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  1. article (May 24) Today's Top Headlines - Jury fails to decide Arias' fate

    Friday, May 24, 2013 8:45 am

    On Thursday, jurors in the Jodi Arias trial failed to reach a unanimous decision on whether or not the convicted killer deserves life in prison or the death penalty for the 2008 murder of Travis Alexander.

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  2. article Car show to raise funds for local man suffering from ALS

    Thursday, May 23, 2013 9:26 am

    At age 29, Joel Sanchez is fighting the fight of his life as he struggles with ALS.

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  3. article (May 24) Today's Top Headlines - The stories of the day

    Thursday, May 23, 2013 8:19 am

    1. BOY SCOUTS ADMIT GAY YOUTHS, NOT ADULTS

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  4. article Helping Children Live And Learn

    Thursday, May 23, 2013 4:44 am

    (NAPSI)—In surprising ways, American youngsters and their parents are helping children half a world away stay in school.

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  5. article Choosing the right financial products for all stages of life

    Wednesday, May 22, 2013 5:00 pm

    (BPT) - No matter where you are in your life, you have a lot of decisions to make. When to buy your first house? What school to attend? Is it the right time for a job change? As things change in life, those changes influence your financial decisions, too.

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  6. youtube TRAILER ---> Star Trek Into Darkness

    Wednesday, May 22, 2013 11:25 am

    http://www.joblo.com - "Star Trek Into Darkness" - Official Trailer Source: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/startrekintodarkness/ In Summer 2013, pioneering director J.J. Abrams will deliver an explosive action thriller that takes Star Trek Into Darkness. When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew. Official Site: http://www.StarTrekMovie.com Director: J.J. Abrams Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, John Cho, Bruce Greenwood, Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Weller Writers: Alex Kurtzman , Roberto Orci , Damon Lindelof In theaters: May 17th, 2013 Copyright © 2013 Paramount Pictures
  7. article (May 22) Today's Top Headlines - 10 things you need to know today

    Wednesday, May 22, 2013 8:27 am

    1. OKLAHOMA BEGINS CLEARING TWISTER DEBRIS

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  8. article Turn on the tap! Drink more water for better health

    Wednesday, May 22, 2013 4:00 am

    Living in Arizona—especially during the hotter months—we are exquisitely aware that drinking water is valuable and life-giving. But even when you spend those hot days basking in air conditioning, getting enough water is one of the best things you can do for your health, at any age and at any time of year.

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  9. article (May 21) Today's Top Headlines - Arias pleads for life, promises to do good in prison

    Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:28 am

    In a plea for her life on Tuesday, convicted murderer Jodi Arias said if she is sentenced to life instead of death, she will make a positive impact on the prison system.

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  10. article (May 21) Today's top Headlines - Tornadoes devastate Oklahoma town

    Tuesday, May 21, 2013 10:45 am

    Rescue teams continue to comb through destroyed buildings and homes after one of the deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history blasted hit  Oklahoma City and its suburbs.

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  11. article (May 20) Today's Top Headlines - Defense asks for mistrial, Arias to testify Tuesday

    Monday, May 20, 2013 9:23 am

    The trial that has gained international attention, grabbing the top headlines daily and showing a mixture of sex, deceit and murder, is now entering the final phase.

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  12. article (May 16) Jodi Arias likely to be sentenced to death

    Thursday, May 16, 2013 10:05 am

    It didn't take long for a jury on Wednesday to conclude that how Mesa resident Travis Alexander died in 2008, was indeed cruel.

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  13. article (May 15) Jodi Arias trial set to resume in Phoenix

    Wednesday, May 15, 2013 12:28 pm

    The penalty phase of the Jodi Arias trail is set to resume Wednesday.

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  14. article Heat brings out snakes and need for pool safety

    Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:00 am

    Summer is just around the corner, and for many that means increased outdoor activities such as hiking and swimming.

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  15. article Improving Brain Research for Better Alzheimer's Diagnoses

    Friday, May 10, 2013 11:35 am

    (NewsUSA) - More than 5 million Americans live with Alzheimer's disease -- a number that's only going to rise as more adults age into their mid to late 60s. So, making strides to better understand the disease is a must.

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  16. article (May 10) Today's Top Headlines - Arias trial to resume next week

    Friday, May 10, 2013 11:23 am

    After a closed-door meeting with the judge on Thursday, the second phase of the Jodi Arias trial was abruptly canceled.

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  17. poll Should Jodi Arias be sentenced to death after being found guilty of first-degree murder?

    Friday, May 10, 2013 10:38 am

  18. article Prime Time Review - Indie Rock Veterans provides Tucson with memories

    Friday, May 10, 2013 9:08 am

    A distinctive spectacle exists within the music realm that recently graced the Rialto Theater stage here in Tucson. It is one that is unmatched in its ability to unify the youthful and the aged alike, bringing the Rialto’s varied occupants together by the collective power of rhythm, lyric, syncopation, and harmony. This artistic force has captivated listeners across generations and created an intersecting line between adolescents and geriatrics. It is a force that goes by the whimsical name of Yo La Tengo.

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  19. article Soccer Goal Scores On Player Safety

    Thursday, May 9, 2013 4:44 am

    (NAPSI)—There’s good news for soccer players and their parents. A new type of goal is designed to make practice and competitive play safer.

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  20. article New initiative celebrates unsung heroes of severe allergy awareness

    Wednesday, May 8, 2013 10:00 pm

    (BPT) - Individuals at risk for anaphylaxis – a severe, life-threatening allergic reaction – know the importance of having people around them who can help with allergen avoidance, such as bringing allergy-friendly food options to the company party or helping to shield from bees on the playground. Now, there is a new way to say “thank you” to the teacher, relative or co-worker who has made a difference in the life of an individual at risk for anaphylaxis. Sanofi US has launched a Severe Allergy Awareness Facebook page where individuals have a unique opportunity to create online awards via the “Celebrate Someone” app to recognize an unsung hero of allergy awareness.

  21. article What's Up UA? - UA Geneticists Find Causes for Severe Childhood Epilepsies

    Wednesday, May 8, 2013 5:09 pm

    Researchers at the University of Arizona have successfully determined the genetic mutations causing severe epilepsies in seven out of 10 children for whom the cause of the disorder could not be determined clinically or by conventional genetic testing.

    Instead of sequencing each gene one at a time, the team used a technique called whole-exome sequencing: Rather than combing through all of the roughly 3 billion base pairs of an individual's entire genome, whole-exome-sequencing deciphers only actual genes, and nearly all of them simultaneously.

    "My initial hope was that we would find something in one out of the 10 children in our study. But a 70 percent success rate is beyond anyone's imagination," said study leader Michael Hammer, who is a research scientist in the UA's Arizona Research Labs Division of Biotechnology and a member of the UA BIO5 Institute.
     
    For Hammer, the research hit very close to home. Just last year, his lab tracked down the mutation that had caused the severe – and ultimately fatal – epilepsy in his teenage daughter. 
     
    "I figured, if we could do this for one child, we could do it for others." Hammer explained. "These are children who have had every test imaginable and tried every possible drug combination, and nobody has figured out where their seizures come from and how to stop them."
     
    The children who participated in the study, published online in the journal Epilepsia, all suffered from severe seizure disorders, and most of them started having seizures within the first year or two after birth.
     
    Unlike individuals afflicted with epilepsy later in life, many of whom can live normal lives with the right medical oversight and medications, early-onset epilepsy can be devastating. Children often develop other severe complications such as intellectual disability, autism and loss of muscle tone or coordination. Early death is not uncommon.
     
    "Because their seizures are not well controlled, and that firestorm of electrical activity in the brain is bad for brain development, the damage can be extensive," added Linda Restifo, a professor in the UAdepartment of neurology and a BIO5 member who co-authored the study. "The earlier the seizures start and the more severe and frequent they are, the more likely they are to leave the child with permanent developmental disability."
     
    "The sooner we can catch problems in children and understand what is causing them, the better the chance we have to try and correct them," Hammer added. 
     
    To identify changes in the DNA that are the most likely cause of the disorders, the team focused on a class of mutations called de novo mutations: "typos" in the DNA sequence that are present only in the child. In order to find such mutations, the study included both parents and their child.
     
    Overall, the team found 15 mutations in nine children, seven of which are known or likely to cause epilepsy. No mutations could be found in one of the children. 
     
    "In four of the patients. we found mutations that were already known to be associated with epilepsy," said Krishna Veeramah, a postdoctoral fellow in Hammer's group and the study's first author. "However, three patients had mutations in genes that were not previously associated with epilepsy in humans but presented plausible explanations for the disorder."
     
    "The fact that we found three genes – in a study involving only 10 subjects – that had never been implicated in epilepsy before suggests that many more genetic defects related to developmental brain disorders remain to be discovered," Veeramah said.  
     
    One of the participants in the study was Ashley Wilhelm, a 14-year-old girl from Phoenix, Ariz., whose seizures started when she was only 5 months old. Her first seizures appeared to be triggered by fever, leading doctors to believe they were just that – a side effect of the fever. 
     
    "But she soon began to have more and more seizures, and they would last half an hour or longer," said her mother, Ann. "We had all sorts of tests done, but the doctors kept saying her brain was normal, and that they didn't see any reason she'd have those seizures."
     
    Ashley, whose development has severely suffered as a consequence of the repeated seizures, was enrolled in the study through her neurologist, Dinesh Talwar, who co-authored the paper.
     
    Even though her treatment is unlikely to change with the new information, the family said the results brought "more relief than we can explain."
     
    "Since insurance wouldn't pay for the testing, and we couldn't afford it on our own, we were very grateful we were able to participate in the study," said Jeff Wilhelm, Ashley's father. "If such a test could be done much earlier, it would ease the pain for everyone involved. What if our son had decided not to consider having children of his own out of concern they might have the disorder?"
     
    "The results from this study have at last given us a breakthrough," said the mother of another participating teenager. "We had pursued every possible avenue to understand what might be responsible for his epilepsy – magnetic resonance imaging, CT scans, searches for gross chromosome abnormalities or markers associated with epilepsy – with no success."
     
    "Although the discovery doesn't yet give us a treatment, it gives us hope for finding one," she said. "As more research is done on this mutation, drugs to control our son's seizures will be identified. If more children with epilepsy can be studied and families with children with similar mutations can organize and share resources, there will be more progress."
     
    Hammer said the approach is applicable to other conditions in which conventional genetic testing has failed to reveal the cause.
     
    "Our work bridges research and clinical practice," he added. "We can sequence all the genes in your genome in a matter of days and report it to the patient's family and the physician. That may make a difference in the treatment and management of the disorder in question."
     
    Centers with the capabilities to do this kind of analysis are few and far between.
     
    "Other centers that do this kind of work will sequence your genome and tell you where and what the mutation is in the DNA sequence, but it's not that simple," Hammer said. "In most cases, we find a mutation in a gene not previously known to cause disease, so we need to perform a follow-up study to find out what that mutation actually does."
     
    To perform these follow-up studies, the UA team has established collaborations with leading scientists at the UA and at other institutions.
     
    "Right now, the benefit to families is primarily to get answers," said Restifo. "The long-term goal is to collect this kind of information from more children, which will hopefully lead to new research into medications that improve brain development and function."
     
    Hammer added: "In the meantime, a molecular diagnosis provides immediate relief to the unnecessary guilt parents might feel for their role in causing their child's suffering. They want answers, not endless doctors visits and tests with negative results, or to have their hopes raised and dashed over and over."
     
    Encouraged by the success of their approach so far, Hammer and his colleagues already have bigger plans. 
     
    "We hope to involve other clinical areas such as cardiology, immunology, gastroenterology – anything that we can apply molecular diagnostics or clinical genomics to at the UA, we want to explore. We want to make the University the core for clinical diagnostics using new sequencing technologies for at least the entire Southwest."
     
    UA pediatric geneticist Robert Erickson, another co-author and member of the UA Steele Children's Research Center added, "these efforts will be very important in the diagnosis of newborns with unusual birth defects."
     

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  22. article Arizona climber found dead

    Wednesday, May 8, 2013 3:52 pm

    A Tucson climber was found dead, hanging from a southern Arizona cliff in his climbing gear and covered with bee stings.

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  23. article (May 8) Today's top headlines - Jodi Arias found guilty, new phase in trial begins

    Wednesday, May 8, 2013 2:56 pm

    It took just over 15 hours for a 12-member jury to find accused boyfriend killer, Jodi Arias, guilty of first-degree murder.

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  24. article CDO graduate composes entire musical to be presented at Fox Theatre May 17-18

    Wednesday, May 8, 2013 4:00 am

    Throughout his time at Canyon Del Oro High School and in working toward his degree from the University of Arizona, Clark Jewett’s life has slowly been preparing him for this month. On May 17 and 18, his musical will be performed at Fox Theatre.

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  25. article Tony Stark is going to reach... a breaking point in ‘Iron Man 3’

    Wednesday, May 8, 2013 4:00 am

    Along with Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises,” “Iron Man 3” is one of the rare superhero threequels that doesn’t disappoint. While Jon Favreau remains an executive producer and co-star, he passes on the directorial duties to Shane Black of “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.” Black maintains all the action, humor, and character development that made Faverau’s first two films so enjoyable, while also incorporating his own unique signature. 

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