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Ariz. prosecutor files 1st employer sanctions case

PHOENIX (AP) -- Maricopa County prosecutors on Wednesday filed Arizona's first civil complaint against a business under a 22-month-old state law that prohibits employers from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants. County Attorney Andrew Thomas said ...

From AMANDA LEE MYERS, Buffalo News,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Andrew Thomas (politician),  U.S. Republican Party,  Janet Napolitano,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Joe Arpaio

AZ grocery strike averted as workers consider deal

PHOENIX - Workers at Fry's and Safeway stores in Arizona will remain on the job instead of walking a picket line Friday. ...

From AMANDA LEE MYERS, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Safeway Inc.

Arizona grocery strike averted

A possible strike by workers at Safeway and Fry's in Arizona has been averted. The United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 99, Safeway Stores and Kroger Company, the owner of Fry's and Smith's, reached a tentative settlement on a new collective ...

From AMANDA LEE MYERS, TheNewsTribune.com,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Safeway Inc.

Arizona grocery store workers poised to strike

PHOENIX Thousands of union workers across Arizona are poised to go on strike Friday after months of failed negotiations with two major grocery chains. The union gave grocery giants Safeway Inc. and Fry's, owned by Cincinnati-based Kroger Co., until 6 ...

From AMANDA LEE MYERS, San Diego Union-Tribune,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Safeway Inc.,  Kroger,  Tim James

AZ 'honor killing' victim just wanted to be normal

PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) -- Noor Faleh Almaleki just wanted to be a normal American woman. The striking 20-year-old from Iraq, who'd lived in Phoenix since she was a young girl, wanted her hair and makeup to be perfect, her clothes to be fashionable. She ...

From AMANDA LEE MYERS, Buffalo News,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Jeep,  Facebook Inc.

'Honor killing' victim just wanted to be normal

Noor Faleh Almaleki just wanted to be a normal American woman. The striking 20-year-old from Iraq, who'd lived in the Valley since she was a young girl, wanted her hair and makeup to be perfect, her clothes to be fashionable. She wanted a job, a degree, ...

From AMANDA LEE MYERS, AZ Central.com,  6 Nov 2009

Police determine teen missing since 1954 was slain

PHOENIX - A murdered young woman buried as Jane Doe in Colorado 55 years ago. An Arizona family puzzled and saddened as Dorothy Gay Howard's disappearance stretched into decades. ...

From AMANDA LEE MYERS, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  4 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Howard Ashman

Missing Ariz. teen's family finally knows her fate

PHOENIX—A murdered young woman buried as Jane Doe in Colorado 55 years ago. An Arizona family puzzled and saddened as Dorothy Gay Howard's disappearance stretched into decades. It took a historian, a detective and determined family member to make the ...

From AMANDA LEE MYERS, Boston Globe,  4 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Howard Ashman

Missing Phoenix teen's family finally knows fate

Dorothy Gay Howard's family spent 55 years not knowing if she was alive or dead. The Phoenix woman disappeared in 1954 when she was 18. Only one surviving person in Howard's immediate family - her younger sister Marlene Howard Ashman - was alive when ...

From AMANDA LEE MYERS, AZ Central.com,  3 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Howard Ashman

Police: Pair stole up to 1k bags at Ariz. airport

PHOENIX (AP) -- Two people suspected of stealing up to 1,000 pieces of luggage from baggage claim carousels at Phoenix's airport have been arrested by police who found heaps of the stolen bags strewn throughout their home. There were so many suitcases ...

From AMANDA LEE MYERS, The Orange County Register,  3 Nov 2009

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