Thursday, July 29, 2010 Headlines

(KRQE NEWS 13) - As of 6 p.m. - R.J. Lees knows he's lucky after being swept down a rain-swollen Albuquerque arroyo Wednesday telling News 13, "I totally underestimated it."  Read more ...

As of 4:51 p.m. - School officials allowed the media to tour The Pit Thursday afternoon. The building will reopen in 10 weeks.

As of 4:38 p.m. - New Mexico State Police arrested David Karan, 36, Wednesday night for the abduction of Alyssa Rehfield , 16, of Richmond, Texas. Read more...

As of 4:33 p.m. - The state Department of Public Safety Thursday issued a missing and endangered person alert for a Hobbs man who vanished late in June. Read more ...

As of 3:50 p.m. - Holloman Air Force Base may not have been selected to house the first squadrons of F-35 Lightning fighters, but an announcement later Thursday said the base will add training F-16 pilots to its mission. Read more ...

As of 3:15 p.m. - The street in front of Rio Grande High School will closed for more than 10 days to allow a contractor to complete a job, Bernalillo County announced Thursday. Read more and see map ...

As of 2:43 p.m. - Japanese women are expected to live almost 86 1/2 years, topping the world longevity ratings for the 25th straight year, the government reported Monday. Read more...

As of 2:24 p.m. - Russian special forces quickly overpowered a man after he briefly seized a plane with 105 passengers onboard at a Moscow airport, officials said. Read more...

As of 1:57 p.m. - People familiar with the talks say representatives of NY Democrat Charles Rangel and lawyers for the House ethics committee have reached a plea deal in his ethics case. However, committee members have not agreed to the settlement. Read more...

As of 1:18 p.m. - The government's point man for the Gulf oil spill says preparations for an attempt to plug the gusher from above are going well enough that the timeline for the "static kill" may be moved up. Read more ...

As of 1:11 p.m. - The Air Force Thursday selected Luke Air Force Base outside Phoenix as the preferred site to base the squadrons of F-35 Lightning II fighters , Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., announced.  Read more ...

As of 12:37 p.m. - Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was lost in the search for the doomed expedition of Sir John Franklin, the head of the team said Wednesday. Read more ...

As of 12:28 p.m. - A southern New Mexico man has been charged with trying to kill his estranged wife and mother-in-law by putting pesticide into their wine . Read more ...

As of 12:00 p.m. - An Albuquerque man returned to his home Thursday morning to find an intruder in his hallway watching his girlfriend sleep . Read more...

As of 11:50 a.m. - Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted an edited video of her making racially tinged remarks last week. Read more...

As of 11:45 a.m. - The Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National monument will remain closed until Aug. 20, 2010 while crews pave the road to the monument. Read more...

As of 11:40 a.m. – Arizona is preparing to ask an appeals court to lift a judge's ruling that put most of the state's immigration law on hold in a key first-round victory for the federal government in a fight that may go to the U.S. Supreme Court. Read more...

As of 11:04 a.m. – Ivy Bean, who became an online celebrity as the oldest known user of micro-blogging site Twitter, has died at the age of 104. Read more..

As of 11:02 a.m. – At 3 p.m. Wednesday, a 16-year-old boy was crossing the arroyo at Juan Tabo Boulevard and Candelaria Road when there was not much water. However, his second step proved to be quite dangerous. See a photo gallery here of the rescue...

As of 10:59 a.m. – Former New Mexico Lobo Danny Granger is one of 15 finalists for Team USA. Only 12 will play in the world championships in Turkey. Read more…

As of 10:53 a.m. - The Mountain West's commissioner is content with a nine-team league, for now. Read more...

As of 9:45 a.m. - Montana wildlife officials have captured a female grizzly and two of her three cubs in a campground near Yellowstone National Park where a man was killed and two others injured in a bear attack. Read more...

As of 9:39 a.m. - Because kids don't always listen to adults, the New Mexico Activities Association is using the stories of their peers to combat alcohol use. Read more...

As of 9:20 a.m. - A French woman who admitted suffocating eight of her newborns and concealing their corpses in the garden and garage of her home has been charged with manslaughter, a prosecutor said Thursday. Read more...

As of 9:11 a.m. - A man who was shocked with a Taser at least six times by Albuquerque police will receive $275,000 in a settlement with the city. Read more...

As of 8:54 a.m. - Las Cruces police say residents of a neighborhood are reporting a pair of door-to-door solicitors