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• Revised DACA program again debated before Texas judge who previously ruled against it

  01-06-2023 23:38
  
  HOUSTON (AP) -- A federal judge did not make an immediate decision Thursday on the fate of a revised version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.During a court hearing, attorneys representing the nine states that have sued to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program argued the updated policy is essentially the same as the 2012 memo that first created it and asked U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen t
  
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• White House says Biden is ‘fine’ after he tripped and fell on stage at Air Force graduation

  01-06-2023 23:37
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- President Joe Biden fell on stage at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation Thursday and the White House said he was "fine" after tripping over a sandbag.
  Biden had been greeting the graduates in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the front of the stage with salutes and handshakes, and turned to jog back toward his seat when he fell. He was helped up by an Air Force officer as well as two members of his U.S. Secret Service detail.Onlookers, including some members of t
  
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• Biden says he got ‘sandbagged’ after he tripped and fell onstage at Air Force graduation

  01-06-2023 23:37
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- President Joe Biden quipped that he got "sandbagged" Thursday after he tripped and fell -- but was uninjured -- while onstage at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation.
  Biden had been greeting the graduates in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the front of the stage with salutes and handshakes, and turned to jog back toward his seat when he fell. He was helped up by an Air Force officer as well as two members of his U.S. Secret Service detail.Onlookers, including som
  
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• It’s here: Tesla opens second New Mexico location

  01-06-2023 22:04
  
  Eder Estrada, a service technician, wipes down a Tesla Model 3 during the grand opening of the Tesla facility located in the Santa Ana Pueblo. (Chancey Bush/Journal)SANTA ANA PUEBLO — The new Tesla facility on Santa Ana Pueblo land is now open for business — roughly eight months after it was first announced.Tribal and local officials gathered Thursday for the grand opening of the 35,000-square-foot Tesla sales and service center located at 1300 Jemez Canyon Dam."Now that we have our
  
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• Las Cruces man arrested after allegedly being found with a disassembled pipe bomb near a church

  01-06-2023 18:19
  
  LAS CRUCES – A Las Cruces man faces criminal charges after sheriff's deputies say they found him with a disassembled pipe bomb outside of an area church.Nathan Wallace, 40, was charged with one count of possession of an explosive or incendiary device. Kim Stewart, sheriff of Doña Ana County, said it remains unknown if Wallace has any connection to the church bombings of 2015.On Aug. 2, 2015, an unknown person detonated two bombs at Calvary Baptist Church and Holy Cross Catholic Chur
  
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• Stock market today: Wall Street rises with hopes for pause to rate hikes

  01-06-2023 18:17
  
  NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street is rising Thursday with hopes that the Federal Reserve may soon take it easier on its hikes to interest rates.The S&P 500 was 0.9% higher in midday trading after a suite of reports painted a split U.S. economy. The job market remains remarkably solid, but manufacturing is weakening and shoppers of all kinds are feeling more pressure. Altogether, investors saw the data pushing the Fed to refrain from hiking rates at its next meeting in two weeks, which would be t
  
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• Stock market today: Asia follows Wall St up on hopes Fed will ease off rate hikes

  01-06-2023 18:17
  
  BEIJING (AP) -- Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher Friday ahead of an update on the U.S. jobs market after Federal Reserve officials reignited hopes another interest rate hike might be postponed and lawmakers gave final approval to a deal to avert a government debt default.
  Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul advanced. Oil prices strengthened.
  Wall Street's benchmark S&P 500 index rallied 1% on Thursday after data showed manufacturing and retail activity weakening. That added
  
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• Residents of collapsed Iowa building were allowed to stay as reports noted crumbling wall

  01-06-2023 18:17
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A structural engineer report issued just days before an Iowa apartment building partially collapsed indicated a wall of the century-old structure was in imminent risk of crumbling, yet officials did not order residents to leave and said Thursday they relied on the engineer's assurances that the building remained safe.
  Three residents of the six-story building in the eastern Iowa city of Davenport are still unaccounted for and there are no immediate plans to demolish wha
  
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• Residents of collapsed Iowa building allowed to stay as reports noted crumbling wall

  01-06-2023 18:17
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A structural engineer report issued just days before an Iowa apartment building partially collapsed indicated a wall of the century-old structure was in imminent risk of crumbling, yet officials did not order residents to leave and said Thursday they relied on the engineer's assurances that the building remained safe.
  Three residents of the six-story building in the eastern Iowa city of Davenport are still unaccounted for and there are no immediate plans to demolish wha
  
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• ‘Do I have regrets? … Hell yeah,’ says Davenport mayor after partial collapse of Iowa building

  01-06-2023 18:17
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A structural engineer's report issued last week indicated a wall of a century-old apartment building in Iowa was at imminent risk of crumbling, yet neither the owner nor city officials warned residents of the danger days before the building partially collapsed, leaving three people missing and feared dead.
  The revelation is the latest flashpoint after Sunday's partial collapse of the building in Davenport, where residents have lashed out at city leaders over what they s
  
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• 3 residents of partially collapsed Iowa building still unaccounted for, police say

  01-06-2023 18:17
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Three residents of an Iowa apartment building that partially collapsed on Sunday are still unaccounted for, police said Thursday, as city officials responded to questions about who might be responsible.
  Earlier this week, authorities said five people were missing, but Davenport Police Chief Jeff Bladel said during a media briefing Thursday morning that two of them have since been accounted for and are safe. One moved out of the building a month ago and was found in Texa
  
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• Yeezy shoes are back on sale — months after Adidas cut ties with Kanye West

  01-06-2023 15:43
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some of Adidas' remaining Yeezy shoes are back on sale -- months after the German sportswear company cut ties with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.
  Adidas ended its yearslong partnership with Ye in late October, in light of his antisemitic remarks and other harmful behavior. In the months that followed, the fate of 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) worth of unsold Yeezys remained unknown -- until earlier this month, when Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden announced the
  
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• Trapped by Sudan fighting, dozens of infants, toddlers and children died in Khartoum orphanage

  01-06-2023 15:43
  
  CAIRO (AP) -- At least 60 infants, toddlers and older children perished over the past six weeks while trapped in harrowing conditions in an orphanage in Sudan's capital as fighting raged outside.
  Most died from lack of food and from fever. Twenty-six died in two days over the weekend.
  The extent of the children's suffering emerged from interviews with more than a dozen doctors, volunteers, health officials and workers at the Al-Mayqoma orphanage. The Associated Press also reviewed dozens of doc
  
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• Jordan’s royal wedding to get underway in ceremony packed with stars and deep symbolism

  01-06-2023 15:43
  
  AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate have arrived at the wedding ceremony of Jordan's crown prince and his Saudi bride.
  The British royal couple headline a high-powered guest list for the wedding of Crown Prince Hussein and Saudi architect Rajwa Alseif. Members of the royal families of Belgium, Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands and Japan are also attending.
  William, dressed in a dark suit and blue tie, and Kate, in a long pink dress, briefly greeted Jordan's King Abdul
  
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• Jordan’s crown prince weds scion of Saudi family in ceremony packed with stars and symbolism

  01-06-2023 15:43
  
  AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- Jordan's crown prince married the scion of a prominent Saudi family on Thursday in a palace ceremony attended by royals and other VIPs from around the world, as massive crowds gathered across the kingdom to celebrate the region's newest power couple.
  The marriage of Crown Prince Hussein, 28, and Saudi architect Rajwa Alseif, 29, drew a star-studded guest list including Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate, as well as U.S. First Lady Jill Biden.
  The celebrations hold
  
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• Raft the Rio? Here’s what to know amid high flows this year

  01-06-2023 15:30
  
  Luke Kriken, in yellow life vest, and Josephine Welsh, both from Taos, along with their catamaran, capsize in Souse Hole in a Race Course section of the Rio Grande near Pilar on Tuesday, May 30, 2023. On Tuesday, most boats didn't make it through this rapid with its passengers still aboard. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)SANTA FE — Cisco Guevara hasn’t seen the river flowing like this in years.Engorged by snow melt, the Rio Grande is running much heavier than normal in some stretch
  
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• Hirings, promotions: Albuquerque Business Briefcase

  01-06-2023 15:08
  
  Welcome Gonzalo NavaGonzalo Nava has joined Vincent's Hair, Skin & Body. Nava's services include Reiki, La Stone therapies and reflexology. A native of Mexico, he began his career in the field of curanderismo, which is a combination of different healing treatments that embraces the whole healing process of the four bodies — physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. Nava has been in the field for 30 years. In addition to working in Albuquerque, he has worked in London and Manchester, S
  
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• Dog attack victim died from blood loss

  01-06-2023 14:23
  
  May 30--TUCUMCARI -- A jogger encountered the pack of five dogs shortly before they fatally mauled a Tucumcari man in February, and two men approached the bloody scene when the victim still was alive.
  That's according to a state police report, which also showed the victim died of blood loss after the attack.
  The 21-page report was issued by New Mexico State Police agent Eric Fouratt. The Quay County Sun obtained the report last week through a public-records request submitted shortly after the F
  
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• Trump returns to campaign trail in Iowa as GOP rival DeSantis makes case to New Hampshire voters

  01-06-2023 14:22
  
  LACONIA, N.H. (AP) -- Former President Donald Trump returns to the campaign trail Thursday as his chief rival for the GOP presidential nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, is undertaking his first swing through early voting states as an official candidate.
  Trump is back in Iowa nearly three weeks after canceling his last event, a large rally near Des Moines, due to a tornado warning, reluctantly ceding the spotlight to DeSantis as the governor crisscrossed the state ahead of his campaign laun
  
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• Trump and DeSantis jab at each other on campaign trail in 1st dueling appearances as 2024 candidates

  01-06-2023 14:22
  
  LACONIA, N.H. (AP) -- Former President Donald Trump kept up a steady drumbeat of criticism of his chief rival Ron DeSantis on Thursday, jumping immediately on remarks by the Florida governor on the campaign trail to try to highlight his own strength as the leading GOP presidential candidate.
  Trump, appearing in Iowa as DeSantis campaigned in New Hampshire, made a point of telling about 200 members of a conservative club gathered at a Des Moines-area restaurant that they could ask him questions
  
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• Senate races to wrap up Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling deal before default deadline

  01-06-2023 14:22
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Days away from a default crisis, the U.S. Senate dashed on Thursday to wrap up work on a debt ceiling and budget cuts package that overwhelmingly cleared a House vote, aiming to send it to President Joe Biden's desk to become law before the fast-approaching deadline.
  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the chamber was digging into the bill that Biden negotiated with Speaker Kevin McCarthy and would "keep working until the job is done."
  He warned of a crush of ideas from
  
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• Senate launches late night votes to stave off US default, wrap up Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling deal

  01-06-2023 14:22
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rushing to prevent a U.S. debt default, the Senate pressed ahead Thursday night to give final passage to a debt ceiling and budget cuts package and send it to President Joe Biden's desk to become law before the fast-approaching deadline.
  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a late night floor schedule with nearly a dozen amendments up for debate to the package that Biden negotiated with Speaker Kevin McCarthy, though none was expected to be approved or change the ov
  
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• Senate labors to stave off US default, wrap up Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling deal

  01-06-2023 14:22
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Straining to prevent U.S. default, the Senate labored into Thursday evening trying to wrap up work on a debt ceiling and budget cuts package that overwhelmingly cleared the House. The urgent aim was to send it to President Joe Biden's desk to become law before the fast-approaching deadline.
  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the chamber was digging into the bill that Biden negotiated with Speaker Kevin McCarthy and would "keep working until the job is done."
  He warned
  
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• Just days to spare, Senate gives final approval to debt ceiling deal, sending it to Biden

  01-06-2023 14:22
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fending off a U.S. default, the Senate gave final approval late Thursday to a debt ceiling and budget cuts package, grinding into the night to wrap up work on the bipartisan deal and send it to President Joe Biden's desk to become law before the fast-approaching deadline.
  The compromise package negotiated between Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy leaves neither Republicans nor Democrats fully pleased with the outcome. But the result, after weeks of hard-fought budget neg
  
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• DeSantis campaigns in New Hampshire as Trump returns to campaign trail in Iowa

  01-06-2023 14:22
  
  LACONIA, N.H. (AP) -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis kicked off his first visit to New Hampshire as a declared presidential candidate on Thursday by turning his focus to President Joe Biden and criticizing him for championing a move to demote the early-voting state from its prominent role picking presidential candidates.
  The appearance by DeSantis before New Hampshire voters comes as former President Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail in Iowa, marking the first time both Republicans were pi
  
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• DeSantis barnstorms New Hampshire and Trump returns to Iowa as rivalry intensifies

  01-06-2023 14:22
  
  LACONIA, N.H. (AP) -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis kicked off his first visit to New Hampshire as a declared presidential candidate Thursday by turning his focus to President Joe Biden, criticizing him for championing a move to demote the early-voting state from its prominent role picking presidential candidates.
  The appearance by DeSantis before New Hampshire voters comes as former President Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail in Iowa, marking the first time both Republicans were pitching
  
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• After sailing through House on bipartisan vote, Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling deal now goes to Senate

  01-06-2023 14:22
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Veering away from a default crisis, the House overwhelmingly approved a debt ceiling and budget cuts package, sending the deal that President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy negotiated to the Senate for swift passage in a matter of days, before a fast-approaching deadline.
  The hard-fought compromise pleased few, but lawmakers assessed it was better than the alternative -- a devastating economic upheaval if Congress failed to act. Tensions ran high as hard-right Republica
  
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• After sailing though House on bipartisan vote, Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling deal now goes to Senate

  01-06-2023 14:22
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Veering away from a default crisis, the House overwhelmingly approved a debt ceiling and budget cuts package, sending the deal that President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy negotiated to the Senate for swift passage in a matter of days, before a fast-approaching deadline.
  The hard-fought compromise pleased few, but lawmakers assessed it was better than the alternative -- a devastating economic upheaval if Congress failed to act. Tensions ran high as hard-right Republica
  
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• Solomon Peña Faces Federal Charges for Attacks on Democrats

  01-06-2023 10:43 via nytimes.com
  
  Solomon Peña, who lost a bid for a seat in the New Mexico Legislature in 2022, is accused of orchestrating shootings at Democratic officials’ homes. He also faces state charges.
  
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• Vanessa Patricks to host events featuring drag stars Kerry Colby and LaLa Ri

  01-06-2023 08:02
  
  Albuquerque-based drag performer Vanessa Patricks is slated to have a busy June hosting Pride events around the state. (Courtesy of Vanessa Patricks)Vanessa Patricks looks forward to getting on stage.When June rolls around for Pride month, it has more of an impact."It's always been important to me to spread myself around during Pride month," Patricks says. "I think it's important to be visible. That's one of the biggest things right now."The Albuquerque-based drag performer kicked off the month
  
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• NM breweries feted at World Beer Cup, Craft Beer Marketing Awards

  01-06-2023 08:02
  
  Second Street Brewery received the Global Crushie for Best Bottle Design/7-21 oz. for its Dubstep Donuts Bourbon Barrel Aged Pastry Stout collaboration with Jubilation Wine & Spirits at the Craft Beer Marketing Awards. (Courtesy of the Craft Beer Marketing Awards)New Mexico breweries keep crushing it at national and international competitions with their craft beer creations and branding concepts.Recently, four local breweries took home medals from the World Beer Cup held May 10 in Nashville
  
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• From Los Ranchos to Santa Fe, New Mexico’s got Pride

  01-06-2023 08:02
  
  Amber Glasrud sports her pride spirit on Central Avenue in Nob Hill during the Pride Parade in 2022. There are plenty of Pride events across the state. (Chancey Bush/ Journal)For 11 years, PJ Sedillo has been at the helm of Los Ranchos Pride.He wanted to start a free family event after being at the helm of ABQ Pride for 21 years."We're usually one of the first pride events in the state," Sedillo says. "It's a way to kick off the month of celebration."This year's event will take place from noon-
  
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• Dumpling Cafe knows a thing or two about authentic Chinese food

  01-06-2023 08:02
  
  Dumpling Cafe’s Seafood Noodle Soup. (Heather Hunter/For the Journal)Knowing what you do well is a gift. Loving what you do is a rarity. Getting paid for what you do well and love is ikigai. Dumpling Cafe is a living example of ikigai, "reason for being," in Santa Fe. This new restaurant opened in February and is buzzing with hungry and happy customers who love dumplings and more.Located in what many recall as the former Pizza Hut downtown at the start of Cerrillos, the Dumpling Cafe is t
  
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• Dumpling Cafe in Santa Fe knows a thing or two about authentic Chinese food

  01-06-2023 08:02
  
  Dumpling Cafe’s Seafood Noodle Soup. (Heather Hunter/For the Journal)Knowing what you do well is a gift. Loving what you do is a rarity. Getting paid for what you do well and love is ikigai. Dumpling Cafe is a living example of ikigai, "reason for being," in Santa Fe. This new restaurant opened in February and is buzzing with hungry and happy customers who love dumplings and more.Located in what many recall as the former Pizza Hut downtown at the start of Cerrillos, the Dumpling Cafe is t
  
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• Casa Rondeña Winery to host Los Ranchos Pride event

  01-06-2023 08:02
  
  For 11 years, PJ Sedillo has been at the helm of Los Ranchos Pride.He wanted to start a free family event after being at the helm of ABQ Pride for 21 years."We're usually one of the first pride events in the state," Sedillo says. "It's a way to kick off the month of celebration."This year's event will take place from noon-5 p.m. Sunday, June 4, at Casa Rondeña Winery, 733 Chavez Road in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque.Sedillo says this year's event was moved to the winery and is a smaller even
  
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• Luis Talamantes-Romero sentenced to life in prison in Jacqueline Vigil’s death

  01-06-2023 06:14
  
  Luis Talamantes-Romero awaits sentencing Wednesday in state District Court in Albuquerque. (Jon Austria/Albuquerque Journal)With uniformed New Mexico State Police officers standing by in support, the family of Jacqueline Vigil faced the man who was convicted of fatally shooting her in her driveway as she tried to leave for the gym in November 2019.Her loved ones asked that Luis Talamantes-Romero, 35, never be allowed to walk the streets of any community again.State District Judge Britt Baca-Mil
  
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• Basketball impasse: New Mexico State reaches out to UNM athletic director regarding his safety concerns

  01-06-2023 05:55
  
  The basketball court of the Pan American Center at New Mexico State University is pictured Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, in Las Cruces, N.M. AP Photo/Andres Leighton) [email protected] Wed Feb 15 19:25:44 -0700 2023 1676514340 FILENAME: 1952123.jpgThere at least was some movement Wednesday in the impasse between the University of New Mexico and New Mexico State in scheduling men's basketball games for this coming season.New Mexico State University Chief of Police Andy Bowen spoke with Univers
  
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• Isotopes lose in Salt Lake City; skid reaches four games

  01-06-2023 05:42
  
  'TOPES THURSDAY: At Salt Lake6:35 p.m., 610 AM/95.9 FMPROBABLES: Isotopes RHP Luis Cessa (0-0, 13.50) at Bees RHP Mason Erla (0-1, 7.59)WEDNESDAY: Jo Adell's two-run home run for Salt Lake was part of a four-run seventh inning for the host Bees, who broke open a 1-1 tie in that inning and went on to a 6-1 victory over Albuquerque.Third baseman Aaron Schunk provided the only offense for the Isotopes. He doubled and also hit a solo home run in the second inning. He was 3-for-4 in the game and impr
  
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• Local golf: Standout UNM men’s, women’s teams fueled by each other’s successes

  01-06-2023 05:17
  
   Editor's note: This is the first in a weekly summer series of a local golf coverage package that will appear each Thursday in the Journal's sports section. For tips on stories or other information, please email [email protected], things just go hand-in-hand.For instance: New Mexico women's golf finished tied for ninth overall at the NCAA women's championships in Scottsdale, Arizona. It was their highest finish in 25 years and UNM was a shot here, or a shot there, away from ad
  
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• Local golf: U.S. Senior Challenge returns to NM next week

  01-06-2023 05:16
  
  For the first time since 2018, one of senior amateur golf's premier competitions is set to return to New Mexico.The U.S. Senior Challenge, a 54-hole tournament pitting four-person teams from states against each other, will be held at The Canyon Club at Four Hills, starting with a practice round on Monday and competitive rounds Tuesday through Thursday. The event was last hosted in New Mexico at Paako Ridge Golf Club in Sandia Park.With both team and individual champions crowned following the tou
  
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• Russian bombardment of Ukraine’s capital kills at least 3 people, wounds others

  01-06-2023 04:43
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) -- Russia launched yet another aerial bombardment of Kyiv on Thursday, killing at least three people and wounding others, authorities said.
  Following a reported 17 drone and missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital in May, Russian forces hit the capital in the early morning with ground-launched missiles.The Kyiv City Administration reported one child was among the dead, and 10 people were wounded. The casualty toll was the most from one attack on Kyiv in the past month. The a
  
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• Latest Russian missile bombardment of Ukraine’s capital kills at least 3 people, including a child

  01-06-2023 04:43
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) -- The latest pre-dawn Russian missile attack on Kyiv killed at least three people Thursday, including a 9-year-old child and her mother, Ukrainian officials said.
  Ukrainian air defenses shot down all 10 cruise and ballistic missiles launched by the Kremlin's forces, but falling debris caused damage and casualties on the ground, wounding 16 people.
  Russia has kept up a steady barrage on the Ukrainian capital and other parts of the country in recent weeks as Kyiv readies what
  
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• Fresh Russian bombardment of Ukraine’s capital kills at least 3 people, wounds others

  01-06-2023 04:43
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) -- Russian forces began June with a fresh aerial bombardment of Kyiv on Tuesday, killing at least three people and wounding others, authorities said.
  Following up on a reported 17 attacks on the Ukrainian capital in May, mostly using drones, Russian forces hit the capital early Tuesday, damaging apartment buildings and a medical clinic. Two of the dead were children, according to city officials. The toll of injured fluctuated in preliminary reports.
  After a woman was killed w
  
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• UNM, New Mexico State to play their 2023 football openers on ESPN

  01-06-2023 04:41
  
  The world likely doesn't regard the Land of Enchantment as college football country.But that same world gets to watch the state's two major programs open their 2023 schedules on ESPN.That's ESPN, the big boy.Coach Danny Gonzales' New Mexico Lobos open at Texas A&M on ESPN at 5 p.m. on Sept. 2, the first big Saturday of the 2023 season. UNM's Wednesday announcement came on the heels of all the Power Five and Group of Five leagues in concert announcing their TV schedules.One week earlier, New
  
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• New UNM basketball assistant Katsuma reunites with Pitino, replaces Brown

  01-06-2023 04:41
  
  Former UNM Lobos assistant coach Eric Brown, left, and newly hired UNM Lobos assistant coach Aaron Katsuma, right.Aaron Katsuma remembers the moment Richard Pitino gave him his first job in college basketball.At a late-season road game against Nebraska, the fourth-year, senior team manager at Minnesota was approached by the first-year Golden Gophers head coach at the team meal in the hotel."He asked me to come back the next year as a GA (graduate assistant)," said Katsuma, who has worked on the
  
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• New UNM basketball assistant coach Katsuma reunites with Pitino

  01-06-2023 04:41
  
  Aaron KatsumaAaron Katsuma remembers the moment Richard Pitino gave him his first job in college basketball.At a late-season road game against Nebraska, the fourth-year, senior team manager at Minnesota was approached by the first-year Golden Gophers head coach at the team meal in the hotel."He asked me to come back the next year as a GA (graduate assistant)," said Katsuma, who has worked on the staff at Colorado State for the past five years. "... I think I was able to earn his trust. And afte
  
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• The 7% solution: United to rotate pitch slightly to save sod, mound at Isotopes Park

  01-06-2023 04:40
  
  This graphic provided by New Mexico United on May 31, 2023 shows the original orientation of the soccer pitch at Isotopes Park and the re-oriented pitch going forward. United says it is being done at the request of Major League Baseball the Triple-A baseball Albuquerque Isotopes are the ballpark's primary tenants and sublease the facility to the soccer club. (Courtesy of New Mexico United)Things will look a bit different when New Mexico United and rival El Paso Locomotive FC square off at Isoto
  
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• Editorial: Stop, think before you jump into that surging Rio Grande

  01-06-2023 04:00
  
  Corrales Fire Commander Tanya Lattin seemed a little perturbed last week. She had good reason.Two kayakers had entered the Rio Grande shortly before sunset May 24 at the 550 bridge. One of them became stranded after hitting a fallen tree at an island near Siphon Beach. The Sandoval County Sheriff's Office and Albuquerque police and fire rescue responded with a helicopter, an airboat and multiple personnel.As fire personnel rescued the stranded kayaker, officers noticed another person stuck in a
  
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• Editorial: Gardens don’t go to waste with nonprofit

  01-06-2023 04:00
  
  Got trees in the backyard that bear too many Golden Delicious apples to distribute to friends and family? How about an old garden that refuses to go dormant, or a farm with extra pounds of lettuce?There's an Albuquerque organization out there that will not only pick your produce but distribute it to the hungry.Food Is Free Albuquerque got started by the Duke City's Erin Garrison and a friend nine years ago when they placed an ad on Craigslist looking for fruit to make preserves. After arriving a
  
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• Top of Mind: What do you think of Albuquerque’s new ordinance prohibiting people from standing on narrow medians on some busy streets?

  01-06-2023 03:51
  
  Top of Mind is a weekly question about an issue affecting New Mexicans.THIS WEEK'S QUESTION:What do you think of Albuquerque's new ordinance prohibiting people from standing on narrow medians on some busy streets?Want to participate in Top of Mind? Send your thoughts in 50 words or less to [email protected]. Responses must include your name and city to be published.Or use our form at www.abqjournal.com/top-of-mind-weekly-question-formSubscribe to ABQjournal. Call 505-823-4400
  
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