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  • Arizona killer Jodi Arias set to take stand in defense of her life

    By Alastair Jamieson, Staff writer, NBC News Jodi Arias, the woman convicted of the frenzied murder of an ex-lover in Arizona, was due back in court Monday as jurors consider whether she should be executed for the ...

  • 2 dead 20 injured after explosions in Dagestan- Wave of violent attacks kills at least 86 in Iraq

    MAKHACHKALA, Russia – Two people are dead and at least 20 are injured after two car bombs exploded Monday in Dagestan, in Russia's North Caucasus region, where armed militias are leading an Islamist insurgency. Both blasts were near the headquarters of the court bailiffs and appeared to have been detonated by remote control, a Russian state agency told Reuters. Police cordoned ...

  • Moon Field at Grijalva Park will honor fallen Tucson High soldier killed in Afghanistan

    As children play in a multi-use field at Grijalva Park, they will be connected to an athlete and hero who grew up and played in the Midvale Park subdivision.The field at the park is being dedicated at 8:15 a.m. today in honor of Army Spc. Christopher J. Moon, who died in July 2010 as a result of wounds he suffered from a roadside bomb while serving in Afghanistan.The public is invited to the ...

  • 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. ...


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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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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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