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PASSINGS: Frederic Franklin, David Morris Kern

2013-05-07 00:00:00

Frederic Franklin Dancer helped popularize modern ballet in U.S. Frederic Franklin, 98, a British-born dancer who helped popularize modern ballet in the United States, died Saturday at a Manhattan, N.Y., hospital of complications from pneumonia,...

NFL beat writers make picks for 2013 mock draft

2013-04-20 14:05:00

Few people know the 32 NFL teams better than the writers who cover those teams on a day-to-day basis. Those beat writers made the selections for this mock draft, choosing the players as if Thursday night were to unfold this way: 1. KANSAS CITY (Adam...

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer picks another fight with President Obama

2012-11-29 17:07:00

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's antipathy toward the Obama's administration is evident: We've seen her wag her finger at the president on the tarmac, and we've seen her state defiantly defend a noxious state law that intrudes on the federal government's...

Photos taken after Tucson shooting that wounded Giffords show gun, high-capacity magazines

2013-05-21 12:53:02

PHOENIX (AP) — Photos taken in the aftermath of the attack that killed six people and wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords show the handgun, high-capacity pistol magazines and knife that Jared Lee Loughner carried with him as he carried out...

Phoenix police officer, firefighter killed on same day in separate accidents

2013-05-19 20:06:31

PHOENIX (AP) — A Phoenix police officer and firefighter both died Sunday after suffering critical injuries in separate accidents on the job, officials said. Police said Officer Daryl Raetz, 29, was conducting a DUI stop on a vehicle in west Phoenix...

Dangerous drug: Family believes 'designer' form of LSD killed teen

2013-05-20 00:04:02

A new and lethal designer drug known as "N-bomb" may be responsible for the death of a 17-year-old boy in El Paso, his relatives said Thursday. Although a toxicology report for the late teen Johann Sebastian Cabada is not yet ready, his family...

Notre Dame men's basketball: Effort propels Zeller

2013-05-18 14:06:00

Days off for former Notre Dame power forward Luke Zeller seldom were an option during his first NBA season. It didn't matter if it was the early days of training camp with the Phoenix Suns, or a meaningless preseason game in some off-the-pace place....

Ex-Star reporter, columnist Ernie Heltsley dies at 79

2013-05-11 01:34:02

a former business columnist, real estate and organized-crime reporter for the Arizona Daily Star -- died May 4 in a Tucson hospice. He was 79. Heltsley retired in 1999, just short of 32 years. He wrote extensively about white-collar crime and land...

Barkley rips Suns management

2013-04-26 10:08:00

Former NBA star Charles Barkley, now an analyst on TNT, heavily criticized the Phoenix Suns' management and said he was interested in the vacant general manager job during a radio interview this week. Barkley, who played for the Suns in the 1990s,...

On The Fly: Napier Will Play His Senior Season At UConn

2013-04-26 16:06:39

UConn men's basketball fans are feeling good — Shabazz Napier is coming back for his senior season. Last season he came into his own, averaging 17.1 points, 4.5 assists, 4.4 rebounds and 2.0 steals. All this should work out for him on the NBA front,...

Spectacle that has become the Jodi Arias murder trial grows; seat in gallery sold for $200

2013-04-24 15:59:20

PHOENIX (AP) — Ticket scalping is nothing new in the sports and music world, but for a murder trial? Dozens of people flock to court each day for a chance to score one of a handful of seats open to the public in Jodi Arias' ongoing murder trial...

Surfside Beach residents complain about loud barking at dog park

2013-04-24 08:04:02

Dogs are welcome in the Surfside Beach park designed specifically for them. But some residents aren't too excited with the loud barking. Town Council won't be voting on a resolution proposed by one councilman after residents complained about the...

The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Ariz.

2013-03-14 09:36:00

Three faces of Jared Lee Loughner: at the Tucson Festival of Books, left, in an undated photo obtained from MySpace and in another undated photo released by the Pima County Sheriff's Department to the Arizona Republic.

2012-11-08 07:59:55

The book: "A work of ruthless psychological realism, it's a landmark in the graphic novel medium. It would be a masterpiece in any." -- TIME MAGAZINE's 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. Why it's "unfilmable": The tone, the layered storytelling and scope.

2012-10-24 19:14:04