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  • OK tornado damage costs could top $2B

    MOORE, OK - The Oklahoma Insurance Department says a preliminary damage estimate could top $2 billion for the tornado that hit the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore. Spokeswoman Calley Herth tells The Associated Press that the early tally is based on visual assessments of an extensive damage zone stretching more than 17 miles and the fact that the tornado was on the ground for 40 minutes. She says ...

  • 2400 homes damaged in OK tornado

    Flipped vehicles are piled up outside the heavily damaged Moore Medical Center after a powerful tornado ripped through the area on May 20, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma.Photographer: Getty ImagesCopyright Getty ...

  • Solar plane leaves Phoenix on 2nd leg of US trip intended to boost interest in clean energy

    PHOENIX - A solar-powered plane is flying from Arizona to Texas on the second leg of a trip across the United States. The Solar Impulse is making the first attempt by a solar airplane capable of flying day and night without fuel to fly across the U.S. The plane took off from Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport at 4:47 a.m. local time Wednesday and is scheduled to arrive in Dallas ...

  • May 22 Today in Arizona history

    1894: Dr. A.E. Douglass selects a site in Flagstaff for the Lowell Observatory.1923: Four people die in an explosion at Benson's Apache Powder Plant.1925: A wolf-like pack of 15 or 20 wild dogs kill livestock and terrorize children in the Silverbell Road area near Tucson.Also in 1925: Citizens of Bisbee form the Bisbee Volunteer Forest Fire Fighting Corps, which consists of 13 groups of ...

  • Bisbee council advances new civil unions measure

    The Bisbee City Council is moving forward with a revised version of an ordinance that would legalize civil unions for same-sex couples.The council voted 5-2 Tuesday night to formally propose a scaled-back version of the ordinance. That sets the stage for a June 4 vote by the council on whether to approve the measure.Council members on April 2 approved an earlier version of the measure that ...


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Gangs of New York

Gangs of New York

The thing I always remember most vividly after seeing Martin Scorseses best films is the momentum. Whether it be the slow, methodical burn of Taxi Driver (1976), the purposefully infuriating stasis of The King of Comedy (1983), the melodramatic pull toward disaster in Cape Fear (1991), or the headlong existential rush of GoodFellas (1990) and Casino (1995), Scor ... ...

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  • Arizona restaurant becomes poster child for dark side of online customer reviews

    This Monday, May 20, 2013 photo shows Amy's Baking Company in Scottsdale, Ariz. After a particularly ugly TV experience, Amy's is fighting back and trying to raise awareness for cyber-bullying. They are doing this after they cursed out critics of their TV experience on their Facebook page. The restaurant temporarily closed down their Scottsdale restaurant after the ';Kitchen ...

  • Amys Baking Co. saga adds possible deportation to mix

    As if the events around Amys Baking Co. hadnt gotten strange enough, one of its owners also is facing deportation. The Arizona Republic reported owner Samy Bouzaglo has been fighting with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement about his residency status for two years. A hearing on it was Monday. The Scottsdale restaurant reopened last night after a week in which it was caught up in a social ...

  • Should Arias get the death penalty

    PHOENIX - A path of heartbreak, violence, lies and finally confessions has led Jodi Arias to where she is now -- at the mercy of jurors deciding whether or not she should live. On Wednesday they convene again to consider the death sentence for the passionate crime of murdering of her former boyfriend. A day before, she pleaded with them to spare her life. Earlier this month, the same jurors said ...

  • FBI agent kills man who knew Tsarnaev

    A man shot dead by an FBI agent overnight in Orlando knew Boston bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and was followed by the FBI for days, a friend of the Florida man told CNN affiliate Central Florida News 13 on Wednesday. The FBI told CNN an agent shot and killed a suspect "while conducting official duties" in Orlando, but did not elaborate. Khasuen Taramov, who said he is a friend of ...

  • Tucson shooting photos of crime scene evidence released

    The Pima County Sheriff's Department released 580 photos of the Tucson crime scene where six people died and then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was among the wounded. The 580 photos include pictures of the handgun and high-capacity magazines used by Jared Lee Loughner in his shooting spree at the Tucson grocery store parking lot Jan. 8, 2011, photos of the motel room where he stayed before the ...

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