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Facebook page finds OK victims things
'May 19th 2013 OK Tornado Doc & Picture Recovery,' is drawing the attention of thousands. Leslie Hagelberg started the page as a way to help the victims get some of their valuables back. The page had more than 5,000 likes less than 24 hours after she started it. She says more than a dozen people have found some of their pictures through the page. Crystal Williams in south Tulsa ...
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Residents search for pets after tornado
MOORE, OK - As the recovery continues after a deadly tornado tore through Moore Monday, residents are searching for missing pets in the wake of the storm. Home Depot is serving as a location where animals found in the wreckage are being transported. Some are being taken to the Moore Animal Shelter and some are heading to Oklahoma ...
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VIDEO Arias statement on family prison
PHOENIX - Jodi Arias asked jurors Tuesday to give her life in prison, saying she "lacked perspective" when she told a local reporter in an interview that she preferred execution to spending the rest of her days in ...
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Committee Oks universal background checks for guns
The party-line vote Tuesday in the Senate Finance Committee came after family members of Sandy Hook and the Tucson shooting victims held a news conference urging passage of SB221. The bill now heads to the Senate ...
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Activists rally in Phoenix over IRS scrutiny
PHOENIX (AP) -- About 70 tea party activists waving signs and small American flags marched outside Phoenix's main Internal Revenue Service office Tuesday to protest the agency's extra scrutiny of conservative ...
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Arizona ban on abortion after 20 weeks struck down by federal court
Arizona 's ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, absent a medical emergency.The 9th US circuit court of appeals said the law violated a woman's constitutionally protected right to terminate a pregnancy before a foetus is able to survive outside the womb. "Viability" of a foetus is generally considered to start at 24 weeks; normal pregnancies run about 40 weeks. Nine ...
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MacFarlane Wont Return to Hosting Oscars Suggests Joaquin Phoenix
Cast member, creator and executive producer Seth MacFarlane participates in the panel for ''American Dad'' during the Fox summer Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills, California August 2, ...
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Photos of Tucson shooting scene show gun knife
In this image released by the Pima County Sheriff's department, a Glock 9 mm pistol is seen in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others in January 2011. Authorities released more than 300 photos on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, made by investigators during their investigation in the parking lot of the shopping ...
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Police free last 2 people in home with armed man
Phoenix police say the last two people who were in a home with an armed man who was sought in the abduction of his 3-year-old son are now out and OK.Sgt. Steve Martos says a woman and an 8-year-old boy were extracted by police. Five other people either were released or extracted from the home earlier.Martos says SWAT officers are in the home and that he can't immediately comment on the ...
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VIDEO SWAT crashes through PHX home
Tuesday morning. Israel Celis Sr. was found dead in the back room of a home near 91st Avenue and Highland after authorities forced their way into the residence. Celis was wanted in connection with the abduction of his young son, along with the Tuesday barricade. Police SWAT teams used an armored vehicle to smash open the front of the house to gain entry after Celis shot at ...
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Woman crashes into Mesa store 4 hurt
MESA, AZ - An elderly woman crashed her car into a craft store in Mesa Tuesday morning, sending four people to the hospital, police said. An elderly woman drove into a Jo-Ann fabric store near Main Street and Recker Road around 11 a.m. and hit four women inside the store. Three of the victims are in serious condition with potentially life threatening injuries, police said. Police said the ...
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Appeals Court Strikes Down Arizona’s 20-Week Abortion Ban
permanently struck down Arizona’s ';fetal pain'; law that would have criminalized abortion services after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The panel of judges determined that the 20-week ban is unconstitutional ...
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Jodi Arias urges Arizona jury to spare her death penalty
Jodi Arias looks at her defense attorney Jennifer Wilmott during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona May 20, 2013 ...
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9th Circuit strikes down Arizona abortion law
A U.S. appeals court Tuesday struck down an Arizona abortion law banning the procedure after 20 weeks unless there's a medical emergency. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said the law conflicts with federal decisions extending back to Roe vs. Wade. "Arizona may not deprive a woman of the choice to terminate her pregnancy at any point prior ...
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Arizona woman who killed boyfriend tells jury what shed do if life spared
Jodi Arias looks at her defense attorney Jennifer Wilmott on Monday, May 20, 2013 during the penalty phase of Arias' murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, AZ. Jodi Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander, 30, in his suburban Phoenix home in June 2008. (The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, ...
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Arias tells jury what shell do if allowed to live
Jodi Arias spent 18 days on the stand sharing intimate, emotional and oftentimes X-rated details of her life before a rapt television and online audience. She had hoped it all might convince a jury that she killed her one-time boyfriend in ...
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Restaurant reopens after bad reality TV experience
A Scottsdale restaurant planned to reopen Tuesday night after it temporarily shut its doors following an embarrassing reality TV experience.Wife and husband Amy and Samy Bouzaglo recently invited the popular makeover show "Kitchen Nightmares" to their restaurant, Amy's Baking Co., after years of bad online reviews from unhappy customers.The Bouzaglos complained on the show that ...
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Police ram Phoenix home as standoff continues
A standoff with an armed man accused of abducting his 3-year-old son continues at a Phoenix home even after police used an armored truck to smash in the front of the house.Sgt. Steve Martos says 32-year-old Israel Celis Sr. remains in a room in the house and that a woman and an 8-year-old child also are believed to be inside.Television footage showed the armored truck ramming the front of the ...
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Arias What Ill do with life in prison
PHOENIX - Jodi Arias told a jury Tuesday that she can contribute to society if allowed to live, saying she'd like to start literacy, recycling and other programs in prison. Arias addressed the jury in the penalty phase of her trial as the panel considers whether to sentence her to life in prison or execution. After five months of trial, Arias told the jury she never meant to cause the ...
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PD Suspect in Iowa girls abduction dead
DAYTON, Iowa - Authorities say a convicted sex offender who was suspected of abducting two girls from an Iowa bus stop has been found dead. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation says 42-year-old Michael Klunder was found dead Monday night at a rural property northeast of Dayton, which is about 60 miles north of Des Moines. His cause of death hasn't been released. Klunder is accused of ...
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Amys Baking to reopen after meltdown
PHOENIX - A Scottsdale restaurant planned to reopen Tuesday night after it temporarily shut its doors following an embarrassing reality TV experience. Wife and husband Amy and Samy Bouzaglo recently invited the popular makeover show "Kitchen Nightmares" to their restaurant, Amy's Baking Co., after years of bad online reviews from unhappy customers. The Bouzaglos complained on the ...
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US can keep bin Laden photos private
AMMAN, JORDAN - SEPTEMBER 10: This is a still image taken from a video tape aired on Al-Jazeerah station September 10, 2003 that shows Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in an unspecified location.Photographer: Getty ImagesCopyright Getty ...
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Officials Senators agree on visas
WASHINGTON - Leading senators working on immigration legislation reached a compromise Tuesday on the details of an expanded high-tech visa program, officials said as the Senate Judiciary Committee neared completion of its work on the measure. At the same time, several officials said the White House has made it known to Sen. Patrick Leahy, the panel's chairman, that it would prefer ...
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Utah Gov. Herbert rails against US Land management
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Utah Gov. Gary Herbert says his state does a better job than federal managers and has a bigger stake than the bureaucrats in protecting the natural resources and rugged beauty that drives Utah's outdoor recreation and tourism ...
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Joplin survivor rides out Moore tornado
MOORE, Okla. - It wasn't long after the EF-4 tornado hit near Oklahoma City on Monday that the comparisons started to the Joplin tornado of 2011. One woman who spoke with 41 Action News may be better suited than anyone to make that parallel. Katie Ratliff survived the Joplin storm, and was in Moore for work on Monday when the tornado touched down. She says she and her friend couldn't ...
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Phoenix is water wise but planning is key
Phoenix is an insatiably thirty city, needing around 150 million gallons of water every day for agricultural, residential and commercial uses while the city with its population of over 4.5 million is also leading the charge in finding ways to live sustainably in a region of the world that is vast and largely arid.
Phoenix is often referred to as a ‘desert city’, because it is built in and has grown up in the desert. The Phoenix metropolitan area or Valley of the Sun, is located in the northeast of the Sonoran Destert and has one of the hottest climates of any other city in the country. Read more
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