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  • MLB Arizona 5 Colorado 1

    Patrick Corbin fired a complete-game three-hitter Monday and the first-place Arizona Diamondbacks cruised to a 5-1 victory over Colorado. Corbin (7-0) turned in his ninth straight start of allowing two or fewer earned runs with the dominating performance while lowering his ERA to 1.44. The left-hander allowed only one run and struck out 10 in the 97-pitch gem, which boosted the National League ...

  • Stanfords Ipsen Arizona States Jones Qualify for U.S. World Championship Team

    Kristian Ipsen was one of four divers to punch their ticket to Barcelona for the 2013 FINA World Championships, as spots on the 1-meter were up for grabs Wednesday on day one of the World Championships ...

  • Valley Fever Raises Concerns in California Arizona

    LOS ANGELES -- A longstanding health problem in California's Central Valley has worsened in recent years, leading health officials to order the relocation of 3,000 prisoners from two state prisons. But the disease affects much of the population in some rural communities and, while it often goes unnoticed, it sometimes can be devastating for patients. Dale Pulde is selling his California ...

  • Arizona authorities seek relatives of man who may be from Oxnard

    Due to his condition, he cannot communicate clearly, authorities said. He appears to be in his mid- to late 70s. He says he is from the Los Angeles area, possibly Oxnard, and may have family there, they ...

  • 3 hurt in crash involving Sahuarita school bus

    Three people were injured when a small Sahuarita school bus struck a parked tractor-trailer rig at the Canoa rest area on Interstate 19 on Monday afternoon.At about 1:30 the mini school bus was northbound on I-19 when it suffered a tire blowout, according to the Department of Public Safety. The driver lost control and swerved to the right, off the interstate and through a fence. The bus then hit ...


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Movie Review

The Blob [DVD]

The Blob [DVD]

During the Cold War 1950s, American cinema goers found cathartic release from the growing fear of the nuclear arms race in watching the U.S. being bombarded on-screen by threats generated by either atomic radiation run amok or invasions from outer space, from body snatchers, to atomic men, to giant ants, to the 50-ft. Woman. Yet, none of these creatures were as simplisticly freaky as the oozi ... ...

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  • US attorney in Arizona improperly leaked Fast and Furious memo

    Fox News with information apparently aimed at undercutting the credibility of a federal agent who helped reveal the botched arms-trafficking probe called Operation Fast and Furious, the Justice Department's inspector general said Monday.There was substantial evidence in the 2011 incident that then-US attorney Dennis Burke's motive for disclosing a memo by federal agent John Dodson was ...

  • Arizona Congressman Wants To Expand His DC Abortion Ban To Restrict Reproductive Rights Nationwide

    anti-abortion agenda upon the women who live in the nation’s capital, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) now intends to push for a nationwide bill to criminalize abortions after 20 weeks. Franks, who invoked the illegal abortion ...

  • Moon Field at Grijalva Park honors fallen Tucson High soldier killed in Afghanistan

    As children play in a multi-use field at Grijalva Park, they will be connected to an athlete and hero who grew up and played in the Midvale Park subdivision.The field at the park was dedicated this morning in honor of Army Spc. Christopher J. Moon, who died in July 2010 as a result of wounds he suffered from a roadside bomb while serving in Afghanistan.The park is adjacent to Grijalva Elementary ...

  • Arizona killer Jodi Arias set to take stand in defense of her life

    By Alastair Jamieson, Staff writer, NBC News Jodi Arias, the woman convicted of the frenzied murder of an ex-lover in Arizona, was due back in court Monday as jurors consider whether she should be executed for the ...

  • Desert Museum retiring two aging mountain lions added a cub

    Two aging, arthritic mountain lions have been retired from exhibit at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum - and a mountain lion cub will go on exhibit in their place today."The two lions are about 13 years of age, and it was becoming hard for them to get up and down the rather steep slope of the exhibit space," said Craig Ivanyi, executive director of the museum west of Tucson."They ...

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