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  • GOP wants to revive pro-religion bill

    PHOENIX - GOP leaders want to revive a bill that would allow people to sue over infringements on religious freedom after it was vetoed by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer. Cathi Herrod, president of the Center for Arizona Policy, sent an email to supporters Friday vowing to bring back Senate Bill 1178. Civil liberties groups say the bill would legalize anti-gay discrimination. Brewer vetoed the bill ...

  • VIDEO Jokes during the National Bee

    WASHINGTON D.C. - Laughter. L-A-U-G-H-T-E-R. Laughter. All jokes aside, the Scripps National Spelling Bee is serious business and the contestants feel an immense amount of the pressure when they approach the microphone and face the judges. Letter-by-letter, they mime the spelling of the word on the palm of their hand or they silently mutter under their breath, working to merge the letters ...

  • VIDEO Funny faces at National Bee

    some crazy things to. We get to watch it over and over. Contestants at the Scripps National Spelling Bee are known to have some whacky reactions to the words their asked to spell. Fainting. Impressions. Jokes. And even some hostility is all too common. Watch the video above to see a collection of some of the best reactions--from the hilarious to the over-ecstatic--from contestants throughout ...

  • McCain questions DHS head Napolitano

    PHOENIX - Arizona Senator John McCain is asking the head of the Department of Homeland Security for more information about a man suspected of hitting and killing a Phoenix police officer last weekend. McCain sent a letter asking several questions of Secretary Janet Napolitano about Jesus Cabrera-Molina, who was arrested on Sunday on an unrelated drug charge. Cabrera-Molina has not been charged ...

  • Arizona jury foreman says believed Jodi Arias was abused

    Jodi Arias listens as the verdict for sentencing is read for her first degree murder conviction at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona, May 23, ...


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  • $600M office complex coming to Tempe

    TEMPE, AZ - A $600 million office facility is coming to Tempe near the Arizona State University campus, the city announced Friday. The land, leased from ASU, will be home to the largest office development in Arizona history, with more the 2 million square feet to be constructed on more than 20 acres. The site is adjacent to ASU athletic facilities as well as Tempe Town Lake. Developed by Ryan ...

  • Spelling Bee injects humor laughs

    The cool blonde knew. Her stealth mission was a success. May I have that in a sentence, please? The Scripps National Spelling Bee has a long-held reputation for seriousness. Serious children spelling serious words with serious meanings. The annual competition, begun in 1925 and administered since 1941 by The E.W. Scripps Co. of Cincinnati, is known for its pressure, its nervous contestants, its ...

  • FAST FACTS 2013 National Spelling Bee

    will compete from the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and Department of Defense Dependents Schools in Europe; as well as the Bahamas, Canada, China, Ghana, Jamaica, Japan and South Korea. Zee Week 2013 marks ...

  • 230PM | Funeral for PHX firefighter

    PHOENIX - A rolling set of street closings is planned late Friday afternoon and early evening for a procession of fire vehicles as the body of a Phoenix firefighter is taken to a cemetery for burial after his funeral. The procession for Firefighter Brad Harper begins at 2:30 p.m. after his funeral at Christ's Church of the Valley in ...

  • Feds warns Navajo about unspent housing funds

    FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) -- The Navajo Nation has had trouble spending hundreds of millions of dollars in federal housing funds over the past several ...

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