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Both Rio Rancho Officer Nigel Benner and Albuquerque Police Officer Dan Webster were shot by suspects who had long criminal histories. The New Mexico Legislature has convened for a 30-day session that will focus on crafting a nearly $6.5 billion budget and addressing education and public safety issues. The governor is expected to highlight her priorities, from criminal justice reforms to education. In the weeks leading up to the legislative session, Martinez outlined many of her top priorities... Читать дальше...

Two of the three passengers refused medical treatment, according to Jim Allison, a spokesman with the transit agency. The first passenger fainted at around 7:45 a.m. on a Dublin to Daly City train but refused medical treatment at Embarcadero Station.

Prosecutors say 22-year-old Jack Daniel Trujillo and 18-year-old Esias Madrid both are accused of first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and other charges. Albuquerque police say a group of teenagers and young adults were playing a drinking game at a December party at a mobile-home park.

Jake T. Austin attends the Museum Of Modern Art’s 2015 Party In The Garden at Museum of Modern Art on June 2, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) Disney star JAKE T. AUSTIN is reportedly dating a fan who pursued him on Twitter.com five years ago. Danielle Caesar has reportedly been contacting the former “Wizards of Waverly Place” star on the social media site since 2009 and Austin recently posted a photo of the two kissing in bed. “I’m crazy for her,” Austin captioned the... Читать дальше...

Angry pedicab drivers rallied at City Hall Tuesday to protest a plan announced over the weekend by Mayor Bill de Blasio. [...] in exchange for slimming down their carriage fleets, the mayor also offered the horsemen an effective monopoly over the southern end of Central Park by barring pedicabs from operating south of 85th Street.

The statistics show a 1.7 percent jump in the overall number of violent crimes reported by local law enforcement, with increases in murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. The statistics provide some support for assertions, voiced in the last few months by local and federal law enforcement officials, of a crime spike in 2015. FBI Director James Comey in October raised the possibility that officers, in the aftermath of the 2014 Ferguson, Missouri shooting, had turned to less proactive tactics... Читать дальше...

BLOOMFIELD, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a southeastern Iowa man who was killed in December died of gunshot wounds. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation and State Medical Examiners on Tuesday released how 39-year-old Michael Thomas Goodwin Sr. died. Davis County Sheriff's Office deputies found his body on Dec. 13 after receiving a call asking that they check on the man at his home north of Bloomfield. On Jan. 11, police charged a 16-year-old boy with first-degree murder. The Associated Press... Читать дальше...

BOSTON (AP) — Boston police say two people were shot at an MBTA station in East Boston. The shooting happened around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday inside the Maverick station on the Blue Line. An MBTA spokesman says two people were taken to the hospital for gunshot wounds. Their conditions weren't immediately known. Shuttle buses are replacing Blue Line service between Airport and Bowdoin stations while police investigate.

Islamic State militants killed dozens of people Saturday, most of them pro-government militiamen, in wide-scale attacks on government-held areas of the eastern city of Deir el-Zour, opposition activists said. The opposition activist group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 135 people were killed, at least 80 of them soldiers and pro-government militiamen and the rest civilians, in the attacks which saw the group make significant advances in the contested city. The Islamic State... Читать дальше...

NY man indicted on weapons, ammo charges in traffic stop MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man who allegedly posed as a federal air marshal after being pulled over with an assault weapon, ammunition and body armor in his car has been charged in a 51-count grand jury indictment.

WHITEFIELD, New Hampshire (AP) — Ted Cruz says he is the first true conservative running for president since Ronald Reagan — and that will carry him to the Republican nomination come July. [...] as he campaigns through New Hampshire, which tends to favor more moderate Republicans, many undecided voters — and even some of his supporters — say the Texas senator needs to broaden his appeal to mainstream conservatives. The balancing act of wooing moderate Republicans while staying true to his unwavering... Читать дальше...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Oneida Indians are asking a state court to throw out a license recently granted to a rival casino being built in upstate New York, claiming the selection process was riddled with legal errors. Lago developers have said the selection process was valid and have accused the Oneidas of trying to maintain a regional monopoly.

The Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported Tuesday that Cradduck was arrested on a felony count of tampering with a public record and a misdemeanor count of tampering. Arkansas State Police have investigated allegations by two jail employees that they were demoted by Cradduck for cooperating with an investigation into allegations Cradduck ordered payroll records for another jail employee be altered to show an earlier hire date.

Utilities and telecommunications companies are rising, but energy and mining stocks continue to slump on fears that demand and prices will get worse. Oil prices have dropped to 12-year lows. Energy stocks continued to fall on concerns about reduced worldwide demand. Stocks have been hammered by concerns about the slowing Chinese economy, which is the second-largest in the world and an important contributor to global growth. Jewelry retailer Tiffany fell after it said sales dropped in the fourth quarter and said it will eliminate some jobs. Читать дальше...

Rescue workers still were tallying the number of injured and those who declined hospitalization, but at least one person suffered major injuries, the California Highway Patrol said. The bus carrying 20 passengers and the driver rolled onto the center divider of Highway 101, a major commuting thoroughfare, while heading north around 6:40 a.m., said Lanesha Gipson, a Greyhound spokeswoman. Yellow tarps appeared to cover two bodies near the front of the bus, where emergency workers in bright-yellow suits and firefighters worked in the rain.

(AP) — The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are investigating after several courthouses and a high school in Montana received phoned-in bomb threats. The FBI and Homeland Security are also investigating bomb threats made with a computer-generated voice to dozens of schools in the northeastern part of the United States.

Orchestral music with a jazz flavor No sooner had jazz begun to spread widely throughout the culture than classical composers in both America and Europe started drawing on it for their own ends. The result was a sort of blurry hybrid, in which the musical ideas of the genre’s inventors were bent, appropriated and reinterpreted in the context of classical concert music.

[...] the water crisis gripping Flint threatens to overshadow nearly everything else Snyder has accomplished, and the governor's annual State of the State address has become perhaps the most important speech of his career. The governor, who has apologized for regulatory failures and for an underwhelming initial response, has rejected calls for his resignation. In recent weeks, he declared a state of emergency, pledged another round of unspecified state funding, activated the National Guard to help distribute lead tests... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates fell last week amid continued turbulence in global stock markets. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday the average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage dipped to 3.92 percent from 3.97 percent a week earlier. The average rate on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages eased to 3.19 percent from 3.26 percent. The declining mortgage rates have spurred more prospective home buyers to apply for loans. Mortgage applications, including refinancings, jumped... Читать дальше...

Dr. Stephen Klasko, president and chief executive officer of Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, said the goal is "reimagining health care delivery, higher education and medical research in the Philadelphia region and beyond."

Bomb threats reported at 2 schools, 1 evacuated FARMINGTON, N.H. (AP) — Police have reported two bomb threats to New Hampshire high schools, one scrawled on a boys' bathroom wall and the other in the form of an automated phone call.

(AP) — A Chicago man who said he was seeking attention on a campus where he was bullied and harassed has been sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to making bomb threats in a self-declared "war" on Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Derrick Dawon Burns was sentenced Tuesday afternoon in federal court after admitting to sending four threatening letters to students, employees and campus police in 2012 and 2013.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS says taxpayer losses from phone scammers impersonating agency tax collectors have hit $26.5 million over the past couple of years and it's again warning people to just hang up on anyone claiming they're from the agency and demanding immediate payment.

(AP) — A senior Pennsylvania Senate Republican is suggesting that Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf will need to be willing to negotiate changes to a bipartisan budget agreement struck last fall. Tuesday's Senate voting session was the first of 2016, and Wolf is three weeks from delivering his budget proposal to lawmakers for the fiscal year that begins next July 1.

Immigration and federal courts system officials in Mexico said that they don't have any information indicating Couch has agreed to drop his deportation fight. The drunken-driving case drew widespread derision after an expert called by Couch's lawyers argued he had been coddled into a sense of irresponsibility by his wealthy parents, a condition the expert called "affluenza." Investigators said Couch was driving at three times the legal intoxication limit for adults when he crashed a pickup truck... Читать дальше...