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  • Search for survivors winds down in Oklahoma

    No survivors or bodies have been found in Moore since Monday, the day a mammoth tornado ripped through 17 miles of central Oklahoma and pummeled 2,400 ...

  • 200-acre fire near Silver City forces evacuations

    Water drops from the U.S. Forest Service have been effective in the rugged, inaccessible terrain, officials said. Temperatures and wind speeds have dropped, which have also helped efforts to suppress the flames. Several fire crews have been called to battle the blaze. Action 7 News is following this story and will update it as soon as more information is available. If you are in the area and can ...

  • Mayor will spend $35000 in search for new police chief

    Posted at: 05/21/2013 11:26 PM | Updated at: 05/22/2013 12:13 AM By: Chris Ramirez, KOB Eyewitness News 4 Albuquerque’s mayor plans on spending up to $35,000 on a national executive search firm to find the new police chief. Albuquerque Chief Administrative Officer, Rob Perry confirmed the information Tuesday adding the Berry Administration will not fill the position until after ...

  • McKenny Fire grows to 200 acres

    ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - A wildfire churning through grass and brush swelled to 200 acres Tuesday night and forced evacuations near Silver City. The McKenny Fire was reported shortly before 5 p.m. along McKenny Road about five miles south of Silver City. The residents of three homes threatened by the fire have moved out, and by late evening no other evacuations had been requested, Dan Ware of New ...

  • Man gives history back to famlies

    ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - An Albuquerque man is on a mission to try and locate 269 families. Art Sena has a piece of their family history he wants them to have back. With the help of the New Mexico Air National Guard, he found holiday greetings that family members recorded back in 1968. The 16mm film reels were then sent to Tuy Hoa Air Base in Vietnam where soldiers got to see the greetings. Sena, ...


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Movie Review

Bowfinger

In "Bowfinger," Steve Martin plays the title character, Bobby Bowfinger, a struggling wannabe producer who is trying to get his first picture off the ground. This movie is a science fiction epic called "Chubby Rain," so named because the aliens come to earth in raindrops. With just over $2,000 and a crew that includes his accountant-turned-screenwriter and a group of illegal Mexicans, Bowfinger i ... ...

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  • Family celebrates Ashley Browders birthday

    Posted at: 05/21/2013 11:00 PM | Updated at: 05/21/2013 11:04 PM By: Maria Guerrero, KOB Eyewitness News 4 The family of a young woman killed in a crash with an Albuquerque police officer is now suing APD, the city and others. Meanwhile, family and friends tearfully celebrated what would have been Ashley Browder’s ...

  • Man looks to give family piece of history

    ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - An Albuquerque man is on a mission to try and locate 269 families. Art Sena has a piece of their family history he wants them to have back. With the help of the New Mexico Air National Guard, he found holiday greetings that family members recorded back in 1968. The 16mm film reels were then sent to Tuy Hoa Air Base in Vietnam where soldiers got to see the greetings. Sena, ...

  • New Mexicans split on gay marriage

    Posted at: 05/21/2013 9:41 PM By: Chris Ramirez, KOB Eyewitness News 4 New Mexicans have never been asked to vote on gay marriage, but if they were asked today the results would be pretty close. KOB Eyewitness News asked voters across the state whether or not marriages between two people of the same sex should be legal. Most voters said legal marriage between gay and lesbian people ...

  • Nms potential for twisters higher in eastern plains

    Tornadoes are not as common in New Mexico as they are in Oklahoma, but they do happen here. A severe tornado ripped through Clovis about six years ago, but still remains one of the most destructive tornadoes the state has ever seen, killing two people. Jennifer Palucki with the National Weather Service said, a tornado like that can, and probably will, happen again somewhere in our ...

  • Branson aims for Christmas space flight

    ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Sir Richard Branson now has a target date for the first manned flight to space from New Mexico's Spaceport America. The Virgin Galactic founder said he hopes to rocket into space late this year while most of the rest of us are gathering around the Christmas tree. For years the question has been when will it happen? Two weeks after watching the first powered flight of ...

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