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	<title>Breaking News &#187; Ariz.</title>
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		<title>Chevron Mining donates land for a museum to honor WWII Navajo Marines who baffled Japanese</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Felicia Fonseca</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — As members of an elite group of Navajo Marines approach their 90s, they know there&#8217;s little time left to tell the story about how they used their native language to confound the Japanese during World War II.

Their vision for a venue to tell those stories, including the years in which they kept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nearly 100 immigrants discovered inside near-freezing refrigerated truck on Arizona highway</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOGALES, Ariz. — Arizona authorities stopped a refrigerated truck hauling fruit and found almost 100 illegal immigrants — some as young as 9 — crammed inside the trailer in near-freezing temperatures, officials said Thursday.

A tip from federal agents led an Arizona Department of Public Safety officer to make the stop for an equipment violation Wednesday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DPS conducts traffic stop; finds nearly 100 undocumented immigrants inside a trailer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOGALES, Ariz. — Arizona police stopped a refrigerated truck hauling fruit and found nearly 100 illegal immigrants, some as young as 9, crammed inside the trailer in near-freezing temperatures, officials said Thursday.

A tip from federal agents led an Arizona Department of Public Safety officer to make the stop for an equipment violation Wednesday night on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amkor posts 86 percent decline in 2nd quarter profit, but results beat Wall Street estimates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHANDLER, Ariz. — Microchip assembly and test company Amkor Technology Inc. said Wednesday its second-quarter profit tumbled 86 percent as sales slid amid the global economic downturn. But the results beat Wall Street expectations.

Net income fell to $9 million, or 5 cents per share, for the three months ended June 30. That compares with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quiet down! Government agencies work to cut aircraft noise over the Grand Canyon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Two federal agencies want to quiet things down at the Grand Canyon.

The National Park Service and the Federal Aviation Administration are working on proposals that would lessen aircraft noise over the park. Last year, the FAA recorded 56,000 air tours over the Grand Canyon.
The total number of tour and transportation flights below [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican citizen sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for assault on Border Patrol agent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TUCSON, Ariz. — A Mexican citizen was sentenced Tuesday to nearly five years in federal prison in connection with an assault on a U.S. Border Patrol agent last year.

Prosecutors say 20-year-old Luis Alberto Barron-Sanchez of Hermosillo, Sonora, was sentenced to 57 months after pleading guilty in the case on Jan. 30.
Authorities say Barron-Sanchez was driving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First new Taser stun gun since 2003 unveiled; can shock 3 people at a time</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOUNTAIN HILLS, Arizona — Taser International unveiled its first new stun gun since 2003 Monday, a device that can shock three people without reloading.

Older Taser stun guns, in use by 14,200 law enforcement agencies throughout the United States, have to be reloaded after one shot, which can be a problem for an officer who has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Body found in Grand Canyon National Park, believed to be that of missing 20-year-old student</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — Authorities say they have found a body in Grand Canyon National Park and believe it&#8217;s that of a Northern Arizona University student missing on a hiking trip.

Search and rescue crews have been looking for 20-year-old Bryce Gillies since Tuesday.
Park officials say a body — presumptively identified as Gillies — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Residents at odds over incorporating community on the way to Grand Canyon&#8217;s popular South Rim</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Felicia Fonseca</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Residents of a small Arizona community that serves as a gateway to the Grand Canyon&#8217;s popular South Rim are at odds over incorporating.

Tusayan has about 550 residents, and its 144 acres of private land are dotted with houses, hotels, restaurants and shops. Voters defeated a move to incorporate by 16 votes last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal appeals court upholds Grand Canyon&#8217;s Colorado River management plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Felicia Fonseca</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — An appeals court on Tuesday rejected a challenge by environmentalists to federal rules allowing the use of motorized rafts at the Grand Canyon.

Several environmental groups sued the National Park Service in 2006 over its Colorado River Management Plan, which permits the use of motorized rafts in the canyon. The groups argued that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man convicted of 1976 car-bomb slaying of Arizona Republic reporter dies in prison</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TUCSON, Ariz. — The man convicted in the 1976 car-bomb slaying of an Arizona Republic reporter has died in prison, authorities said Tuesday.

Max Dunlap, 80, was serving a life sentence for the killing of Don Bolles. Prosecutors believed the reporter was targeted because he had written stories that upset a liquor wholesaler who was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Border Patrol agents in Arizona arrest 3 illegal immigrants with sex-assault histories</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TUCSON, Ariz. — Border Patrol agents in the Tucson sector have arrested three illegal immigrants with sex-related charges or convictions for illegally re-entering the United States.

Agents arrested a 47-year-old Salvadoran man Saturday on the Tohono O&#8217;odham Indian Reservation who served about six months in prison for conviction of attempted rape and forcible sodomy in New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bankruptcy judge lets Bashas&#8217; tap funds; employees and vendors to be paid</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MESA, Ariz. — A federal bankruptcy judge is allowing bankrupt Bashas&#8217; food stores to tap $27.3 million from various accounts to pay wages and benefits earned by employees last week.

At the same time, Judge James Marlar&#8217;s order allows the family-owned grocery store chain to keep store shelves stocked by paying suppliers of food and other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DHS border czar Bersin says threat of Mexican drug violence spillover triggering initiatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur H. Rotstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NOGALES, Ariz. — Ongoing concerns that drug-related violence in Mexico poses a threat to American communities remain the Obama administration&#8217;s border focus, the federal government&#8217;s border czar said Wednesday.

Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Alan Bersin, who visited Arizona&#8217;s busiest commercial port here on Wednesday, said those concerns have triggered a series of border security [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Airways cutting 600 positions at airports this fall, saying economy is forcing cost-cutting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MINNEAPOLIS — US Airways is cutting 600 ground jobs this fall as it continues to struggle with the slow economy.

The airline said on Tuesday that the biggest cut will be 340 customer service agents around the country, who will lose their job on Sept. 14. Other layoffs come from closing its Las Vegas US Airways [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Motorist dies in drive over edge of Grand Canyon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — Authorities say a man has driven over the edge of the Grand Canyon and plunged 600 feet to his death.

Grand Canyon National Park spokeswoman Shannan Marcak says rescue personnel found the vehicle and the body of a male below the South Rim.
The National Park Service is investigating. Marcak says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stimulus funds will bring clean water to thousands in Indian Country, remote Alaskan villages</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Felicia Fonseca</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The road from the Navajo community of Sweetwater to Red Mesa is unpaved and rugged but well traveled.

Twice a week, about 100 residents on the outskirts of Sweetwater load up 55-gallon drums and drive 12 miles so that they can have clean drinking water for themselves and their livestock. Other water sources [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Airways traffic falls 4.1 percent in June, key revenue metric drops 20 percent</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TEMPE, Ariz. — US Airways Group Inc. said Monday traffic fell 4.1 percent in June as the ongoing recession continued to curb consumers&#8217; appetites for air travel.

The airline said paying passengers on US Airways flew 5.43 billion miles in June, down from 5.67 billion a year earlier. The carrier said its passenger revenue seat mile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tucson ordinance requiring rainwater harvesting on commercial building drawing interest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur H. Rotstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TUCSON, Ariz. — Long dependent on wellwater and supplies sent hundreds of miles by canal from the Colorado River, this desert city will soon harvest some of its 12 inches of annual rainfall to help bolster its water resources.

Under the nation&#8217;s first municipal rainwater harvesting ordinance for commercial projects, Tucson developers building new business, corporate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investigators find marijuana, cash in wreckage of Texas-bound plane that crashed in Arizona</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/investigators-find-marijuana-cash-in-wreckage-of-texas-bound-plane-that-crashed-in-arizona-93079/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Felicia Fonseca</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A private plane that crashed in Arizona this week, killing four people, carried more than 12 pounds of marijuana and more than $8,000 in cash.

Cmdr. Bob Sutton of the Navajo County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said the drugs and money were in the rear of the wreckage, stashed separately in a suitcase and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rapper Lil Wayne appears in Yuma, Ariz., court, hopes to get investigation records</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/rapper-lil-wayne-appears-in-yuma-ariz-court-hopes-to-get-investigation-records-90039/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Tang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PHOENIX — Rapper Lil Wayne appeared in court for a pretrial update on the investigation into drug possession and weapons charges he faces in Yuma County, Ariz.

His attorney said he was in good spirits, even stopping to sign autographs for about a dozen fans after the hearing in Yuma.
Lil Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9 guards hurt breaking up fight at state prison in Tucson, Ariz.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TUCSON, Ariz. — State prison officials say nine guards have been hurt breaking up a large fight at the prison complex in Tucson.

Corrections Department spokesman Barrett Marson says the fight broke out between Mexican-American and Mexican national inmates in the dining hall of the prison&#8217;s Rincon unit at about 7:20 a.m. Tuesday.
The fight then spread [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customs officer, wife plead guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery, import Ecstasy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TUCSON, Ariz. — A federal customs officer at the San Luis Port of Entry and his wife pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery and to import the drug Ecstasy.

The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s office in Phoenix said Monday that 41-year-old Customs and Border Protection officer Henry Gauani and his 46-year-old wife Flora Gauani conspired to let [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Vegas Boy Scout dies after jumping from boulder in Arizona; foul play not suspected</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A 15-year-old Boy Scout from Las Vegas is dead after he collapsed while hiking in West Clear Creek Canyon south of Flagstaff.

It happened Saturday morning. The Coconino County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says the teen was hiking with two other Scouts and two Scout leaders when he jumped 2 to 3 feet off of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 Ariz. firefighters flee after early morning blaze destroy their fire station near Tucson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TUCSON, Ariz. — Six firefighters in Arizona have escaped injury after a fire broke out in their station north of Tucson while they slept.

Golder Ranch Fire Chief John Fink says a firefighter was awakened by a banging sound on the wall early Wednesday and found the communication room in flames.
He says the man woke his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louie the Lumberjack statue in Flagstaff, Ariz., gets a badly needed makeover</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The years have not been kind to Louie the Lumberjack. His torso is rotting, his limbs are cracking, and his feet have fallen off.

The 10-foot, 1,000 pound cedar statue has greeted visitors to Flagstaff for decades from his post outside one of the city&#8217;s oldest restaurants, Granny&#8217;s Closet. Now it&#8217;s time for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prosecutor withdraws request to return 9-year-old Arizona boy accused in killings to custody</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Felicia Fonseca</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ST. JOHNS, Ariz. — A prosecutor has withdrawn his request to have a 9-year-old eastern Arizona boy who shot and killed his father&#8217;s friend returned to custody while he awaits sentencing.

Apache County Attorney Michael Whiting had alleged numerous violations of the boy&#8217;s most recent furlough that attorneys for the boy and his mother denied. Whiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA to spend millions a year rebuilding Navajo Nation homes contaminated with uranium</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Felicia Fonseca</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The federal government plans to spend up to $3 million a year to demolish and rebuild uranium-contaminated structures across the Navajo Nation, where Cold War-era mining of the radioactive substance left a legacy of disease and death.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its Navajo counterpart are focusing on homes, sheds and other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 of 3 suspects in Arizona home invasion connected to anti-illegal immigrant group</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHOENIX — Two of three people arrested in a southern Arizona home invasion that left a little girl and her father dead had connections to a Washington state anti-illegal immigration group that conducts border watch activities in Arizona.

Jason Eugene Bush, 34, Shawna Forde, 41, and Albert Robert Gaxiola, 42, have been charged with two counts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sheriff says suspects in southern Arizona home invasion planned to kill family</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TUCSON, Ariz. — Two of three people arrested in a fatal southern Arizona home invasion had connections to a Washington state anti-illegal immigration group that conducts border watch activities in Arizona.

The Pima County sheriff said Friday that 34-year-old Jason Eugene Bush, 41-year-old Shawna Forde and 42-year-old Albert Robert Gaxiola have been charged with two counts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memorializing &#8216;Long Walk&#8217; stirs painful memories among tribes taught not to revisit suffering</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Felicia Fonseca</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — In a culture that teaches not to revisit suffering, a proposal to memorialize routes that Navajo and Mescalero Apache Indians marched as they were forced from their homelands has stirred up painful memories.

The march in the 1860s from tribal lands to a desolate tract in eastern New Mexico, known as the Long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Airways seeks 400 flight attendants for voluntary furloughs in response to overstaffing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[US Airways is asking for 400 flights attendants to volunteer for leaves of up to 16 months, and said involuntary furloughs could be next if there aren&#8217;t enough takers.

The Tempe, Ariz.-based company said in a newsletter issued to workers on Thursday that it needs fewer flight attendants because it has reduced capacity faster than flight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tire blowout likely led to fatal rollover of smuggling vehicle in Arizona</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SONOITA, Ariz. — Arizona investigators say a tire blowout might have caused a rollover accident that killed eight people and injured several others who were being smuggled into the U.S.

Officer Joy Craig of the Arizona Department of Public Safety said Monday that investigators suspect the blowout was caused by the weight of the 27 people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8 illegal immigrants &#8216;packed like wood&#8217; killed on Arizona highway in rollover SUV accident</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SONOITA, Ariz. — Eight illegal immigrants &#8220;stacked like wood&#8221; in the back of a sports-utility vehicle were killed when the driver lost control on a remote southeastern Arizona highway, authorities said Sunday.

At least 27 men and women were in the vehicle traveling about four miles east of Sonoita when the vehicle rolled for an unknown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 people killed, dozen injured when SUV crammed with 22 people crashes near Tucson, Ariz.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SONOITA, Ariz. — Ten illegal immigrants &#8220;stacked like wood&#8221; in the back of a sports utility vehicle crammed with at least 27 people were killed when the driver lost control and rolled over on a remote southern Arizona highway, authorities said Sunday.

The Ford Excursion had no rear seat and most of the men and women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Officials: Illegal immigrants having less impact on military pilots&#8217; Ariz. training flights</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur H. Rotstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TUCSON, Ariz. — Illegal border crossings have dwindled so much in southwestern Arizona that Marine Corps pilots rarely have to abort practice bombing runs any more on their vast desert target range.

Illegal immigrants hiking through the desert have long created problems for military air operations on the 2,700-square-mile Barry M. Goldwater Range, which butts up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6th Burundi refugee dies from injuries suffered in van rollover in southern Arizona</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TUCSON, Ariz. — Authorities say a sixth person has died from injuries from a rollover accident earlier this week in southern Arizona involving Burundi refugees.

A van carrying 17 people crashed Wednesday afternoon when the driver lost control on Interstate 10 near Texas Canyon, about 50 miles east of Tucson.
Five people were declared dead at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Arizona police officers placed on paid leave after 1 allegedly flushes fetus down toilet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MESA, Ariz. — Police in Arizona say five officers have been placed on paid leave after one allegedly flushed a fetus down a toilet.

Mesa Police Chief George Gascon (gas-KOHN&#8217;) says four officers responding to a call about a possible miscarriage at a motel on Monday discovered a woman who apparently lost a fetus estimated to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 dead, 12 injured when crowded van rolls on southern Arizona highway</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TUCSON, Ariz. — The driver of a van filled with refugees from Africa lost control and crashed on a southern Arizona highway Wednesday, killing five people and injuring 12 others, authorities said.

The vehicle rolled over a guard rail, down an embankment and landed on its wheels in the oncoming lane of Interstate 10 about 50 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona motorist arrested for DUI dies when a car slams into back of parked police cruiser</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur H. Rotstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TUCSON, Ariz. — A woman who had been arrested and placed in the back of a police cruiser was fatally burned Wednesday when another car slammed into the parked cruiser, igniting both vehicles and another cruiser in front, authorities said.

It was the latest death in the past decade attributed to a fuel tank rupture in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woman who survived Ariz. home invasion that left husband and daughter dead returned fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur H. Rotstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TUCSON, Ariz. — A woman shot and wounded during a weekend home invasion that left her husband and 10-year-old daughter dead fired back at several intruders who thought they had killed her, a sheriff&#8217;s official said Tuesday.

Pima County Sheriff&#8217;s Lt. Michael O&#8217;Connor, commander of the violent crimes unit, said three or four men and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tribal village in Grand Canyon hit by flood welcomes back tourists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Arizona&#8217;s Havasupai Tribe is welcoming back tourists after months spent repairing trails and clearing debris from a flood that swept through their reservation last summer.

The reservation deep in a gorge off south side of the Grand Canyon reopened to the public June 1.
Water from a summer thunderstorm surged through the canyon in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sheriff&#8217;s deputies say man and preteen girl dead, woman wounded in So. Arizona home invasion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 01:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ARIVACA, Ariz. — Authorities say a home invasion in a rural southern Arizona community has left a man and a young girl dead and a woman wounded.

Pima County sheriff&#8217;s Sgt. Cathryn Masters says four to five people forced their way into the home in Arivaca on Saturday morning and shot the victims. Masters says the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama shrugs off honorary degree snub at ASU, tells grads &#8216;body of work&#8217; yet to come</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 18:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darlene Superville</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TEMPE, Ariz. — President Barack Obama says Arizona State University officials aren&#8217;t the only ones who think he needs to accomplish more to earn an honorary degree.

Add his wife Michelle to that list.
&#8220;I come here not to dispute the suggestion that I haven&#8217;t yet achieved enough in my life,&#8221; Obama said in a commencement speech [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama uses commencement speech to tell Arizona State grads their best work is yet to come</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 11:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darlene Superville</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TEMPE, Ariz. — President Barack Obama didn&#8217;t shy away from the &#8220;snub&#8221; by Arizona State University officials who said he didn&#8217;t deserve an honorary degree because he hadn&#8217;t accomplished enough yet. In a commencement speech Wednesday to a stadium full of young graduates, he said the officials were right.

&#8220;I come here not to dispute the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama uses commencement speech to tell Arizona State grads their best work is yet to come</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 11:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darlene Superville</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TEMPE, Ariz. — President Barack Obama didn&#8217;t shy away from the &#8220;snub&#8221; by Arizona State University officials who said he hadn&#8217;t accomplished enough yet to earn an honorary degree. In a commencement speech Wednesday to a stadium full of young graduates, he said the officials were right.

&#8220;I come here not to dispute the suggestion that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama tells Arizona State University graduates their best work, like his, is yet to come</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 11:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darlene Superville</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TEMPE, Ariz. — President Barack Obama is answering critics who say he hasn&#8217;t achieved enough in life to deserve an honorary college degree. He says they&#8217;re right.

Obama on Wednesday traveled to Arizona State University to deliver his first commencement address as president. Officials at the school said the nation&#8217;s first African-American president had not accomplished [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Obama heads to Arizona State for first commencement speech as president</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 10:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darlene Superville</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TEMPE, Ariz. — High temperatures, not heated protests, greeted Barack Obama on Wednesday as he arrived at Arizona State University for his first commencement address as president.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the president planned to &#8220;discuss the amazing opportunity that graduates have, the challenging world that they enter into, and — as he&#8217;s done [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama at Arizona State University: Giant university&#8217;s goals mesh with president&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 03:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Pope</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TEMPE, Ariz. — The abortion flap over President Barack Obama&#8217;s invitation to speak at Notre Dame&#8217;s graduation is getting all the attention.

But Arizona State — the mega-university where he&#8217;ll speak at commencement Wednesday — says a lot more about his education goals.
Obama has called for all Americans to pursue at least one year of higher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>14-year-old student fights for street clothes in effort to repeal Arizona school&#8217;s dress code</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 03:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[YUMA, Ariz. — Justin Wright wants his Arizona middle school to do the right thing by letting students choose their own school clothes.

The (Yuma) Sun reported online Saturday that 14-year-old Justin has collected 250 signatures from fellow students at Centennial Middle School to repeal the dress code.
He says the policy violates students&#8217; free speech rights [...]]]></description>
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