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  • VIDEO Funnel touches down in OK

    OKLAHOMA CITY - A massive tornado tore through parts of Oklahoma Monday, leveling neighborhoods and leaving young children trapped inside their schools. Video footage from Moore, Okla. and Oklahoma City showed the funnel reaching the ground and later growing to a width of about one ...

  • Tempe PD names man killed by train

    fatally struck by a train in Tempe. Tempe police say 27-year-old Shane Tsosie was the man killed when he was struck by a southbound Union Pacific train about 7:40 a.m. Sunday. Police say Tsosie was on the tracks near 10th and 11th streets when he was struck. It wasn't immediately clear Monday if Tsosie was a Tempe resident. The train conductor reported the collision to the police. Police ...

  • $1M in marijuana seized at border

    NOGALES, AZ - A 44-year-old man was arrested Friday for allegedly attempting to smuggle more than 2,000 pounds of marijuana into the United States. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Port of Mariposa Commercial Facility used an x-ray scanner to discover the drugs, which were concealed in a shipment of 1,000 bags of charcoal. The marijuana was valued at just more than $1 million, ...

  • Border patrol seizes $1M in drugs

    YUMA, AZ - Border patrol agents in Yuma seized more than $1 million worth of cocaine and methamphetamine at a checkpoint Friday. Agents reportedly stopped a man driving a Chevy Silverado at the Highway 95 checkpoint. During a search of the vehicle, agents discovered the drugs hidden in the gas tank. A total of 42 pounds of methamphetamine and 2.2 pounds of cocaine were seized. The drugs were ...

  • Queen Creek students badly hurt in crash

    GILBERT, AZ - Four high school students were seriously injured in a Sunday morning crash in Gilbert that police say likely involved alcohol. Two of the students are currently in critical condition with potentially life threatening injuries, police said. The other two occupants of the white truck were seriously injured, but their injuries were not life threatening. The Queen Creek High School ...


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William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

In saying, "Lord, what fools these mortals be," Puck (Stanley Tucci), the engagingly meddlesome sprite in "William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream," effectively summarizes that play's theme, as well as the major theme in just about all of Shakespeare's best work. Whether it be "Hamlet" or "Macbeth" or "Romeo and Juliet," somehow Shakespeare always pointed out how foolish people are. ... ...

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  • Amys Baking drops news conference

    SCOTTSDALE - Amy's Baking Company has canceled its Tuesday press conference that would have answered questions about controversy surrounding the business ...

  • Arias attorneys will put one witness on Arias

    Jodi Arias looks at her family on Monday, May 20, 2013 during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Ariz. 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, ...

  • Search begins for survivors in OK

    The city of Moore, Okla., was hit by a mile-wide tornado on Monday afternoon. People wearing neon-green vests were joined by residents in the search through rubble. Neighborhoods are flattened and homes blown apart. Gary Knight with the Oklahoma City Police Department says an elementary school took a direct hit from the mile-wide tornado, but did not say which school was hit. There were no ...

  • Dealt with tornadoes 6 fast facts

    A second day of powerful storms and severe weather unleashed a massive amount of destruction on parts of Oklahoma, including a mile-wide tornado Monday afternoon. The same swath of Midwest states frequently face these deadly phenomena, which have so far left buildings and neighborhoods in their wake. Here are some fast facts about severe weather from ...

  • First Solar rides renewed solar investing interest to new high

    Panels from Tempe-based First Solar. First Solar Inc.s stock price hit a 52-week high on Monday, the result of another good earnings report. Tempe-based First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR) has been benefiting from a return on higher revenues and some quarterly profits of its own and other companies. Today the good news came from JA Solar, which didnt even make a profit. The last couple of years have not ...

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