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Feds probing Connecticut train crash
Train service in the busy New York-to-New Haven corridor may be restricted for days as officials investigate Friday's rush-hour collision of two trains in Connecticut -- an incident that sent dozens to hospitals -- officials said ...
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Surge in roofied drinks at downtown clubs
Albuquerque police are investigating a number of drug-facilitated sexual assaults, many of which happened in the Downtown Entertainment District ...
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Medical students rush to shot jogger
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Three University of New Mexico medical students rendered aid to a jogger who had been shot in the stomach near North Campus Friday morning. "I heard multiple gunshots and then a man screaming, 'Oh my God, Oh my God' over and over," said Brittany Garcia. Garcia, her roommate and her roommate's boyfriend, Chris Plaman are all medical students at UNM. ...
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Chino Fire 70 percent contained
TAOS, N.M. (KRQE) - Firefighters working to suppress the Chino Fire burning near the Colorado border report flames have charred about 19 acres since lightning sparked the blaze late Thursday. As of Friday evening the fire was 70 percent contained but still burning through grass and ground cover in ponderosa pine forest, a spokesperson for the Carson National Forest. The fire is near Chino Peak ...
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NMSU regents change search timeline
LAS CRUCES - The New Mexico Foundation for Open Government has advised New Mexico State University regents they would violate the state's Open Meeting Act if they negotiated with a presidential candidate over the weekend before publicly announcing their choice.However, regents chair Mike Cheney said the board doesn't plan to begin negotiations until after they hold a public vote on the ...
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Movie Review
Dark City
As human beings, memories are our most cherished possession. So what would happen if you couldn't trust them as your own? Isn't it your memories that show you are real, that give proof of your prior existence? Is your memory not your identity? What would happen if the past you had stored in your mind was not really yours? What if it belonged to someone else, or possibly, to no one at all? This is ... ...
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Their View The Establishment is nervous about NMSUs new president
Michael Hays The selection of Garrey Carruthers to be NMSU's next president has elicited contrasting responses: almost universal silence from almost all those who the regents think do not count, and almost universal appeals for rallying around the regents' choice from all those who think that they or the regents count. These appeals are necessary because the choice of Carruthers is ...
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Report N Korea fires short-range missiles
North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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He is the most evil, vile, demonic criminal. He is dead to me. There will be no visits, there will be no phone calls. He can never be Daddy again. I have no sympathy for the man.
Angie Gregg
Gregg was speaking about her father Ariel Castro who allegedly kidnapped, raped and held captive for a decade, three young women in Cleveland, Ohio.
Hotel Review
Metro Hotel on Pitt
A truly affordable hotel in Sydney, with stylish decor, great location and in-house snazzy brasserie? If the notion of affordable ...
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- Near-Earth asteroids and Mars 2 moons considered for future space missions
- Mars rover Opportunity examining rock changed by water
- Violent winds on Uranus and Neptune confined to upper atmosphere
- NASA Records an Explosion on the Moon So Bright You Could Have Seen It With Your Bare Eyes
- Moon Explosion Sparked By Meteorite Crash On Lunar Surface NASA Says
- Handbags may have more germs than average toilet flush
- Womens fertility could be linked with their immune status
- CA to improve pay conditions for Oz women cricketers to boost professionalism
- Man Charged With Videotaping Women In Hospital Washroom
- Female politicians help block womens rights legislation in Afghanistan
- Multi-million dollar cigarette smuggling ring with terror links busted
- US president calls for more embassy security funding
- Dzhokhar Tsarnaev scribbled note in boat as munhunt was on
- Mariah Careys rep slams American Idol lip-synching rumors
- US First Lady laments culture of African Americans aspiring to be baller or rapper
- Sources Freeney Chargers agree to deal
- Cubs to activate Garza for Tuesday start
- Orb favored to win Preakness set up Triple Crown run
- Crosby Pens sink Sens lead 2-0
- Carolinas Staal out over summer with MCL sprain
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