New Mexico news

• Updated: Explosion rips fireworks market outside Mexico City; 60 hurt

  20-12-2016 23:39
  
  TULTEPEC, Mexico — An explosion ripped through Mexico’s best-known fireworks market on the northern outskirts of the capital Tuesday, injuring scores of people and sending a huge plume of charcoal-gray smoke billowing into the sky. National Civil Protection Coordinator Luis Felipe Puente told Milenio TV that 60 people were hurt but he had no immediate […]
  
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• Updated: Petra Kvitova injured by knife-wielding attacker at her home

  20-12-2016 23:37
  
  PRAGUE — Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova was injured by a knife-wielding attacker at her home on Tuesday and had to undergo surgery on her left hand. An operation that took 3 hours and 45 minutes revealed that the left-handed player’s injuries were “serious,” but “there’s no reason to think she wouldn’t be able to […]
  
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• NM’s public health guardians get holiday food poisoning

  20-12-2016 23:37
  
    SANTA FE — Even the people tasked with safeguarding our health are not immune from the whimsy of germs. That message was driven home at the state Department of Health last week when a holiday luncheon apparently left many participants suffering from food poisoning afterward. That event, which was held in the department’s headquarters […]
  
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• Updated: Four more officials charged with felonies in Flint water crisis

  20-12-2016 19:39
  
  Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette filed another round of criminal charges Tuesday in the ongoing water crisis in Flint, the latest action in a nearly year-long investigation to hold accountable those responsible for a disaster that exposed thousands of children to dangerously high lead levels. Schuette announced felony charges against four people, including two former […]
  
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• Attitudes about cops driven by race, experience, study shows

  20-12-2016 19:38
  
  The Cato Institute recently published the results of a survey of 2,000 people about their attitudes toward policing. The results are pretty striking. First, 68 percent of white people had a favorable view of police, against just 40 percent of blacks and 59 percent of Hispanics. Blacks (73 percent) were much more likely to say […]
  
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• Yes, Donald Trump’s America is full of idiots. But not in the way you think.

  20-12-2016 19:35
  
  The word “idiot” is enjoying something of a renaissance. Searching “Donald Trump idiot” on Google yields nearly 10 million results, and the epithet has become a regular feature in the national media. A recent New York Times op-ed blasted Trump’s “agents of idiocracy,” while a headline from Salon asked, “Who are these idiot Donald Trump […]
  
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• Ruling upholds zoning mandates in medical marijuana law

  20-12-2016 19:35
  
  PHOENIX — An Arizona court says the state’s medical marijuana law is constitutional in requiring counties to approve reasonable zoning regulations and other regulatory paperwork for dispensaries. A Court of Appeals ruling Tuesday says the state law isn’t pre-empted by the federal Controlled Substances Act, a federal law that still makes marijuana illegal. The case […]
  
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• Breaking: Seven outside prosecutors to review Sandy, Perez retrial

  20-12-2016 19:19
  
  Incoming District Attorney Raul Torrez announced Tuesday that a team of sevem prosecutors from aroun ...
  
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• Updated: Tech companies ‘profit from ISIS,’ allege families of Orlando shooting victims in federal lawsuit

  20-12-2016 18:35
  
  In June, a gunman killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in a horrific spate of violence at a gay nightclub in Orlando. Now, the families of some of the victims are suing Google, Twitter and Facebook over their role in allegedly radicalizing the shooter. The families are accusing the tech companies of providing support […]
  
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• Updated: NBC’s ‘The Wall’ is basically a high-tech Plinko game, but viewers probably don’t care

  20-12-2016 18:34
  
  On Monday night, NBC offered a “sneak preview” of “The Wall,” a new game show produced by LeBron James. The ubiquitous host Chris Hardwick announced that “tonight, we’re going to introduce you to a new game.” But is it really new? As many people on Twitter have pointed out, the Wall looks a lot like […]
  
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• The Latest: Arizona Medicaid agency sides with Chamber suit

  20-12-2016 18:34
  
  PHOENIX — The Latest on a legal challenge to Arizona’s voter-approved minimum wage increase (all times local): 10:30 a.m. Arizona’s Medicaid agency is siding with opponents of a voter-approved increase in the minimum wage by arguing in court papers that it is required to spend money because of Proposition 206. The filing contradicts the position […]
  
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• Airports have discovered how to make people happier about waiting for their planes

  20-12-2016 18:34
  
  Airports are getting more love from travelers when they act like a mall. More and more, air passengers are responding positively to the Rodeo Drive-storefronts and gourmet restaurants that continue to pop up across airports, according to J.D. Power’s annual survey of large, North American airports. As amenities on planes have been taken away, the […]
  
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• Updated: Strict rest may not be best medicine for kids’ concussions

  20-12-2016 18:33
  
  CHICAGO — Strict rest may not be the best medicine for kids with concussions, a Canadian study found, challenging the idea that physical activity should be avoided until symptoms disappear. A month after their concussions, ongoing or worse symptoms were more common in children and teens who were inactive during the week following injury, compared […]
  
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• Updated: Will Trump live up to his infrastructure promises?

  20-12-2016 16:04
  
  WASHINGTON — Even as they maneuver for a share of the $1 trillion in spending Donald Trump promised to rebuild America’s roads, bridges and airports, lobbyists for transportation and utility industries are beginning to wonder whether Trump really meant what he said. From the day he formally entered the presidential race to the moment he […]
  
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• Updated: Scotland seeks own future in EU despite UK’s departure

  20-12-2016 16:04
  
  LONDON — Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon offered her proposals Tuesday to protect Scotland’s place in Europe after Britain leaves the European Union, saying it’s possible to keep Scotland in Europe’s single market even after the rest of the U.K. pulls out. Britain voted to leave the EU in June but 62 percent of voters in […]
  
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• Walgreens, Rite Aid shed 865 stores to close $9.4B deal

  20-12-2016 16:03
  
  Walgreens and Rite Aid will sell 865 stores to rival retailer Fred’s for $950 million, possibly removing the final roadblock preventing the tie up between the nation’s largest and third-largest drugstore chains. Wall Street certainly saw it that way, sending shares of Rite Aid up nearly 6 percent before the opening bell Tuesday. Walgreens says […]
  
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• US probes complaints of engine fires in tiny Smart cars

  20-12-2016 16:03
  
  DETROIT — U.S. safety regulators are reviewing eight complaints that the engines in tiny Smart Fortwo cars can catch fire. The investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration covers about 43,000 of the two-seat cars from the 2008 and 2009 model years. The agency says in documents posted Tuesday that in six cases, owners […]
  
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• Strike stops flights of biggest Nigerian airline, union says

  20-12-2016 16:03
  
  LAGOS, Nigeria — Workers who say they’ve been unpaid for months by Nigeria’s biggest airline went on strike Tuesday, halting flights and stranding thousands of passengers days before Christmas. Arik Air operations stopped before dawn, Ahmed Roland Maikudi, vice president of the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers, told The Associated Press. He said […]
  
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• Santa Fe crash kills two on Friday

  20-12-2016 08:05
  
  One victim died at scene, other on way to hospital
  
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• Five teens charged in killing of church deacon

  20-12-2016 08:05
  
  Suspects are in group that's growing more dangerous, police say
  
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• Electoral College rejects bid to block Trump’s victory

  20-12-2016 08:05
  
  New Mexico electors cast votes for Clinton, who carried state
  
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• $17M cost for parking garage exceeds study estimate

  20-12-2016 08:05
  
  Plan is part of Downtown mixed-use development
  
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• Jones powers Aggies to overtime win, 11-2 record

  20-12-2016 07:11
  
  Jemerrio Jones had 23 points and 18 rebounds and Braxton Huggins scored 24 to push the NMSU Aggies past UC-Irvine in overtime in Las Cruces on MOnday night.
  
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• Updated: City faces possible $6 million budget shortfall

  20-12-2016 05:48
  
  Mediocre economic growth in Albuquerque is threatening to blow a $6 million a hole in City Hall’s budget this year. And the problem could be bigger than that — because last year’s revenue came in a little lower than expected, too. That dour assessment surfaced Monday as city councilors wrestled with where to find money […]
  
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• A food industry study tries to discredit advice about sugar

  20-12-2016 05:00 via santafenewmexican.com
  
  A prominent medical journal on Monday published a scathing attack on global health advice to eat less sugar. Warnings to cut sugar, the study argued, are based on weak evidence and can’t be trusted.
  
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• Lobo baseball: Stajduhar, Gonzalez preseason All-Americans

  20-12-2016 04:21
  
  The University of New Mexico baseball team’s Carl Stajduhar and Luis Gonzalez were selected as pre-season All-Americans by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper. Stajduhar, a junior, was selected as the first-team third baseman by CBN after hitting .331 last season with a team-high 18 home runs and 66 RBIs to go along with 17 doubles and 51 […]
  
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• Sports Speak Up! Byrd, Rocky, Neal

  20-12-2016 04:19
  
  I DON’T KNOW who else noticed but when the Lobos scored the clinching TD the clock read 2:22. Markel Byrd wore #22. The Lobos scored 23 points to win the Gildan New Mexico bowl. There are two numbers in Markel’s locker, 22 and 1, the number he was supposed to wear this year. 22+1=23. Markel […]
  
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• Updated: UNM, Arizona renew basketball rivalry

  20-12-2016 04:14
  
  Now, it seems, enough time has passed. The once-heated series between the Arizona Wildcats and New Mexico Lobos that was supposed to have died in 1999 with a Damion Walker buzzer beater and a clock that didn’t pass the time fast enough for Lute Olson’s liking, is back on Tuesday night in Tucson after a […]
  
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• UNM, Arizona renew basketball rivalry

  20-12-2016 04:14
  
  Now, it seems, enough time has passed. The once-heated series between the Arizona Wildcats and New Mexico Lobos that was supposed to have died in 1999 with a Damion Walker buzzer beater and a clock that didn’t pass the time fast enough for Lute Olson’s liking, is back on Tuesday night in Tucson after a […]
  
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• Combat sports: MMA’s Cody East arrested

  20-12-2016 04:08
  
  Los Lunas MMA fighter Cody East was arrested early Sunday morning on felony charges of battery and false imprisonment. East, 28, is being held on $30,000 bond at the Metropolitan Detention Center. According to a criminal complaint, a Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Deputy responded to a call made from a home in southwest Albuquerque at approximately […]
  
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• YAFL: Young Bulldogs building pride

  20-12-2016 04:06
  
  Corley Ayers is a proud Bulldog, having graduated from Albuquerque High in 1992. He played a little football for coach Tom Ryan and was a teammate of Billy Jenkins, who later toiled in the NFL. The Bulldogs were good back then. When Ayers gathers his YAFL Bulldogs, a team of 12-year-olds he has coached for […]
  
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• Beijing denies U.S. claim that China is synthetic drug king

  20-12-2016 03:16 via santafenewmexican.com
  
  BEIJING — U.S. assertions that China is the top source of the synthetic opioids that have killed thousands of drug users in the U.S. and Canada are unsubstantiated, Chinese officials told the Associat
  
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• Does a doctor’s gender affect your chance of survival?

  20-12-2016 03:00 via santafenewmexican.com
  
  CHICAGO — What if your doctor’s gender could influence your chance of surviving a visit to the hospital?
  
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• Man killed in downtown Santa Fe just out of Florida prison system

  20-12-2016 02:48
  
  SANTA FE — The 37-year-old man shot to death in downtown Santa Fe over the weekend had been released from state custody in Florida only last month and was arrested many times in the past in Santa Fe. Monday, Santa Fe police were remaining tight-lipped over the shooting of Rustin Radcliffe, whose body was found […]
  
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• Updated: Vote on bill viewed as Christie attack on newspapers delayed

  20-12-2016 02:01
  
  TRENTON, N.J. — After a furious lobbying effort by the state’s newspapers, a measure supported by Republican Gov. Chris Christie to scrap a requirement that local governments publish legal notices in newspapers was delayed until at least after the new year. Newspapers and other opponents said the measure, which would allow government agencies to publish […]
  
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• Updated: Change to let Christie write book in office won’t get vote

  20-12-2016 02:01
  
  TRENTON, N.J. — A book deal for Republican Gov. Chris Christie will have to wait. Lawmakers on Monday said they won’t vote on a measure that would have given millions of dollars in pay raises to state officials and increased money for legislative staffers while eliminating a rule that Christie can’t profit from a book […]
  
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• Scientist pleads guilty to taking trade secrets to China

  20-12-2016 02:00
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. — A scientist has pleaded guilty to charges he stole sensitive documents from a Connecticut military contractor and transported them to China. Yu Long waived his right to an indictment and pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in New Haven. The 38-year-old Chinese citizen and legal permanent U.S. resident worked until 2014 […]
  
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• Updated: Does a doctor’s gender affect your chance of survival?

  20-12-2016 01:16
  
  CHICAGO — What if your doctor’s gender could influence your chance of surviving a visit to the hospital? A big study of older patients hospitalized for common illnesses raises that provocative possibility — and also lots of questions. Patients who got most of their care from women doctors were more likely to leave the hospital […]
  
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• North Carolina lawmakers will meet Wednesday to consider repealing bathroom bill

  20-12-2016 01:07
  
  North Carolina lawmakers will meet Wednesday for a special session to consider eliminating the state’s so-called “bathroom bill,” clearing the way for legislators to potentially drop a highly criticized measure that prompted lawsuits and cost the state jobs and tourism dollars. This announcement came not long after the city of Charlotte abandoned a nondiscrimination ordinance […]
  
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• Updated: Tucson woman dies week after being struck by boyfriend’s car

  20-12-2016 01:04
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. — A Tucson woman who fell while trying to grab onto her boyfriend’s car as he left following an argument has died. Tucson police said Monday that 20-year-old Alicia Mungia died from her injuries on Saturday. Mungia was injured on Dec. 11 and remained hospitalized in critical condition until her death. Police say […]
  
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• Preparing for 2018, top GOP House outside groups hire manager of successful Ohio Senate campaign

  20-12-2016 01:03
  
  A pair of outside groups focused on helping the GOP in the House of Representatives have hired the engineer of one of the most successful Senate reelection campaigns in 2016 to work on keeping the Republican majority under a Donald Trump presidency. The American Action Network and its sister super PAC, Congressional Leadership Fund, announced […]
  
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• Trump reaches the 270 votes needed in electoral college, according to AP count

  20-12-2016 00:56
  
  Donald Trump clinched the presidency Monday as members of the electoral college cast ballots declaring him the victor, a perfunctory conclusion to the most stunning presidential contest in modern history. Trump became the winner Monday afternoon after electors from Texas cast ballots and put him over the 270 electoral votes needed to win. Results will […]
  
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