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Arizona Sheriff Ruled to Unfairly Target Latinos
A U.S. federal judge has ruled that an Arizona sheriff known for his tough policies has been singling out Latinos in immigration patrols and traffic ...
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Garage thieves targeting Valley homes
GILBERT, AZ - A "safety alert" is being distributed to homes in and around the Trilogy at Power Ranch neighborhood in southeast Gilbert after a couple of people were seen possibly casing homes for burglaries, neighbors said. The possible burglars appear to be testing different garage door openers to see if any of the remotes activate a garage. "Lock your doors," said resident ...
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Traveling BEWARE of rental car ripoff
Steve Roberts travels a lot for work. In March, he flew to Tampa, Fla. After landing, he went to the Thrifty rental counter to pick up the car reserved by his employer. "I said, 'I don't want the damage waiver because I am covered by my insurance and by my credit card,'" Roberts recalled telling the Thrifty employee. Before leaving with the car, Roberts said he asked the ...
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MLB Arizona 5 San Diego 2
Miguel Montero produced the first of four Arizona doubles during a five-run seventh inning Friday that lifted the Diamondbacks over San Diego 5-2. Arizona had lost two straight and the Diamondbacks trailed by a run entering the seventh against the Padres. The Diamondbacks then batted around against four San Diego pitchers to hand the Padres their third straight ...
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Arizonas 5-run 7th defeats Padres
PHOENIX, Ariz. -; Arizona exploded for five runs against starter Eric Stults and the Padres bullpen in the seventh inning Friday night to score a 5-2 victory in the opener of a three-game series before 24,043 at Chase ...
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Jubal [Blu-Ray]
An intense drama whose Shakespearean tensions are embodied in the enormity of the Grand Tetons beneath which it unfolds, Jubal is an almost forgotten psychological western that, despite obvious differences, warrants comparison to the contemporaneous works of Howard Hawks and John Ford in term ... ...
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Judge Arizona sheriff’s office targets Latinos
Sheriff Joe Arpaio relied on racial profiling and illegal detentions to target Latinos, using their ethnicity as the main basis for suspecting that they were in the country illegally, a federal judge ...
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Angry emails sent to AZ lawmakers
The Arizona Department of Public Safety has launched an investigation into lawmakers' safety after at least nine legislators received threatening emails over Gov. Jan Brewer's push to expand Medicaid in the state. Officials said Friday that the sender of the email asked the lawmakers to vote against the Medicaid expansion plan and made reference to Second Amendment rights. The ...
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Woman struck killed after AZ graduation
TUCSON, AZ - Authorities have released the name of a wheelchair-bound woman who was fatally struck by a vehicle while leaving a high school graduation in Tucson. Northwest Fire District officials say 82-year-old Dorothy Penrod died Thursday night, shortly after arriving at University of Arizona Medical Center. The woman's 59-year-old nephew also was struck and was listed Friday in extremely ...
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Florida Staves Off Steals by Arizona
TALLAHASSEE | Florida has a new fiscal game plan to keep its spring training lineup of baseball teams from jumping to the Cactus League in ...
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WEEKEND 4 stories to watch in Arizona
So you can stay ahead of the news, here's a quick look at some of the stories ABC15 will be keeping an eye on Saturday, May 25, through Monday, May ...
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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.
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The U.S. president was speaking on his administration's counter terrorism policy.
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Sheraton Yankee Trader Hotel, Fort Lauderdale Beach
I had mixed feelings coming back to this old hotel. I had been staying there on-and-off for 20 years, and ...
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