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ARIZONA NEWS | Nov 2, 2012Program allows some high schoolers to finish early
Wickenburg High School sophomore Carrigan Moebs hopes to prove she is ready to move on sooner than the traditional four years.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Nov 2, 2012Stores: Amazon sales tax deal helps level playing field
Changing Hands is one of many brick-and-mortar retailers celebrating an agreement between Amazon.com and Arizona over sales-tax collection.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Oct 31, 2012Taylor Swift exhibit opens at Phoenix museum
The new Taylor Swift exhibit at the Musical Instrument Museum is now open, offering a glimpse into the early days of country music's biggest star and her meteoric rise to superstardom.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Oct 31, 2012Group: State laws keep 200,000 felons from voting in Arizona
Jean Salazar is serving three years probation and must pay restitution after pleading guilty to felony theft for writing herself more than $74,000 in unearned paychecks when she worked as a doctor's office manager.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Oct 31, 2012
State agency touts program to reduce heart attack deaths
An Arizona Department of Health Services program that aims to reduce heart attack deaths celebrated its first participants Monday as well as a life saved.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Oct 31, 2012Sub shop donates narcotics dog to Mesa police
A new gift to the Mesa Police Department will make it easier for it to take a bite out of crime.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Oct 31, 2012NextCare offering free candy X-ray service
Valley-based NextCare, an urgent care facility, will screen Halloween candy for free.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Oct 31, 2012
Bloomberg: Now not the time for Obama NYC visit
NEW YORK (AP) - President Barack Obama will be getting a firsthand look at the damage done by…
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ARIZONA NEWS | Oct 31, 2012Mexican man pleads guilty in killing of US agent
Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) - A Mexican man accused in the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent…
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Oct 30, 2012
Tidal surge swamps NJ towns; body found in river
Associated Press MOONACHIE, N.J. (AP) - A tidal surge triggered by superstorm Sandy sent water overflowing a riverbank…
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Oct 30, 2012
Tiny NYC beachfront burns in floodwaters
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - A tiny beachfront neighborhood told to evacuate before Sandy hit New York…
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Oct 30, 2012
W.Va. blizzard warning as Appalachia storm blows
Associated Press ELKINS, W.Va. (AP) - Wet snow and high winds spinning off the edge of superstorm Sandy…
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Oct 30, 2012
DC’s National Mall largely unaffected by Sandy
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Park Service says its low-lying monuments and memorials along the National…
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ARIZONA NEWS | Oct 30, 2012Puerto Rico to decide statehood issue in November
Voters in Puerto Rico will not join their fellow American citizens in choosing a new president soon.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Oct 30, 2012Arizona veterans face backlog on VA disability claims
Peering through the new prescription glasses he just got from the veterans hospital, Korean War veteran Gilbert Torres sifted through a stack of papers detailing claims he'd had pending with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs since July 2011.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Oct 30, 2012Arizona’s minimum-wage earners getting raise
Waiting for a city bus Monday, Marcella Alvarez said she has mixed emotions about starting a job this week as a telephone receptionist.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Oct 30, 2012
Battleground-state voters get ominous letters about citizenship
Markus Mayer celebrated his new American citizenship with Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler during a naturalization ceremony in November 2011, and the German immigrant soon proudly registered to vote. So it came as a surprise when he received a letter in the mail just a few months later - from Gessler no less - asking for verification of his citizenship to remain eligible to vote.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Oct 30, 2012Official: Tainted steriods have Arizona connection
Two people in Arizona received tainted pain shots -- in other states -- with medicine from the Massachusetts facility linked to 25 deaths from fungal meningitis.
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UNCATEGORIZED | Oct 29, 2012
Run designed to help ailing American homeowners
On Saturday, Nov. 3, the Arizona Chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals will be hosting the American Dream Run for Homeownership at Rio Vista Community Park in Peoria, Ariz.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Oct 26, 2012Legislation, community support help war vets tackle joblessness
Army veteran Todd Enyart pitched his skills to prospective employers at a Hire our Heroes job fair.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Oct 26, 2012To many, Prop. 121 levels playing field for independents
Brent Fine took time off work and spent three months gathering 1,768 signatures in order to run as an independent candidate for state House in a Phoenix-area district.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Oct 26, 2012Feds to propose 3rd Arizona ‘solar zone’
The Bureau of Land Management is set to identify a third parcel of land in Arizona on Friday as a potential site for development of utility-scale solar-power projects.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Oct 26, 2012Funding cuts force changes at domestic-abuse shelter
When executive director Connie Phillips has to tell domestic-abuse victims there's no room at the Sojourner Center's shelters, she doesn't know whether they will find a safe place to go.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Oct 26, 2012Phoenix cemetery for indigent rededicated after facelift
Ernest Garcia visits the graves of his grandmother and seven cousins nearly every month at Cementerio Lindo, on a dusty piece of land near downtown, because his mother told him he was in charge taking care of them.