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• Pruitt, Trump’s EPA pick, has both sides of climate divide girding for a major fight

  08-12-2016 23:59
  
  Two years ago, at an event convened by the conservative Federalist Society, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt joked about a competition of sorts he had going with the Texas attorney general over the Environmental Protection Agency. “When I came into office, I think he had roughly 13 lawsuits against the EPA,” Pruitt told the audience. […]
  
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• Apartments near downtown hospital win city OK

  08-12-2016 23:55
  
  Titan Development and Maestas Development Group will break ground on an upscale apartment community north of Central Avenue near Presbyterian Hospital next summer. Dubbed The Broadstone Highlands, the 74-unit multi-family project features a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments. With approval from the city planning commission on Thursday, the applicants can pull permits to […]
  
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• Trump visits Ohio State victims, officer who killed attacker

  08-12-2016 23:54
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio – President-elect Donald Trump visited Ohio State University on Thursday afternoon to meet survivors of an attack that stunned the campus last month. Trump spoke with victims in private and also met with the Ohio State police officer who killed the attacker, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, an Ohio State student who drove a […]
  
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• ABQ real estate company sued by AG

  08-12-2016 23:51
  
  An Albuquerque businessman and his real estate company are accused of preying on vulnerable Spanish-only speakers by selling them defective repo homes and refusing to refund deposits, according to a lawsuit filed by Attorney General Hector Balderas this week. Balderas, in a news release, says the actions by Jesus Cano and JSS of Albuquerque LLC, […]
  
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• Santa Fe’s Capital High School placed on lockdown

  08-12-2016 21:26
  
  Santa Fe’s Capital High School was placed on lockdown by Santa Fe police as a precaution this afternoon and students at two other schools were ordered to shelter in place by the school after a weapon was found in a student’s car at the high school. According to a news release from Santa Fe Public […]
  
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• Updated: Winners, losers and trends at baseball’s winter meetings

  08-12-2016 20:14
  
  OXON HILL, Md. — All-Star closers Aroldis Chapman, Mark Melancon and Wade Davis moved to different bullpens. Chris Sale boosted a big rotation in Boston. And the Washington Nationals got their fans talking — a lot. As teams packed up along the Potomac River and headed home Thursday, a look at what did and didn’t […]
  
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• Updated: Delta will upgrade free snacks in the economy-fare cabin

  08-12-2016 20:02
  
  If it’s true that an army travels on its stomach, will better snacks keep passengers loyal to one airline? Delta Air Lines is rolling out new free snacks for customers in the main cabin, including brand-name yogurt bars and pretzels. Some will come in larger portions than before because, Delta has figured out, that’s what […]
  
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• Updated: Banking on change: Tech startups target financial services

  08-12-2016 20:02
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — It may not be much longer before bank branches join video-rental stores and record shops as relics of a bygone era. Silicon Valley is pressuring banks to change their ways or risk becoming the latest industry overtaken by technology. Hundreds of startups are offering easier and cheaper ways to save, borrow, spend […]
  
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• Updated: Santa Fe native gets top DCCC job

  08-12-2016 19:35
  
  Daniel Sena, a Santa Fe native, was named as executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Washington on Thursday, marking the first time that a Hispanic has held the job. Sena was tapped for the influential post by Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, who will serve a second term as chairman of the DCCC […]
  
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• Updated: West Texas city comes under fire for cross in public park

  08-12-2016 19:27
  
  LUBBOCK, Texas — A West Texas city is coming under scrutiny by the Freedom from Religion Foundation for a cross that sits in a public park. Staff attorney Sam Grover said Thursday that the Wisconsin-based organization wrote Spur officials in July after a resident contacted the foundation to complain. He says the cross on public […]
  
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• Roaring Fork schools to be safe haven for immigrant students

  08-12-2016 19:27
  
  GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. — The Roaring Fork School District says it will be a safe environment for immigrant students amid racially motivated incidents across the country following the presidential election. The Post Independent reports (http://bit.ly/2gofoWA ) that the Board of Education on Wednesday unanimously approved a resolution declaring Roaring Fork Schools “safe havens” for immigrant […]
  
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• Police investigating racist graffiti in Giants player’s home

  08-12-2016 19:26
  
  MOONACHIE, N.J. — Police are investigating a break-in and racist graffiti scrawled on the wall at the New Jersey home of an injured New York Giants player. Moonachie police Sgt. Richard Behrens tells The Record (http://bit.ly/2h0klFN) police are investigating the break-in at Nikita Whitlock’s home as a hate crime. Whitlock, who’s black, showed the graffiti […]
  
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• Lawsuit: NBA players teamed up for Chelsea nightclub assault

  08-12-2016 19:26
  
  NEW YORK — Matt Barnes and DeMarcus Cousins of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings are being sued after a nightclub altercation. The federal lawsuit filed Wednesday says a New York couple was attacked Monday at a nightclub in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages. It says Barnes choked a 26-year-old woman by the neck […]
  
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• How media law could drive a wedge between Trump, the Republican Congress

  08-12-2016 19:26
  
  A pair of congressmen on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee want to repeal a long-standing ban on media consolidation, calling it a “disco era” rule that prevents struggling local media outlets from surviving in an increasingly competitive market for information. Introduced by Reps. Greg Walden, R-Ore., and John Yarmuth, D-Ky., the legislation takes […]
  
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• Updated: Syria president says victory in Aleppo won’t end the war

  08-12-2016 17:33
  
  BEIRUT — President Bashar Assad said in comments published Thursday that Syrian forces’ victory in the battle for Aleppo will be a “big gain” for his government but that it will not end of the country’s civil war. Assad’s comments came as his troops were pushing further into the rebel-held enclave in eastern Aleppo, in […]
  
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• Updated: Guitarist/singer Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake and Palmer dies

  08-12-2016 17:33
  
  LONDON — Musician Greg Lake co-founded both King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer — bands that helped define the sprawling, influential but often-maligned genre known as progressive rock. Lake, who died of cancer at 69, was instrumental in bringing classical influences, epic length, mythic scope and 1970s excess into rock ‘n’ roll, winning millions […]
  
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• Police spent days looking for a missing woman but now say she staged her ‘abduction’ as revenge

  08-12-2016 17:33
  
  Samantha Martinez had been abducted by a violent drug dealer, police believed, and they were running out of time. So detectives worked “around the clock” to locate the missing 21-year-old, a Miami police spokesman told The Washington Post. They reached out to newspaper and TV stations with information about Martinez’s disappearance, Officer Christopher Bess said. […]
  
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• Updated: Congress scrambles to finish defense, stopgap spending bills

  08-12-2016 17:32
  
  WASHINGTON — In typical last-minute fashion, Congress scrambled Thursday to wrap-up unfinished business that includes a vote in the Senate on a sweeping defense policy bill and final action on a must-do spending measure to keep the government from shutting down at midnight Friday. The Senate’s top Democrat, Harry Reid of Nevada, delivered a long […]
  
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• Is there still hope for Turkish democracy?

  08-12-2016 17:32
  
  The night of July 15 marked a distinct moment in Turkish democratic history as hundreds of thousands of Turks took to the streets to defy a coup attempt. Yet only a few months later, Turkish police moved to detain scores of members of parliament from pro-Kurdish opposition party HDP. In the months since the failed […]
  
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• Updated: Lobos’ Brown hits game-winner, shoots down Miners

  08-12-2016 08:05
  
  Elijah Brown sank a game-winning jump shot with 5 seconds remaining to rally the Lobos to a rivalry win over the UTEP Miners in a wild affair in the Pit on Wednesday night.
  
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• NM Bowl foes had distinct journeys

  08-12-2016 08:05
  
  You've been hired to assemble a college football program. Would you rather start with nothing, or st ...
  
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• New: Lobos’ Brown hits game-winner, shoots down Miners

  08-12-2016 08:05
  
  Elijah Brown sank a game-winning jump shot with 5 seconds remaining to rally the Lobos to a rivalry win over the UTEP Miners in a wild affair in the Pit on Wednesday night.
  
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• MMA: Hamilton hopes to make ‘second home’ proud

  08-12-2016 08:05
  
  In college, Anthony Hamilton was a wrestler and a football player. He always preferred the individua ...
  
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• Editorial: LSD-fueled crash demands drugged-driving standards

  08-12-2016 08:05
  
  Saturday's fatal three-car crash at Coors and Montaño, which claimed the life of Michael Nwor ...
  
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• Agencies begin fight over funding

  08-12-2016 08:05
  
  Officials with three key state agencies made their case to an influential panel of New Mexico lawmak ...
  
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• U.S. life expectancy declines for the first time in decades

  08-12-2016 08:01 via santafenewmexican.com
  
  Rising fatalities from heart disease and stroke, diabetes, drug overdoses, accidents and other conditions are to blame, according to a new report.
  
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• Updated: Assad supporters see domino effect in Aleppo government win

  08-12-2016 07:24
  
  ALEPPO, Syria — Aleppo shakes with explosions and gunfire day and night in both the government- and rebel-held sides of the divided Syrian city. But for supporters of President Bashar Assad, there is a growing sense of imminent victory. If the city’s rebel-held sector falls, many see a domino effect across the country. And with […]
  
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• Updated: Aid groups descend on Indonesia quake zone; deaths reach 102

  08-12-2016 07:24
  
  MEUREUDU, Indonesia — Humanitarian organizations descended on Indonesia’s Aceh province Thursday as the government in Jakarta promised tons of emergency aid and officials raced to assess the full extent of damage from an earthquake that killed more than 100 people. Search efforts involving volunteers and nearly 1,500 rescue personnel were concentrated on the hard-hit town […]
  
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• U.S. life expectancy declines for the first time since 1993

  08-12-2016 07:01
  
  For the first time in more than two decades, life expectancy for Americans declined last year – a troubling development linked to a panoply of worsening health problems in the United States. Rising fatalities from heart disease and stroke, diabetes, drug overdoses, accidents and other conditions caused the lower life expectancy revealed in a report […]
  
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• Updated: Military targets handling of misconduct cases

  08-12-2016 05:45
  
  WASHINGTON — Military leaders are trying to fix the lengthy, inconsistent process for investigating senior officers accused of misconduct, The Associated Press has learned. They are seeking to change a hodgepodge system in which investigations can drag on for years while taxpayers pay six-figure salaries to officers relegated to mid-level administrative posts. Trust in the […]
  
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• New York restaurant threatened by Pizzagate hoax callers

  08-12-2016 05:43
  
  NEW YORK — A popular New York restaurant has become the latest victim of a fake-news conspiracy about Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring out of a Washington, D.C., pizza joint. Roberta’s, a Brooklyn restaurant known for its wood-fired pizza, received telephone calls threatening its employees, police confirmed on Wednesday. There have been no […]
  
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• Breaking: Brown lifts Lobos to win over UTEP

  08-12-2016 05:08
  
  Elijah Brown hit a running jumper with five seconds left to give the New Mexico Lobos a 78-77 win over the UTEP Miners Wednesday night in the Pit. Brown scored 25 points and had to save the Lobos after they blew a 21-point lead. Deon Barrett made a 3-pointer to give UTEP a 77-74 lead […]
  
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• ‘Project North Star’ to guide Santa Fe Public Schools

  08-12-2016 05:04
  
  Follow the North Star. That was the message Santa Fe Public Schools Superintendent Veronica García delivered to a crowd of about 400 people at the city’s convention center Wednesday night during her State of the Schools address. The idea is to keep focused on tried and true approaches to teaching and learning in the current […]
  
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• Suspect threatened at least 2 other women before Four Hills murder-suicide

  08-12-2016 04:05
  
  George Daniel Wechsler had threatened at least two former ex-girlfriends. In 2002, a month after he broke up with his 18-year-old girlfriend, she told police he sent her an email that said he wished she would die.
  
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• Speak Up! On basketball officials and hall of fame boxers

  08-12-2016 03:57
  
  LISA JONES, Brenda Pantoja, Kyle Bacon-three of my all time favorite officials, mentors, friends! Thank you for everything over the years and the birthday wishes! You all ran a professional clean game! Keep it up! Multiple final fours for this crew! — Flanfan Albuquerque MESSAGE TO KIDS sent by election of Tapia to Boxing Hall […]
  
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• Senate approves sweeping health measure for drug research

  08-12-2016 03:00 via santafenewmexican.com
  
  WASHINGTON — The Senate approved complex health care legislation Wednesday that would increase funding for disease research, address weaknesses in the nation’s mental health systems and vastly alter t
  
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• Another mugging in Santa Fe’s Canyon Road neighborhood

  08-12-2016 02:00
  
  SANTA FE — A Santa Fe couple was robbed by a man who chased them with a knife down Canyon Road Tuesday night, even after one of the victims threw his wallet at the suspect. The hold-up comes after two tourists were robbed in the same area just a few days apart last month, but […]
  
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• Updated: US envoy nominee Branstad member of Masons, banned in China

  08-12-2016 01:42
  
  OMAHA, Neb. — If Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad becomes the next U.S. Ambassador to China, he may want to leave any Masonic symbols at home. That’s because the Freemasons group that Branstad belongs to has been banned in mainland China for decades. The only masonic lodges that exist in China today are in Taiwan. All […]
  
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• Trump takes aim at drug companies: ‘I don’t like what has happened with drug prices’

  08-12-2016 01:37
  
  Biotech and pharmaceutical stocks rose after the November election, reflecting investor optimism that a Trump presidency would mean less focus on drug prices. Not so fast, President-elect Trump said in his interview for Time magazine’s “Person of the Year.” “I’m going to bring down drug prices,” Trump told Time during an interview in his dining […]
  
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• Soldier succumbs to wounds received during November suicide bombing in Afghanistan

  08-12-2016 01:37
  
  U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Allan Brown died Tuesday, nearly a month after he was wounded during a suicide bombing at Bagram air base in northeastern Afghanistan. Brown, 46, of Takoma Park, Maryland, succumbed to his wounds at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in nearby Bethesda, according to a Pentagon news release. He was […]
  
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• Should children get to have cellphones in elementary school?

  08-12-2016 01:37
  
  The youngest children in Montgomery County, Maryland’s public schools could soon be allowed to bring cellphones and other electronic devices to campus under newly proposed rules. Students would not be able to use the devices during the school day in elementary schools unless a teacher permits them as part of classroom instruction, but students could […]
  
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• Hogan’s five-day plan sets up possible clash over sick leave

  08-12-2016 01:35
  
  Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) will propose legislation requiring companies with at least 50 employees to provide five days a year of paid sick leave, triggering a likely standoff with Democratic lawmakers who tried to pass a more expansive law this year. Hogan, who owned a real estate company before taking office, described his bill […]
  
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• New Mexico Businessman Accused of Deceiving Low-Income Home Buyers

  08-12-2016 01:04 via nytimes.com
  Officials said he misrepresented the condition of poorly maintained homes sold to Spanish-speaking families, and sometimes sold houses he didn’t own.
  
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• Breaking: UNM Regents take no action on president’s future

  08-12-2016 00:45
  
  The University of New Mexico Board of Regents, following three and a half hours in closed session, t ...
  
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• Updated: Trump a winner in spending bill; retired miners out of luck

  08-12-2016 00:37
  
  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump emerges as a winner in the final version of the must-pass spending bill as congressional Republicans tacked on an expedited process for ensuring his nominee for defense secretary can serve. Michigan’s city of Flint, struggling with lead-tainted water, gets some financial relief in the legislation and so does southern Louisiana, […]
  
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• Congress cracks down on ‘bots’ that snap up concert tickets

  08-12-2016 00:35
  
  WASHINGTON — Congress sent legislation to President Barack Obama that could make it easier to get tickets to popular shows, sports events and concerts. Legislation passed by the House on Wednesday would crack down on computer software used by ticket brokers to snap up tickets. The so-called “bots” rapidly purchase as many tickets as possible […]
  
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• Feds: Woman made death threats to Sandy Hook victim’s parent

  08-12-2016 00:26
  
  MIAMI — A Florida woman has been charged with making death threats against the parent of a child who died in the Sandy Hook school shooting massacre because she thought the attack was a hoax, federal authorities announced Wednesday. Lucy Richards, 57, of Tampa was arrested Monday after a grand jury indictment on four felony […]
  
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