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  • Minor injury in semi rollover crash

    CHANDLER - An accident involving two semi-trailers closed part of the Interstate 10 for several hours overnight. The Arizona Department of Public Safety said the accident involved three vehicles, including two semi-trailers, and resulted in one minor injury along the Interstate 10 at Riggs Road in Chandler, Ariz. DPS said one of the vehicles did roll on its side. By 5:15 a.m., the semi-trailer ...

  • Fed could ease QE3 because of job gains

    The Federal Reserve could begin to wind down its massive bond-buying program if recent gains in the job market continue. Reuters and Yahoo report that much will depend on how economic data develops in the coming months for whether the Fed ends its third round of quantitative easing, dubbed QE3, which has seen the central bank shell out $85 billion a month. Read more at the link ...

  • New Arizona law establishes benefit corporations

    Arizona has created a new class of corporation that focuses on more than just the bottom line. The Arizona Daily Star reports the state legislature passed a law establishing for-profit "benefit corporations," or companies that must have the purpose of creating a "general public benefit." The governor signed it into law late last month and it goes into effect in 2015. Read more at ...

  • Arizona unemployment holds steady at 7.9 percent

    Arizona's unemployment rate held steady in April at 7.9 percent. The East Valley Tribune reports the state's jobless rate remained at the level it has been at for the past three months, remaining higher than the national rate of 7.5 percent. Arizona added 5,200 jobs last month. Read more by clicking the link ...

  • Go Daddy partners with Locu on restaurant menus

    Go Daddy has partnered with a San Francisco company called Locu to give independent restaurants a new way to help diners find their menus online. Scottsdale-based Go Daddy, the worlds largest domain name registration company, has integrated Locu into its proprietary Website Builder software to make it easy for restaurants to post their menus on their websites. Locu offers hundreds of ...


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  • Ferris wheel ride world record broken in Chicago

    CHICAGO -; A manager of Chicago's Navy Pier rode the tourist spot's Ferris wheel for more than 2 days, bringing the world record for the longest ride to the birthplace of the amusement park ...

  • Wave of attacks kills at least 57 in Iraq

    A wrecked truck is removed from the site of a car bomb attack in front of a crowded popular restaurant in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. Two car bombings in the southern city of Basra, killing and wounding dozens of people, police said. Iraq has seen a spike of attacks, including bombings hitting both Sunni and Shiite civilian targets over the ...

  • FL town anxious to meet Powerball winner

    ZEPHYRHILLS, FA - It could be an anxious wait of up to two months for people in a small Florida city to find out who won the highest Powerball jackpot in history: an estimated $590.5 million. The lucky ticket was bought sometime Saturday or earlier at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, a city of about 13,000 people best known around the state for its brand of spring water with the same name. ...

  • Slow morning commute after CT crash

    HARTFORD, CT - Railroad officials in Connecticut say the morning commute is going as well as can be expected following Friday's train collision that that injured 72 people and has shut down service. Metro-North is using a fleet of 120 buses at the Bridgeport train station to help rail commuters make their way around the scene of the accident and help get them get to New York City. A shuttle ...

  • Phoenix firefighter police officer die on duty on same day

    Ben Harper and Daryl Raetz marked the first time Phoenix lost a firefighter and police officer on the same day, officials said. Firefighter Harper, 23, died at 1:30 a.m. local time Sunday while fighting a mulch fire in west Phoenix, The Arizona Republic reported Monday. Harper, a newlywed, was crushed between two emergency vehicles while readjusting equipment. He died at St. Joseph's ...

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