Boycott Arizona. Somebody design the T-shirts. Somebody ready the bumper stickers. Boycott Arizona. Gov. Jan Brewer has not said at this writing whether she will veto a bill passed by the state legislature that would allow businesses to refuse service to gay people on religious grounds. Maybe she’ll do the right thing. Maybe we should […]
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Ralph ‘Peter’ Beckey
1950 – 2014 GILA BEND, Ariz. — Ralph “Peter” Beckey, 63, of Gila Bend, Ariz., formerly a resident of Greene and Florida, died unexpectedly on Tuesday, Jan. 14, at West Valley Emergency Center in Buckeye, Ariz. He was born May 23, 1950, in Lewiston, the son of Robert P. Beckey and Pauline W. (Footman) Beckey. […]
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Arizona man dies in I-95 crash in Medway
MEDWAY (AP) — Police say an Arizona man has died in a single-car crash on a rural eastern Maine highway. Police said 85-year-old Paul Benn from Phoenix was traveling north on Interstate 95 in Medway at about 10:30 a.m. Monday when a witness driving behind him saw his car drift onto the rumble strip. Benn […]
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Tech pleads guilty in hepatitis C outbreak
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A traveling hospital technician accused of infecting patients in multiple states with hepatitis C through tainted syringes pleaded guilty on Wednesday to 16 federal drug charges under an agreement that calls for him to serve 30 to 40 years in prison. Judge Joseph Laplante asked David Kwiatkowski, 34, why he wasn’t […]
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Religious family survives being lost at sea
PHOENIX (AP) — A northern Arizona family has survived being lost at sea for weeks after an ill-fated attempt to leave the U.S. over what they consider government interference in religion. Hannah Gastonguay and her family will fly back home Sunday after taking their two small children and her father-in-law and setting sail from San […]
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Robert G. Hastings
PHOENIX, ARIZ. — Robert Gerald Hastings, 66, formerly of Lewiston, passed away Wednesday, March 13, in Phoenix, Ariz., from complications of a liver transplant. Bob was born Nov. 17, 1946, in Lewiston, the son of Arthur Hastings and Evelyn Pomerleau. He is survived by Donna Hastings of Phoenix; daughter, Bobbi Kim Holbrook (Tim) of Auburn; […]
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Arizona deaths hit Maine’s firefighting community
Maine’s wilderness firefighting community was reeling on Monday, a day after 19 elite “hot shots” were killed near Prescott, Ariz., while fighting a wildfire. “We’ve been talking about it all day today with the rangers and the support staff,” said Jeff Currier, regional forest ranger for the Maine Forest Service. “It’s a bit surreal when […]
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Arizona mourns the loss of 19 firefighters
YARNELL, Ariz. — As the windblown blaze suddenly swept toward them, an elite crew of firefighting “Hotshots” desperately rushed to break out their emergency shelters and take cover on the ground under the heat-resistant fabric. By the time the flames had passed, 19 men lay dead in the nation’s biggest loss of firefighters in a […]
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19 Firefighters die battling Arizona blaze
YARNELL, Ariz. — An out-of-control blaze overtook an elite group of firefighters trained to battle the nation’s fiercest wildfires, killing 19 members as they tried to protect themselves from the flames under fire-resistant shields. It was the most firefighters killed battling a wildfire in the U.S. in decades. The lightning-sparked fire, which spread to at […]
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Phoenix, Las Vegas bake in scorching heat
DEATH VALLEY, Calif. — Scorching heat blistered the Southwest on Saturday, where highs between 115 and 120 degrees were recorded for parts of Arizona, Nevada and California. Forecasters said temperatures in sunbaked Las Vegas shot up to 115 degrees on Saturday afternoon, two degrees short of the city’s all-time record. Phoenix hit 119 degrees by […]