INDIANAPOLIS - Standing beside a computer-controlled machine nearly two stories high, auto worker Ron Fuller glances at the computer display before him, then taps the pressure-sensitive screen with a forefinger.

An increase in Arizonans living near and recreating in wilderness areas has contributed to a record number of rabies cases in Arizona, a state health official told lawmakers Thursday.

WASHINGTON - Four U.S. allies in the Middle East are among countries added to a State Department list of nations that are not doing enough to stop international human trafficking, a practice the department described as modern-day slavery.

BEIJING - China reported its first human cases of bird flu on the mainland Wednesday, including at least one fatality, as health workers armed with vaccine and disinfectant raced to inoculate billions of chickens and other poultry in a massive campaign to contain the virus.

Are you about to move — and dreading it? You’re not alone because moving is one of the top 10 most stressful events in any person’s life. To help people get ready to move, professional organizer Bridges Conner will share tips at a workshop Saturday in Mesa on how to move without feeling overwhelmed.

Mexican president Felipe Calderón is supposed to be a little more conservative and a little bit more in tune with the current political climate in the United States than predecessor Vicente Fox.

September 2, 2004

Two lawsuits seeking $75 million from Arizona State University, the University of Arizona and Stanford University over blood samples taken from members of the Havasupai Tribe have been transferred to federal court.

I believe illegal immigration from Mexico to Arizona is bad because they take our jobs, they get free healthcare, and they commit crimes.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Felipe Calderon said Monday that the death of a Mexican migrant after being shot with a stun gun by a U.S. immigration officer was an unacceptable human rights violation.

WASHINGTON - Wild birds are serving as carriers for bird flu and the disease can be expected to spread along their migration routes, Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said Friday. First detected in Southeast Asia, the flu has now been found elsewhere, including Russia, Romania and Turkey.

January 2, 2005

Some time ago in Africa — maybe 180,000 years or so although estimates vary widely — there was an Eve, the first of her kind to cross from hominid to human. And, of course, there had to be an Adam. After all, there are 6.4 billion of us today.

Mitt Romney has released his income tax reports, so is it not about time the media insisted Barack Obama release his school records?

Owls have a reputation for being brighter than the average bird. But we doubt they realize it when they stray across an international border, migrating, say, from northern Mexico into southern Arizona.

Michelle Harrington of the Southwest Center for Biological Diversity provides a telling glimpse on the following page of the junk science that drives extremist environmental groups like hers.

GENEVA - The human death toll from the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu reached 103 after five people died from the disease in Azerbaijan, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

It was an extraordinary, memorable speech that President Bush delivered on Goree Island in Senegal Tuesday, a relatively short but eloquent reflection on the great evil of American slavery, how that evil was overcome and how there's a lesson in the experience for advancing the cause of liberty and justice in Africa today.

The Havasupai Tribe has filed a $50 million lawsuit against Arizona State University, the Arizona Board of Regents and three researchers alleging that blood samples taken from tribal members under the pretext of diabetes research were destroyed, lost or used in studies of schizophrenia, inbreeding and population migration without the donors' consent.

Immigration is not just an issue of current concern and divisivness, it is and has been as America’s political interests play to populations that gave political advantage to political parties.

Drivers along rural roads between urbanized areas of the East Valley were reminded in the last several days of potential danger to themselves and to livestock grazing in that open range: Cows’ horns don’t honk and horses don’t come with reflectors.

Homol'ovi - which means "Place of the Little Hills" in the Hopi language - is the only Arizona state park dedicated to American Indian culture.

A friend with a home on the Gulf Coast pointed in a northeasterly direction. "New Orleans is approximately over there," he said, meaning about 250 nautical miles away across the Gulf. Down a little to the east is Tampa. More to the southeast is Havana. A little more to the south and southwest are Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and its port city of Tampico, on the Gulf of Mexico.

DENVER - As bird flu is spread continent-to-continent by wild birds, the seasonal migration that is normally one of nature's wonders is becoming something scary.