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Bernalillo County commissioners are ready to move out of the offices they share with city government, and they’re targeting the First Plaza Galeria building as the county’s new headquarters. They voted 4-1 late Tuesday to authorize the county manager to negotiate a purchase of the building, which lies just off Civic Plaza, on Copper between […]

GORMAN, Calif. — Authorities are seeking a man and woman suspected of killing a woman, kidnapping her three small children and leaving the state, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Tuesday night. Arrest warrants have been issued for Joshua Robertson, 27, and Brittany Humphrey, 22, a Sheriff’s Department statement said. They are suspected of […]

AUSTIN, Texas — Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that he is open to “softening” laws dealing with immigrants in the country illegally, the latest sign that the Republican presidential nominee is considering easing the hard-line stance he has taken since the beginning of his campaign. Trump, taping a town hall in Austin, Texas, for Fox News, […]

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday announced a non-travel-related case of Zika in the Tampa Bay region. It’s the first in the state outside the Miami area, but Scott said there wasn’t enough evidence to date to declare a new zone of local transmission. If Department of Health officials conclude mosquitoes […]

TOKYO — The foreign ministers of China, Japan and South Korea criticized North Korea’s latest submarine missile test on Wednesday during their annual talks that were held amid lingering frictions over territorial disputes and wartime history. Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, who chaired the meeting with China’s Wang Yi and South Korea’s Yun Byung-se, said […]

ROME — A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck central Italy early Wednesday, levelling buildings in several towns as residents slept. The mayor of hard-hit Amatrice said: “The town isn’t here anymore.” The quake struck just after 3:30 a.m. and was felt across a broad section of central Italy, including the capital Rome where people in homes […]

  Quarterback Tyler Matthews left the New Mexico State football program on a miserable Monday — the same day it was learned that Matthews’ top competition for playing time, veteran incumbent Tyler Rogers, had been arrested. And on Tuesday, Matthews’ critical tweet of the NMSU program raised the question of whether the two sudden developments […]