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Arizona House Approves Bill Further Protecting Religious Freedom

Senate Bill 1178 , which passed the Arizona House of Representatives on Wednesday with a 32-24 vote along party lines and reportedly with little debate, seeks to strengthen the language of the already existing Religious Freedom Restoration Act.The bill seeks to strengthen religious freedom in the state in several ways, predominately by giving all denominations the ability to file a lawsuit over ...
Judge Suggests He Will Strike Down Arizona Discrimination Against Many Immigrant Drivers

After President Obama opened the door to temporary legal status for more than a million young immigrants who came to the United States as children, Arizona and other ...
Direct Energy looking forward to Arizona electric deregulation discussion

Direct Energy is expanding in the Phoenix area. Direct Energy is ready to start talking a bit more about deregulated utilities in Arizona. The Houston-based company, which announced earlier this year it was opening another call center in the Valley, is ready to join in on the discussion of giving consumers a choice in who their electric providers will be. Heres a hint: Direct Energy believes ...
Greys Anatomys Jessica Capshaw Arizona Does Not Forgive Callie

'Grey's Anatomy's' Sarah Drew on April's Sweet (and Sudden) Surprise Arizona Robbins made a heartbreaking confession during Thursday's ninth season finale ...
Fitch Releases Report on Tucson AZ

California's Fiscally Disciplined Budget Positive Fitch Ratings views California's fiscal 2014 budget as continuing the disciplined approach to fiscal management shown by the state in recent years. California's economic outlook cautiously forecasts that the expiration of the federal payroll tax holiday and federal sequestration cuts will have a modestly negative impact on ...

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Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) [DVD]

Since the earliest days of cinema, one of the principle rules of filmmaking is that the actors never look directly into the camera. In Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Klaus Kinski, starring as the titular character, breaks that rule near the end of the film when he looks d ... ...

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Arizona law banning hiring of illegal immigrants hurts workers more than businesses

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2011 photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks to the media after his deputies conducted a raid at a printing company in Phoenix, arresting six suspects out of 17 they were allegedly looking for. The immigration debate in Arizona reached a boiling point when the state passed a groundbreaking law in 2007 targeting those often blamed with fueling the nation's ...
Arizona Insurance Agency Chosen for Agency 2020

Hester, Heitel & Associates, an independent insurance agency in Phoenix, Ariz. was chosen to represent "the path to the future for all independent agencies," announced Consumer Agency Portal LLC, also known as Project CAP, creator of the Agency 2020 program. Through early 2014, industry service and product providers will work with Hester, Heitel to explore pathways to future ...
Craft events in Tucson this weekend Mondrian art Pac-Man and more

Color Me Mine Events It's My Party - Get a free $3 pottery upgrade when you book your party on Sunday, May 19, 2013. Pajama Night - Save 50% on your studio fee if you go in wearing pajamas 6 p.m. to close on Saturday, May 18, ...
Arizona bid to block young immigrant drivers licences denied by judge

Arizona 's Republican governor from denying driver's licenses to young immigrants granted temporary legal status by the federal government. Civil rights groups had filed a lawsuit in US district court in Phoenix in November against Governor Jan Brewer and two state transportation department officials on behalf of five Mexican immigrants who qualify for deferred deportation status under ...
May 17 Today in Arizona history

1900: An Arizona and New Mexico Railroad freight train crashes through a bridge near Clifton. Three people are killed and nine injured.1910: The Douglas police chief arrests the mayor on a charge of failing to hitch his horse.Also in 1910: The Hotel Adams in Phoenix is destroyed by fire, withtwo people killed and the loss estimated at $275,000. Then-Governor and Mrs. Richard Sloan, who were ...

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He is the most evil, vile, demonic criminal. He is dead to me. There will be no visits, there will be no phone calls. He can never be Daddy again. I have no sympathy for the man.

Angie Gregg

Gregg was speaking about her father Ariel Castro who allegedly kidnapped, raped and held captive for a decade, three young women in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Hyatt Regency Islandia on San Diego's Mission Bay

Taking Highway 5 north of downtown San Diego, and exiting about 6 miles up on 8 West I soon came ...

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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. ...