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City honors church stabbing heroes
Posted at: 05/24/2013 7:32 PM | Updated at: 05/24/2013 8:49 PM By: Stuart Dyson, KOB Eyewitness News 4 It has been almost a month since a man went on a stabbing spree during mass at an Albuquerque church. The City of Albuquerque honored the off-duty public safety officers Friday who jumped in to stop him. But don't call them heroes – that’s what each of the men will ...
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Urban Outfitters takes heat for clothing line
Urban Outfitters is in hot water with Attorney General Offices around the country for a line of merchandise that mimics prescription pill bottles. Officials accuse the store - popular with hipsters and young adults - of making light of the serious epidemic of prescription drug abuse. "Not only is it in poor taste, I think it demeans the entire effort of what we are doing here in New ...
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New Mexicos bridges could see trouble
Posted at: 05/24/2013 8:04 PM | Updated at: 05/24/2013 8:16 PM By: Stuart Dyson, KOB Eyewitness News 4 The Washington State bridge collapse has New Mexicans wondering about bridge safety in their state. One recent report shows hundreds of the state's bridges could be in trouble. About 18 percent of the state’s bridges are structurally deficient or obsolete by federal ...
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Man on the run picks wrong house to hide out in
Posted at: 05/24/2013 6:01 PM | Updated at: 05/24/2013 7:20 PM By: Nikki Ibarra, KOB Eyewitness News 4 A man runs from police and breaks into a house to hide out, but Daniel Silva picked the wrong house and wrong homeowner. Police stopped Silva as he was driving near 2nd and Menaul. He then came face to face with a guy who had a lot to protect. Leonard Martinez is usually not home ...
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Rio Rancho man donates Jeep to Oklahoma tornado victim
But even without a military title, Erickson, who owns an auto shop in Rio Rancho, felt inclined to give back to veterans, particularly the men and women who lost everything in the Oklahoma ...
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The Pianist
Roman Polanski survived the Holocaust when he was seven years old because his father cut a hole for him a barbed wire fence. He lived with various families over the years while his father spent four years in a concentration camp and his mother died in the gas chamber. Although he has insisted in interview after interview that his Palme d'Or-winning film The Pianist, about a young Jewish mu ... ...
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Donations for Oklahoma top $20 million
The Red Cross has received more than $15 million in donations and pledges so far for the town of Moore, which was struck by a tornado Monday that killed 24, injured more than 300 and destroyed thousands of ...
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Petroglyph Monument hardens enforcement
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Stronger enforcement and tougher fines are coming for people caught breaking the rules in one of New Mexico's most popular attractions ...
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Homeowner throws intruder out to police
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - A man running from the cops got more than he bargained for when he barged into a northwest Albuquerque house Thursday night. Albuquerque police say a little before 9 p.m. an officer noticed a black Hyundai Elantra driving suspiciously slow north from Menaul Boulevard NW on Second Street. Police say the car continued into a neighborhood. When the officer tried to pull the ...
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NM man gathers donations for Oklahoma
Erickson said he will be handing the keys to an Oklahoma marine who served in Afghanistan. The sergeeant's wife, his 5-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son all survived the tornado by seeking shelter in the family's closet. Everything they owned was ...
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APS teacher under investigation
A Cibola High School teacher is on paid leave accused of inappropriately touching a student. Antonio Ortega was arrested Thursday. According to a criminal complaint, the student said she was in Ortega's classroom on the last day of school helping him record final grades. She said that's when he touched her inappropriately several times and made sexually suggestive comments. ...
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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.
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The U.S. president was speaking on his administration's counter terrorism policy.
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JW Marriott Ihilani Hotel Resort & Spa
This has to be one of the best hotel resorts in Hawaii. 387 luxurious guest rooms, each with it's own ...
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