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...crime to which Debra Ann Forster, 18, of Mesa, Ariz., pleaded guilty last week: leaving her two sons, ages six months and 18 months, alone in a sweltering apartment for nearly three days. The highly unusual sentence handed down by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Lindsay Ellis Budzyn: Forster must use birth control for the rest of her childbearing years...
...PHOENIX, Ariz.--Gov. Michael S. Dukakis defeated Jesse Jackson by a 3-2 margin in Arizona's Democratic presidential caucuses and shut out Tennessee Sen. Albert Gore Jr. in the race for delegates...
...PHEONIX, Ariz.--Gov. Evan Mecham acknowledged yesterday before a House impeachment committee that he may have told Arizona's top police officer not to cooperate with an investigation of an alleged death threat...
Babbitt's own inheritance included an expensive and eclectic education and a strong sense of noblesse oblige. Where he grew up, the name Babbitt seldom reminded anyone of the bourgeois conformist of the Sinclair Lewis novel; rather, in Flagstaff, Ariz., it meant roughly what Rockefeller does in New York. Arriving a century ago in Flagstaff, a logging and ranching town south of the Grand Canyon, five Babbitt brothers turned a modest grubstake into a mercantile empire. As Bruce came of age, his family owned the grocery, drugstore and icehouse; a lumberyard and sawmill; and owned or controlled nearly a million...
...substantial profits. Saguaros, which can take more than 100 years to grow to 6 ft., routinely sell for $10 per ft. in height plus $50 an arm -- and can fetch ten times that amount in Europe and Japan. For instance, a rare 19-ft. crested saguaro lifted from Quartzsite, Ariz., turned up in a Las Vegas nursery with a $15,000 price...