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Woman runs down husband because he failed to vote, letting Obama win
An Arizona woman, in despair at the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama, ran down her husband with the family car in suburban Phoenix on Saturday because he failed to vote in the election, police said on Monday.
Police said Daniel Solomon told them his wife became angry over his “lack of voter participation” in last Tuesday’s presidential election and believed her family would face hardship as a result of Obama winning another term. (REUTERS/Maricopa Sheriff’s Department/Handout)
Mexican drug plot foiled when U.S. stops marijuana-laden go-kart from crossing the border
U.S. border cops in far-west Arizona have seized an off-road go-kart and trailer packed with marijuana, in the latest bizarre attempt by Mexican smugglers to beat beefed up border security.
The Border Patrol’s Yuma sector said agents and officers from the Cocopah Tribal Police Department spotted the single-seater go-kart hauling a trailer through the desert near Yuma, Arizona on Tuesday night and gave chase.
The driver abandoned the homemade vehicle, which was spray painted a desert beige, fitted with knobbly off-road tires, and towing a trailer packed with 217 pounds of marijuana, about 100 yards from the border, and fled back to Mexico.
“It’s not something that we see very often,” agent Spencer Tippets said of the attempt. (Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Reuters)
‘Human failure’ to blame for massive blackout in California, Arizona, Mexico
A massive blackout caused by “human failure” left nearly 5 million people without power in parts of California, Arizona and Mexico Thursday, and officials said many residents may be out of service for a day or more.
The outage, apparently triggered by an employee who carried out a procedure at a substation in Arizona, snarled traffic on Southern California freeways, knocked out water supplies in parts of San Diego County and Tijuana and sent some elderly residents to emergency rooms. (Photo: Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)
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Former Toronto Blue Jays infielder John MacDonald may be sad to go, but at least he didn’t find out about the trade during an earthquake, like new addition Kelly Johnson. Mike Cassese/Reuters
First photos of Giffords since attack reveal little about difficult recovery
It’s just a photo. And yet the world’s first true glimpse of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords since she was shot in the head more than five months ago has roused hope and admiration as well as a raft of questions about how far she has come in her ability to think and communicate, let alone run for office in 2012.
The portrait, taken by a friend of Ms. Giffords on May 17 outside a Houston hospital, was released on her Facebook page Sunday and quickly met with a flood of reaction and wishes well.
Her once golden shoulder-length hair is shorn and dark, covering a misshapen left side of her head through which a bullet lodged and shattered on Jan. 8, compromising the part of her brain that controls communication. Her eyes, though twinkling, are different sizes behind wire framed glasses. Her neck bears a scar from a tracheotomy that once helped her breathe. A second picture of Ms. Giffords smiling with her mother Georgia, also appeared online showing the congresswoman a day before her cranioplasty surgery that would replace part of her skull removed in January to keep her brain from swelling.
“I think people are going to be very happy to see how great she looks,” Arizona state senator and friend Linda Lopez wrote on the site Sunday. “For someone who’s undergone what she’s endured, it’s really something. I feel relieved. She looks beautiful.”
Photo: U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords smiles (R) at TIRR Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston in a May 17, 2011 photo released on her Facebook page June 12, 2011 and another during an appearance in Tucson, Arizona in an undated 2010 handout photo provided by her Congressional campaign on January 8, 2011. (P.K. Weis/SouthwestPhotoBank.com/Reuters; Congress/Handout)
Tasha Kheiriddin: Political murder happens everywhere
Throughout history, political assassins have taken many forms, including terrorist cells and deranged loners. While their crimes tend to happen in places where political passions run high, this fact should not be used to indict the entire American political climate, or discourse on the right in particular. (Illustration by Richard Johnson)
Graphic: How Gabrielle Giffords survived a bullet to the head
On Saturday U.S. Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was shot in the head, but doctors are “cautiously optimistic” she will pull through.
Way of the gun: Wild West mythology feeds Arizona’s weapon culture.
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