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Cousins embark on bike ride for autism
It's going to be a long ride for two cousins from New Mexico. Next month they'll gear up to bike somewhere around 2,000 miles. It started just as a physical adventure, but it turned into something a lot more personal. From Massachusetts to Florida, Boston to Key West, at least 50 miles a day. "We don't know the exact mileage because we're going to take back ...
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Trial resumes with heartbroken father
BERNALILLO, N.M. (KRQE) - "There's no way that Tera would have done this, no way." That's how Joseph Crdova says he responded in 2007 to a Valencia County Sheriff's detective delivering the news his daughter Tera Chavez was dead of an apparent suicide. Tera was found by her husband, former APD cop Levi Chavez, shot in the head with his APD-issued gun in their Los Lunas ...
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Roadkills up as drought drives wildlife
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Game and Fish says it's seeing an increase in the number of car accidents involving animals especially in Albuquerque's East Mountains. There have been three reported incidents in that area in the last few days. Two involved deer; the third a bear. Officers with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish officers believe the drought is playing a major role. ...
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James Gandolfini Dies Sopranos Actor Was 51
co-stars Edie Falco, left, and Lorraine Bracco. Actor James Gandolfini, 51, has died, HBO and other sources confirm. The former star of the HBO ...
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Tera Chavezs father testifies on trials 8th day
TRIAL - THE FORMER A-P-D OFFICER ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS WIFETERA. Cordova 9 - 3:31 no way. there's no way tera would have done this. no way. she had future plans. :40 TODAY - TERA'S FATHER TOOK THE STAND. ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER ANNA VELASQUEZ IS LIVE WITH WHAT HAPPENED. JOSEPH CORDOVA TRIED TO KEEP IT TOGETHER ON THE STAND BUT HE WAS SHAKING, ON THE VERGE OF TEARS. HE EXPLAINED TO ...
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Arizona smoke may find Albuquerque
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - As if New Mexico's forest fires aren't enough, smoke from a blaze in southeastern Arizona may find its way into Albuquerque overnight. The Albuquerque Environmental Health Department, citing vague weather forecasts, stopped short of issuing a health alert and instead put out what it called a smoke watch. "If pollution levels from smoke are a concern Thursday ...
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Carlsbad school district drills for oil
CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) - Tight school budgets have New Mexico schools trying to find different ways to raise money. The Carlsbad Municipal School District is doing it by pumping black gold. The district's director of finance said nearly seven acres owned by the district aren't being used, so why not put it to good use by pumping oil? "If it's a resource available to us, and ...
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Father of slain wife testifies in Levi Chavez trial
Jurors in the Levi Chavez murder trial returned to the courtroom Wednesday for the first time this week. The jurors heard from Tera Chavez's father. He was one of the first people to suspect her death was a murder and one of the first to point the finger at his son-in-law. Tera Chavez's father, Joseph Cordova, fought back the tears as he described the last time he saw his ...
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Water authority voting on rate increase
Posted at: 06/19/2013 6:00 PM By: Stuart Dyson, KOB Eyewitness News 4 About 640,000 people in the Albuquerque metro area could soon be paying higher rates for water – and a few of us could actually see our water bills go down. The Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Water Authority Governing Board is scheduled to meet at 5PM to vote on a rate increase, and local leaders expect it to ...
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Murders unsolved as Fathers Day nears
EL RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE) - It's two years to the day a family was found brutally murdered in their El Rancho home in Santa Fe County. So far there have been no arrests in the case as New Mexico State Police say they continue to follow leads. It was Father's Day, June 19, 2011, when Lloyd, his wife Dixie and their 21-year-old son Steven Ortiz were found dead in their home. All were ...
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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.
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