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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Arizona

Arizona stories: 103 news summaries

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 Man Drives Car Off 
 Grand Canyon Rim 

Park officials find car, driver 600 feet below edge

Jul 13, 09 3:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - A man is dead after driving his car over the edge of the Grand Canyon today, the Arizona Daily Sun reports. Witnesses informed park officials that a car had just gone into the Canyon around 6am. Shortly after, investigators found the car and the man’s body 600 feet below... More »

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Arizona • death • car crash • Grand Canyon • Grand Canyon National Park

(AP) - Hundreds of passengers on a British Airways 747 flight to London used slides to evacuate the plane last night on the Phoenix Airport runway, the AP reports. The jumbo jet had just pushed back from the gate when smoke and an acrid odor was reported in the cabin. By the... More »

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Arizona • Phoenix • British Airways • evacuation • airport • Boeing 747

OPINION

 Top 5 States of Confusion 


Jul 3, 09 12:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - It’s not easy being an elected official in a time of crisis, but a select few governors are having a particularly tough time. And some of them are even trying to get reelected. Politico looks at the 5 worst-off states:
  • California: No surprise here. The state's issuing
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California • Arizona • Jon Corzine • New Jersey • New York • Arnold Schwarzenegger • Michigan • recession • unemployment • Jennifer Granholm • state legislature • budget deficit • David Paterson • Jan Brewer

(AP) - An Arizona middle school's strip search of a teenage girl accused of having prescription-strength ibuprofen was illegal, the Supreme Court ruled today. School officials violated the law with their search of Savana Redding, the justices said in an 8-1 ruling. Redding, who now attends college, was 13 when school officials... More »

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Arizona • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Constitution • John Paul Stevens • Fourth Amendment • strip search • Clarence Thomas • US Supreme Court • Savana Redding

Interview

Ex-FLDS Member Wants Hard Time for Polygamists

Author: Texas hung Eldorado kids out to dry

Jun 23, 09 1:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Former FLDS member Flora Jessop is “hoping against hope” that the men charged with child abuse at the polygamist compound in Eldorado get harder time than those convicted  in similar crimes elsewhere, she told the Houston Chronicle. “Thirteen days, 45 days, nine months,” says Jessop,... More »

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Texas • Arizona • child abuse • polygamy • Utah • FLDS • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints • Eldorado • polygamists • child marriage

(Newser) - This could have saved a lot of legal fees for Al Franken and Norm Coleman: A small town in Arizona settled an election that finished in a dead heat by asking the candidates to cut a deck of cards, reports the Arizona Republic. When the two council candidates each got... More »

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Arizona • election • Cave Creek, Arizona

 As Ariz. Housing Heads South, 
 Kidnappers Move In 

Failing housing market leaves homes abandoned for kidnappers to use

Jun 10, 09 6:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Gangs of kidnappers preying on illegal Mexicans immigrants or drug rivals are turning Phoenix into the kidnap capital of the US, reports the Wall Street Journal. In one raid, 30 shivering, half-naked smuggled immigrants were discovered in an abandoned home. They had been shaken down for thousands of dollars.... More »

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illegal immigrant • crime • Arizona • housing market • kidnapping • Phoenix • drug cartel • kidnapper • smuggling • Mexican

(Newser) - Police have busted a Phoenix man they say posted a live feed of his rape of a woman on the Internet, reports the Arizona Republic. Suspect Jonathan Hock, 20, set up a web cam before assaulting an unconscious date in his home, according to investigators. The victim learned of the... More »

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Internet • crime • Arizona • rape • web video • sexual assault

Phoenix 'Ma Barker' Ran
Crew of Boy Robbers: Cops

Mother used sons, pals in heists to pay her bills

Jun 2, 09 9:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - An out-of-work Phoenix mother has been arrested for organizing a gang of teenage robbers, including her two young sons, reports the Arizona Republic. The woman maintains she was merely the getaway driver, but investigators say she coached her posse to jump out of her car and pistol-whip other teens to... More »

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Arizona • robbery • unemployment

(Newser) - Law enforcement expects to seize $1 billion worth of pot along one stretch of southern Arizona this year, and that’s just 20% of the marijuana they believe will be smuggled into the area from Mexico. But there’s little they can do about it, NPR reports; the region is... More »

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Mexico • Arizona • Mexican border • Drug Enforcement Administration • drug cartel • Native Americans • drug smuggling • Tohono O'odham Nation

(Newser) - A Phoenix gun-safety advocate accidentally shot himself in the head yesterday while demonstrating gun safety, the Arizona Daily Star reports. The man was explaining to two others the necessity of keeping guns unloaded in the house. To demonstrate, he placed his own gun—which he thought was unloaded—to... More »

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Arizona • Phoenix • firearms • handgun • gunshot wounds • head trauma • gun safety • loaded gun • pistol

(Newser) - President Obama has no problem with the so-called snub from Arizona State University. In fact, he embraced it tonight in a speech to graduates and used it to encourage them, reports the Arizona Republic. "I come here not to dispute the suggestion that I haven't yet achieved enough in... More »

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Arizona • commencement speech • President Obama • Arizona State University • Jay-ZTV

Pulitzer Winner Was Laid Off

But he started Arizona news site with axed editor who supervised heralded series

Apr 21, 09 3:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pulitzer, Schmulitzer: being a terrific journalist is no insurance against unemployment. East Valley Trib reporter Paul Giblin was laid off from the Arizona paper last year even though he co-authored its series on immigration crackdowns that won a Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting yesterday. The supervising metro editor was also... More »

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Arizona • layoffs • Pulitzer Prize • journalism • fiscal crisis • recession depression • East Valley Tribune • Paul Giblin

 The World's Best Waterfalls 


Apr 18, 09 11:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Waterfalls are a prime tourist destination, and for good reason. Travel + Leisure runs down a list of the “world’s most spectacular,” but check before you go. Visit in the wrong season and you’ll see just a trickle. And dams can turn off the spectacle... More »

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environment • Zimbabwe • Venezuela • Arizona • United States • Norway • Hawaii • Niagara Falls • waterfall • natural wonder

Student Killed
in Teacher's
Love Triangle

Ex-pupil boyfriend held in murder of Ariz. woman's teen lover

Apr 15, 09 7:44 AM CDT
(AP) - An 18-year-old Arizona high school student caught with his 48-year-old math teacher in her bedroom was stabbed to death by her boyfriend, who is himself a former student of hers, police said yesterday. Sixto Balbuena, 20, a Navy sailor on leave, was arrested on a murder charge after police found... More »

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high school • Arizona • murder • student • stabbing • love triangle • teacher

Cash-Strapped States Raise Taxes as Revenue Declines

At least 10 states face substantial budget gaps

Apr 9, 09 7:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - A precipitous decline in tax revenue has at least 10 states considering major increases in sales or income taxes to close budget gaps that in some cases run into the billions, the Wall Street Journal reports. States like Oregon, facing a $4.4 billion budget gap and 10.8% unemployment,... More »

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California • taxes • income tax • Arizona • New York • Oregon • unemployment • tax revenue • budget gap • state sales tax • payroll taxes • state budgets

Death of Last US Jaguar Sparks Inquiry

Case rife with
finger-pointing among Ariz. wildlife officials

Apr 5, 09 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Amidst a federal probe, the mysterious death of America’s last known jaguar is turning into a big cat fight, the New York Times reports. Arizona wildlife officials say they mistakenly trapped Macho B in a leg-hold snare and found him to be healthy. But a conservationist working with the... More »

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endangered species • Arizona • US Fish and Wildlife Service • wildlife • jaguar

(Newser) - The Old West town of Tombstone, Ariz.—scene of the shootout at the OK Corral—is still swarming with gunmen. Actors, to be sure, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t bitter rivalries. Since a professional troupe rolled into town and started drawing tourists from the main drag... More »

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theater • Arizona • mayor • reenactment • Wild West • Tombstone • Wyatt Earp

 School Strip-Search Case 
 Heads to Supreme Court 

Law is murky on the limits of privacy in school

Mar 24, 09 10:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - In 2003, staff at an Arizona middle school strip-searched Savana Redding, then 13, after getting a tip that she had prescription-strength ibuprofen. They didn't find any, and Redding sued. Next month, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether the school's policy violated Redding's constitutional rights, reports the New York ... More »

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drugs • Arizona • privacy • strip search • US Supreme Court • middle school

(Newser) - You probably don’t want to live in the Chandler, Ariz., housing complex known as Alante on the Islands, MSNBC reports. The development was once owned by a California company, but entered receivership when the overextended firm went under. Now maintenance is spotty, the pool has turned green, residents don’... More »

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Arizona • foreclosure • recession • financial crisis • renters • receivership • housing complex

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