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  • Independiente defeat Gremio to reach Libertadores quarters

    Independiente Santa Fe defeated Gremio 1-0 and advanced to the quarter-finals of the Copa Libertadores. The result at El Campin stadium Thursday left the teams tied 2-2 on aggregate but the Colombian outfit progressed on away goals, reports Xinhua. Forward Wilder Medina broke the deadlock in the 79th minute by playing a one-two with Omar Perez before jinking past three defenders and firing a ...

  • 2013 Public Payrolls NMSU spending 2.6 percent more on salaries...

    Of the $605 million in spending allocated to all NMSU campuses for the 2012-2013 school year, about 42.6 percent is slated for salaries, according to the latest available numbers. That $204 million for salaries is up 2.6 percent, or $5.3 million, from last ...

  • Dirt biker plunges off high cliff

    RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE) - A man riding a dirt bike west of Rio Rancho sailed over a cliff late Friday and fell an estimated 150 feet down the escarpment toward the Rio Puerco Valley. At 8 p.m. aerial video from Sky News 13 showed responders from the Rio Rancho Fire Department and Sandoval County had rappelled down the cliff with a litter and had reached the biker. An officer already had been ...

  • Rabid bat dangerously close to kids

    ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Some Albuquerque neighborhoods are on alert by the state Department of Health after a rabid bat was found near to two schools and with children seen getting very close to it. The state wants to find those children and make sure neither they nor anyone else came in contact with the bat, so it sent letters to schools and notices to residents. A letter warning residents that a ...

  • NMSU student dies in crash

    Updated 6:20 p.m. LAS CRUCES - A New Mexico State University mechanical engineering student died in a fatal car crash on U.S. 180 Thursday morning. Nicholas Clegg, 22, was near Deming when another driver, heading north, swerved into oncoming traffic. Clegg swerved to avoid the driver, lost control of his 2011 Toyota and hit a guard rail. He rolled several times and was ejected from the ...


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Mission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol [Blu-Ray]

Mission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol [Blu-Ray]

Despite the unwieldy title, Mission: ImpossibleGhost Protocol, the fourth entry in the now 15-year-old franchise based on the cult 1960s television series, is an effectively enthralling back-to-basics action thriller. Moving away from J.J. Abramss ... ...

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  • Bat spurs rabies scare in Albuquerque

    "You're in New Mexico, and there's rabies out here, and you need to be careful," said resident Steve Romero. "It's not totally surprising because of the rodent population and rabies being alive and well, and we have everything else around here this time of ...

  • APD explains keeping abduction quiet

    stood in stark contrast to one week ago when a 6-year-old girl was reported as abducted and molested. Police didn't send out an alert on that abduction at a North Valley apartment complex. Less than a week later a 4-year-old girl was kidnapped from the same complex 30 feet away from the first crime scene. She, however, was shoved from the car as the kidnapper fled the complex with the ...

  • Arroyo Molester receives max sentence

    of kidnapping and raping an 11-year-old boy after a nearly two-week long trial in January. District Judge Kenneth Martinez sentenced him to the maximum 41 1/2 years in prison. The attack happened in August 2003 in the Embudo Arroyo in northeast Albuquerque. During the trial, the victim testified he was walking home from school when Sandoval lured him into the arroyo and raped ...

  • Dead robbers widow sues shop clerk

    ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The wife of an armed robbery suspect shot dead by a shop clerk said the clerk was wrong, and now she has filed a civil lawsuit claiming wrongful death. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday on behalf of the Ramon Sedillo's widow and ...

  • 11 city of Las Cruces employees earn more than $100000 a year and other interesting facts

    click here to search City of Las Cruces: Did you know? - Eleven city of Las Cruces employees earn more than $100,000 a year - Five city government department directors are paid less than $100,000 a year - Mayor, City Council aren't among high paid city positions - It's a man's world: Top 10 city government salaries belong to men - City salaries include a 2 percent ...

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