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• Dry for now before a weak weekend storm

  10-01-2025 20:38 via krqe.com
  
  The snow from out latest winter storm has officially left the state. However, the bitterly cold temperatures are here to stay this afternoon.
  The low pressure system that brought most of New Mexico snow yesterday is continuing its track southward into Mexico. While the low took the snowfall with it, it did not take the artic air. This morning was another bitterly cold one. Wind chill left all of New Mexico feeling the freezing temperatures. Into the northern mountains, feel-like temperatures wer
  
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• 10 migrants discovered 'crammed' into SUV during traffic stop in West El Paso

  10-01-2025 23:25 via krqe.com
  
  EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- Ten migrants who were crammed into a sports utility vehicle were apprehended and one person is facing smuggling charges after an incident earlier this week that began in Sunland Park and ended in West El Paso, Border Patrol said.On Tuesday, Jan. 7, Border Patrol agents assigned to the Santa Teresa Station, along with Texas Department of Public Safety troopers, disrupted what is being called a smuggling scheme.Agents were conducting surveillance near Mount Cristo Rey when
  
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• Texas, Arizona arming Mexican drug cartels

  10-01-2025 23:24 via krqe.com
  
  EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The U.S. and Mexico are working closer than ever to trace the origin of guns used in drug cartel massacres and other crimes south of the border.The number of gun trace requests from the Mexican government went up 25% in just two years — 2021 to 2023 — according to a Jan. 8 report by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.Only about a third of the 71,277 requests conclusively led to a U.S. purchaser. But information gleaned from
  
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• Duke City Gladiators under new ownership

  10-01-2025 23:24 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Indoor Football League board of directors has approved an ownership transfer for the Duke City Gladiators. Michael Fietz and Bob Pitre have bought the team from Gina Prieskorn-Thomas.Prior to the sale of the team, the Gladiators were slated to take a hiatus for the 2025 season. The hiatus will continue as new ownership will asses a venue and new opportunities for 2026. Among the potential changes for the team is a rebranding.
  Fietz and Pitre had previous
  
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• Lobos prepared for showdown vs SDSU

  10-01-2025 23:23 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It will be an expected sellout crowd that will be "striped out" on Saturday in the Pit. The Lobo men's basketball team will host San Diego State at 11 am for a game that will be nationally televised on CBS.This matchup features two of the top teams in the Mountain West as UNM (13-3, 5-0) is unbeaten in league play while SDSU (10-3, 4-1) is undefeated in true road games. New Mexico's 5-0 record to begin Mountain West action is a first-ever for the program."Am
  
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• Vista Del Norte Park dog park opens Saturday

  10-01-2025 23:21 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A new space is opening up to the public at Vista Del Norte Park on Saturday. Dogs will certainly be welcome to come to the grand opening. 12 Albuquerque pickleball and tennis courts now have new playing surfacesThe City of Albuquerque is celebrating its latest dog park at the corner of Osuna and Vista Del Norte Drive. Dogs are encouraged to wear costumes to the event.If someone would like to attend but doesn't have a dog, there will be a pet adoption event n
  
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• Rare gold coin found in red kettle donations for The Salvation Army

  10-01-2025 23:11 via krqe.com
  
  DENVER (KDVR) — A rare South African Krugerrand gold coin worth thousands was found amid the spare change donated to a Salvation Army red kettle in Colorado.Salvation Army volunteers found the coin, valued at more than $2,700, in a red kettle at a King Soopers grocery store in Fort Collins on Dec. 23, according to a press release.
  This isn't the first time it's happened. In fact, the Krugerrand tradition is longstanding in Fort Collins. The first gold coin like this one was found in a
  
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• Florida woman messages investigator instead of drug dealer by mistake

  10-01-2025 23:07 via krqe.com
  
  PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida woman landed herself in hot water when she texted someone she believed was a drug dealer, but accidentally messaged a Bay County narcotics investigator instead.According to the Bay County Sheriff's Office, Octavia Wells, 41, unknowingly texted the investigator's phone about purchasing some fentanyl before an out-of-town trip. Anita Bryant, anti-gay rights activist and singer, dead at 84The BCSO said that the investigator immediately responded and arrang
  
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• ABQ Ride announces return of Route 790

  10-01-2025 22:57 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – ABQ Ride is bringing back one of their old bus routes. This will be just in time for college students coming back from the winter break. ABQ Ride holding hiring event on FridayThe 790 Route on Coors and University will be up and running again starting on Monday. Throughout the spring semester, the route will be taking passengers from the Northwest Transit Center near Cibola High School, south on Coors through Old Town and Downtown, then south on University t
  
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• UNMH hosts diaper drive at Lobo basketball game

  10-01-2025 22:41 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – While fans pack The Pit for Saturday's Lobo Men's Basketball Game, UNM Hospital will be hosting a diaper drive. Lobo fans can drop off diapers during the game. Lobo basketball player speaks out about alleged attack by teammateAll donations will go to the children's hospital and to families providing aftercare once their infant goes home. Money donations can also be made. More information is available and donations can be made at the University of New Mexico
  
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• Can firefighters use ocean water to douse wildfire blazes?

  10-01-2025 22:09 via krqe.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) – Footage of a firefighting plane picking up water from the Pacific Ocean to beat back the wildfires currently burning in Los Angeles has only added fuel to a debate taking place among onlookers on social media: Should we be using seawater to douse the flames?“I'm really confused. Can't they use ocean water to put out the fires?” one X user from Canada asked Thursday. “How is the ground so dry with that much water[?]”As demonstrated in the aforementioned f
  
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• Abbott says if there's a name change, 'Gulf of Texas' is 'the move'

  10-01-2025 22:06 via krqe.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Governor Greg Abbott is getting in on the debate surrounding the potential renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.
  President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would move to try to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” per reporting from the Associated Press. This has sparked a lot of conversation and debate online over what the Gulf should be renamed to, if at all.
  One person shared a photo on X showing the Gulf with a graphic referring to it as the "Gulf
  
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• Body cam video shows shootout between New Orleans police, Bourbon Street attacker

  10-01-2025 22:04 via krqe.com
  
  Editor's note: Video contains graphic images that some may find disturbing.NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Body camera footage of the Jan. 1 terror attack on Bourbon Street has been released.On Friday, Jan. 10, New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick held a news conference to discuss the footage captured during the incident that left 14 dead and dozens other injured.“They killed the terrorist. … They are national heroes,” Kirkpatrick said of the officers at a
  
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• 2024 was Earth's hottest year ever, passing major climate threshold: 'Alarm bells have been ringing'

  10-01-2025 21:08 via krqe.com
  
  Above: Climate researchers discuss the potential for a "new normal" in terms of higher temperatures and destructive weather events at a NOAA/NASA briefing on Friday.
  (AP) – Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold, weather monitoring agencies announced Friday.It's the first time in recorded history that the planet was above a hoped-for limit to warming for an entire year, according to measurements f
  
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• Prehistoric 'demon-toothed' fish discovered in New Mexico

  10-01-2025 20:15 via krqe.com
  
  NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Researchers have discovered a prehistoric 'demon-toothed' fish in Socorro County, New Mexico. The fish, which lived over 300 million years ago, was discovered by New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science research associate Susan Harris. Navajo high school teacher brings knowledge of ocean to New Mexican desertThe 'Daemodontiscus harrisae' identifies an entirely new genus and species that was uncovered. According to a news release, Harris uncovered a partial
  
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• What to know for 2025's Girl Scout Cookie season in New Mexico

  10-01-2025 19:00 via krqe.com
  
  NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The time of year highly anticipated by many is coming up soon – Girl Scout Cookie season. For those with a sweet tooth, here is what you need to know about how to get the limited-time cookies this year in New Mexico:When can I get cookies?Girl Scout Cookie season officially begins on Friday, Jan. 31, with the "Friends and Family Sale," but for those who don't personally know a Girl Scout, booth sales begin the weekend of February 21-23. Girl Scouts discontinu
  
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• Polymarket allowing users to bet on deadly LA wildfires

  10-01-2025 18:50 via krqe.com
  
  (NewsNation) — As deadly wildfires devastate communities around the Los Angeles area, Polymarket, an American crypto-based prediction market platform, is allowing people to bet on the disaster.Users could place wagers on 20 predictions related to the fires as of Thursday. The site also had a "wildfire" trending module. Wildfires latest: At least 10,000 structures have burned in a series of fires around Los AngelesPolymarket gamblers have bet on everything from the amount of acreage the Pal
  
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• New coffee option opens at the Albuquerque International Sunport

  10-01-2025 17:17 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – New food vendors have been unveiled as the Albuquerque International Sunport continues its renovation projects, but now, travelers will have another option when it comes to caffeine. Dunkin' has opened its newest Albuquerque location in the airport, and it is open daily from 4 a.m. to 5 p.m.The airport's Dunkin' is located in the food hall, after security. Dunkin' is joining a handful of vendors that are new to the Sunport, including Rush of Prana (vega
  
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• Photos: Smoke, smoldering homes and flames as wildfires ravage Los Angeles area

  10-01-2025 17:12 via krqe.com
  
  Major wildfires around Los Angeles raged for a fourth straight day on Friday, as firefighters struggled to put out blazes in some areas while in others evacuees returned to their homes, only to find them smoldering in ash.Ongoing battleA stairway is all that's left of a house that burned down from the Paradise Fire on PCH in Malibu.(Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)The Altadena Community Church is pictured the day after it was destroyed by the Eaton Fire, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, i
  
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• Paris Hilton shows Malibu home destroyed by wildfires: 'The heartbreak is truly indescribable'

  10-01-2025 16:30 via krqe.com
  
  *Video shows additional wildfire coverage.(The Hill) -- Paris Hilton is sharing a glimpse at her Malibu home that was destroyed by the wildfires that have spread through California, saying the loss is "devastating beyond words.""I’m standing here in what used to be our home, and the heartbreak is truly indescribable," the 43-year-old hotel heiress and reality TV star wrote in a Thursday post on Instagram."But now, standing here and seeing it with my own eyes, it feels like my heart ha
  
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• Can headlights be too bright?

  10-01-2025 16:29 via krqe.com
  
  CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY/NEXSTAR) — It's something many drivers have no doubt experienced during the wintertime. You're driving at night when you're seemingly blinded by a pair of LED headlights. You might wonder if there's a limit on how bright headlights can be, or even how headlights that bright are legal in the first place.The answer to that question is a very long one—about 122 pages long to be exact, and it can be found in Title 49 Subtitle B Chapter V Part 571 Subpart B §
  
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• Trump on Obama interaction at Carter funeral: 'It did look very friendly, I must say'

  10-01-2025 16:28 via krqe.com
  
  (The Hill) -- President-elect Donald Trump opened up a little about his interaction with former President Barack Obama at the funeral service for former President Jimmy Carter on Thursday, acknowledging that it looked "friendly."“It did look very friendly, I must say,” he told Fox News’s senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy, ahead of his meeting with Republican governors at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.“I didn’t realize how friendly it looked. I saw it o
  
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• Actor Steve Guttenberg returns to his wildfire-charred LA neighborhood

  10-01-2025 16:28 via krqe.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Steve Guttenberg awoke Thursday morning to a grim reality: The treacherous wildfire that tore through the Pacific Palisades had left his once-lush neighborhood charred and unrecognizable.With homes smoldered, streets emptied and friends scattered by evacuation orders, Guttenberg counted himself among the fortunate. His property was miraculously spared. But the actor-producer still struggled to reconcile his relief with the haunting sight of his ravaged, once la
  
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• Chiefs, research firm continuing surveys on the future of Arrowhead

  10-01-2025 16:27 via krqe.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- On Thursday, more than 300,000 Chiefs fans received an email asking them to complete surveys regarding a renovation to Arrowhead Stadium, or the possibility of a new Chiefs stadium.
  The two surveys from the team, in partnership with research firm CSL International, will “provide additional data points and insight for the team’s path forward,” the team said in their release on Thursday.One of the surveys focused on a potential new stadium and started by askin
  
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• As wildfires burn in LA, what to know about protective masks

  10-01-2025 16:25 via krqe.com
  
  (NewsNation) — Los Angeles County residents affected by the wildfires that began burning this week are advised to wear the correct masks to protect themselves against harmful smoke.Health experts have determined N95 respirator masks offer the best protection when worn correctly and fit properly.The masks are readily available at hardware stores and pharmacies, and they can filter out fine particles found in smoke that irritate eyes, noses, throats and lungs, according to public health
  
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• Civilian drone hits, damages firefighting aircraft over Palisades Fire

  10-01-2025 16:24 via krqe.com
  
  (KTLA) – A firefighting aircraft that was operating over the Palisades Fire is grounded and out of service after it was struck and damaged by a civilian’s drone on Thursday afternoon, officials confirmed.The civilian drone — which was not assigned to the fire — flew into a Super Scooper plane, Quebec 1, and damaged its wing around 1 p.m., according to an X post by Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson Erik Scott.Officials said no one was injured and the aircraft landed
  
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• Man detained near Kenneth Fire not accused of arson

  10-01-2025 16:23 via krqe.com
  
  Editor's Note: This article has been updated and a video removed to clarify there were no arson charges.LOS ANGELES (KTLA) - A man who was detained by citizens shortly after a wildfire exploded near Calabasas and West Hills is not accused of starting the fire, authorities announced Friday morning.Los Angeles police responded to Woodland Hills at around 4:30 p.m. Thursday when a 911 caller said a man was attempting to light a fire in the 21700 block of Ybarra Road, police said.Residents who spott
  
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• Arson suspect arrested in Los Angeles neighborhood near Kenneth Fire

  10-01-2025 16:23 via krqe.com
  
  (KTLA) – An arson suspect was arrested Thursday night near the Kenneth Fire area as fire crews continue battling flames burning near homes in Calabasas and West Hills.At around 4:30 p.m., Los Angeles police responded to reports of a man attempting to light a fire in the city's Woodland Hills neighborhood.Residents who spotted the suspect held him down until officers arrived. Photos shared on the Citizen app show officers surrounding a home where the man was handcuffed.“We were sittin
  
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• Judge sentences Trump to unconditional discharge, no punishment in hush money conviction

  10-01-2025 16:18 via krqe.com
  
  President-elect Trump was spared any punishment for his hush money criminal conviction Friday when a New York judge sentenced him to an unconditional discharge, eschewing jail time while securing his status as the first person convicted of a felony to assume the presidency. Judge Juan Merchan’s decision to release Trump with no strings attached caps the first and only criminal trial of a former president, less than two weeks before he’s set to return to the White House. New
  
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• Trump gets no-penalty sentence in his hush money case, while calling it 'despicable'

  10-01-2025 16:03 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday to no punishment in his historic hush money case, a judgment that lets him return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine.With Trump appearing by video from his Florida estate, the sentence quietly capped an extraordinary trial rife with moments unthinkable in the U.S. only a few years ago.It was the first criminal prosecution and first conviction of a former U.S. president and major presi
  
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