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  • 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 ...

  • PD Missing Peoria woman vulnerable

    PEORIA, AZ - Police are asking for the public's health to locate a Peoria woman they called "vulnerable." Officials didn't immediately release why 27-year-old Amber Snyder was deemed vulnerable. She was last seen May 18 outside her home near 99th and Peoria Avenues, police said. Her family initially thought she went to stay with a friend but later learned that was not the ...

  • Taxes down pay up in Maricopa County

    PHOENIX - Property taxes will be going down and pay for county employees will rise in Maricopa County thanks to a unanimous vote by the board of supervisors. The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors endorsed Monday a $2.2 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which is $82.4 million lower than current spending, according to a press release. The approved budget should result in a modest ...

  • MORE tornado alerts across Midwest

    MOORE, OK - Tornado warnings have been issued across much of the Midwest, stretching from Texas to Illinois, following a second deadly twister in as many days in the Oklahoma City area. The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings Monday evening for several counties in southeastern Oklahoma and north-central Texas, along with parts of northwest Arkansas, Missouri, central Iowa and ...

  • AZ Red Cross reacts to tornado in OK

    tornado emergency in Moore, Oklahoma, but it hasn't yet been asked to send volunteers, a spokesperson said. Spokeswoman Trudy Thompson Rice said that Arizonans with loved ones in Moore should download the Red Cross Tornado App for their smartphones. "The app will keep you up to date on the tornadoes and the help that is available to those affected," Thompson Rice said. The Red ...


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War Horse [Blu-Ray]

War Horse [Blu-Ray]

Set against the backdrop of World War I, Steven Spielbergs War Horse is an ambitious, anthological portrait of both the devastation of war and the potential for human decency seen through the eyes of a horse. It is unabashedly romantic in the way it uses the horse, who is named Joey, a ... ...

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    I know you've "Googled" your name before, right? Well, I did it recently, and from what I'm hearing, I'm pretty lucky. I didn't see any negative entries near the top of the search. So if I were looking for a job, employers wouldn't be able to hold much against me. And ...

  • Brewer bill signing halt stays after vote

    Gov. Jan Brewer is refusing to begin signing bills passed by the Legislature again even though the Arizona Senate has passed a budget that includes the Medicaid expansion she's demanding in return for her signature, her spokesman said.The state House of Representatives still needs to act and until that happens, the veto threat the governor put in place two weeks ago stays in place, Brewer ...

  • Court undecided on Glendale casino

    PHOENIX - A federal appeals court says a key legal issue remains unresolved regarding whether a southern Arizona tribe was rightfully awarded reservation status for its planned casino site in the Phoenix area. The U.S. Interior Department must consider anew whether a federal law on land acquisitions by the Tohono O'odham Nation prohibits adding its planned casino site to the tribe's ...

  • Teen found dead in Coconino County

    PHOENIX - Coconino County sheriff's deputies are investigating the murder of a teenaged boy found Friday east of Ash Fork. The sheriff's office got a call about a body on the north side of Interstate 40 just east of Ash Fork, according to a report. A gas company employee pulled off the highway on a side road and discovered the boy's body on the ground in the turnaround area, ...

  • Man wanted in murder case arrested in AZ

    Federal authorities say a California man wanted in an Alabama murder case has been arrested near the southern Arizona border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said Monday that 50-year-old Jose Manuel Martinez was taken into custody and turned over to San Luis police. They say Martinez is from Delano, Calif. CBP officers arrested Martinez on Friday after a records check showed that he ...

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