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The city of West Jordan, Utah, has ended negotiations with Facebook to locate a  proposed data center there, according to a news release. It was not immediately clear what effect the West Jordan situation will have on a competing proposal in Los Lunas, New Mexico. According to the news release, the city made the determination […]

LAS CRUCES  – New Mexico State State cross country and track field has signed five more student-athletes for the 2016-17 season. The program signed seven student-athletes earlier in the year. “Our coaching staff did a great job identifying and recruiting athletes in areas where we wanted to increase our depth,” said assistant coach Joseph Rath. […]

WASHINGTON — A key question looms for vulnerable Republican senators this election: If Donald Trump loses and loses big, can they still survive? With 11 weeks until Election Day, Trump’s declining standing in the polls has GOP Senate candidates preparing for the worst, and they’re maneuvering now to put as big a margin as they […]

LAS VEGAS — A former New Hampshire sheriff candidate’s guilty pleas to federal charges in an armed confrontation with U.S. land management agents near cattleman Cliven Bundy’s ranch in Nevada have been delayed. Defense attorney Brian Smith said Tuesday that a paperwork snag caused the postponement of Gerald “Jerry” DeLemus’ plea date to Thursday. DeLemus […]

CHICAGO — There are no bomb blasts or collisions with burly linemen in Susan Contreras’ past. Her headaches, memory loss and bouts of confused thinking were a mystery until doctors suggested a probable cause: domestic violence. A former partner repeatedly beat her, she says. “He would hit me mainly in the head so that nobody […]

TRENTON, N.J. — Sky-high price hikes for EpiPen, the injected emergency medicine for severe allergic reactions to foods and bug bites, have made its maker the latest target for patients and politicians infuriated by soaring drug prices. The company, Mylan, has a virtual monopoly on epinephrine injectors, potentially life-saving devices used to stop a runaway […]

BATON ROUGE, La. — Heavy trucks and their works crews have begun hauling away mounds of moldy carpet, warped flooring and water-damaged furniture as south Louisiana digs out from flooding the governor estimated Tuesday had wrecked more than 100,000 homes. Piles of debris stretched for miles in some parishes, with the inside of homes torn […]

High-ranking employees at Venezuelan state firms who oppose President Nicolás Maduro will face a steep price for their perceived disloyalty: their jobs. In what appears to be a sign of growing worry within the government that a recall push to oust Maduro could succeed, he has ordered a purge of management-level employees at five key […]

It’s not exactly stunning that former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros has filed a lawsuit against the cable channel and recently deposed chairman Roger Ailes. Since another former Fox News host, Gretchen Carlson, accused Ailes of sexual harassment in a lawsuit last month, more than two dozen women have made similar claims; it seemed inevitable […]

If you were planning to give the gamers in your life new consoles before they head back to school, you may want to pump the brakes. A report from the Wall Street Journal indicates that Sony will release two models of the PlayStation early next month: a high-end model with enhanced graphics and a new […]