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PD Student hackers changed grades
PRESCOTT, AZ - Three 16-year-old Prescott High School students have been arrested on suspicion of hacking into teachers' computers and changing grades. Prescott police said the students purchased a "key logger" device and used it to obtain the usernames and passwords of several teachers. The students then allegedly used the logins to access and modify grade sheets. A teacher ...
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F-A-S-T facts about the Spelling Bee
Here's a look at what you need to know about the National Spelling Bee, held in the spring every year in Washington, DC. Facts: May 26-June 1, 2013 - The 86th Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee will be held. Fourteen year old Snigdha Nandipati, an eighth grader from San Diego, California is the 2012 winner. Snigdha 's winning word was guetapens, a word meaning ambush, snare or trap. ...
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On Deck Padres visit Arizona
The Padres were 7-2 at Chase Field last season, their best record ever at what had been a house of horrors. Going into 2012, the Padres had an all-time record of 38-83 at the Diamondbacks downtown Phoenix home. Arizona opens the weekend in a dead heat with San Francisco and Colorado for the National League West lead. The Padres won two of the first three games played against Arizona May 3-5 at ...
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Woman accused of contaminating daughters IV tubes
TUCSON, Ariz. -; A prosecutor says a woman on trial in Tucson contaminated her hospitalized infant daughter's intravenous lines in an attempt to get attention from the girl's ...
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Arizona 20-week Abortion Ban Struck Down
A federal court Tuesday struck down Arizona's ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy absent a medical emergency. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the law violated a woman's constitutionally protected right to terminate a pregnancy before a fetus is able to survive outside the womb. "Viability" of a fetus is generally considered to start at 24 weeks. ...
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Snapple co-founder dies at age 80
Leonard Marsh -- the co-founder of the Snapple beverage brand -- has died at age 80. Snapple was founded in New York as Unadulterated Food Products in 1972, selling natural fruit juices to health food stores. Marsh started the business with his brother-in-law Hyman Golden and his childhood friend Arnold Greenberg. The now well-known brand name didn't appear until 1980. Marsh was a window ...
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Teen pleads not guilty to bomb charge
in his family's home has pleaded not guilty. Joshua Prater entered the plea Thursday to a charge of misconduct involving weapons. He was arraigned in Maricopa County Superior Court. Police have said a cleaning woman found the device inside the home and took it to a fire station. Firefighters notified police, and the bomb squad responded and disabled the ...
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AZ man gets 340 years for sex crimes
FLAGSTAFF, AZ - A 45-year-old Flagstaff man faces 340 years in prison after being sentenced in a child-sex case that included voyeurism, surreptitious videotaping and extensive downloading of child pornography. David Greenberg was sentenced Wednesday in Coconino County Superior Court to 17 years in prison on each of 20 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. State law requires that the terms ...
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How to avoid causing a roadside fire
Fire Weather Warning issued May 23 at 10:15AM MST expiring May 23 at 8:00PM MST in effect for: Mohave… Fire Weather Warning issued May 23 at 4:43AM MST expiring May 23 at 8:00PM MST in effect for: Graham; ...
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Day-care operator gets prison term in tax case
KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) -- A Kingman day-care operator has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay $318,000 of restitution after pleading guilty to a federal tax ...
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Arizona jury resumes weighing death penalty in Arias murder case
Jodi Arias addresses the jury during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona May 21, ...
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House backs variable rate student loans
WASHINGTON-House lawmakers on Thursday approved legislation that links student loan rates to the ups and downs of the financial markets in spite of a veto threat from President Barack Obama. The Republican-backed the bill would allow students to dodge a scheduled rate hike for students with new subsidized Stafford loans next month, but rates could rise in coming years. Democrats largely opposed ...
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Douglas man facing federal charges
A Douglas man was arrested May 20 for allegedly holding two Guatemalan women hostage.According to federal court documents, at approximately 4 p.m. on May 19, Cochise County Sheriff’s Officers were advised by Douglas Police Department of a report of two female undocumented aliens reportedly being held against their will somewhere on Washington Avenue in Bay Acers.CCSO, DPD and U.S. Border ...
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NOW Arias jury back in deliberations
PHOENIX - The Phoenix jury deciding whether Jodi Arias should be sentenced to life in prison or death has resumed deliberations a day after reaching an impasse and being told to keep trying. Deliberations resumed Thursday morning. The panel started deliberating Arias' sentence Tuesday, after the former waitress addressed them and asked them to spare her ...
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PD Teen arrested for siblings death
WEST POINT, UT - Police say a teenager has been arrested in the deaths of his two younger brothers, ages 4 and 10, at the family home. The disclosure came on Thursday after authorities questioned the 15-year-old boy in the deaths. Their bodies were found Wednesday night at their home in West Point, about 30 miles north of Salt Lake City. Police Sgt. Susan Poulsen has said the boys died from ...
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15 unexpected struggles after disaster
MOORE, OK - While the worst of any natural disaster clearly comes during the disaster itself, the aftermath is often equally difficult to deal with. In the case of this week's F5 tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, basic fundamentals disappeared for those left to pick up the pieces. Here are 15 unexpected struggles that victims, clean-up crews and onlookers faced: 1) No restroom access in the ...
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Bullhead City police seek man in sons abduction
BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. (AP) -- Bullhead City police are searching for a 38-year-old man following the abduction of his 13-year-old son at gunpoint from the home of the boy's mother early Thursday ...
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Republic Services CEO Donald Slager sees pay drop 63
Donald Slager Donald Slager, CEO and president of Republic Services Inc., saw his pay tumble 63 percent to $5.36 million, largely because of incentives that were more in line with previous years. Phoenix-based Republic (NYSE: RSG), which is one of the largest waste disposal and recycling companies in the U.S., paid Slager $14.5 million in 2011, largely on the back of $12.2 million in ...
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Zillow Far fewer Phoenix homeowners underwater on mortgage
Phoenix is seeing far fewer underwater homeowners than a year ago. Phoenix-area home prices have been rising at an astonishing rate this past year, which also means fewer homeowners are underwater. In fact, the Valleywide underwater, or negative equity, rate has dropped to slightly more than one third, or around 36 percent, according to the first-quarter negative equity report released Thursday ...
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Arizona University unveils the top 10 species discovered in 2012
With the ubiquity of Google Maps and cheap international flights it often seems that we, as a species, know good old planet Earth like the back of our collective hands. Today's list of the top new species from Arizona State University aims to show us just how much more we have left to ...
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Why millennials actually want to be more like mom and dad
Mark Zuckerberg Despite hefty debt loads and careers that may have not yet taken off, members of the millennial generation are feeling pretty upbeat about their finances. Thats according to a new study from Wells Fargo (which holds a lot of loans on my fellow millennials) that two-thirds of todays 18- to 30-year-olds believe they will be better off than their Baby Boomer parents. At the same ...
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Scottsdale police make arrest in abduction attempt
Police identify the man arrested Wednesday evening in the attempted kidnapping as 22-year-old David Vincent Talkington. Police say Talkington lives in an unincorporated area of Maricopa County near ...
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Phoenix Buckeye high among US population gainers
Two Arizona municipalities rank among the fastest-growing U.S. cities and towns during the year that ended last July 1.The Census Bureau reports that Phoenix had the sixth-largest population increase in terms of numbers, increasing its population by nearly 25,000. Phoenix's estimated population last July 1 was just under 1.5 million.Meanwhile, a Phoenix suburb, the town of Buckeye ranked ...
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Seen him Valley man last seen in PHX
PHOENIX - Phoenix police are investigating the disappearance of a 25-year-old Valley man. Brian Histand was last seen on May 15th near 35th Avenue and Dobbins Road walking southbound towards South Mountain. The 25-year-old's vehicle was towed from the same area by Phoenix police on May ...
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May 23 Today in Arizona history
1868: Col. Christopher "Kit" Carson, who directed the campaign against the Navajos which resulted in their surrender and the exile of about half the tribe to Fort Sumner between 1864 and 1868, dies at Fort Lyon, Colo., just nine days before the June 1 signing of the treaty which allowed the Navajos to return to their homeland.1918: The Tucson Opera House downtown goes up in flames. The ...
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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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