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US Navy to name littoral combat ship after former congresswoman Giffords	2/11/2012 4:02 AM
US Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has announced that the next Independence variant littoral combat ship will be named after former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who survived an assassination att
La Mesa doughnut shop robbed	2/11/2012 9:30 PM
LA MESA -; A gunman robbed Yum Yum doughnut shop in La Mesa Saturday and escaped with cash, police said.Employees at the shop on El Cajon Boulevard near Parks Avenue called La Mesa police about 3:45 ...
VP Joe Biden spending the weekend in Phoenix	2/11/2012 9:12 PM
Vice President Joe Biden is in the Phoenix area this weekend on what the White House says is a vacation trip. Biden's Air Force plane landed at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on ...
Toddler nearly drowns in Tucson pool	2/11/2012 9:12 PM
Fire officials in Tucson say a toddler who nearly drowned in a backyard is being treated at a local hospital. Mountain Vista Fire District spokesman Grant Cesarek says in a statement that crews ...
Utah uses free throws to get past Arizona 73-67	2/11/2012 9:12 PM
SALT LAKE CITY — Free throws down the stretch helped lift the Utah women's basketball team to a 73-67 victory over Arizona on Saturday afternoon. The Utes went 11 of 14 from the line in ...
Twins in stroller roll into Tempe pond	2/11/2012 9:11 PM
TEMPE, AZ - Two young boys are being checked out at a Valley hospital after they fell into a pond at a south Tempe park Saturday. Tempe fire spokesman Mike Reichling said the mother of the ...
Suns' Nash hops on the Linsanity bandwagon	2/11/2012 9:06 PM
SACRAMENTO -- As Steve Nash sees it, Jeremy Lin's incredible path from the bench to breakout star is a good, old-fashioned sports story: an underdog athlete playing well, sparking excitement ...
Noted US Latino scholar 'forgotten' in birthplace	2/11/2012 8:58 PM
A son of an Arizona miner, the Albuquerque-born Sanchez worked his way out of poverty as a rural public school teacher in New Mexico to become a pioneer scholar and education activist. His 1940 ...
In Darkness - A Harrowing, Intense Film	2/11/2012 6:58 PM
In Darkness - A Harrowing, Intense Film (Sony Pictures Classics) In 1943 during W.W.II, the Jews of Lvov (now Lviv in Ukraine but then part of Poland), were under siege. Crammed into a ghetto, ...
Safe House - Smashing, Crashing, Nonsensical	2/11/2012 6:57 PM
Like Dr. Richard Kimble in 'The Fugitive,' Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) is on the run. Frost is a rogue C.I.A. agent-turned-traitor who suddenly appears at the U.S. Consulate in Cape ...
Mom accused in 'honor beating' speaks	2/11/2012 6:56 PM
PHOENIX - An Iraqi mom accused of beating her 19-year-old daughter for talking to boys is out of jail and says she is not guilty. Yusra Farhan was arrested Wednesday after police say her daughter ...
Romney adds to delegates with Maine win	2/11/2012 6:56 PM
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney delivers remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Marriott Wardman Park February 10, 2012 in ...
2 hurt in Centennial motorcycle ride	2/11/2012 6:56 PM
Arizona's Centennial . The crash happened around 2:30 p.m. on the westbound Loop 202 at Center Parkway in Tempe. The Department of Public Safety said two motorcyclists had injuries that ...
Over 500,000 items at Phoenix book sale	2/11/2012 6:56 PM
Volunteer Non-Profit Service Association (VNSA) book sale kicked off in Phoenix Saturday. Book lovers and bargain hunters combed through more than 500,000 hardbound and paperback books, CDs, videos, ...
Yuma couple guilty in credit union kickback case	2/11/2012 4:23 PM
A federal jury has convicted a Yuma couple of participating in a loan kickback scheme that helped lead to the collapse of a local credit union. The jury in Phoenix found William Liddle guilty of ...