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Judge finds Arizona sheriff’s office racially profiles Latinos

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio hold up a loaf of bread as he describes how the threat of a "bread and water diet," keeps inmates at the Estrella Jail in line during a news conference Thursday, May 16, 2013, in Phoenix. A judge in Phoenix found Friday that Arpaio has been racially profiling Latinos during immigration enforcement patrols. (Ross D. ...
Court Rules That Arizona Sheriff Engages In Racial Profiling

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio (right) attends a rally for the Tea Party Express in 2010. A U.S. District court has ruled that Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio's department has violated the rights of Latino drivers by racially profiling them as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration and issued an injunction to halt the ...
UNLV to face Arizona at home after deal falls apart to move football game

moving the game to Glendale, Ariz., the Rebels football team will open its home slate on Sept. 7 against Arizona in Las Vegas as originally scheduled, UNLV Athletic Director Jim Livengood announced in a statement Friday. "We were approached by a promoter to move our September 7 home football game against Arizona to Glendale's University of Phoenix Stadium but we've decided to ...
Arizona jury fails to decide if Jodi Arias should be executed

1 of 8. Jodi Arias listens as the verdict for sentencing is read for her first degree murder conviction at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona, May 23, 2013. An Arizona jury weighing whether Jodi Arias should be put to death for the brutal murder of her ex-boyfriend deadlocked on Thursday and the judge ordered a retrial of the penalty phase of the ...
Kidnapping suspect arrested after high-speed chase across Tucson

A Tucson man suspected of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend has been arrested after a high-speed, cross-town police chase.Ozziel Ramirez, 20, was arrested at about 1:30 p.m. today near Ryan Airfield about 10 miles southwest of Tucson.He is suspected of kidnapping Marveen Estrada, 23, at about 8 p.m. Thursday. Estrada was riding in the passenger seat of a vehicle that pulled into the Quickmart located ...

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No End in Sight

While there currently appears to be no end in sight for U.S. involvement in Iraq, the irony of the title of Charles Ferguson's sober-eyed documentary is that it didn't necessarily have to be that way. While the film doesn't offer any solutions to what can only be described as a mili ... ...

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Humane Society offers special adoption rates this weekend

The Humane Society of Southern Arizona is offering a Memorial Day Weekend promotion. Select dogs and cats will have a $25 dollar adoption fee. Animals will go home fully vaccinated, spayed or neutered, microchipped and licensed.The main shelter at 3450 N. Kelvin Blvd. will be open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. It's closed Memorial Day.The HSSA is also offering 15 ...
June 2013 book club meetings at Tucson bookstores

Kjersti is an avid book reader. She enjoys reading most genres. Her favorite genres include mystery (especially culinary mystery) and history (especially Antarctic exploration and American Revolution). When possible she likes to get her books from local bookstores, especially Bookman's ...
Arizona investigating angry email sent lawmakers

A Republican member of the Arizona House who supports GOP Gov. Jan Brewer's push to expand Medicaid received an obscene and threatening voicemail at her office, a sign that the rancorous debate over embracing a signature component of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in the state is far from ...
Craft events in Tucson this weekend Hats young flyer fun hero and more

Color Me Mine Events Family Fun Day - Pay a flat $20 studio fee for a family of up to 5 on Sunday, May 26, 2013. Pajama Night - Save 50% on your studio fee when you go in wearing pajamas from 6 p.m. to close on Saturday, May 25, ...
Tim Steller Every leaker acts out of own interests

Dennis Burke, the former U.S. attorney for Arizona, tried to undermine a whistleblower in the Fast and Furious gun-trafficking case by leaking a document to a journalist, but he failed.The reason is significant: The journalist, Fox News producer Mike Levine, checked out Burke's information and declined to pursue the story.Burke's episodes of leaking information about Operation Fast and ...

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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.

Barack Obama

The U.S. president was speaking on his administration's counter terrorism policy.

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Wyndham Miami Beach Resort

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Why some patients experience memory loss while taking statins

University of Arizona researchers have found a possible reason for the reversible memory loss that some patients experience while taking statins, a class of global top-selling cholesterol-lowering drugs.

They have made a novel discovery in brain cells being treated with statin drugs: unusual swellings within neurons, which the team has termed the "beads-on-a-string" effect.

The team is not entirely sure why the beads form, said UA neuroscientist Linda L. Restifo, who leads the investigation. However, the team believes that further investigation of the beads will help inform why some people experience cognitive declines while taking statins.

"What we think we've found is a laboratory demonstration of a problem in the neuron that is a more severe version for what is happening in some peoples' brains when they take statins," said Restifo, a UA professor of neuroscience, neurology and cellular and molecular medicine, and principal investigator on the project.

Robert Kraft, a former research associate in the department of neuroscience, is lead author on the article.

Restifo and Kraft cite clinical reports noting that statin users often are told by physicians that cognitive disturbances experienced while taking statins were likely due to aging or other effects. ...