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  • Soldier Basin Fire 5 contained

    NOGALES, AZ - A wildfire has burned approximately 3 square miles of grass and brush on ridges of the Coronado National Forest about a dozen miles from Nogales in rural Santa Cruz County in southern Arizona. The Soldier Basin fire is approximately five miles east of the Nogales airport, which is seven miles northeast of the southern Arizona city. The Forest Service says the human-caused fire is ...

  • Friends family honor fallen firefighter

    PHOENIX - Friends, family and the community gathered this morning for a short memorial to remember a Phoenix firefighter who died this weekend while working to fight a mulch fire. Approximately 200 people showed up at Northwest Christian School to remember 23-year-old Brad Harper, a two-year veteran with the fire department, who died after he was pinned between two fire trucks Saturday evening. ...

  • Op-Ed Gamma Rays and the Grand Canyon

    denied their motion to overturn the Salazar decision on constitutional grounds. A tactical, piecemeal circumvention of the ban has had better luck in the bureaucracy of the U.S. Forest Service. The USFS, despite the anti-mining intent of their boss President Obama, authorized a Canadian company to dig uranium six miles from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. ...

  • Pinal officials meet with ICE on costly contract

    CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (AP) -- Representatives of Pinal County and the federal government have started discussing the possibility of renegotiating the county's money-losing contract to house federal immigration detainees in the county jail in ...

  • Fire east of Nogales estimated at 3 square miles

    NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) -- A wildfire has burned approximately 3 square miles of grass and brush on ridges of the Coronado National Forest about a dozen miles from Nogales in rural Santa Cruz County in southern ...


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You've Got Mail

You've Got Mail

"You've Got Mail" is about what you would expect from a reteaming of the three principles--stars Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, and writer/director Nora Ephron--behind 1993's romantic hit, "Sleepless in Seattle." It's light and romantic, funny, charming, and easy to sit through. There's nothing grand or poetic about it, but it's not forceful or overwrought, either. Instead, it's a warm-hearted romantic c ... ...

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  • 2 old lions retire at Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

    Museum officials say the lions are about 13 years old and have arthritis that makes it difficult for them to get up and down the exhibit space's steep ...

  • Man attacked and robbed in La Mesa

    The victim was in the parking lot of the Motel 6 on Alvarado Road near Interstate 8 about 2:30 a.m. when he was approached from behind by two men, La Mesa police ...

  • NKorea fires short-range weapon

    SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea continued firing short-range weapons over its own eastern waters Monday after a weekend of what it called "rocket launching tests" intended to bolster deterrence against enemy attack. South Korean officials were investigating exactly what it was that Pyongyang was testing. North Korea regularly conducts short-range missile tests. Analysts say the recent ...

  • 1000 AM | Will Arias take the stand

    Jodi Arias returns to court Monday for the continuation of the penalty phase of her trial after being convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of her one-time lover as jurors consider a sentence of life in prison or execution. Last week, jurors heard tearful comments from Travis Alexander's brother and sister as they described how his killing has torn their lives apart. Monday begins ...

  • Quick choice ended in NY student death

    NEW YORK - The college student was being held in a headlock by a masked intruder with a loaded gun to her head, police said. Then the gunman took aim at an officer. A moment later both Hofstra University junior Andrea Rebello and the intruder were dead -- killed after a split-second decision that is perhaps the most harrowing in law enforcement: when to pull the trigger. "The big question ...

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