who was wearing a bunny costume and was blowing an air horn…
  
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• Sheriff: Alabama burglary suspect was naked when captured

  06-12-2016 13:31
  
  Authorities in Alabama say a man charged with burglary was naked when he was taken into custody. DeKalb County Sheriff…
  
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• Updated: More than 200 Christmas wreaths stolen from Maine farm

  06-12-2016 12:42
  
  Hundreds of holiday wreaths have been stolen from a Maine farm. Gile's Family Farm owner Frank Boucher said Monday that…
  
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• Three indicted in fatal 2016 car wrecks

  06-12-2016 08:05
  
  Drugs or alcohol were cited as potential factors in two of the crashes
  
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• Las Cruces officers shoot, kill man

  06-12-2016 08:05
  
  Call was received about suicidal man with a gun
  
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• Coldest weather of season coming Thursday

  06-12-2016 08:05
  
  A blast of arctic air will plunge much of the state into a deep freeze Wednesday night
  
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• Roof collapses at WIPP raise new safety questions

  06-12-2016 08:02
  
  DOE review could alter plan to reopen plant this month
  
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• How to tell if Karl Marx guides your parenting

  06-12-2016 08:02
  
  Egalitarian parents behave as if the parent-child relationship is constituted of equals
  
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• Biden wouldn’t count out 2020 run for president; but he was asked in an emotional moment

  06-12-2016 06:35
  
  WASHINGTON — No, Joe Biden didn’t just announce a presidential run in 2020. But as he’s learned from experience, you never say never. “I’m not committing not to run. I’m not committed to anything,” the vice president told reporters at the Capitol on Monday night after attending a Senate vote. “I learned a long time […]
  
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• 29 years ago, I watched him get a new heart. This month I got to meet him.

  06-12-2016 05:01
  
  Heart transplant recipient is getting close to world survival record
  
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• Updated: Latex, food allergies go hand-in-hand, as number of products rise

  06-12-2016 04:46
  
  Number of such products available are multiplying
  
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• Want to avoid surgery for joint pain? Pro athletes, others try PRP and stem cell injections

  06-12-2016 04:45
  
  Use of patient’s plasma is subject of studies
  
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• Prep soccer: St. Pius’ Limon an All-American

  06-12-2016 04:30
  
  St. Pius senior forward Tatiana Limon has been named to the 2016 National Soccer Coaches Association of America High School All-American team. Limon, who will graduate as St. Pius’ all-team leading goal scorer and point earner, had 32 goals this season for the Sartans and helped them into the Class 5A state championship game. Limon […]
  
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• Breaking: Police investigating possible shooting in Four Hills neighborhood

  06-12-2016 03:05
  
  Police are investigating what a witness said may have been a shooting in the Four Hills neighborhood in southeast Albuquerque Monday night. Officers were called to the area near Stagecoach and Sagebrush Trail SE around 6:30 p.m. Multiple ambulances drove away from the scene around 7 p.m., and shortly after, officers were seen loading a […]
  
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• Not guilty plea entered in fatal Santa Fe crash during August power outage

  06-12-2016 02:08
  
  SANTA FE — The woman who ran over a motorcyclist who later died from his injuries during a major power outage in Santa Fe this summer pleaded not guilty to vehicular homicide and other charges in District Court Monday in a room packed with her family and the victim’s family. Megan Carrillo, 23, was indicted […]
  
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• Tony Reyna, ex-Taos Pueblo gov. and Bataan Death March survivor, dies at 100

  06-12-2016 01:54
  
  TAOS — Dressed in a deerskin robe, Tony Reyna was buried Monday with full military honors at the Taos Pueblo cemetery following a Mass at the pueblo’s San Geronimo Church. “It’s reserved for high level kiva religious leaders,” Phillip Reyna, the youngest of Tony Reyna’s four children, said in explaining the significance of the deerskin […]
  
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• Updated: Heisman finalists: Jackson, Watson, Peppers, 2 Sooners

  06-12-2016 01:14
  
  NEW YORK — Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson is a Heisman Trophy finalist for the second consecutive season, joining Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson, Michigan linebacker Jabrill Peppers and Oklahoma teammates Baker Mayfield and Dede Westbrook. The finalists were announced Monday on ESPN and the award will be presented Saturday in New York. Watson finished third in […]
  
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• Taos police have ‘blurry’ video of bloody Kit Carson Co-op board fight

  06-12-2016 01:11
  
  SANTA FE – Bloody fisticuffs between two of the Kit Carson Electric Cooperative’s elected board last week were captured in a “really, really blurry” video, according to the Taos police. Lt. David Maggio said on Monday that the town attorney will be asked to review the footage. A police report on the fight between Chris […]
  
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• Updated: Police seek to question NBA player after nightclub fight

  06-12-2016 00:25
  
  NEW YORK — Detectives want to question NBA player Matt Barnes after he was accused of being involved in a fight at a nightclub. Barnes, a Sacramento Kings forward, was sitting with a woman at the Manhattan club early Monday when they began to argue, police say. Bystanders tried to intervene, and a fight broke […]
  
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