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• Lax oversight by US bank regulator failed to catch bad behavior at Wells Fargo

  19-04-2017 23:47
  
  LOS ANGELES — The nation’s top bank regulator knew about problems with Wells Fargo & Co.’s sales practices in 2010 but did not do enough to put an end to the bank’s bad practices, an internal agency review has concluded. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said that its oversight of Wells Fargo […]
  
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• Survivalist convicted of killing trooper in sniper ambush

  19-04-2017 23:41
  
  MILFORD, Pa. — A Pennsylvania man who hid in the forest under cover of night and opened fire with a sniper’s rifle was convicted of capital murder Wednesday in the ambush slaying of a state police trooper he targeted at random in hopes of sparking a revolution. A jury convicted Eric Frein, 33, in the […]
  
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• US Rep Krysten Sinema donates $53,400 to Phoenix group

  19-04-2017 23:32
  
  PHOENIX — A sexual and domestic violence focused-Arizona organization has accepted $53,400 from U.S. Rep. Krysten Sinema, including donations made to her campaign tied to Backpage.com, which has been linked to prostitution. The Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence accepted the money Tuesday, The Arizona Republic reported (http://bit.ly/2pgM3mv ). Part of that money […]
  
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• Updated: AP Explains: How Trump’s ‘Buy American’ order could play out

  19-04-2017 21:24
  
  WASHINGTON — When President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, he sent a characteristically blunt message. “The policy of our government,” Trump declared, “is to aggressively promote and use American-made goods.” For too long, he complained, American companies that have bid on U.S. government contracts — for work ranging from building […]
  
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• Updated: Billionaires, companies power Trump’s record inaugural haul

  19-04-2017 20:14
  
  WASHINGTON — Billionaires, corporations and NFL owners opened their wallets in a big way to help President Donald Trump raise a record-shattering $107 million for his inaugural festivities, records released by the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday show. The amount about doubled the record set by President Barack Obama eight years ago. After giving $5 […]
  
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• Heritage buys Santa Fe’s Inn and Spa at Loretto

  19-04-2017 20:05
  
  The historic Inn and Spa at Loretto is coming under new ownership. Jim Long, founder and CEO of Heritage Hotels and Resorts, Inc., along with an investor group led by Randy Talbot announced today that they are acquiring the property. “The Loretto’s iconic architecture, modeled after Taos Pueblo, make it one of the most photographed […]
  
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• Audit: Federal grant funds tapped for medical marijuana

  19-04-2017 19:56
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An audit by independent investigators with the U.S. Justice Department has determined a New Mexico program that helps crime victims allowed federal grant funds to be used to reimburse the purchase of medical marijuana. The review by the agency’s inspector general was released this week. It identified $7,630 in questioned costs. Officials […]
  
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• Updated: Grand Canyon search for missing hikers aided by Merrell Boot

  19-04-2017 19:43
  
  PHOENIX — A relative of two hikers missing in the Grand Canyon since last weekend says the Merrell Boot Co. is donating search resources to find Lou-Ann Merrell and her 14-year-old step grandson, Jackson Standefer. She is the wife of company co-founder Randy Merrell. The boy’s uncle, Mark McOmie, says the company is providing climbers, […]
  
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• Updated: Virginia gov., who opposes death penalty, urged to spare man

  19-04-2017 18:37
  
  RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia’s Democratic governor is facing mounting pressure to halt next week’s scheduled execution of an inmate whose case has seen two witnesses recant, years after he was convicted of ordering his ex-girlfriend’s killing. Ivan Teleguz is scheduled to receive a lethal injection April 25 unless granted clemency by Gov. Terry McAuliffe. McAuliffe […]
  
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• American Airlines attendants to get 1.6 percent pay increase

  19-04-2017 18:26
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas — American Airlines flight attendants will receive a 1.6 percent wage increase after the union sought a more than 8 percent pay hike. An arbitration panel Tuesday agreed on the lower figure for American’s more than 25,000 workers represented by the Association of Professional Flight Attendants. Fort Worth-based American and the union […]
  
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• Updated: Utah Rep. Chaffetz says he won’t run for re-election

  19-04-2017 18:24
  
  WASHINGTON — Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Republican who doggedly investigated Hillary Clinton before the 2016 presidential election but declined to investigate President Donald Trump, said Wednesday he won’t run for re-election or any other office in 2018. Chaffetz, who has been rumored as a possible candidate for Senate or governor, says that after consulting […]
  
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• Updated: Ex-President George H.W. Bush remains in Houston hospital

  19-04-2017 18:24
  
  HOUSTON — A spokesman for former President George H.W. Bush says the nation’s 41st president remains under observation at a Houston hospital after recovering from “a mild case of pneumonia.” Family spokesman Jim McGrath said Wednesday that the 92-year-old Bush “continues to gain strength … had a good night’s rest, and his spirits are high.” […]
  
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• Police: Man breaks into home, writes notes, eats cookies

  19-04-2017 18:13
  
  FRUITA, Colo. — Colorado officials say a man who broke into a home left handwritten notes in the kitchen, ate cookies, drank milk and took a nap before waking up children to ask for help. The Daily Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/2pRGCGL ) the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office arrested the 33-year-old man on suspicion of felony second-degree […]
  
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• Breaking: Ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez dead after hanging self in cell

  19-04-2017 14:04
  
  BOSTON — Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez hanged himself in his prison cell early Wednesday while serving a life sentence for murder, authorities said. Hernandez, 27, was found by guards at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley just after 3 a.m., Department of Correction spokesman Christopher Fallon said in a statement. The former New England […]
  
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• Updated: Indian officials to lose red beacon lights atop their cars

  19-04-2017 12:42
  
  India's officialdom is set to come down a notch. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Cabinet announced Wednesday that the red beacon…
  
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• Updated: Georgia House race down to 2 candidates, plus Trump, Pelosi

  19-04-2017 10:01
  
  DUNWOODY, Ga. — A Georgia congressional election in a historically conservative district is headed to a runoff that raises the stakes in an early measure for President Donald Trump and both major parties ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. Democrat Jon Ossoff, a 30-year-old former congressional staffer, fell a few percentage points shy of an […]
  
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• Updated: Police: Fresno gunman targeting whites chose 3 men at random

  19-04-2017 09:54
  
  FRESNO, Calif. — Three men were having a seemingly ordinary day in downtown Fresno, California, before they were singled out at random and killed by a black gunman targeting white victims, police said. The men happened to be on the same block, but had no known connection to each other or to the shooter, Kori […]
  
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• Updated: US VP Pence warns North Korea: ‘The sword stands ready’

  19-04-2017 08:33
  
  YOKOSUKA, Japan — From the wind-swept deck of a massive aircraft carrier, Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday warned North Korea not to test the resolve of the U.S. military, promising it would make an “overwhelming and effective” response to any use of conventional or nuclear weapons. Pence, dressed in a green military jacket, said […]
  
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• Tommy, the BioPark’s only sea lion, dies

  19-04-2017 08:05
  
  Sea lion was known for saluting his keepers and visitors
  
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• No changes yet in work on APD reforms

  19-04-2017 08:05
  
  AG Sessions seeks review of all DOJ consent decrees
  
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• NM robots ready to rumble at NASA competition

  19-04-2017 08:05
  
  Students program vehicles to explore and gather small objects in competition organized by UNM
  
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• Contractor to vie for Heinrich’s Senate seat

  19-04-2017 08:05
  
  Mick Rich says he would bring 'different perspective' to NM congressional delegation
  
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• Updated: How a community changed by refugees came to embrace Trump

  19-04-2017 06:10
  
  LEWISTON, Maine — Richard Rodrigue stood in the back of a banquet hall, watching his blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter mingle among her high school classmates. These teenagers speak dozens of languages, and hail from a dozen African nations. They fled brutal civil war, famine, oppressive regimes to find themselves here, at an ordinary high school pre-prom […]
  
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• New: Pedestrian killed in SE ABQ hit and run

  19-04-2017 06:05
  
  Albuquerque police were investigating two car crashes in the southeast area of the city Tuesday night, including a hit and run that left a pedestrian dead, according to a police spokesman. Officer Tanner Tixier said a male pedestrian around 40 years old was struck and killed by a driver near Zuni and Georgia SE around […]
  
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• Lobo Kerr has fastest 1,500 in the world

  19-04-2017 05:29
  
  University of New Mexico sophomore Josh Kerr, whose 1,500-meter performance last week is the best in the world in 2017, earned a pair of accolades Tuesday. Kerr was named national men’s athlete of the week by the Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association on Tuesday morning. The Mountain West Conference bestowed league honors […]
  
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• UNM ski team takes its case to the Regents

  19-04-2017 05:26
  
  Katharine Irwin is on her way to a biology degree at University of New Mexico. The aspiring surgeon had envisioned attending UNM for medical school too. But Irwin, a sophomore on the UNM ski team from Vail, Colo., said her future is far less certain after last week’s announcement that the school would cut the […]
  
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• Updated: Viewership of ‘O’Reilly Factor’ drops without Bill O’Reilly

  19-04-2017 05:15
  
  NEW YORK — Through four days of Bill O’Reilly’s vacation, his show’s viewership declined by 23 percent in the hands of substitutes Dana Perino, Eric Bolling and Greg Gutfeld. O’Reilly is on a nearly two-week vacation at the same time Fox News Channel’s parent company looks into a woman’s accusation that her career was slowed […]
  
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• Police ID man shot and killed at Motel 76

  19-04-2017 02:23
  
  Police have identified the man who was shot and killed at Motel 76 last week as 21-year-old Leroy Garcia. Officer Fred Duran, a spokesman for the Albuquerque Police Department, said Garcia was found dead around 7 a.m. after a reported shooting at the motel on Candelaria near Interstate 25 . “This is being investigated as […]
  
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• Updated: Carrier strike group wasn’t headed toward N. Korea, despite Trump’s saber-rattling

  19-04-2017 01:40
  
  WASHINGTON — An aircraft carrier strike group that the Trump administration had said was headed toward North Korea in a powerful show of force has instead spent the past week thousands of miles away — and heading in the opposite direction. Adm. Harry Harris, who heads U.S. Pacific Command, initially announced in a news release […]
  
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• Updated: US VP Pence assures Japan: America is with you ‘100 percent’

  19-04-2017 01:15
  
  TOKYO — From two continents, top Trump administration officials warned Tuesday that North Korea’s latest failed missile launch was a reckless act of provocation and assured allies in Asia that the United States was ready to work to achieve a peaceful denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. While Defense Secretary Jim Mattis denounced North Korea’s weapons […]
  
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• Updated: Live video feed that showed giraffe birth to be taken down

  19-04-2017 00:51
  
  A livestreamed video of a pregnant giraffe that has enthralled millions of YouTube viewers since February is coming to an…
  
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• Guilty plea entered in killing near homeless camp

  19-04-2017 00:41
  
  SANTA FE — The defendant accused of killing another man in August by hitting him on the head with a rock during a fight pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Tuesday and faces up to 15 years in prison. Anthony Diaz, 27, admitted to the murder of 52-year-old Santiago Quintana in Santa Fe District Court Tuesday […]
  
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