Canada's conservative government is going all Reagan on your ass with this crime bill.

There I fixed it.

This bicycle plays records.

"This year my wife is attempting to drink 4 pints of sherry while free falling from 1500 feet...."

You must watch this nifty/naughty stop-motion Spike Jonze short.

Loretta Lynn is sick.

Was Gaddafi the richest man in the world?

Uber-expensive new metallurgy laboratory (read as "nuclear bomb factory") in Los Alamos continues to freak everyone out.

C&O Canal water-bridge (aqueduct) over water has been restored. Neat.

These occupy wall st. signs are hilarious. So are some of these. "I shaved my balls for this?"

Take the psycho ex-girlfriend test.

Do you like RUSH?

Which RUSH song is stuck in your head right now?

Did you know RUSH had a drummer BEFORE Neil Peart?

Is The Faith's "More of the Same" a rip-off of RUSH's "Bastille Day?"

Geddy Lee meets Alex Lifeson for the first time.

Happy birthday, Sam "Evil Dead" Raimi!

Gaddafi is dead.

Was the Elephant Butte killer really a killer?

New Mexico is considering opening a "foreigners only" DMV in Albuquerque.

Maybe the Declaration of Independence was illegal.

The State Fair is insolvent.

Tattoo Barbie.

Who runs the world?

In Alabama, "Mexican" is a dirty word.

Authorities capture or kill all the animals freed from a preserve in Ohio—except for one monkey.

Disneyland big brothers hotel workers with a system employees call the "electronic whip."

Archeologists unearth a street from the 1600s in Santa Fe.

We are using a lot of antidepressants.

The new Cranberries single—their first in a decade—is not so great.

The real Sybil says the multiple personalities weren't real.

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We might lose 50 post offices.

Politician wears blackface to say he’s Germany’s Obama.

Guy backs car into someone’s living room.

State on a $70,000 hunt for teachers who change students’ test scores.

FBI curriculum: Mainstream Muslims are likely terrorist sympathizers.

Auditor says chairman is blocking a review of the PRC.

Journal complains of the number of police escorting a bike safety ride.

Whites-only scholarships.

Moms say the darnedest things. So do significant others.

The recession has affected yet another business: Cocaine.

Doves are tasty.

Department of Transportation wants to ban e-cigs on planes. Here’s a list of other stinks that should be banned first.

American Apparel and a plus-sized debate.

Overconfidence works.

Japan's prime minister quits.

Is the US West coast next for a massive tsunami? This geographer thinks so.

A history of gays in the military and some moving firsthand stories.

The fake puke industry. Didn't know there was one? Read this.

Mexican police launch drug raids from inside US borders.

In some African countries mosquitoes and malaria rates are falling mysteriously.

Syrian political cartoonist is badly beaten and left on the roadside.

Learn about Ireland's history through 100 important objects.

C.I.A. demands cuts in memoir by former F.B.I. agent, bringing up questions about who gets to tell the 9/11 story.

C'mon Irene—hurricane threatens toward New York as the city battens down.

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As we reported in June, heroin is on the rise in our city. "We know there is a significant increase in heroin sales in Albuquerque, but we just don't know how much is out there," said Capt. Matt Thomas in an interview. "We tend to see different trends in drug prevalence, where it went from cocaine to meth and now to heroin."

At this week’s Council meeting, Jennifer Weiss spoke of her son’s death. She found the 18-year-old in his bedroom on Saturday. She said he’d overdosed. For about a year, Weiss has been speaking out about the problem as the president of the Heroin Awareness Committee. She and others asked the Council to find funding for a teen treatment center. Read the full story.

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The haze in the sky is smoke from wildfires.

Chief justice of the state Supreme Court says he did not buy his job.

Driver facing vehicular homicide charge after cyclist’s death last month.

Arizona sues the feds over medical marijuana.

Unemployment fell in New Mexico.

Google says hackers in China got into hundreds of Gmail accounts. Chinese government says that’s baloney.

Lady Gaga killed the notion of “the album.”

Two senators warn that the government is using the Patriot Act in alarming ways. But they say they can’t talk about it because it’s classified.

The war on drugs hasn’t worked, say politicians around the world. The United States and Mexico disagree.

T-Pain renounces auto-tune.

Europe’s mutant E.coli killed almost 20 people so far.

Nudism is on the decline.

Demand goes up for gluten-free, vegan baked goods, which means they’re becomming more delicious.

You can’t scrub yourself off the Internet.

Man found dead with his throat cut near Mountain and Sixth Street.

Guy goes to the lost and found at Sandia Casino looking for his cocaine.

Bears in Roswell and Belen.

AIDS vaccine works in monkeys. A human vaccine may be just around the corner.

Paramedic says he was discriminated against because of his beard in Española. He's a Sikh, and it's part of his religion.

The M-I-crooked letter-crooked letter-I-crooked letter-crooked letter-crooked letter-I-humpback-humpback-I River is flooding at historic levels.

Guard for Nazi camp was charged with 28,060 counts of accessory to murder. He was sentenced to five years in prison.

Google lobbies for self-driving cars. Guess Google never watched the "Doctor Who" episode about the ATMOS system in cars.

This technology can read your mind.

World wastes more than a billion tons of food every year.

Bin Laden's diary (crushes revealed! jk).

Dems try to repeal tax incentives for big oil, given the companies are seeing profit.

Geronimo's great-grandson objects to bin Laden's codename.

How did they find bin Ladin?

House approves antiabortion package.

A lot of heroin in Albuquerque ($300K sold daily), says the Sheriff's Office.

"Seal Team 6, a unit so secretive that the White House and the Defense Department do not directly acknowledge its existence."

PRC investigates whether the gas company broke any rules during the cold snap.

Intel's air permit has been updated in spite of neighbors' health complaints.

The AP won't cover today's GOP presidential primary debate because of restrictions placed on the press by sponsors FOX News and the South Carolina Republican Party.

Pelosi wants more transparency in fraking.

Last WWI vet dies. He was 110.

Obama's mom.

Things are getting better, so Glenn Beck became irrelevant, argues WaPo columnist.

Therapy kangaroo.

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Scott Owens found not guilty on all charges.

A 13-year-old APS student brings a loaded gun to school.

Banks can't freeze Moammar Gadafi's funds because they don't know how to spell his name.

First Lady Michelle Obama was almost killed yesterday.

Happy 4/20 Day marijuana smokers/losers.

Police car torched in Four Hills neighborhood.

Car slams into crowd at McDonald's job fair.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signs law giving Tea Party flag the same status as the American flag.

After almost 100 years the CIA declassifies the secret recipe for the Kaiser's invisible ink.

Drugs don't work in space.

Meet the Republican governors who attack federal spending while accepting federal dollars.

One porn company owns nearly a quarter of all 1-800 numbers.

This is why you nerds can't have nice things.

Florida job center fights unemployment by spending $14,000 on superhero capes.

Why do so many smart people deny science?

Walmart listens to customer requests, loses $1.85 billion in sales.

Attempt at setting Q*bert world record aborted after someone unplugs the game.

Pluto has a poisonous carbon monoxide atmosphere.

Read about Superman's 1942 crossover with Flash Gordon and Dick Tracy.

GAAAAHHHH!!!

That culinary institute the Olive Garden sends is chefs to is not what you think it is. Actually, it's exactly what you think it is.

Is it safe to eat roadkill?

Newly released FBI documents show J. Edgar Hoover's interest in UFOs.

Largest ever spider fossil found in China.

The cast of Happy Days is suing CBS and Paramount for unpaid royalties.

Seven often-debated movie questions that have already been answered.

New Chicken McBites coming to a McDonald's soon.

Happy Birthday George Takei!!!

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Charge up your electric car at Third and Marquette in Downtown Albuquerque.

Feds bust three clinics they say were dealing pills.

For the first time, Gov. Martinez uses the state plane--not the state jet.

Driver's license measure "eviscerated" in committee.

Richest person in the world now 38 percent richer. Guess where he lives? (Rhymes with Schmexico).

BBC reporters captured an tortured by Qaddafi's security.

Wisconsin union leaders promise two things: 1) a lawsuit and 2) the ousting of politicians who would snuff out their bargaining rights.

The Dalai Lama wants to give his political power to an elected representative.

Rep. Peter King's Muslim hearings begin today. He's said most mosques are run by radical imams.

Tucson shooter pleads not guilty. A victim still recovering from gunshot wounds went to the hearing to represent.

Nato forces may have accidentally killed the Afghan president's cousin.

Wait, we still care about Lindsay Lohan? She may go to jail today. In other tabloid-y news (same link), something something Britney Spears and Brangelina. (Seriously, it's been like a decade on Brangelina).

The celebrity contagion.

France shakes hands with Libya's rebel government.

Black people are leaving big cities and changing voter politics.

Julianne Moore is slated to play Sarah Palin on HBO.

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