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  • Arizona woman who killed boyfriend tells jury what shed do if life spared

    Jodi Arias looks at her defense attorney Jennifer Wilmott on Monday, May 20, 2013 during the penalty phase of Arias' murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, AZ. Jodi Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander, 30, in his suburban Phoenix home in June 2008. (The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, ...

  • Court strikes down Arizona 20-week abortion ban

    The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the law violates a string of U.S. Supreme Court rulings starting with Roe v. Wade that guarantees a woman's right to an abortion before a fetus is able to survive outside the womb. That's generally considered to be about 24 weeks. Normal pregnancies run about 40 ...

  • Tucson museums participating in the 2013 Blue Star Museum Initiative

    The Blue Star Museum Initiative is back for the 2013 summer season. The initiative allows active duty military and their families to visit participating museums for free between Memorial Day (May 27, 2013) and Labor Day (September 2, 2013). Below are the museums in Tucson participating this ...

  • May 21 Today in Arizona history

    1931: Border patrolmen discover the skeleton of a 25,000-year-old mammoth near Hereford.1937: Amelia Earhart lands in Tucson, the first stop on her fateful journey across the globe. Her plane is lost en route to Howland Island in July 1937, then she is declared legally dead on Jan. 5, 1939, after an extensive search of the area between Lae, New Guinea, and Howland Island in the South ...

  • Police to release more than 300 photos from Tucson rampage aftermath

    TUCSON, Ariz. – Authorities are set to release more than 300 photos on Tuesday that investigators took in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others. The Pima County Sheriff's Department says many photos show the parking lot of the shopping center where the shooting took place in January 2011. The ...


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Movie Review

Bringing Up Baby

When I watch screwball comedies like "Bringing Up Baby," there is a certain part of me that laments the fact that our culture has become so jaded and cynical that a movie like this could never be made again. Oh sure, there have been some attempts in the last ten to twenty years, most notably two Madonna vehicles: "Desperately Seeking Susan" (1985) and "Who's That Girl?" (1987), the second of which ... ...

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  • Pics From Tucson Shooting to be Released

    Authorities are set to release more than 300 photos on Tuesday that investigators took in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others. The Pima County Sheriff's Department says many photos show the parking lot of the shopping center where the shooting took place in January 2011. The photos also include ...

  • Release set for police photos from Tucson rampage

    TUCSON, Ariz. -; Authorities are set to release more than 300 photos on Tuesday that investigators took in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 ...

  • New federal ruling casts doubt on Oodham plan for Glendale-area casino plans

    PHOENIX - A federal appeals court gave opponents of a casino near Glendale new hope it might be legally blocked.In a ruling Monday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it may very well be that the site owned by the Tohono O'odham Nation, while in an unincorporated area, is "within the corporate limits of any city or town." That's because the parcel is on a county ...

  • Street Smarts Once member of Confederate army Drachman prospered as tobacconist

    Street Smarts: Tucson road named for ancient people shrouded in mystery Makohoh Trail, south of East Snyder Road and east of North Soldier Trail, is named for the Makohoh ...

  • Stabbing brutal end to life just beginning

    One week before Erick Bridges was stabbed while working a graveyard shift at an east-side convenience market, he and his sister sat on her backyard patio celebrating her graduation from PCC's nursing program."We spent hours looking at our baby pictures and talking about what he wanted to do with his life," Jennifer Speese, 27, recalled on Monday."I was helping him get ...

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