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  • US court rules casino site issue still undecided

    A federal appeals court says a key legal issue remains unresolved regarding whether a southern Arizona tribe was rightfully awarded reservation status for its planned casino site in the Phoenix area.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday issued an opinion that replaces a September ruling on the Tohono O'odham Nation's planned casino resort in the Phoenix area.The property is ...

  • Aftermath Tornado Hits Ok

    OKLAHOMA CITY - A mile-wide tornado churned through the Oklahoma City suburbs, destroying homes for the second day in a row Monday, as part of a severe weather outbreak that was expected to spread in other parts of the Plains and ...

  • US attorney in Arizona improperly leaked Fast and Furious memo

    Fox News with information apparently aimed at undercutting the credibility of a federal agent who helped reveal the botched arms-trafficking probe called Operation Fast and Furious, the Justice Department's inspector general said Monday.There was substantial evidence in the 2011 incident that then-US attorney Dennis Burke's motive for disclosing a memo by federal agent John Dodson was ...

  • Arias trial wraps for day after series of motions

    Defense attorneys for Jodi Arias asked the judge to remove them from the case and declare a mistrial Monday, arguing the frenzy surrounding the case has created a modern-day witch hunt.The judge denied both motions, and Arias planned to take the stand Tuesday. Jurors will find out then if she tells them the same thing she told a local reporter: She'd rather be executed than spend her life ...

  • Inmate found dead at Mohave County jail identified

    An inmate found dead in a Mohave County jail has been identified as a 28-year-Bullhead City man.Mohave County sheriff's spokeswoman Trish Carter says Gilberto Alvarado Avila Jr. died Saturday after being discovered being unresponsive in the jail's medical unit.Avila was later pronounced dead.According to Carter, Avila was initially taken into custody by Bullhead City police and booked ...


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Movie Review

The Black Cauldron

The Black Cauldron

More than thirteen years after its brief and disastrous showing in U.S. theaters, Disney has released on video "The Black Cauldron," its first and (so far) only PG-rated animated feature film. Produced in 1985, a time when (if you can believe this) Disney's animation studio was fledgling and on the brink of closing down shop for good, "The Black Cauldron" is a flawed, but ambitious film that was o ... ...

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  • Agree Obama approval rating still high

    A new poll shows that President Barack Obama's approval rating hasn't suffered as a result of three recent controversies. The CNN/ORC International survey, released Sunday, showed that 53 percent of respondents approve of the job Obama is doing. In April, the same poll put his approval rating at 51 percent. That gain is within the poll's sampling error, so it doesn't ...

  • Football player Daryl Washington pleads not guilty

    PHOENIX -; Arizona Cardinals linebacker Daryl Washington has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of assaulting his ex-girlfriend, who authorities have said is the mother of his baby ...

  • Gitmo shuts down wifi over threats

    MIAMI - The U.S. military has shut down wireless internet service at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba because of online hacking threats. A spokesman for the Guantanamo Bay prison says that officials have also blocked access to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter through military computer networks because of the threat. Army Lt. Col. Samuel House says the precautions were taken ...

  • Father No idea why daughter killed

    NORTH HIGHLANDS,CA - A devastated father says he has no idea why gunmen targeted his Northern California home over the weekend, killing his 10-year-old daughter as she watched TV. Ernesto Campo returned to the family's home Monday with his brother to collect personal items. Family members are staying with relatives to avoid the home riddled with bullets and stained with blood. Campo and his ...

  • Arias lawyers ask to withdraw AGAIN

    PHOENIX - The penalty phase of the Jodi Arias murder trial wrapped up for the day Monday after a series of legal arguments in which her defense lawyers asked for a mistrial and to withdraw from the case. The trial is scheduled to continue Tuesday with Arias speaking to the jury. The judge denied the defense's request for a mistrial based on a key witness receiving death threats. In protest ...

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