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  AZ Senate to move budget but Medicaid fight looms

  Posted 1:40 PM 5/14/2013

  PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona Senate leaders plan to introduce a state budget and allow the proposal to move to a vote later this week, clearing the way for a debate on Gov. Jan Brewer's Medicaid expansion. A person with direct knowledge of the plan who could not speak on the record because (More)

  
  

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  Former firefighter sentenced in off-duty accident

  Posted 1:39 PM 5/14/2013

  PHOENIX (AP) - A former Phoenix firefighter has been sentenced to 45 days in jail plus three years of probation on convictions stemming from an off-duty 2011 accident in which his truck struck a teenage skateboarder in a crosswalk. Mark Steven Nehrenz was originally charged with (More)

  
  

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  Drunk ASU student left at hospital with Post-it

  Posted 8:51 AM 5/14/2013 by Associated Press

  TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) - An Arizona State University student who passed out from drinking tequila was left in wheelchair in a hospital lobby with a Post-it note to tell doctors that he took part in a drinking competition.Tempe police say the 19-year-old student was found early Saturday (More)

  
  

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  Phoenix-based mine company issues statement on Indonesian mine collapse

  

  Posted 8:11 AM 5/14/2013 by Czarina Nafarrate

  UPDATE: Freeport confirms two people are dead from the mine collape.

  PHOENIX - A mine collapsed overnight, in Indonesia trapping several workers underground. The Associated Press reporting that a tunnel inside the mine caved in at the giant, US-owned gold and copper (More)

  
  

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  Student dead after falling from truck during game

  Posted 7:56 AM 5/14/2013 by Associated Press

  SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) - Police in the Phoenix suburb of Surprise are investigating the death of a 17-year-old high school football player who was fatally injured when he fell from the bed of a moving pickup truck during a game with fellow youths.Police say Andrew Arellanes died early (More)

  
  

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  Metro Phoenix under ozone health watch Tuesday

  Posted 3:24 AM 5/14/2013 by Associated Press

  PHOENIX (AP) - Environmental regulators have issued an ozone health watch Tuesday for the Phoenix area.Officials say pollution levels could approach the federal health standard for air quality.Officials say people who are unusually sensitive to air quality should consider (More)

  
  

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  State lawmakers receive paycut this week

  

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  Posted 11:35 PM 5/13/2013 by Rebecca Taylor

  TUCSON - Arizona lawmakers will get a pay cut this week.

  On Tuesday the legislature hits the 120 day mark, meaning by law, their allowance for daily expenses drops.

  In addition to their 24-thousand dollar a year salary, lawmakers receive a daily per diem for food and lodging.

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  Budget cuts to make wildfire season tougher; including here in Arizona

  Posted 10:42 AM 5/13/2013 by AP

  BOISE, IDAHO (AP) - The U.S. is heading into a tough wildfire season made even more challenging because budget cuts mean fewer firefighters to battle blazes, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said Monday.Another dry year is creating the potential for another extreme summer of forest and (More)

  
  

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  Saluting military moms in Tucson

  

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  Posted 8:20 AM 5/13/2013 by John Overall

  Mother's Day is a special time to recognize all Mother's for all they do. But it's tough day for many military mom's who lost their sons or daughters to war.

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  1st marijuana dispensary in Yavapai County to open

  Posted 3:50 AM 5/13/2013 by Associated Press

  PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) - The first medical marijuana dispensary in Yavapai County is set to open this week in Chino Valley.Organica Patient Group President R.J. Alarcon tells the Prescott Daily Courier (http://bit.ly/123r8gE) that the dispensary could (More)