Read more Arizona stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/969/arizona.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 6:38:49 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74503/far-right-challenger-a-threat-to-mccain.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagEveryone’s favorite maverick could be unseated in 2010 by a hard-line conservative talk show host who's mulling a bid, a new Rasmussen poll suggests. John McCain leads potential primary opponent JD Hayworth, a local radio host and former House member, by a razor-thin 2%, which is within the poll’s 4%...http://www.newser.com/story/74503/far-right-challenger-a-threat-to-mccain.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 20 Nov 2009 10:09:13 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74080/overdue-books-return-51-years-late.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn Arizona high school librarian got the surprise of her career when she opened a package and found a letter from a former student, two books checked out in 1958—and a money order for $1,000 to cover the overdue-book fines. The books, Community of Living Things: Forests and...http://www.newser.com/story/74080/overdue-books-return-51-years-late.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 15 Nov 2009 14:32:52 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73845/9-other-states-have-calif-sized-fiscal-messes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCalifornia has by no means cornered the market on enormous financial problems at the state level, with a report out today saying Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin are also at tremendous risk. The Pew Center sees widespread unemployment, huge budget deficits, and the...http://www.newser.com/story/73845/9-other-states-have-calif-sized-fiscal-messes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Nov 2009 20:14:46 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72276/dad-runs-over-westernized-daughter.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPolice in Arizona are searching for an Iraqi man they believe mowed down his daughter and a friend in a parking lot because she had become "too Westernized" and abandoned traditional Iraqi values. The daughter, 20, is in a local hospital with life-threatening injuries. Her friend has been hospitalized with...http://www.newser.com/story/72276/dad-runs-over-westernized-daughter.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 22 Oct 2009 1:41:29 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72258/survivor-days-of-fasting-before-sweat-lodge-disaster.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagParticipants in the fatal Oct. 8 sweat-lodge ceremony had already been through five days of fasting and sleep deprivation, a survivor says—and the self-help guru leading the proceedings saw their gasping, vomiting and fainting as signs of weakness and urged them to push on through it. No charges have...http://www.newser.com/story/72258/survivor-days-of-fasting-before-sweat-lodge-disaster.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 21 Oct 2009 19:07:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72238/taser-tells-cops-dont-aim-at-chest.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagStun gun maker Taser has issued an advisory to police departments suggesting cops not aim at a suspect’s chest because it poses an "extremely low" chance of triggering an "adverse cardiac event." The company insists its product is safe, but if something goes wrong, "it would place the law-enforcement agency,...http://www.newser.com/story/72238/taser-tells-cops-dont-aim-at-chest.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 21 Oct 2009 11:35:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71947/third-sweat-lodge-victim-dies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Minnesota woman became the third fatality yesterday in an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony that hospitalized nearly two dozen people. Liz Neuman, 49, died at a Flagstaff hospital after suffering multiple organ damage during the Oct. 8 ceremony at a resort near Sedona. Authorities were treating all three deaths as...http://www.newser.com/story/71947/third-sweat-lodge-victim-dies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 18 Oct 2009 6:01:43 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71916/ariz-sheriff-defies-feds-with-immigration-sweep.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe "toughest sheriff in America" isn't going to let anything stop him enforcing the law—not even the law. Joe Arpaio launched crime and immigration sweeps in Phoenix yesterday in defiance of a federal order stripping his deputies of the right to make immigration arrests in the field. "it doesn't...http://www.newser.com/story/71916/ariz-sheriff-defies-feds-with-immigration-sweep.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 16 Oct 2009 21:00:19 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71892/county-will-fire-sick-employees-for-working.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn a desperate attempt to curb the spread of swine flu, Pima County, Ariz., has notified its employees that they could be canned if they come to work sick. Any employee with a fever over 100.4 accompanied by any other flu symptom will be sent packing. “It seems like...http://www.newser.com/story/71892/county-will-fire-sick-employees-for-working.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 16 Oct 2009 13:13:31 CDT