Meteorologist Joe Diaz dances for a good cause
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Diaz and his partner performed the foxtrot. While they didn't win, they got some high marks for their efforts, including 9 out of 10 from Mayor Richard ...
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Police Sunday night accident killed 2 may have been caused by drag racing
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Albuquerque police now say two people were killed in a one-car crash Sunday that may have been caused by speeding and drag racing. Two people died in the crash, which happened Sunday at Central and Louisiana at about 8 p.m. When a white Lincoln sedan through the intersection of Central and Louisiana, ...
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Police release details of church attacker
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KOB Eyewitness News 4 got a first look at the 24 year-old man who, police said, stabbed several people at an Albuquerque church Sunday afternoon. Lawrence Capener is still in police custody Monday morning at MDC. Capener is being charged with three counts of aggravated battery with great bodily harm. KOB spoke to multiple witnesses Sunday, who described the horrific scene inside St. Jude ...
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Records NM politico pushed judge appointments
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Records show that a political figure at the center of a Las Cruces judicial scandal was in regular contact with former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson's staff to offer input on appointments to the bench in Dona Ana ...
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Found mummified body was local author
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Posted at: 05/13/2013 10:12 AM | Updated at: 05/13/2013 10:14 AM By: The Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - A 70-year-old woman whose mummified body was recently found in her Santa Fe apartment was a Chicana activist, teacher and author. Police say the decomposed remains of Barbara Salinas-Norman were discovered last week. Authorities say she may have been dead more than a year. ...
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Tornadoes wallop several states 2 killed
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The death toll now stands at two after tornadoes swept through Oklahoma on Sunday, the state medical examiner's office said Monday. Both victims were elderly men from ...
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Navajo plans to block access for uranium transport
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A uranium mining company seeking a mineral lease on state land in northwestern Arizona could have a hard time transporting the ore off site. That's because the land is surrounded by the Navajo Nation's Big Boquillas Ranch. Uranium mining has left a legacy of death and disease on the Navajo Nation, which extends into New Mexico, Utah and Arizona and is the ...
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Supreme Court backs DNA swab after arrest
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The Supreme Court has ruled criminal suspects can be subjected to a police DNA test after arrest -- before trial and conviction -- a privacy-versus-public-safety dispute that could have wide-reaching implications in the rapidly evolving technology surrounding criminal ...
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