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Kelly: Gun checks need mental health component

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 31st

By Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Gun control activist Mark Kelly says a proposed national gun background bill under discussion in the Senate should include better access to mental health records that could prevent psychologically disturbed people from obtaining guns. Kelly, a former

Kelly: Gun checks need mental health component

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 31st

Navy IDs SEAL killed in Ariz. parachuting accident

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 30th

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Brett D. Shadle always had wanted to be a member of the Navy's most elite special forces unit. A year after enlisting, he made it happen and went on to become a highly decorated member of the Navy's famed SEAL Team 6. U.S. military officials confirmed Saturday that

Arizona gun proponents launch free gun program

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 29th

By CRISTINA SILVAAssociated Press TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A campaign promising free shotguns for people to protect themselves in Tucson's most troubled neighborhoods has divided some residents in a community still reeling from a shooting rampage in 2011that killed six people, left a congresswoman

Records provide new look at Ariz. shooting spree

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 28th

By JACQUES BILLEAUD and BRIAN SKOLOFFAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) - An erratic Jared Loughner walked into a convenience store with an urgent message for the clerk: "I need a ride to Safeway." It was Saturday morning, and then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' meet-and-greet started at 10 a.m. As he

Budget cuts border security, immigrant detention

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 28th

By CRISTINA SILVA and CHRISTOPHER SHERMANAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) - Marco Antonio Durazo had been awaiting deportation from an Arizona detention center for six months when an officer came to get him from his cell. "Obama doesn't have any money," the officer said. "We found it very funny,"

Arizona House panel OKs softened transgender bill

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 28th

By BOB CHRISTIEAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) - An Arizona House panel late Wednesday approved a measure targeting transgendered people who want to use bathrooms of the gender they identify with, voting along party lines to advance a bill that protects business owners who bar the practice. The 7-4

Effort in Ariz. would give residents free shotguns

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 27th

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A former mayoral candidate in Tucson, Ariz., is launching a privately funded program to provide residents of crime-prone areas with free shotguns so they can defend themselves against criminals. Shaun McClusky said the program modeled after one recently launched in Houston

Police Reports Released In Tucson Shooting Rampage That Injured Gabrielle Giffords

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 27th

PHOENIX (AP) - Thousands of pages of witness accounts, police reports and other documents in the investigation of the Arizona shooting rampage that wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords have been made public. The documents were released Wednesday by the Pima County sheriff's

Police reports in Tucson shooting rampage released

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 27th

By JACQUES BILLEAUDAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) - Hundreds of pages of police reports in the investigation of the Tucson shooting rampage that wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords are being released Wednesday, marking the public's first glimpse into documents that authorities have kept