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• Updated: More arrests in alleged MS-13 slaying of N.J. man lured to woods in Maryland

  06-01-2017 23:44
  
  Five suspects have been arrested in a gang-style slaying in which prosecutors say the victim was lured to Maryland from New Jersey under a ruse that he would be meeting a woman with whom he had been communicating on Facebook. “This is all MS-13 related,” Montgomery County Assistant State’s Attorney Marybeth Ayres said during a […]
  
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• Lawyers finish arguments in Nebraska barrel body case

  06-01-2017 23:33
  
  BRIDGEPORT, Neb. — Prosecutors and defense lawyers have completed their arguments in the trial of a Nebraska man accused of killing a Colorado man in 2014 and stuffing his body in a barrel. The Scottsbluff Star-Herald reports (http://bit.ly/2jcVlZA ) jurors would begin deliberating Friday in the case against 25-year-old Zachary Mueller, who has pleaded not […]
  
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• Updated: Behind the bar, ‘the only Oscar at the Golden Globes’

  06-01-2017 23:29
  
  BEVERLY HILLS, California — Win or lose, Hollywood’s biggest stars will be looking forward to Oscar once again at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards. But not necessarily THAT Oscar. As longtime bartender in the show’s off-camera green room, Oscar Zuleta has toasted with Sean Connery, gotten a head rub from Tom Hanks and shared a selfie […]
  
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• Updated: Your car wants to say hello. And that’s only the start.

  06-01-2017 23:25
  
  Toyota’s empathetic car of the future is there for you. You’ve had a frustrating day at work; it plays soft music and lowers the temperature. You’re lost in an unfamiliar neighborhood; it offers to take over the driving. You start to nod off at the wheel; it taps you on the shoulder and starts up […]
  
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• Updated: US designates election infrastructure as ‘critical’

  06-01-2017 23:25
  
  WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Friday that he’s designating U.S. election systems as critical infrastructure, a move that will provide more federal help for states to keep election systems safe from tampering. “Given the vital role elections play in this country, it is clear that certain systems and assets of election infrastructure […]
  
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• US rig count up 7 this week to 665; New Mexico adds 3

  06-01-2017 20:39
  
  HOUSTON — The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased by seven this week to 665. A year ago, 664 rigs were active. Depressed energy prices have curtailed exploration, although the rig count has been rebounding in recent weeks. Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. said Friday that […]
  
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• New Santa Fe DA Serna hires on predecessor

  06-01-2017 19:54
  
  SANTA FE — New Santa Fe District Attorney Marco Serna said Thursday that he hired his predecessor, Jennifer Padgett, to be one of his chief deputies. Padgett was selected by Gov. Susana Martinez to head the office Dec. 2015 after Angela “Spence” Pacheco announced that she was retiring before the last year of her term. […]
  
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• Duel between the nice-guy Canadian Ryans could determine ‘Deadpool’ award chances

  06-01-2017 19:44
  
  So does a superhero film really have a chance in “Hell or High Water” of winning at this weekend’s Golden Globe Awards? That depends on the duel between the nice-guy Canadian Ryans. Some industry watchers were surprised when Ryan Reynolds was nominated for best musical/comedy performance, and even more so that his “Deadpool” was nominated […]
  
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• Police respond to reports of shots fired at Fort Lauderdale airport

  06-01-2017 19:43
  
  Authorities responded Friday afternoon to reports of possible gunfire at the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, international airport. A spokeswoman for the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said Friday that officials were looking into the reports of gunshots, but said she could not provide further information. The Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport posted on Twitter about “an ongoing incident” […]
  
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• Updated: Dow Jones average tops 20,000 level for first time

  06-01-2017 19:42
  
  NEW YORK – The closely watched Dow Jones industrial average reached historic levels on Friday, breaching 20,000 points for the first time as the global economy continues to strengthen. In what some are calling the “Trump rally,” investors have pushed U.S. stocks to new heights in anticipation that the president-elect will work with the Republican-led […]
  
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• Authorities on alert for human trafficking at stock show

  06-01-2017 18:46
  
  DENVER — Authorities are on high alert for human trafficking as crowds come to Denver for the National Western Stock Show. KUSA-TV reports (http://on9news.tv/2ijRDgI ) that Deputy Shay Haney with the Adams County Sheriff’s Office says the large number of tourists coming to the show can attract human traffickers. The stock show attracted more than […]
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Alike tales of actors’ car trouble are false

  06-01-2017 18:37
  
  Widely shared stories about celebrities experiencing car trouble and being helped out by local residents are false. Several stories in recent weeks mention actors including Bill Murray, Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell having broken-down cars and getting aid from good Samaritans in small and medium-sized towns across the country. The nearly identical stories vary in […]
  
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• The Limited to close all brick-and-mortar shops

  06-01-2017 18:35
  
  WASHINGTON — More grim news for malls as women’s apparel designer and retailer The Limited says it will close all its brick-and-mortar stores at the end of this weekend. The New Albany, Ohio company says it will continue to operate online only after the Jan. 8 closures. The Limited has one store in Albuquerque at […]
  
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• Updated: US stocks dip as December hiring report fails to inspire

  06-01-2017 18:34
  
  NEW YORK — U.S. stocks are mostly lower Friday morning. The federal government’s December jobs report didn’t excite investors, but it was solid enough to suggest interest rates will keep rising. That’s sending big dividend payers lower. Technology companies are rising and the Nasdaq composite continues to set records. KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial […]
  
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• This Louisiana town has a serious problem with lead in its water. It won’t be the only one this year.

  06-01-2017 18:31
  
  In the tiny town of St. Joseph, Louisiana, a local preacher has temporarily suspended baptisms, figuring that if officials don’t want people drinking the tainted water, he ought not to be plunging them into it, either. “I just don’t feel comfortable immersing people in that water,” Pastor Donald Scott told the Advocate, a Baton Rouge […]
  
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• Updated: US trade deficit climbs to $45.2 billion in November

  06-01-2017 14:33
  
  WASHINGTON — The U.S. trade deficit in November rose to the highest level in nine months as imports of oil and other foreign goods increased, while American exports fell for a second month. The trade deficit jumped 6.8 percent to $45.2 billion, the largest imbalance since February, the Commerce Department reported Friday. Exports edged down […]
  
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• Struggling Hamburg names Jens Todt as sporting director

  06-01-2017 14:19
  
  HAMBURG, Germany — Relegation-threatened Hamburger SV appointed former youth team coordinator Jens Todt as sporting director on Friday. The 47-year-old Todt signed a two-year deal and has already joined the team at its winter training camp in Dubai, the Bundesliga club said. Todt was previously sporting director at second-division club Karlsruher SC. He fills the […]
  
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• Updated: Vanek, Coreau power Red Wings past Kings 4-0

  06-01-2017 14:18
  
  LOS ANGELES — The Detroit Red Wings have plenty of work to do if they’re going to make the playoffs for the 26th consecutive season. The effort they displayed against the Los Angeles Kings was a good start, harnessing the speed of promising second-year forward Andreas Athanasiou to lift an erratic offense and come away […]
  
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• Updated: Raonic beats Nadal, keeps Brisbane title defense on track

  06-01-2017 14:18
  
  BRISBANE, Australia — Rafael Nadal was up a set and had a break point against defending champion Milos Raonic when he sent a forehand just wide. It was a mistake the 14-time Grand Slam champion wouldn’t recover from. Raonic made the most of the reprieve, holding serve in that fifth game of the second set […]
  
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• Updated: Obama derides ‘reckless’ plan to repeal now, replace later

  06-01-2017 14:17
  
  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama derided as “reckless” on Friday a Republican plan to repeal his health care law now and replace it later, predicting that the replacement may never come. In an opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine, Obama sought to dispel the notion that Republicans could fulfill their campaign promises […]
  
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• Bank of England economist: Brexit predictions were wrong

  06-01-2017 12:37
  
  LONDON — The Bank of England’s chief economist says forecasters got it wrong when they predicted a sharp economic downturn if Britain voted to leave the European Union. Andy Haldane says the country’s strong economic performance since the June referendum has been a surprise, and the economic forecasting profession “is to some degree in crisis.” […]
  
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• Updated: Eurozone economy sees more evidence of a pickup

  06-01-2017 11:49
  
  LONDON — Further evidence emerged Friday to show that the 19-country eurozone economy ended 2016 strongly and that it’s poised for a period of faster growth, at least until a run of elections that have the potential to cloud confidence. In a wide-ranging survey across the single currency bloc, the European Union found business and […]
  
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• Updated: Dylann Roof cold to victims, but apologized to his parents

  06-01-2017 09:54
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. — Before Dylann Roof was arrested for killing nine black church members, he scribbled a note to his mother, apologizing for all the repercussions his actions would cause. Weeks later, in a jailhouse journal, he wrote that he had no regrets. The evidence, along with his manifesto, hundreds of photos and a confession […]
  
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• Updated: Classified report on Russia, election hacking going to Trump

  06-01-2017 09:47
  
  WASHINGTON — The nation’s top intelligence officials are making their most detailed and persuasive case yet to President-elect Donald Trump that Russia interfered in this year’s U.S. political process. The officials — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan and FBI Director James Comey — are preparing to point to multiple motives […]
  
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• Updated: GOP has Trump’s back as he questions US intelligence

  06-01-2017 09:39
  
  WASHINGTON — A few years ago President Barack Obama came under conservative fire for choosing, at times, to read his daily intelligence briefings, rather than receive them in-person. Republican Rep. Paul Ryan was among those piling on. “I have a hard time comprehending that, because the primary job of the commander in chief is to […]
  
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• Sandia Prep’s Madie Trainor scores 59

  06-01-2017 08:05
  
  On the list of all-time great single-game performances in the history of girls basketball in New Mex ...
  
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• Men’s basketball: UNM minus outside shooting threat

  06-01-2017 08:05
  
  Early in the first half of Wednesday night's Mountain West basketball game in Logan, Utah, the Utah...
  
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• Men’s basketball: Aggies stay hot; open WAC play with a win at UMKC

  06-01-2017 08:05
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo.–Braxton Huggins scored a career-high 31 points and New Mexico State won i ...
  
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• Man accused of luring young girl pleads guilty

  06-01-2017 08:02
  
  A man accused of using a puppy to lure a 7-year-old girl into his yard before molesting her pleaded...
  
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• ‘A Monster Calls’ – Dark reality

  06-01-2017 08:02
  
  Film explores unbearable pain of losing a parent
  
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• Santa Fe gets EPA grant

  06-01-2017 03:27
  
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, New Mexico Environment Department and the city of Santa Fe on Friday announced at a news conference the city will receive  $150,000 in services through an EPA “toolkit” for managing stormwater pollution. Specifically, the package will include a step-by-step guide to help the community develop long-term stormwater plans, a web-based […]
  
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• Updated: Cat that fell from moving car on highway is found alive

  06-01-2017 02:54
  
  A cat that fell from a moving car on a Massachusetts highway on Christmas Day has been found alive. Owner…
  
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• Cat that fell from moving car on highway is found alive

  06-01-2017 02:54
  
  A cat that fell from a moving car on a Massachusetts highway on Christmas Day has been found alive. Owner…
  
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• Conservatives ready to support $1 trillion hole in the budget

  06-01-2017 01:42
  
  Some of the most conservative members of Congress say they are ready to vote for a budget that would – at least on paper – balloon the deficit to more than $1 trillion by the end of the decade, all for the sake of eventually repealing the Affordable Care Act. In a dramatic reversal, many […]
  
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• Two firms file liens on Trump’s D.C. hotel

  06-01-2017 01:41
  
  WASHINGTON – Their employees installed plumbing, air conditioning, baseboards and crown molding in Donald Trump’s $212 million luxury District of Columbia hotel. Afterward, they say, they were stiffed. Two Washington-area small businesses have filed liens on the Trump International Hotel, saying they have not been compensated for their work completing the 263-room project, which the […]
  
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• Dylann Roof says it’s ‘not fair’ he has to hear so much from the loved ones of his victims

  06-01-2017 01:41
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. — Federal prosecutors on Thursday fully unveiled the racist screed that Dylann Roof penned from a jail cell after he shot and killed nine innocent churchgoers here, using the hate-filled rant to draw a sharp contrast with emotional testimony from the loved ones of those Roof killed. The journal brought a dramatic end […]
  
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• Updated: Turkey: Cease-fire violations in Syria are obstacle to talks

  06-01-2017 01:10
  
  UNITED NATIONS — Turkey’s foreign minister said Thursday that cease-fire violations in Syria are the main obstacle to holding peace negotiations later this month and he called on the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions on those continuing the violence. Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters at U.N. headquarters where he discussed Syria with new Secretary-General Antonio […]
  
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• Updated: How mobile video is changing the way we witness crime

  06-01-2017 01:08
  
  NEW YORK — Mobile video is changing the way we witness crime, from live footage of a mentally disabled man tortured by four assailants , to a recording that led to the manslaughter conviction of an Israeli soldier , to the body cameras designed to keep police accountable. We’re all still wrestling with the implications. […]
  
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• Jeremy Stone, arms-control advocate who led activist science group, dies at 81

  06-01-2017 00:55
  
  Jeremy Stone, a persistent and outspoken activist on such issues as arms control, human rights and international scientific cooperation, whose ideas helped form the framework of the U.S.-Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, died Jan. 1 at his home in Carlsbad, California. He was 81. A friend, Mark McCarty, said Stone had prostate cancer, but […]
  
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• Updated: Ohio becomes 1st state to ban plywood on vacant properties

  06-01-2017 00:32
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Boarded-up property will no longer be synonymous with blight in Ohio. The state became the first in the nation this week to outlaw the use of plywood on properties certified as vacant and abandoned. The prohibition was tucked into one of 28 bills signed Wednesday by Republican Gov. John Kasich. It takes […]
  
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• Updated: USTA hopes new 64-acre facility will improve American tennis

  06-01-2017 00:27
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. — The United Stated Tennis Association unveiled its sprawling new national campus, a first of its kind training facility that USTA officials hope in time produces more elite American men’s and women’s players. The $63 million USTA National Campus features an indoor facility and 100 outdoor tennis courts with a variety of playing […]
  
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• Updated: This Russian city says ‘Don’t call us Siberia’

  06-01-2017 00:23
  
  YEKATERINBURG, Russia – Where is Siberia? You know the place: bears, vodka, oil, very big, awfully remote, once filled with political prisoners (and now home to some of Russia’s cutting-edge computer geniuses). But where does it start? Encyclopaedia Britannica, for one, describes it as that vast region of Russia “that extends from the Ural Mountains […]
  
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