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• Even if Quinn or legislative leaders call a special session to force a new vote on pension reform, the task of passing it this year now becomes even tougher. After May 31, it requires a three-fifths majority rather than a simple majority to approve legislation.
• Quinn has pushed a pension overhaul for more than a year, even veering into odd territory when he introduced an animated python named "Squeezy" to emphasize the vise grip that growing pension obligations have on other state services.
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• PECOS, N.M. (AP) -- Fire crews are battling two wildfires in New Mexico that have scorched thousands of acres, spurred evacuation calls for dozens of homes and shut down a state highway.
• Officials said the fire in New Mexico's Santa Fe National Forest more than doubled in size by Friday night and was still totally uncontained. That prompted New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez to declare a state of emergency in San Miguel County to free up state funds to fight the fire.
• New Mexico State Forestry spokesman Dan Ware said the evacuations came after the fire jumped state Route 63.
• Officials asked residents in 140 homes -- mostly used for the summer -- to leave as crews battled the 3.9-square-mile (2,500-acre) blaze near the communities of Pecos and Tres Lagunas, about 25 miles east of Santa Fe.
• They also evacuated campgrounds and closed trailheads around Pecos, Las Vegas and Santa Fe as they worked on containment lines in hopes of preventing the fire from moving toward the capital city's watershed and the Tres Lagunas community.
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• PHOENIX (AP) -- Yanira Maldonado spent her wedding anniversary in a Mexican jail.
• And now that she's free and a drug smuggling allegation has been dropped, the Arizona woman says she's not giving up on the country of her birth.
• "What happened to me can happen to anyone," she said Friday of her weeklong

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