In Tucson, Finding a Game to Replace Spring Training – NYTimes.com

The last few years have not been kind to the Old Pueblo, as this city is known. The collapse of the housing market sapped its growth. Boycotts over the state’s immigration policies kept tourists away. The shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords shook its …

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Gabrielle Giffords Says She’s Leaving the House – NYTimes.com

For months, Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in an assassination attempt last year, signaled that returning to Congress, something she desperately longed to do, was in the realm of the …

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A Year Later in Tucson, ‘The Event’ Lingers – NYTimes.com

January has come again to Tucson. The pleasant days all but demand a hike or a bicycle ride. The cool evenings cast the Santa Catalina Mountains in a mesmerizing magenta. And, for some, the late nights bring to mind a supermarket called Safeway, of all things, and an echoing pop. Pop, pop, …

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Loughner’s Lawyers Seem to Search His Family Tree for Mental Illness – NYTimes.com

Jared L. Loughner’s grandparents and great-grandparents died years ago, but lawyers defending Mr. Loughner in connection with a Jan. 8 shooting spree outside Tucson are delving into their lives and those of numerous …

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Giffords’ aide says congresswoman could be released from hospital as early as end of June – The Washington Post

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords could be released from a rehabilitation hospital in Houston sometime this month, a top aide says, offering …

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Loughner ruling creates potential obstacles on path to trial in Arizona shootings – The Washington Post

The treatment to restore mentally unfit defendants to competence so that they can stand trial for heinous crimes is an uncertain science that, in a number of high-profile cases, has taken…

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Following outburst, suspect in Ariz. shooting rampage found incompetent for trial – The Washington Post

he man accused of wounding U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and killing six is mentally incompetent to stand trial, a judge ruled Wednesday after U.S. Marshals dragged the man out of the courtroom because…

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After Being Removed From Court, Loughner Is Ruled Incompetent – NYTimes.com

A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that Jared L. Loughner was not mentally competent to stand trial on charges of opening fire at a constituent event for an Arizona congresswoman in…

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