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  Activists rally in Phoenix over IRS scrutiny

  Posted 1:39 PM 5/21/2013

  PHOENIX (AP) - About 70 tea party activists waving signs and small American flags marched outside Phoenix's main Internal Revenue Service office to protest the agency's extra scrutiny of conservative groups. Tuesday afternoon's rally was one of many around the country after IRS (More)

  
  

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  Court strikes down Arizona 20-week abortion ban

  Posted 10:56 AM 5/21/2013 by Associated Press

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal court in San Francisco has struck down Arizona's ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy unless there's a medical emergency. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the law violates a string of U.S. Supreme Court rulings starting (More)

  
  

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  LIVE VIDEO: Jodi Arias to testify

  

  Posted 9:28 AM 5/21/2013

  Penalty phase in the Jodi Arias trial, as jurors now decide whether the former waitress should be sentenced to life in prison or death.

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  Standoff at Phoenix home following Amber Alert

  Posted 9:24 AM 5/21/2013 by Robby Messer

  Phoenix police have surrounded a home where they say an armed man inside is the father of a 3-year-old boy whose abduction was the subject of an Amber Alert.

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  Man assaults UA student outside dorm

  

  Posted 9:10 AM 5/21/2013 by Kassandra Lau

  At around 12:20 p.m., a man prevented the student from entering her dorm near 4th Street and Highland Avenue. He grabbed her thigh and left the area, said UAPD.

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  Patagonia residents on edge over Soldier Basin Fire

  Posted 9:08 AM 5/21/2013 by Erika Flores

  The "Soldier Basin Fire" is still growing in the Coronado National Forest about five miles east of the Nogales airport.

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  WikiLeaks prosecutor agrees to 1 lesser charge

  Posted 8:34 AM 5/21/2013 by Associated Press

  FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) - Prosecutors say they have agreed to charge the Army private who released more than 700,000 secret U.S. documents to the WikiLeaks site with a lesser offense on one of the 22 counts against him.Maj. Ashden Fein said Tuesday that prosecutors had changed their (More)

  
  

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  State revenues jump in April, 1-time shift likely

  Posted 3:17 AM 5/21/2013 by Associated Press

  PHOENIX (AP) - State revenues jumped 17 percent in April from the previous year but Arizona budget officials say the increase is likely due to taxpayers fleeing higher taxes this year.The Joint Legislative Budget Committee report released Monday says taxpayers likely moved income into (More)

  
  

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  Padres Blow Late Lead Against Omaha

  

  Posted 9:57 PM 5/20/2013

  The Omaha Storm Chasers hit a season-high four home runs Monday and defeated the Tucson Padres 11-8 at Werner Park.The Padres scored in the first inning for the fourth-straight game after Gregorio Petit hit an RBI double and later scored on a Storm Chasers throwing error. Tucson's (More)

  
  

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  Corbin tosses 3-hitter as D-backs beat Rockies 5-1

  

  Posted 9:53 PM 5/20/2013

  DENVER (AP) Patrick Corbin was a maestro on the mound, making his slider move all over the place.

  And after the Arizona Diamondbacks lefty finished off his virtuoso performance, he calmly sauntered over to congratulate his catcher, casually shook his hand and coolly walked off the field.

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