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  • Photos of Tucson shooting scene show gun knife

    In this image released by the Pima County Sheriff's department, a Glock 9 mm pistol is seen in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others in January 2011. Authorities released more than 300 photos on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, made by investigators during their investigation in the parking lot of the shopping ...

  • Police free last 2 people in home with armed man

    Phoenix police say the last two people who were in a home with an armed man who was sought in the abduction of his 3-year-old son are now out and OK.Sgt. Steve Martos says a woman and an 8-year-old boy were extracted by police. Five other people either were released or extracted from the home earlier.Martos says SWAT officers are in the home and that he can't immediately comment on the ...

  • VIDEO SWAT crashes through PHX home

    Tuesday morning. Israel Celis Sr. was found dead in the back room of a home near 91st Avenue and Highland after authorities forced their way into the residence. Celis was wanted in connection with the abduction of his young son, along with the Tuesday barricade. Police SWAT teams used an armored vehicle to smash open the front of the house to gain entry after Celis shot at ...

  • Woman crashes into Mesa store 4 hurt

    MESA, AZ - An elderly woman crashed her car into a craft store in Mesa Tuesday morning, sending four people to the hospital, police said. An elderly woman drove into a Jo-Ann fabric store near Main Street and Recker Road around 11 a.m. and hit four women inside the store. Three of the victims are in serious condition with potentially life threatening injuries, police said. Police said the ...

  • Appeals Court Strikes Down Arizona’s 20-Week Abortion Ban

    permanently struck down Arizona’s ';fetal pain'; law that would have criminalized abortion services after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The panel of judges determined that the 20-week ban is unconstitutional ...


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Red Tails

Red Tails

George Lucas has been trying to get a movie about the Tuskegee Airmen, the barrier-breaking African American military aviators who fought during World War II, for close to 25 years. His efforts have been stymied again and again by Hollywood studios who insist that they cant market a big-budge ... ...

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  • Jodi Arias urges Arizona jury to spare her death penalty

    Jodi Arias looks at her defense attorney Jennifer Wilmott during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona May 20, 2013 ...

  • Federal appeals court strikes down Arizonas 20-week abortion ban

    SAN FRANCISCO A federal court in San Francisco Tuesday struck down Arizona's ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the law violates a string of U.S. Supreme Court rulings starting with Roe v. Wade that guarantees a woman's right to an abortion before a fetus is able to survive outside the womb. That's generally considered to ...

  • 9th Circuit strikes down Arizona abortion law

    A U.S. appeals court Tuesday struck down an Arizona abortion law banning the procedure after 20 weeks unless there's a medical emergency. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said the law conflicts with federal decisions extending back to Roe vs. Wade. "Arizona may not deprive a woman of the choice to terminate her pregnancy at any point prior ...

  • Arizona woman who killed boyfriend tells jury what shed do if life spared

    Jodi Arias looks at her defense attorney Jennifer Wilmott on Monday, May 20, 2013 during the penalty phase of Arias' murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, AZ. Jodi 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, ...

  • Arias tells jury what shell do if allowed to live

    Jodi Arias spent 18 days on the stand sharing intimate, emotional and oftentimes X-rated details of her life before a rapt television and online audience. She had hoped it all might convince a jury that she killed her one-time boyfriend in ...

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