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• Navajo Nation approves police, fire substation near casino

  09-12-2016 22:56
  
  WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — The Navajo Nation is planning to build a police and fire station at its Twin Arrows Casino Resort near Flagstaff. The Gallup Independent reports (http://bit.ly/2gJNIc8 ) that a Navajo Nation Council committee has approved legislation related to the funding and construction of the substation. Delegates expect that construction will break ground […]
  
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• 4th suspect in West Texas double slaying caught in Michigan

  09-12-2016 22:56
  
  SAN ANGELO, Texas — Investigators say a fourth suspect in a West Texas double slaying has been captured in Michigan. San Angelo police say 28-year-old Raymond Alvarado Jr. was arrested Thursday afternoon in Lansing, Michigan. Officials say a tip led officers to a residence in Lansing, where Alvarado was caught while leaving the home. Alvarado […]
  
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• Updated: Churches vow to offer sanctuary to people in US illegally

  09-12-2016 22:55
  
  BROCKTON, Mass. — Hundreds of houses of worship are offering sanctuary to people who could face deportation if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his campaign pledge to remove millions of immigrants living in the country illegally. To some churches, sanctuary means spiritual support or legal assistance to fight deportation. Others promise or already are […]
  
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• Arizona universities ask Trump to protect immigrant students

  09-12-2016 22:55
  
  PHOENIX — The board that oversees Arizona’s three state universities voted Friday to urge president-elect Donald Trump to protect students who were illegally brought into the county when they were children, while specifically rejecting efforts to designate the schools as “sanctuary campuses.” The Arizona Board of Regents voted unanimously to send a letter to Trump […]
  
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• Agency: Drug use should have grounded pilot in balloon wreck

  09-12-2016 22:55
  
  WASHINGTON — Medical experts say the pilot of a hot-air balloon that crashed in Texas, killing him and 15 others, had medical ailments and was prescribed numerous prescription drugs that should have prevented him from flying. The National Transportation Safety Board was told during a hearing Friday that it appears Alfred “Skip” Nichols was using […]
  
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• Abq man dead, three – including Rio Arriba deputy – injured in Santa Fe crash Thursday

  09-12-2016 20:26
  
  One person is dead and three more — including a female Rio Arriba County deputy  — were injured and from a crash on N.M. 599 at the intersection with Via Veteranos in Santa Fe on Thursday afternoon. A police report identifies the person who died as Arsenio N. Sanchez of Albuquerque, with an address on […]
  
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• Updated: Gov’t: Takata air bag recalls to cover 42M cars when done

  09-12-2016 19:32
  
  DETROIT — The U.S. government says automakers will end up recalling 42 million vehicles with potentially deadly air bag inflators made by Takata Corp. The National Highway Safety Administration released a schedule for further recalls on Friday as it tries to get automakers to move faster on the fixes. Eventually, about 69 million inflators that […]
  
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• Iowa court clears way for ‘Field of Dreams’ baseball complex

  09-12-2016 19:30
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa — An Iowa Supreme Court ruling Friday cleared the way for a baseball complex at the “Field of Dreams” movie site in Dyersville, as the state’s highest court upheld a lower court’s decision that the City Council acted properly when it rezoned the property from agricultural to commercial. The ruling came on […]
  
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• Updated: It’s Trump’s war soon: Afghan future is cloudy at best

  09-12-2016 19:29
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan has fallen so far from Americans’ consciousness that some may have forgotten it’s called the forgotten war. It also is America’s longest war. Now in its 16th year and showing little sign of ending, it will soon be the responsibility of Donald Trump, two presidents removed from the October 2001 invasion. […]
  
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• Consolidated Solar Technologies

  09-12-2016 19:28
  
  The start of the most recent recession in 2008 may not have seemed like the best time to start a new business endeavor, but it worked out pretty well for Mosher Enterprises when it started Consolidated Solar Technologies. “At any point in time, it’s tough to get a new business going,” said CST’s James Mosher. […]
  
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• More NFL coaches going for it on 4th-down situations

  09-12-2016 18:54
  
  Fourth-and-no is becoming fourth-and-go in the NFL. More coaches are going for it in situations that used to be automatic punts or field-goal attempts. Through Week 13, teams went on fourth down 350 times and converted 181 or 51.7 percent. Washington Redskins coach Jay Gruden made perhaps the boldest call when Washington faced fourth-and-inches from […]
  
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• Denver evicts people living in art and music space

  09-12-2016 18:54
  
  DENVER — Denver has evicted people living in a longtime art and music space after firefighters say they found serious fire code violations. Rhinoceropolis provides people a place to stage concerts and art shows in but firefighters say as many as five people were living in the two-story industrial brick building on Thursday. They were […]
  
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• Updated: Trump still campaigning, hopes to boost GOP in Louisiana

  09-12-2016 18:53
  
  NEW YORK — Tending to party politics, President-elect Donald Trump is rallying supporters in Louisiana on Friday ahead of the state’s Senate runoff election, aiming to pad the Republican majority he will inherit. Trump was campaigning for Republican John Kennedy in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and then making another stop on his “thank you” tour in […]
  
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• Europe fell hard for Obama. Here’s how he kept the romance alive.

  09-12-2016 18:52
  
  In 2008, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama was welcomed in Berlin by an ecstatic crowd of 200,000 people eager to listen to the new “American messiah,” as the German magazine Der Spiegel dubbed him. Obama descended to the continent just like John Kennedy, Europe’s quintessential U.S. political icon, who in 1963 delivered in Berlin one of […]
  
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• Updated: Reinhold apologizes to Dallas police, embarrassed by arrest

  09-12-2016 18:45
  
  DALLAS — Actor Judge Reinhold has apologized to police, saying he’s embarrassed that he was arrested after a confrontation with security at Dallas Love Field Airport. Police arrested the 59-year-old actor Thursday afternoon on a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge after he refused a Transportation Security Administration screening. It is punishable by a fine of up […]
  
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• Florida Gov. Scott lifts Zika infection zone in Miami Beach

  09-12-2016 16:50
  
  MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Florida’s governor says South Beach is no longer an active infection zone for the Zika virus. Gov. Rick Scott was joined by tourism officials Friday to make the announcement. The first cases of Zika transmission through mosquito bites on the U.S. mainland were reported in July in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood. Health […]
  
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• Updated: At Liberty, hiring of AD from Baylor draws approval . . . and scorn

  09-12-2016 16:42
  
  LYNCHBURG, Va. – They trickled out of the rain and into the classroom, taking their seats behind the long shared desks in Room 116. Many of the students in Religion Hall on Liberty University’s sprawling campushoped to be pastors – not an ambition here but a calling: to someday help interpret the gray areas separating […]
  
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• Senators prepare probe of Russia

  09-12-2016 16:42
  
  Leading Senate Republicans are preparing to launch a coordinated and wide-ranging probe into Russia’s alleged meddling in the U.S. elections and its potential cyberthreats to the military, digging deep into what they view as corrosive interference in the nation’s institutions. Such an aggressive approach puts them on a direct collision course with President-elect Donald Trump, […]
  
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• Army reopens probe into detainee’s death after Special Force soldier’s Fox News interview

  09-12-2016 16:42
  
  The Army’s Criminal Investigation Command has reopened its investigation of an Afghanistan war hero who Army officials said confessed to killing an unarmed Taliban detainee. The service is again scrutinizing former Maj. Mathew Golsteyn after he appeared in a Fox News television interview in October and acknowledged that he had killed a Taliban bombmaker who […]
  
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• Updated: John Glenn, first American to orbit the Earth, dies at 95

  09-12-2016 16:41
  
  John Glenn, who captured the nation’s attention in 1962 as the first American to orbit the Earth during a tense time when the United States sought supremacy over the Soviet Union in the space race, and who rocketed back into space 36 years later, becoming the oldest astronaut in history, died Dec. 8 at a […]
  
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• Updated: Brit fan flies to NYC to propose at 'Ghostbusters' firehouse

  09-12-2016 11:44
  
  A British man flew his girlfriend all the way across the pond to New York City so he could propose…
  
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• S. Korean impeachment sales: Goodbye Park, hello free room

  09-12-2016 11:37
  
  For many South Korean business owners, President Park Geun-hye's impeachment Friday was a moment to celebrate - with a sale.…
  
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• Updated: Report: UK Brexit chief not interested in transitional deal

  09-12-2016 11:28
  
  LONDON — British Brexit Secretary David Davis told London financial-sector bosses that he is “not really interested” in seeking a transitional deal with the European Union to soften the process of the U.K.’s exit from the bloc, the Financial Times reported Friday. The newspaper cited an internal memo of Davis’ Nov. 15 meeting with the […]
  
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• Report: UK Brexit chief not interested in transitional deal

  09-12-2016 11:28
  
  LONDON — The Financial Times reports that British Brexit Secretary David Davis told London financial-sector bosses that he is “not really interested” in seeking a transitional deal with the European Union to soften the process of the U.K.’s exit from the bloc. The newspaper on Friday cites a memo of Davis’ meeting with the City […]
  
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• Updated: What's Bundespraesidentenstichwahlwiederholungsverschiebung?

  09-12-2016 10:53
  
  For all those who don't speak German - and indeed for those who do - here is Austria's word of…
  
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• WNMU WR Ayers is seeing the big picture

  09-12-2016 08:05
  
  Xavier Ayers, as with most men his young age, is on an adventure of discovery.He has w ...
  
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• Prep basketball: Cibola, Hope send boys, girls to Armijo semifinals

  09-12-2016 08:05
  
  The semifinals of the Joe Armijo Classic will be defined by two matchups between Cibola and Hope Chr ...
  
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• New Mexico Bowl: UNM, UTSA offenses built to put up points

  09-12-2016 08:05
  
  New Mexico football coach Bob Davie says UTSA's offense is a lot like Colorado State's, which could...
  
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• MMA: Swanson believes training gives him edge

  09-12-2016 08:05
  
  Cub Swanson doesn't always train at Albuquerque's Jackson-Wink MMA. But when he does, he's all in. ...
  
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• Men’s basketball: 3-point defensive woes are nothing new for Lobos

  09-12-2016 08:05
  
  Here's a 3 for you. And one for you. Oh, and you in the back, the little guy who was averaging just...
  
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• Angel Tree Lighting event honors children lost to violence

  09-12-2016 04:20
  
  There are about 30 ornaments bearing photos of children who were lost in acts of violence adorning a Christmas tree in the center of Civic Plaza. Some of the children were killed over a decade ago. Three ornaments with names of the children shot and killed by their mother’s ex-boyfriend on Monday were just made […]
  
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• Giraffes listed as a vulnerable species after 30-year population plunge

  09-12-2016 03:00
  
  The International Union for the Conservation of Nature says the tallest species on the planet is rarer than previously understood.
  
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• Jury still out after retrial in El Rancho triple murder case

  09-12-2016 02:55
  
  SANTA FE — Jury deliberations will resume again Friday in the triple murder trial of 22-year-old Nicholas Ortiz, who is accused of bludgeoning an El Rancho family with a pickax in 2011. Santa Fe district court Judge Francis Mathew excused the jury late Thursday afternoon after it was unable to reach a verdict after the […]
  
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• Bernalillo County jail officer booked on charge of battery

  09-12-2016 02:36
  
  A correctional officer at the Bernalillo County jail faces a charge of battery in connection with an incident involving a male inmate, a county official said. Christopher Facey, 26, turned himself Thursday after a warrant for his arrest was issued, jail spokeswoman Nataura Powdrell-Moore said. His charges include a count of aggravated battery and a […]
  
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• Updated: Gov’t proposal envisions phone calls on airline flights

  09-12-2016 01:12
  
  WASHINGTON — Airlines could let passengers make in-flight phone calls using Wi-Fi under a proposal from federal regulators. Flight attendants and others have complained that the calls could be disruptive. But the Department of Transportation said Thursday that it envisioned allowing the calls if airlines tell all customers about the policy when they buy their […]
  
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• Updated: Apple chief Tim Cook picked to give MIT commencement speech

  09-12-2016 01:12
  
  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has chosen Apple CEO Tim Cook to deliver its 2017 commencement address. MIT made the announcement on its website Thursday. It says Cook will headline the June 9 ceremony. It calls Cook an advocate for equality and a champion of the environment. MIT President L. Rafael Reif […]
  
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• Gov’t proposal envisions phone calls on airline flights

  09-12-2016 01:12
  
  WASHINGTON — Airlines passengers would be allowed to make phone calls during flights using Wi-Fi with the permission of the air carrier under regulations the Department of Transportation proposed Thursday. Flight attendants and others have complained that the calls could be disruptive. The proposal envisions leaving it up to airlines whether to allow the calls. […]
  
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• Updated: US life expectancy falls, as many kinds of death increase

  09-12-2016 01:11
  
  NEW YORK — A decades-long trend of rising life expectancy in the U.S. could be ending: It declined last year and it is no better than it was four years ago. In most of the years since World War II, life expectancy in the U.S. has inched up, thanks to medical advances, public health campaigns […]
  
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• Updated: Supreme Court pauses Alabama execution of convicted murderer

  09-12-2016 01:11
  
  ATMORE, Ala. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday paused Alabama’s plans to execute a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk, acting after defense lawyers argued that a judge unfairly imposed the death penalty after a jury recommended life in prison. A statement from Justice Clarence Thomas said without explanation that a temporary […]
  
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• Lobo Herrera to attend U.S. U-20 camp

  09-12-2016 01:02
  
  CHICAGO — University of New Mexico sophomore Aaron Herrera  has been selected to attend the U.S. Soccer U-20 Men’s National Team Camp set to take place Dec. 13-20 in Costa Rica, U.S. Soccer announced Thursday. Herrera is no stranger to the opportunity as this December’s camp marks Herrera’s continued presence. U.S. SOCCER RELEASE The team’s head coach, Tab Ramos, named […]
  
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• Harry Reid bids farewell to the Senate where he was both warrior and deal-maker

  09-12-2016 00:00
  
  WASHINGTON – To understand Harry Reid — his soft spoken nature mixed with a brusque demeanor, his early conservative views combined with his modern status as liberal icon — one has to understand Searchlight, Nev. One has to understand how much the retiring Senate minority leader hated his hometown, a boom-or-bust place that was all […]
  
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