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Arizona Official Threatens to Take Obama Off Ballot

Secretary of state wants proof of birth from Hawaii

(Newser) - Arizona's secretary of state insists he's not a birther—"I believe that the president was born in Hawaii," says Ken Bennett, "or at least I hope he was." Nevertheless, Bennett says that if he does not get confirmation from Hawaii that Barack Obama was...

Man Buys 6 Powerball Tickets, Wins $1M on Each

He bought half-dozen tickets with the same numbers

(Newser) - A suburban Phoenix man made a lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky guess in a recent multistate lottery game. The anonymous Glendale man claimed six $1 million prizes after purchasing six Powerball tickets with the same winning numbers late last month. The tickets were good for six second-place prizes. (He...

Catholic School Boycotts Title Game Over Girl Player

Arizona baseball team refuses to play rival 'out of respect'

(Newser) - An Arizona Catholic high school has ditched a shot at a state baseball title to shun a rival team with a female second-baseman. Our Lady of Sorrows, a fundamentalist Catholic school in Phoenix, refused to participate in the Arizona Charter Athletic Association state championship game against Mesa Prep because Paige...

Feds: We're Taking Sheriff Joe to Court

Negotiations fall apart in civil rights case, as Arpaio refuses monitor

(Newser) - The Justice Department is through negotiating with the self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America. Authorities announced yesterday that they will sue Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio for alleged civil rights violations, the AP reports. The department had been trying to work out an agreement with Arpaio in which he'd train his...

Arizona Bans Funding to Planned Parenthood

Jan Brewer cuts off abortion providers from state money

(Newser) - Gov. Jan Brewer yesterday signed into law a bill to cut off Planned Parenthood's access to taxpayer money funneled through the state for non-abortion services. Arizona already bars use of public money for abortions except to save the life of the mother. But anti-abortion legislators and other supporters of...

Neo-Nazi Militia Leader Kills 4 in Phoenix

JT Ready believed to have killed 3 adults, toddler before suicide

(Newser) - The white supremacist founder of an Arizona border militia is believed to shot and killed three adults and a toddler before committing suicide. The body of JT Ready, head of the US Border Guard group, was found at a home in suburban Phoenix along with those of his girlfriend, her...

Court Seems Fine With Arizona Immigration Law

Or at least, with parts of it

(Newser) - Today the Supreme Court heard the final arguments in the case over Arizona's controversial immigration law, and it's not looking good for the Obama administration. Justices seemed decidedly skeptical about the Justice Department's central argument that the law impinged on the federal government's power to control...

Dems Lick Chops Over Arizona Immigration Law
Dems Lick Chops Over Arizona Immigration Law
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Apr 24, 2012 8:55 AM CDT

Dems Lick Chops Over Arizona Immigration Law

If Supreme Court upholds, they'll force Republicans to pick a side on prickly issue

(Newser) - Even if the Supreme Court upholds Arizona's immigration law this summer, Senate Democrats are just going to go ahead and stick Republicans between a rock and a hard place on the controversial law. Chuck Schumer is set to announce Plan B today: legislation that would require the approval of...

Missing Girl's Family Ordered to Leave Ariz. Home

Dogs give police 'new direction' to investigate

(Newser) - Canine units gave police a clue today that sent them in a "new direction" in the search for missing Arizona 6-year-old Isabel Mercedes Celis —a direction that led them to ask Isabel's family to leave the home from which she allegedly disappeared over the weekend, police tell...

Arizona Immigration Law Headed to Supreme Court

Politically-charged case could echo in November

(Newser) - Just weeks ago, it was the ObamaCare tussle . Now the Supreme Court is moving on to another politically-charged, high-profile case: a battle over Arizona's controversial immigration law. The case centers on whether Arizona overstepped the boundaries of state power with aggressive police checks on suspected illegal immigrants. But "...

Sheriff Joe Mocked Civil Rights Probe

'We arrested 500 just for spite,' he says on newly discovered tape

(Newser) - If you were under federal investigation for racial profiling, you might take it seriously. But you're not Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The AP has discovered a new tape in which the controversial lawman laughs about his failure to cooperate with the probe concerning his immigration arrests and mocks the...

Obama 2012 Is Getting Dangerously Cocky

His advisers would do best to remember this isn't a done deal

(Newser) - For months, Michael Tomasky has been telling people that Barack Obama will win reelection easily. "But now I'm jumpy," he writes in the Daily Beast , "because everybody else, and I mean everybody, seems to think this now, too." And that, sadly, includes the Obama campaign,...

Home of America&#39;s Cruelest Prisons: Arizona
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Apr 7, 2012 7:00 PM CDT

Home of America's Cruelest Prisons: Arizona

Amnesty International report cites state's overuse of solitary confinement

(Newser) - Of all the places to commit a crime, you may want to avoid Arizona. Amnesty International today released a report blasting the state's "cruel isolation" practices. It claims that Arizona's state prisons overuse solitary confinement, with prisoners spending as long as 15 years alone in a windowless...

Birth Control Advocates' Weapon: Knitted Uterus

Crafty organs sent to a dozen Arizona lawmakers

(Newser) - Critics of an Arizona proposal to limit birth control coverage have given a personalized gift to more than a dozen state lawmakers—a fuzzy, knitted uterus with googly eyes. The packages were delivered yesterday, each in a clear plastic bag labeled with a legislator's name and containing a letter...

Ariz. Teens: Call Us When You Need An Exorcism

'I see demons,' says leader

(Newser) - There's a lot of evil in Arizona. Now the state has its own exorcism squad of teen girls who boast they've successfully cast out demons. "We're just normal girls who do something extraordinary for God," one of the trio, 17-year-old Brynne Larson, tells ABC News...

Arizona Bill Outlaws Being Annoying Online

Critics say anti-trolling bill violates the First Amendment

(Newser) - Arizona is hunting trolls. The state's House and Senate have passed a bill that would make it illegal to post messages online "with the intent to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy, or offend," HLN reports. The bill is descended from old phone laws targeting prank callers and...

Birther Sheriff, Feds Clash Over Monitors

Joe Arpaio refuses to let DOJ 'run my office'

(Newser) - Talks between the Department of Justice and Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio have broken down, and now the feds are threatening to sue over the sheriff's alleged abuses against Hispanic suspects, reports the Washington Post . The Justice Department is insisting Arpaio's Maricopa County sheriff office take on a court-appointed...

Arizona GOP Makes New Push for Birther Law

Lawmakers, Sheriff Joe are pushing for a new bill

(Newser) - They're baaaaack: Arizona's GOP lawmakers are reviving the birther debate as they attempt to pass a law that would require presidential candidates to swear, via affidavit, that they are qualified to be president—ie, that they were born in the US—before the state will put them on...

45-Foot Paper Airplane Soars in Arizona

12-year-old helps build contraption

(Newser) - Two days ago it was the Bird Man (er, make that the Fake Bird Man ); now the Web's flying sensation is a humongous paper airplane, built in part by a 12-year-old boy. Some 45 feet long with a 24-foot wingspan, it may be the biggest paper plane in...

14 Inches of Snow Hit ... Arizona

Flagstaff schools closed thanks to more than a foot of unseasonable snow

(Newser) - From the Midwest to the Northeast, much of the country is enjoying what feels more like summer than the last day of winter today, but not Arizona; parts of the state are buried under snow following a rare, late-winter storm, CNN reports. The state has closed 180 miles of Interstate...

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