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• Prosecutor questions letter clearing JonBenet Ramsey family

  15-12-2016 23:29
  
  BOULDER, Colo. — The Colorado district attorney overseeing the unsolved killing of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey says a former prosecutor should never have written a letter exonerating the girl’s family. Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett said Thursday that the letter clearing the girl’s family from suspicion in her 1996 death is not binding and his […]
  
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• Judge blocks Texas from requiring fetal remains be buried

  15-12-2016 23:29
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge on Thursday blocked until at least next month hotly debated Texas rules mandating burial or cremation of fetal remains that were set to go into effect within days. The ruling by Austin-based U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks begins the latest legal battle for a state whose tough anti-abortion laws […]
  
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• Updated: Legal-marijuana activists celebrate new Massachusetts law

  15-12-2016 23:27
  
  BOSTON — Legal-marijuana activists were in a celebratory mood Thursday as a new voter-approved law took effect in Massachusetts, allowing people 21 and over to possess, grow and use limited amounts of recreational pot. It will be at least another year before marijuana can be legally sold by licensed retailers in the state, and some […]
  
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• Fired lawyer sues Dallas city attorney’s office

  15-12-2016 23:27
  
  DALLAS — A former Dallas assistant city attorney is suing the city attorney’s office alleging sexual harassment and retaliation. Petrina Thompson filed the civil lawsuit last week in Dallas County Court seeking to be rehired and monetary damages. She says she was sexually harassed by another employee and when she filed a complaint, other employees […]
  
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• US withholds aid, calls Duterte killing boasts ‘troubling’

  15-12-2016 23:25
  
  WASHINGTON — The United States said Thursday it is withholding a major aid package to the Philippines and is deeply troubled by a boast from the nation’s leader that he used to drive around looking for criminals to kill. It’s the latest sign of strain in U.S.-Philippine relations since President Rodrigo Duterte launched a crackdown […]
  
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• New: TRD Secretary Demesia Padilla resigns after search warrant filed

  15-12-2016 21:01
  
  SANTA FE — New Mexico’s top tax official, Taxation and Revenue Secretary Demesia Padilla, abruptly resigned today after Attorney General Hector Balderas’ office filed a search warrant as part of an ongoing investigation into whether she improperly used her position to help a former client. In a statement, Martinez said she accepted Padilla’s resignation, effective […]
  
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• Updated: Hall of Famer Rod Carew to have heart, kidney transplant

  15-12-2016 20:26
  
  LOS ANGELES — Baseball Hall of Famer Rod Carew is preparing to receive a new heart and undergo a kidney transplant. His wife Rhonda confirmed the procedures on Thursday through the American Heart Association News. The 71-year-old former hitting star has struggled with heart issues since September 2015 when he had a heart attack and […]
  
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• Updated: Barcelona set to extend Suarez contract to 2021

  15-12-2016 20:26
  
  MADRID — Barcelona has reached a deal to extend the contract of Uruguay striker Luis Suarez to June 2021, securing another piece of its powerful attack for four more seasons. The club recently also extended Neymar’s contract until 2021, and now it will try to seal a deal with Lionel Messi to keep together its […]
  
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• New Massachusetts trooper is 8-inch elf doll named 'Statie'

  15-12-2016 20:25
  
  The newest member of the Massachusetts State Police is 8 inches tall and used to work for Santa Claus. "Statie…
  
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• Updated: ‘Barry,’ on Netflix, explores a pivotal year in the life of a young Barack Obama

  15-12-2016 19:30
  
  Remarkably, two movies have come out this year about the young adulthood of Barack Obama. Even more remarkably, they’re both terrific. Last summer, Richard Tanne wrote and directed “Southside With You,” a speculative but utterly convincing day-in-the-life drama about Obama’s first date with a law-office mentor named Michelle Robinson. With “Barry,” director Vikram Gandhi visits […]
  
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• DuPont to pay $50 million over mercury dumped in river

  15-12-2016 19:21 via santafenewmexican.com
  
  The company based in Wilmington, Delaware, used mercury to manufacture rayon from around 1929 to 1950 and released the chemical into the Virginia River.
  
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• Updated: Colorado’s Mike MacIntyre wins AP Coach of the Year

  15-12-2016 18:50
  
  BOULDER, Colo. — Mike MacIntyre has the reputation as a turnaround artist. Give him a program, any program, and he will transform it. Colorado, though, had the looks of being the sort of program that not even MacIntyre could fix. After three years that resulted in a grand total of 10 victories, MacIntyre led the […]
  
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• Gas Co.’s parent firm pumps $5M into NM economic development

  15-12-2016 18:40
  
  Some of New Mexico’s budding entrepreneurship and business innovation programs got a $1 million boost recently from Emera Inc., the Canadian firm that acquired New Mexico Gas Co. Emera donated between $100,000 and $500,000 to four entrepreneurial programs in recent weeks, including $500,000 for the city of Albuquerque’s Innovation Central initiative, $200,000 for the University […]
  
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• US average 30-year mortgage rate rises to 4.16 percent

  15-12-2016 18:23
  
  WASHINGTON — Long-term U.S. mortgage rates climbed for the seventh straight week following Donald Trump’s election victory, again marking new highs for the year. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac said Thursday the average rate on a 30-year fixed rate loan rose this week to 4.16 percent from 4.13 percent the previous week. The benchmark rate is […]
  
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• Breaking: Feds: NM pair helped steal $50 million in international fraud ring

  15-12-2016 18:23
  
  A New Mexico pair has been arrested in a massive international scheme to defraud investors in which they and other accomplices made off with $50 million from investors across the globe, according to a federal indictment filed this week.
  
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• Mixing metal and wood

  15-12-2016 18:20
  
  Kitchen trends today incorporate a variety of metals, finishes and woods. Don’t be afraid to try it. Several of those spectacular kitchens we see in magazines have a mix of metal finishes, wood tones and painted cabinetry. You can achieve the same aesthetic in your home. The first step is finding out which materials you’d […]
  
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• Updated: EU mired in bickering with parliament ahead of Brexit talks

  15-12-2016 16:41
  
  BRUSSELS — A European Union summit where 27 leaders were supposed to show a united stand in exit negotiations with Britain quickly descended into discord Thursday when the EU legislature demanded a much bigger role in the Brexit talks. Even though the EU Parliament will have to approve any Brexit scenario at the end of […]
  
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• Updated: Border cities worry that ending NAFTA would hurt economies

  15-12-2016 16:41
  
  LAREDO, Texas — Donald Trump’s only visit to the U.S.-Mexico border while running for president was a stop in Laredo that lasted less than three hours. On some days, that’s not long enough for 18-wheelers hauling foreign-made dishwashers and car batteries to lurch through the gridlocked crossing. Trump’s campaign promise to tear apart the North […]
  
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• 21st Century Fox to take over European broadcaster Sky

  15-12-2016 16:41
  
  LONDON — Rupert Murdoch’s media giant Twenty-First Century Fox has agreed to take over European broadcaster Sky PLC in a 11.7 billion pound ($14.6 billion) deal, the companies said Thursday. The deal values the shares in London-based Sky at 10.75 pounds ($13.41) each. It is not expected to be complete before the end of 2017. […]
  
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• Updated: Closings expected in South Carolina church shooting trial

  15-12-2016 16:38
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. — In the days after nine black worshippers were killed in their Charleston church at the end of Bible study, President Barack Obama called Dylann Roof blinded by hate and Charleston’s mayor said he was “pure, pure concentrated evil.” Now some 18 months later, the people asked by the government to judge Roof […]
  
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• FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announces he is stepping down

  15-12-2016 16:38
  
  WASHINGTON – The nation’s top telecommunications regulator said Thursday that he will step down at the end of President Barack Obama’s term, paving the way for President-elect Donald Trump to nominate a successor when he takes office in January. Tom Wheeler, the Obama appointee who has led the agency for three years, was the driving […]
  
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• Updated: Inflatable love doll gift to minister sparks furor in Chile

  15-12-2016 13:25
  
  Chileans are in an uproar over a Cabinet minister being given an inflatable sex doll with a note saying "to…
  
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• Updated: Eurozone economy appears robust as inflation pressures mount

  15-12-2016 11:37
  
  LONDON — The eurozone economy is ending 2016 robustly and inflation pressures are growing, a key survey showed Thursday, in a combination that suggests the European Central Bank’s stimulus efforts are working. Financial information company IHS Markit said its purchasing managers’ index, a gauge of activity in the manufacturing and services sectors, held at 53.9 […]
  
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• Eurozone business activity ends year on upbeat note

  15-12-2016 11:37
  
  LONDON — A survey shows that business activity across the 19-nation eurozone is growing at a relatively strong pace at the end of the year thanks to an upturn in manufacturing. The purchasing managers’ index, a gauge of activity in the manufacturing and services sectors, held at 53.9 points in December, the same as in […]
  
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• UNM’s 2013 football recruiting class has come of age

  15-12-2016 08:05
  
  The night of Aug. 31, 2013, was one of frustration for that year's UNM football freshman recruiting...
  
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• NHCC visual arts director named to museum board

  15-12-2016 08:05
  
  New Mexico is represented on a national board. Tey Marianna Nunn, the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s director of visual arts, was recently confirmed as a member of the National Museum and Library Services Board. The entity is an advisory body that includes the director and deputy directors of the Institute of Museum and Library Service […]
  
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• Neal shakes up practice, to make lineup changes

  15-12-2016 08:05
  
  The effort, at least for one afternoon practice Wednesday at the Rudy Davalos Center, was anything b ...
  
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• College football: Lobos fill holes with six JC signings

  15-12-2016 08:05
  
  The New Mexico Lobos launched their 2017 football recruiting class with a major contribution from a...
  
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• Boxing: Maldonado is readier this time

  15-12-2016 08:05
  
  The last time Fidel Maldonado Jr. went for a great leap forward, he leaped before he looked.
  
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• VA hospital in ABQ ranked in bottom 10

  15-12-2016 07:40
  
  But official says medical center is 'providing high-quality care'
  
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• Deadly street-racing crash spurs push for tougher laws

  15-12-2016 07:40
  
  Suspect in collision that killed girl faces no more than 6 years in prison if convicted
  
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• Frank: Settlement with regents most pragmatic course

  15-12-2016 07:39
  
  President says it should not be viewed as concession
  
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• Determined girl celebrates debut as ballerina for a day

  15-12-2016 07:38
  
  She dreams, as many little girls do, of dancing as a ballerina, endlessly, effortlessly pirouetting, ...
  
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• Santa Fe gears for ‘sanctuary’ fight

  15-12-2016 07:35
  
  SANTA FE–Santa Fe is gearing up for a fight, if it comes to that.At a rally...
  
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• Asian shares extend losses after Fed rate hike, dollar eases

  15-12-2016 06:06
  
  TOKYO — Shares bounced in and out of negative territory in Asia on Thursday after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates overnight. The quarter percentage point rate increase, the second in a decade, was widely expected although investors were surprised to see the Fed project three more increases for 2017. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s Nikkei 225 […]
  
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• Warrant issued for man suspected of anti-police graffiti in Belen

  15-12-2016 03:36
  
  An arrest warrant was issued Wednesday for a man accused of spray painting obscenities and anti-police sentiments around Belen following the fatal crash of a Valencia County Sheriff’s deputy, according to a lieutenant with the Belen Police Department. Lt. Joe Portio said officers are looking for Daniel Kota, 28, on 11 counts of unauthorized graffiti, […]
  
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• A ‘Stonehenge,’ and a mystery, rise in the Amazon

  15-12-2016 03:00 via santafenewmexican.com
  
  CALÇOENE, Brazil — As the foreman for a cattle ranch in the far reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, Lailson Camelo da Silva was razing trees to convert rain forest into pasture when he stumbled across a
  
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• Questa officials hope water system ready to restart soon

  15-12-2016 01:57
  
  SANTA FE — The Northern New Mexico village of Questa is close to getting running water to its residents after eight days of being dry, and the mayor is asking them to be patient as a new well is being created and tested. Mayor Mark Gallegos said Wednesday that Questa, located between Taos and the […]
  
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• Birth defects are common for Zika-infected pregnant women in the U.S.

  15-12-2016 01:38 via santafenewmexican.com
  
  About 6 percent of Zika-infected pregnant women in the United States had a baby or fetus with at least one birth defect related to the viral infection, according to a new report by the Centers for Dis
  
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• Updated: Colorado to try killing bears, lions to improve deer numbers

  15-12-2016 01:24
  
  FORT COLLINS, Colo. — The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission has approved an experiment to see if killing mountain lions and bears will boost the state’s declining mule deer population. The plan approved Wednesday will test whether removing some lions and bears, which prey on deer, will result in higher deer survival rates. Up to […]
  
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• Pueblo police: Group lights patrol car on fire, flees scene

  15-12-2016 01:24
  
  PUEBLO, Colo. — Police have arrested one of three people accused of trying to light two patrol cars on fire before leading officers on a short pursuit near downtown Pueblo. Officers and sheriff’s deputies were investigating two stolen vehicles at a home late Tuesday night when three people in an SUV drove by and threw […]
  
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• High court to hear ’84 murder case

  15-12-2016 01:24
  
  WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Wednesday announced it will hear arguments in a 1984 high-profile murder case that resulted in eight District of Columbia men being sentenced to prison for the brutal sexual assault and murder of a Northeast Washington woman. The men were convicted in 1985 in the beating death of Catherine Fuller, […]
  
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• Updated: Trump’s choice for top diplomat is no fan of sanctions

  15-12-2016 01:23
  
  WASHINGTON — If there’s one thing Republicans and Democrats have agreed on in foreign policy, it is the power of sanctions. But Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of state has seen things differently. Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, who has said he has a close relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, opposed the sanctions levied […]
  
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• Trump transition says request for names of climate scientists was ‘not authorized’

  15-12-2016 00:31
  
  The Trump transition team appeared to back away from a controversial questionnaire sent to the Energy Department last week, which had asked for the names of department staff who had worked on several climate change initiatives under President Barack Obama. “The questionnaire was not authorized or part of our standard protocol,” a Trump transition official […]
  
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• Yahoo says 1 billion user accounts hacked

  15-12-2016 00:23
  
  Yahoo said Wednesday that 1 billion user accounts — meaning most of the Internet giant’s customers worldwide — were hacked by a “state-sponsored” attacker in 2013, leading to the release of user names, telephone numbers, dates of birth and other personal information. Report of the hack, coming after the announcement of a separate hack affecting […]
  
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• Updated: Tapestry from Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest returning to Germany

  15-12-2016 00:23
  
  DALLAS — Growing up, Cathy Hinz and her five siblings would run up and down the stairs at their Minneapolis home, one hand on the banister, the other skimming a memento hanging on the wall that their father had brought back after fighting in World War II: a 16th century tapestry that once graced Adolf […]
  
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• CDC issues Texas city warning for pregnant women after Zika

  15-12-2016 00:23
  
  DALLAS — Federal health officials say pregnant women should consider postponing travel to Brownsville, Texas, because of concerns about mosquitoes there spreading the Zika virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the warning Wednesday. It advises doctors to tell pregnant women and their sex partners to take precautions and to consider putting off […]
  
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• The biggest names in tech just made nice with Trump

  15-12-2016 00:02
  
  NEW YORK CITY – A dozen or so technology executives filed into a conference room on the 25th floor of Trump Tower Wednesday wearing suits not usually seen in Silicon Valley. Their combined net worth – at least $136 billion – was gilded even for the likes of Trump Tower. After months of acrimony that […]
  
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