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• Rambo the pet alligator can stay, Florida officials say

  22-12-2016 22:26
  
  A Florida woman is being allowed to keep her 6-foot-long pet alligator at home following a fight with state wildlife…
  
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• Updated: Police: Sandwich links man to recent burglaries in Wyoming

  22-12-2016 22:07
  
  A half-eaten peanut butter and jelly sandwich found at the scene leads Wyoming police to arrest a burglary suspect. The…
  
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• East Valley to get upgraded, bigger 911 dispatch center

  22-12-2016 21:50
  
  MESA, Ariz. — The East Valley is getting a new emergency dispatch center that serves several cities and will be twice the size of the one it currently has. City officials held a dedication ceremony for the new Mesa Regional Dispatch Center on Thursday. The center provides dispatches for Gilbert, Superstition, Queen Creek and Rio […]
  
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• Phoenix to open housing for human trafficking victims

  22-12-2016 21:48
  
  PHOENIX — A vacant rental property in Phoenix will soon be a housing complex for victims of human trafficking. The city says it plans on turning the multi-family building into the Phoenix Starfish Place, a housing network for people who have been trafficked. The building has 15 units and was built in 2013 to serve […]
  
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• A look at key events in Syria’s Aleppo since March 2011

  22-12-2016 21:46
  
  BEIRUT — After the government’s capture of the rebel-held east of the city, here’s a look at key events in Aleppo since the start of Syria’s uprising nearly six years ago: — March 2011: Protests erupt in the southern city of Daraa over the detention of a group of boys accused of painting anti-government graffiti […]
  
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• Updated: Berlin attack victims included Israeli, Pole and Italian

  22-12-2016 19:56
  
  BERLIN — Twelve people were killed and dozens were injured Monday when a truck smashed into a Berlin Christmas market. German authorities have described it as a terror attack most likely perpetrated by a Tunisian with ties to Islamic extremists. Authorities say six of the dead identified so far came from Germany, one each from […]
  
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• Luna County to break ground on $12 million jail expansion

  22-12-2016 19:54
  
  DEMMING, N.M. — Luna County is ready to break ground on its new $12 million jail expansion project. The Deming Headlight reports (http://bit.ly/2hdRRYu ) that groundbreaking for the retrofit and expansion of the Luna County Detention Center is scheduled for Thursday followed by a meet and greet between the general contractor and businesses interested in […]
  
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• Updated: Troubled Berlin attack suspect sought better life in Europe

  22-12-2016 19:47
  
  OUESLATIA, Tunisia — Desperate and drifting, Anis Amri took the path trodden by countless other North African teenagers: an illegal boat journey to Europe in hopes of a better life. He fell into crime instead — and is now suspect No. 1 in the deadly Berlin truck rampage claimed by the Islamic State group. In […]
  
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• Video shows Texas officer forcibly arresting woman, daughter

  22-12-2016 19:44
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas — Police in Texas are investigating a white officer shown on video wrestling a black woman to the ground before arresting her and her teenage daughter. The episode began in a Fort Worth neighborhood Wednesday when an officer was called after Jacqueline Craig argued with a man who she said had confronted […]
  
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• Man accused of sex assault on flight from India

  22-12-2016 19:43
  
  NEWARK, N.J. — A citizen of India living in New Jersey is accused of sexually assaulting a passenger on an Air India flight that landed at Newark International Airport. Federal prosecutors say 40-year-old Ganesh Parker, of Robbinsville, moved from his ticketed seat in business class on Wednesday and sat next to a woman in economy […]
  
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• In humorous video, dad shares downsides of kid's visit

  22-12-2016 17:29
  
  Clothes all over the house, milk left out of the fridge, loud gatherings with friends. These are some of a…
  
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• Updated: Defiance, not fear, as Berlin Christmas market reopens

  22-12-2016 17:27
  
  BERLIN — Berlin stall holder Axel Kaiser recalls hearing a “dull bang” and seeing a nearby wooden Christmas market stand smashed to pieces by a truck. In the next few minutes, he helped tend to dozens of shocked visitors. Three days later, he couldn’t wait to get back to work Thursday at his Weihnachtsterrasse (Christmas […]
  
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• State officials to allow homeless veteran encampment to stay

  22-12-2016 17:27
  
  PHOENIX — Arizona officials have elected to allow a homeless encampment full of veterans to stay where it is. The Arizona Republic reports (http://bit.ly/2hX3UYZ ) that officials with the Arizona Department of Transportation said Tuesday that they will not force the removal of the homeless veterans camping near the Loop 202 in Mesa, but instead […]
  
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• Updated: AP source: Pirates, Ivan Nova agree to $26M, 3-year deal

  22-12-2016 17:26
  
  PITTSBURGH — A person with knowledge of the deal says pitcher Ivan Nova and the Pittsburgh Pirates have agreed to a $26 million, three-year contract. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Thursday because the agreement had not been announced. Pittsburgh acquired Nova from the New York Yankees at the Aug. […]
  
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• Texas lieutenant governor praises North Carolina LGBT law

  22-12-2016 17:19
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is praising the collapse of a deal to repeal North Carolina’s anti-LGBT law as he continues calling for Texas to adopt a similar measure. Patrick said Thursday the North Carolina law known as House Bill 2 is “essential” legislation. The law omits gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender […]
  
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• Police hunt for robbery suspect who shot officer in Texas

  22-12-2016 15:54
  
  BRYAN, Texas — A manhunt is underway for a suspect in a store robbery who shot a police officer in southeast Texas. Bryan police said in a statement that the officer was shot early Thursday after coming across the suspect about half an hour after the robbery at a gas station and convenience store in […]
  
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• Updated: US-based cleric rejects links to Russian envoy’s killing

  22-12-2016 15:53
  
  MOSCOW — A U.S.-based Muslim cleric on Thursday condemned the killing of Russia’s envoy to Turkey and rejected accusations that his movement was behind the attack. Ambassador Andrei Karlov was shot dead by an off-duty policeman in front of stunned onlookers at a photo exhibition in Ankara earlier this week. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan […]
  
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• Updated: Prominent Atlanta lawyer jailed in wife’s shooting death

  22-12-2016 15:52
  
  ATLANTA — A prominent Atlanta attorney has been booked into jail to face charges in the shooting death of his business executive wife. Fulton County Jail records Thursday show that Claud “Tex” McIver has been charged with felony involuntary manslaughter, along with a misdemeanor count of reckless conduct. McIver’s attorney did not immediately respond to […]
  
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• U.S. population growth is lower than at any time since the Great Depression

  22-12-2016 15:50
  
  Last year the United States had the lowest rate of population growth of any year since the Great Depression, according to Census figures released Tuesday. The milestone is due largely to the aging of the population, with more deaths last year than at any time since 2000, according to William Frey, a demographer and senior […]
  
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• Updated: Spain’s ‘El Gordo’ lottery sparks celebrations across Madrid

  22-12-2016 15:50
  
  MADRID — Celebrations erupted across Madrid on Thursday after all the tickets with the top prize-winning number in Spain’s 2.6 billion-euro ($2.7 billion) Christmas lottery were sold in one city neighborhood. The number 66513 appeared on 1,650 tickets in the lottery known as El Gordo (The Fat One), with each ticket holder winning 400,000 euros […]
  
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• Canadians sent home for trying to sneak cat into New Zealand

  22-12-2016 13:43
  
  A Canadian woman who authorities say managed to hide her 4-year-old pet cat Bella in her handbag during a trans-Pacific…
  
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• Updated: Last group to be evacuated from Syria’s Aleppo within hours

  22-12-2016 10:51
  
  BEIRUT — The evacuation of the last remaining civilians and fighters from a rebel-held enclave in eastern Aleppo will be completed in the coming hours, the Red Cross and state TV said Thursday, as more gunmen and civilians braved freezing temperatures to leave. The evacuations were set in motion last week after Syria’s opposition agreed […]
  
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• Trump denounces attack, vows tough immigration plan

  22-12-2016 10:50
  
  PALM BEACH, Fla. — Denouncing the deadly attack on a Christmas market in Germany, President-elect Donald Trump renewed his vow to stop radical terror groups and appeared to suggest a willingness to move ahead with his campaign pledge to ban temporarily Muslim immigrants from coming to the United States. Trump proposed the Muslim ban during […]
  
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• Updated: Europe scrambles to find Tunisian suspect in Berlin attack

  22-12-2016 08:43
  
  BERLIN — Authorities across Europe scrambled Thursday to track down a Tunisian man suspected of driving a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin as one of his brothers urged him to surrender. Nearly three days after the deadly attack that killed 12 people and injured 48 others, the market in the center of the […]
  
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• Rebounding, defending 3s foil Lobos on the road

  22-12-2016 08:05
  
  MILWAUKEE–Mike Bradbury liked most of what he saw from his University of New Mexico women' ...
  
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• Humility lost in most politicians’ messages

  22-12-2016 08:02
  
  Anyone who puts faith in a politician to make his or her life better is worshipping a false god
  
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• Editorial: Low work-participation rate fuels NM income gap

  22-12-2016 08:02
  
  Only 57.5 percent of the state's workforce actually "participate" in the workforce
  
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• Christmas memories will always nourish the living

  22-12-2016 08:02
  
  My mother loved Christmas with her whole heart.
  
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• AG examines Griego’s credit card payments

  22-12-2016 08:02
  
  Search warrant seeks info about possible misuse of campaign funds
  
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• Officials report surge in health plan enrollment amid threat of repeal

  22-12-2016 07:45
  
  Since the enactment of Obamacare, the percentage of uninsured New Mexicans has been cut in half to about 10 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
  
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• Health plan enrollment surges amid threat of repeal

  22-12-2016 07:45
  
  Since the enactment of Obamacare, the percentage of uninsured New Mexicans has been cut in half to about 10 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
  
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• Fighting cancer with fire: Community rallies for ailing teen

  22-12-2016 07:25
  
  Firefighters and classmates attended a lunchtime event Wednesday to lift the spirits of Española Valley High School junior and aspiring fireman Justin Pollard.
  
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• Updated: Uber pulls self-driving cars from California roads

  22-12-2016 03:49
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — Uber pulled its self-driving cars from California roads after state regulators moved to revoke their registrations, officials said Wednesday. The move comes after a week of talks between the ride-hailing company and state regulators failed. Hours after Uber launched the service in its hometown of San Francisco last Wednesday, the Department of […]
  
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• Neal: Lobos aren’t quitting, and he’s not changing course

  22-12-2016 03:22
  
  When you've just won a game over an old-time rival 77-46, as No. 18 Arizona's Sean Miller did Tuesda ...
  
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• Speak Up! Lobo fans miffed at Neal’s performance

  22-12-2016 03:07
  
  LOBO HOOPS HAIKU: Humiliation. Your players don’t respect you. James Borrego, soon! — Carlos Jaicu PAUL KREBS told the Journal that he would wait until the season’s end to evaluate Craig Neal’s performance (atrocious). Of course Krebs should have been gone in 2009 after his hiring of and subsequent antics of Mike Locksley. Yet here […]
  
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• Updated: Friend: Man found decapitated outside ABQ Wal-Mart was homeless

  22-12-2016 02:34
  
  Police say Oklahoma victim’s head has not been found
  
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• Friend: Man found decapitated outside Albuquerque Wal-Mart was homeless

  22-12-2016 02:34
  
  The brief time Clifford Miller spent in Albuquerque was marred by hardship. He had been working for a company doing day labor work, but that dried up about a month ago, and he was left without a place to stay. He couldn’t afford the $140 bus ticket to return to Oklahoma.
  
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• Breaking: I-40 eastbound closed at Wyoming for fatal crash

  22-12-2016 02:34
  
  Interstate 40 eastbound was closed at Wyoming for a fatal crash during rush hour Wednesday evening, according to the Albuquerque Police Department. Spokesman Daren DeAguero said two vehicles were involved in the crash and one person died from his or her injuries. He didn’t say what officers believe caused the crash, or release any other […]
  
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• Española superintendent contests PED allegations

  22-12-2016 02:26
  
  SANTA FE — The Española public schools superintendent is defending his operation of the school district in the face of harsh criticism from the state Public Education Department. In a letter delivered to the PED this week, Superintendent Eric Martinez maintains that Deputy PED Secretary Hipolito Aguilar made false accusations about the Española schools’ administration […]
  
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• Don’t cut the cord too fast

  22-12-2016 02:03
  
  WASHINGTON — Don’t cut that umbilical cord too soon: A brief pause after birth could benefit most newborns by delivering them a surge of oxygen-rich blood.
  
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• Strict rest may not be best medicine for kids’ concussions

  22-12-2016 01:59
  
  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.
  
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• At Trump’s political casting call, looks matter

  22-12-2016 01:42
  
  Donald Trump believes that those who aspire to the most visible spots in his administration should not just be able to do the job, but also look the part. Given Trump’s own background as a master brander and showman who ran beauty pageants as a sideline, it was probably inevitable that he would be looking […]
  
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• Abuse charge filed after child left in frigid car overnight

  22-12-2016 01:42
  
  THORNTON, Colo. — Prosecutors filed a felony child abuse charge Wednesday against a Colorado woman accused of leaving her 2-year-old son alone in a car overnight during a snowstorm when the temperature reached minus 8 degrees. The child was hospitalized with frostbitten feet and hypothermia after he was found Saturday inside the car in the […]
  
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• Aggies, Lafayette to play in 2018 and 2019

  22-12-2016 00:22
  
   LAS CRUCES – The schedule for New Mexico State football in 2018 continues to fill itself out with the announcement of a home-and-home series with Louisiana Wednesday afternoon. New Mexico State plays its final season in 2017 in the Sun Belt Conference, which did not extend the Aggies’ football-only membership beyond that season. The Aggies […]
  
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• Updated: Researchers: Nearly 400 drug addicts helped in police effort

  22-12-2016 00:13
  
  BOSTON — A novel drug addiction program developed in a small Massachusetts fishing town and since replicated in dozens of cities nationwide was able to place almost 400 addicts into treatment nearly each time they sought it during the first year of operation, researchers say in a report being published Thursday in the New England […]
  
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• Schumer-McCain could be a winning team in new Congress

  22-12-2016 00:11
  
  WASHINGTON – Sens. John McCain and Charles Schumer used to have a lousy relationship. The Arizona Republican and New York Democrat came from different backgrounds and focused on distinct legislative priorities. They were two hard-charging senators who were both aggressive in their courtship of the media. The New Yorker and the Arizonan even broke into […]
  
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• Russia’s popularity hits 30-year low in US, new poll finds

  22-12-2016 00:11
  
  Russia’s popularity among Americans has once again dropped to Cold War-era depths, according to a new poll from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs released on Wednesday. The poll found Americans giving Russia an average rating of 32 when asked to rate their feelings toward Russia from 0 to 100. That score is down from […]
  
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• Bankrupt entrepreneur loses legal battle for trophy home

  22-12-2016 00:11
  
  Rodney Hunt, a once-rich-but-now-bankrupt government contracting titan, is losing his beloved $24 million mansion turned party house on the banks of the Potomac River. On Tuesday, an Arlington County judge granted possession of the home to a firm managed by Jeong Kim, a former president of Bell Labs and a co-owner of Verizon Center, the […]
  
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