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GOP wants to revive pro-religion bill

PHOENIX - GOP leaders want to revive a bill that would allow people to sue over infringements on religious freedom after it was vetoed by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer. Cathi Herrod, president of the Center for Arizona Policy, sent an email to supporters Friday vowing to bring back Senate Bill 1178. Civil liberties groups say the bill would legalize anti-gay discrimination. Brewer vetoed the bill ...
VIDEO Jokes during the National Bee

WASHINGTON D.C. - Laughter. L-A-U-G-H-T-E-R. Laughter. All jokes aside, the Scripps National Spelling Bee is serious business and the contestants feel an immense amount of the pressure when they approach the microphone and face the judges. Letter-by-letter, they mime the spelling of the word on the palm of their hand or they silently mutter under their breath, working to merge the letters ...
VIDEO Funny faces at National Bee

some crazy things to. We get to watch it over and over. Contestants at the Scripps National Spelling Bee are known to have some whacky reactions to the words their asked to spell. Fainting. Impressions. Jokes. And even some hostility is all too common. Watch the video above to see a collection of some of the best reactions--from the hilarious to the over-ecstatic--from contestants throughout ...
McCain questions DHS head Napolitano

PHOENIX - Arizona Senator John McCain is asking the head of the Department of Homeland Security for more information about a man suspected of hitting and killing a Phoenix police officer last weekend. McCain sent a letter asking several questions of Secretary Janet Napolitano about Jesus Cabrera-Molina, who was arrested on Sunday on an unrelated drug charge. Cabrera-Molina has not been charged ...
Arizona jury foreman says believed Jodi Arias was abused

Jodi Arias listens as the verdict for sentencing is read for her first degree murder conviction at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona, May 23, ...

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The Wolfman

There is something primal in the enduring appeal of the Universal stable of Gothic-inspired monsters--Dracula, Frankenteins monster, the Invisible Man, the Mummy, and the Wolf Man--which were introduced to movie audiences in the 1930s and helped to cement horror, which up until then had been ... ...

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$600M office complex coming to Tempe

TEMPE, AZ - A $600 million office facility is coming to Tempe near the Arizona State University campus, the city announced Friday. The land, leased from ASU, will be home to the largest office development in Arizona history, with more the 2 million square feet to be constructed on more than 20 acres. The site is adjacent to ASU athletic facilities as well as Tempe Town Lake. Developed by Ryan ...
Spelling Bee injects humor laughs

The cool blonde knew. Her stealth mission was a success. May I have that in a sentence, please? The Scripps National Spelling Bee has a long-held reputation for seriousness. Serious children spelling serious words with serious meanings. The annual competition, begun in 1925 and administered since 1941 by The E.W. Scripps Co. of Cincinnati, is known for its pressure, its nervous contestants, its ...
FAST FACTS 2013 National Spelling Bee

will compete from the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and Department of Defense Dependents Schools in Europe; as well as the Bahamas, Canada, China, Ghana, Jamaica, Japan and South Korea. Zee Week 2013 marks ...
230PM | Funeral for PHX firefighter

PHOENIX - A rolling set of street closings is planned late Friday afternoon and early evening for a procession of fire vehicles as the body of a Phoenix firefighter is taken to a cemetery for burial after his funeral. The procession for Firefighter Brad Harper begins at 2:30 p.m. after his funeral at Christ's Church of the Valley in ...
Campaign-finance case against Horne still on track

A spokesman says Secretary of State Ken Bennett's office isn't being swayed by a lawyer's criticism of campaign finance allegations against Attorney General Tom Horne and an associate.Attorney Timothy La Sota says in a letter obtained by The Arizona Republic ...

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Why some patients experience memory loss while taking statins

University of Arizona researchers have found a possible reason for the reversible memory loss that some patients experience while taking statins, a class of global top-selling cholesterol-lowering drugs.

They have made a novel discovery in brain cells being treated with statin drugs: unusual swellings within neurons, which the team has termed the "beads-on-a-string" effect.

The team is not entirely sure why the beads form, said UA neuroscientist Linda L. Restifo, who leads the investigation. However, the team believes that further investigation of the beads will help inform why some people experience cognitive declines while taking statins.

"What we think we've found is a laboratory demonstration of a problem in the neuron that is a more severe version for what is happening in some peoples' brains when they take statins," said Restifo, a UA professor of neuroscience, neurology and cellular and molecular medicine, and principal investigator on the project.

Robert Kraft, a former research associate in the department of neuroscience, is lead author on the article.

Restifo and Kraft cite clinical reports noting that statin users often are told by physicians that cognitive disturbances experienced while taking statins were likely due to aging or other effects. ...