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• Developer cuts business park size in Unit 10

  15-08-2020 16:00
  
  Construction is underway for the Murphy’s Express convenience store and gas station at 4051 Southern Blvd. A majority of the brand’s locations are near a Walmart, and it provides fuel to approximately 1.6 million customers a day, according to the Murphy USA website. Rio Rancho Governing Body members approved the transfer of a retail liquor license to the Southern Boulevard location Thursday night. Amy Byres photo.
  The Rio Rancho Governing Body has approved changes to the Los Diamante
  
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• Freed from Belarus jails, protesters recount beatings

  15-08-2020 09:36
  
  MINSK, Belarus — They emerged dazed, shaken and in tears from the detention center in Minsk, to be met by waiting relatives. They displayed the black-and-blue bruises on their bodies, saying police had beaten them mercilessly. One teenager asked his weeping mother to look away.
  Authorities in Belarus have freed at least 2,000 of about 7,000 people who had been pulled off the streets by riot police in the days following a disputed election that kept the country’s iron-fisted leader, P
  
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• To stop fake news, sue the sloppy journalists

  15-08-2020 08:02
  
  An important legal settlement was reached recently that pretty much flew under the radar. This settlement — a $250 million defamation case against the Warshington Post — could go a long way toward curbing irresponsible journalism. It’s a sign that at least some Americans are going to fight back against fake news.
  The lawsuit was brought by the family of teenager Nick Sandmann who was wrongly painted as a racist who had taunted a Native American elder named Nathan Phillips.
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• Editorial: Outer space could be NM’s newest economic frontier

  15-08-2020 08:02
  
  N.M. leaders have been talking about diversifying the economy for years, pushing green-energy initiatives, tourism, professional sports and larger and larger subsidies for the film industry. However, the most far-reaching opportunity may have been looming overhead all along – outer space.
  Spaceport America
  The concept of embracing outer space for economic development is nothing new in New Mexico. Supporters of Spaceport America – the world’s first purpose-built Spaceport that o
  
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• Biden offers Latinos big step backward

  15-08-2020 08:02
  
  I am proud to serve on President Trump’s new White House Hispanic Prosperity Initiative so that I can help protect and secure the gains Hispanic Americans have made under this administration.
  Hispanic Americans are now the second-largest demographic in the country. As New Mexicans know, we have always made up a plurality of this state, and many of our families, mine included, have been in this country since before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. Latinos have nothing to gain from the
  
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• All hardworking New Mexicans need an equal access to unemployment aid

  15-08-2020 08:02
  
  Immigrant families like mine work hard to provide for our families and contribute so much to our communities. I work in maintenance at a local hospital to support myself and my son. With the layoffs brought on by COVID-19, I, like many of us, lost my job and had to seek out unemployment benefits.
  Even though I am eligible for unemployment, I was never able to successfully submit my unemployment insurance application because I couldn’t get help in Spanish.
  There were no Spanish instructions
  
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• ‘Window visits’

  15-08-2020 05:35
  
  Eloy Gonzales, 72, greets Carli the beagle from High Desert Therapy Dogs outside his room at Avamere Rehabilitation at Fiesta Park. The dogs visit on Wednesdays and Saturdays, but because of COVID-19 restrictions the visits must be outside through the window. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis / Albuquerque Journal)
  It’s a warm summer morning, and 10 dogs are gathered in the parking lot, tethered to humans by leashes sleeved with small, snazzy turquoise and black tags bearing their names and their affi
  
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• UNM law school grapples with aftermath of cyberattack

  15-08-2020 05:30
  
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  Classes begin Monday, and a cyberattack against the University of New Mexico School of Law is still causing havoc with some professors’ lesson plans, according to the dean.
  Some professors are fine, because their important documents were cached in their computer or saved elsewhere, said School of Law Dean Sergio Pareja. But others can’t see their course notes, prior tests, articles or drafts of research papers, he said.
  “This data,&rdqu
  
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• Teachers union launches survey on hybrid schooling

  15-08-2020 05:30
  
  The Albuquerque Teachers Federation is calling for feedback from certified educators about getting back into the classroom.
  The union recently launched its “Hybrid Schooling: What do you want to do?” survey, asking educators in Albuquerque Public Schools whether they prefer to keep working from home when schools are able to move from remote learning to hybrid, which is a mix of in-person and online class. And it asks when people would feel comfortable working on site with students, a
  
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• NM senators challenge postmaster general

  15-08-2020 05:30
  
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  U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M.
  New Mexico Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich on Thursday joined other Senate Democrats in signing a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy expressing concern about policy changes they say are causing mail delivery delays and that will make it more difficult and more expensive for citizens to vote by mail.
  New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, president of the National Association of Secretaries of Sta
  
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• Hopefuls in key US House race in NM OK 2 debates

  15-08-2020 05:30
  
  Democratic U.S. Rep. Xochitl Torres Small and Republican challenger Yvette Herrell have agreed to at least two televised debates in a closely watched race in southern New Mexico.
  And they may be looking for more.
  Torres Small and Herrell said this week they agreed to participate in a KOB-TV debate, and another sponsored by KOAT-TV and the Albuquerque Journal.
  Both say they’d like to add some more debates in the El Paso, Texas, market, which is home to many residents in the southern part of
  
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• APD investigating 3 separate Friday homicides

  15-08-2020 05:13
  
  Three people were killed in Albuquerque in separate incidents over a 24-hour period on Friday and a fourth person was fighting for his life as homicide detectives worked to piece together evidence in each of the cases.
  The most recent case involves a man who was apparently shot on the 7800 block of East Central at around 10 p.m.
  Albuquerque Police Department spokesman Daren DeAguero said the man was transported to University of New Mexico Hospital, where he died of his injury. DeAguero said in a
  
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• In moments, Lobo volleyball went from Monday to Mon-dazed

  15-08-2020 04:11
  
  University of New Mexico volleyball coach Jon Newman-Gonchar and his players were optimistic for the 2020 season that got wiped out by coronavirus public health concerns as of Monday. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal)
  One and done was not what the University of New Mexico volleyball team had in mind for its 2020 season.
  Nonetheless, shortly after completing their first preseason practice on Monday, the Lobos found out their fall season was, at best, postponed. Talk about a buzz kill.
  “The
  
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• United hopes to find rejuvenation in Colorado Springs

  15-08-2020 04:10
  
  A trip to the Springs sparked a rejuvenation before.
  Now, for the second time in a month, New Mexico United is hoping the six-hour bus ride north to Colorado Springs can both wash away the stench of a loss in its previous match while also bringing the same type of good fortune that kick-started a four-match unbeaten streak. That span catapulted United (3-2-1) to a comfortable perch atop the Group C standings nearly a third of the way through the season.
  Of course, the circumstances aren’t
  
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• Asia Today: Restrictions in S. Korea, India cases hit 2.5M

  15-08-2020 03:50
  
  SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea on Saturday announced stronger social distancing restrictions for its greater capital area where a surge in COVID-19 cases has threatened to erase the hard-won gains against the virus.
  The two-week measures starting Sunday will allow authorities in Seoul and towns in neighboring Gyeonggi Province to shut down high-risk facilities such as nightclubs, karaoke rooms, movie theaters and buffet restaurants if they fail to properly enforce preventive measures, in
  
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• Judge finds probable cause in protest shooting case

  15-08-2020 03:27
  
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  Much like her time investigating the Oñate protest shooting, Kelsey Lueckenhoff’s testimony was short lived.
  The Albuquerque police detective – and sole witness called by Steven Baca’s defense attorney – spent about a half hour testifying during a probable cause hearing Friday afternoon.
  Steven Ray Baca
  Her testimony was cut short by the judge after Lueckenhoff began to wade into secondhand accounts from undercover officers
  
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• Judge: Restaurants may file revised suit for state records

  15-08-2020 02:16
  
  In this file photo from July, employees at the Route 66 Diner in Albuquerque protest a public health order prohibiting indoor dining at restaurants. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
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  SANTA FE – A lawsuit filed by the New Mexico Restaurant Association seeking the state records used to justify New Mexico’s ban on indoor dining is still alive, but just barely.
  State District Judge Joshua Allison granted a motion to dismiss the complaint F
  
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• Natural Grocers sets opening

  15-08-2020 01:43
  
  Rio Rancho’s first natural grocery store is set to open Aug. 27. Amy Byres photo.
  Rio Rancho’s first Natural Grocers is giving the city its 100 percent.
  According to a press release Natural Grocers sent out on Thursday morning, the store on NM 528 north of Southern Boulevard is set to open Aug. 27 with:
  • 100-percent organic produce,
  • 100-percent humanely and sustainably raised meat,
  • 100-percent free-range eggs,
  • 100-percent pasture-based dairy,
  • 100-per
  
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• ERB urged to divest from private prisons

  15-08-2020 01:41
  
  A U.S. Immigration and Enforcement Processing Center in Adelanto, Calif, operated by GEO Group, Inc., is shown in this August 2019 file photo. New Mexico investment holdings in GEO Group and another private prison company have come under increased scrutiny in recent months. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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  SANTA FE – Board members for New Mexico’s teacher pension fund took a step Friday toward allowing politically-flammable investment holdings &ndash
  
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• Some execs call for new leadership at Oil and Gas Association

  15-08-2020 01:16
  
  A pump jack east of Carlsbad in Lea County last year. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
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  SANTA FE – About a dozen executives with ties to the oil and gas industry are calling for the removal of Ryan Flynn as executive director of the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association, citing favorable comments he made about a Democratic congresswoman who represents part of the Permian Basin.
  The letter, sent to association board chairman Scott Kidwell, comes on the
  
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• Prep notes: Los Lunas hoops guard makes choice, La Cueva’s Lowery re-opens recruiting

  15-08-2020 00:52
  
  Highland’s Shaelyce Hann, right, battles Los Lunas’ Natalie Jojola for a loose ball during a girls basketball game from December 2019. Jojola has decided to play at Western Colorado, and meanwhile hopes for a 2020-21 prep basketball season. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
  One of New Mexico’s elite girls basketball players has made her college choice.
  Los Lunas senior-to-be Natalie Jojola, who has been a part of three state championship teams with the Tigers, has commit
  
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• MMA: White awaits word from ‘Bones’

  15-08-2020 00:37
  
  Dana White says he fully intends to stage a UFC light heavyweight title fight before the year is out.
  Whether Jon “Bones” Jones is involved remains to be seen.
  White, the UFC’s president and the MMA promotional giant’s public face, told ESPN’s Brett Okamoto that he was waiting to hear from Jones, the UFC light heavyweight champion and in the eyes of many the best fighter pound-for-pound in the sport.
  If there’s been any response, both parties have kept it to t
  
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• Total COVID-19 deaths in NM pass the 700 mark

  15-08-2020 00:21
  
  In this file photo from March, medical personnel screen patients at the Presbyterian drive-up COVID-19 testing center in northwestern Albuquerque. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Journal)
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  New Mexico health officials reported 175 new COVID-19 cases on Friday as the daily total continues to fall from its peak about two weeks ago.
  The seven-day rolling average is now at 171, which, according to a Journal analysis, is the lowest it’s been since late June. In her
  
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• NM first in line for federal unemployment aid

  15-08-2020 00:00
  
  Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks Thursday at her weekly Covid-19 news briefing at the Capitol. (Gabriela Campos/The Santa Fe New Mexican)
  Earlier this week, New Mexico became the first state in the country to apply for a federal program that would provide unemployed residents with an extra $300 per month.
  State leaders said the program, set up by President Donald Trump through executive action last weekend, falls short of what a more comprehensive federal aid package would provide, but said th
  
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