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Las Cruces mayor seeks ex-LA mayor’s help on debt

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — The mayor of Las Cruces is seeking help from Los Angeles’ mayor and Albuquerque’s former mayor to erase outstanding debt from his re-election campaign two years ago.

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Driver arrested in death of soccer ball dribbler

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The driver Oregon police say fatally struck a man trying to dribble a soccer ball 10,000 miles from Seattle to Brazil for the World Cup has been arrested.

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Crews battle hot spots in Colo. wildfire

Firefighter Brandie Smith from Salida, Colo., walks past a burned out structure on the Black Forest wildfire north of Colorado Springs, Colo., on Monday, June 17, 2013. Over 470 homes burned in the wildfire that started last Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Rain helped firefighters douse Colorado’s most destructive wildfire in state history, while a new wind-whipped blaze in California forced evacuations and threatened homes Monday near Yosemite National Park.

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Texas, SD governors court Conn. gun makers

Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks to the media before hosting a lunch appointment with Connecticut gun makers in Hartford, Conn., Monday, June 17, 2013.  The governors of Texas and South Dakota are visiting Connecticut to court local gun makers, many of which have threatened to leave since the state passed tough new gun-control laws in response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The governors of Texas and South Dakota visited Connecticut on Monday to court gun manufacturers that have threatened to leave since the state passed tough new gun-control laws this year in response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

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Monday, June 17, 2013

Supreme Court says Arizona cannot demand proof of citizenship for federal voter registration

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