Jared Loughner: An unidentified man passes out a written statement from the family of Jared Loughner outside of his home. Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Tucson — The house on Soledad Avenue is comfortably in sync with the Sonoran desert, landscaped with cholla, nopal and saguaro cactus and mesquite.
PHOTOS: Jared Loughner in pictures
But since Saturday, the family home of Arizona shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner has been swarmed by investigators and News Media.
VIDEOS: Jared Loughner in videos
Loughner’s parents, Randy and Amy Loughner, have kept out of the publ...
Officers stopped suspect on day of shooting...
TUCSON, Ariz. – A wildlife officer pulled over the suspect in the Assassination attempt against an Arizona congresswoman less than three hours before the deadly attack, authorities said Wednesday as they pieced together more details of a frenzied morning. Jared Lougher ran a red light but was let off with a warning at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, the Arizona Game and Fish Department said. The officer took Loughner's driver's license and vehicle registration information but found no outstanding warr...
Tucson shooting suspect had several scrapes with police
By Tim Gaynor
TUCSON, Arizona | Wed Jan 12, 2011 7:57pm EST
TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - The college Drop Out accused of shooting six people dead in Arizona had previous police encounters as far back as 2004 for drug use, drunkenness and other troubles in school but no record of violence, Police Reports released on Wednesday showed.
The Pima County Sheriff's Department, the lead local agency investigating Saturday's Shooting Spree, also said that various unspecified threats Jared Lee Loughner ...
Tucson shooting suspect had several scrapes with police
TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - The college Drop Out accused of shooting six people dead in Arizona had previous police encounters as far back as 2004 for drug use, drunkenness and other troubles in school but no record of violence, Police Reports released on Wednesday showed.
The Pima County Sheriff's Department, the lead local agency investigating Saturday's Shooting Spree, also said that various unspecified threats Jared Lee Loughner was alleged to have made prior to his deadly rampage came to t...
Obama: 'We Mourn With You ... We Join You In Your Grief'
President Obama delivered an emotional address at a memorial service tonight to honor the 19 people shot, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), in Tucson last Saturday.
"There is nothing I can say that will fill the sudden hole torn in your hearts. But know this: the hopes of a nation are here tonight. We mourn with you for the fallen. We join you in your grief. And we add our faith to yours that Representative Gabrielle Giffords and the other living Victims of this tragedy pull through," ...
[Headline] - PRESIDENT COOL SAYS CHILL
TUCSON, Ariz. – Summoning the soul of a nation, President Barack Obama on Wednesday implored Americans to honor those slain and injured in the Arizona shootings by becoming better people, telling a polarized citizenry that it is time to talk with each other "in a way that heals, not in a way wounds." Following a Hospital bedside visit with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the target of the Assassination, he said: "She knows we're here, and she knows we love her." In a memorably dramatic moment, th...
Obama urges nation to speak healing words in Ariz.
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Summoning the soul of a nation, President Barack Obama on Wednesday implored Americans to honor those slain and injured in the Arizona shootings by becoming better people, telling a polarized citizenry that it is time to talk with each other “in a way that heals, not in a way wounds.” Following a Hospital bedside visit with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the target of the Assassination, he said: “She knows we’re here, and she knows we love her.”...
6 killed in Tucson remembered at memorial
TUCSON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Six people killed at a political event in Tucson were memorialized at a rally Wednesday, one day after a memorial mass in their honor at a Tucson church. Christina Green and those who died with her were remembered Tuesday in a mass at the church where the 9-year-old had her first communion. Bishop Gerald Kicanas gave the homily at St. Odilia Roman Catholic Church, the Arizona Star reported. The aftermath of the Rep. Giffords shooting The service was called a Mass for th...
Obama Calls Clarence Dupnik
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A Thank You Call to America’s Worst Sheriff
by Van Helsing
The worst sheriff in America, Pima County’s irresponsible Clarence Dupnik, has accomplished notable achievements in the past. For example, he assisted in the non-prosecution of fellow moonbats who threw pies at Ann Coulter when she tried to speak at the University of Arizona. When SB1070 passed with the overwhelming support of Arizona citizens alarmed by the inundation of the state by Illegal Aliens, this s...
Obama eulogizes AZ shooting victims
Stumble This! President Obama is to speak at a memorial service at the University of Arizona at 8 p.m. EST. About 17,000 people were estimated to be in line at McKale Center by 2 p.m. The center's official capacity is 12,000. Obama returned from overseas to deliver the eulogy entitled “Together We Thrive: Tucson and America” of the six people who died from Saturday's tragic shootings outside a Grocery Store in Tucson, Arizona. The president prior to the memorial service visited...
Sheriff Dupnik won't release reports...
Sheriff's Department and community-college officials in Pima County are refusing to release a wide range of public documents about the man charged in Saturday's shooting rampage that left six dead and more than a dozen wounded. The Pima County Sheriff's Department and Pima Community College have declined to release documents that could shed light on run-ins they had with 22-year-old Jared Loughner in the months prior to the shooting. The Arizona Public Records Law requires that records be "open ...
Why Won't Sheriff Nifong Release Documents on Loughner?
For a guy who's just so sure Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin had something to do with the shootings in Tucson last Saturday, he sure seems like he's got something to hide. Of course his buddy Obama has his back, so he probably feels he's got support. We'll see how long that lasts.Sheriff's Department and community-college officials in Pima County are refusing to release a wide range of public documents about the man charged in Saturday's shooting rampage that left six dead and more than a dozen wo...
The Tucson Massacre Pep Rally
Listening to the service on the radio during rush hour traffic was something. I can’t imagine what it must of looked like on TV. I have been to more then a few memorial services in my life, as I’m sure many of you have, but this surreal service is…as Michelle Malkin wrote…gross. Of all the memorial services I have been to for slain officers I have never, EVER, heard cheering..whoops and hollering. I’m at a loss for words at this disgusting display tonight. Update 8...
Calif. Judge to Preside Over Jared Loughner's Case
Judge Larry A. Burns of the Southern District of California has been appointed by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to preside over the Arizona federal case of Jared Loughner. From the order (available on PACER)"
Based upon the circumstances occurring on January 8, 2011 in Tucson and the initiation of proceedings in conjunction with them, the impartiality of the District and Magistrate Judges in the District of Arizona might reasonably be questioned. It is therefore determined, pursuant to 28 U...
Figueroa Produce Market: Organic Food For The People
Luis Quismorio refuses to believe that eating healthy, Organic Food is reserved for the wealthy. He and business partners Anthony Bermudez and Ruben Perez started Figueroa Produce in Highland Park almost three years ago with a mission to provide high-quality food at low prices, in a family-friendly environment. Located in a strip mall next to a 99¢ store, Figueroa Produce stands out as a healthful alternative to the numerous fast food chains and discount stores in the area. According to the L...
Obama leads mourning of Arizona shooting victims
By Jeff Mason and Tim Gaynor
TUCSON, Arizona | Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:10pm EST
TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - President Barack Obama mourned the Victims of an Arizona Shooting Spree on Wednesday and urged Americans not to let the debate over the tragedy be used as "one more occasion to turn on one another."
In an emotional address to thousands of people who packed a Tucson arena for a memorial service, Obama said no one knew what prompted a gunman to go on a rampage that killed six people and critic...
Obama leads mourning of Arizona shooting victims
TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - President Barack Obama mourned the Victims of an Arizona shooting spree on Wednesday and urged Americans not to let the debate over the tragedy be used as "one more occasion to turn on one another."
In an emotional address to thousands of people who packed a Tucson arena for a memorial service, Obama said no one knew what prompted a gunman to go on a rampage that killed six people and critically wounded Representative Gabrielle Giffords. He warned against seeking "sim...
Obama visits wounded Giffords
TUCSON, Ariz - President Barack Obama visited wounded U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords Wednesday to begin an emotional trip to Arizona as political leaders condemned the deadly Shooting Spree in Tucson. Obama’s Motorcade carried him to University Medical Center shortly after he landed in Tucson to address a memorial service for the six killed and 14 wounded by a gunman who opened fire while Giffords met voters last Saturday. “The president wanted to begin this solemn trip by st...
Obama: Giffords 'knows we are here'
TUCSON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said at Wednesday's memorial in Tucson he visited Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the Hospital and she knows "we are rooting for her." Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, along with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, U.S. Justice Anthony Kennedy and Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., attended the "Together We Thrive: Tucson and America" memorial event at the University of Arizona to support and honor Victims of...
Poll: Tucson Shooting Wasn't Political
PHOENIX - A Mass Shooting that left six dead and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords gravely wounded has the nation wondering, why? Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik spoke out about the rampage on Saturday, saying it grew from extreme political Rhetoric, Bigotry and hatred, especially in his home state of Arizona. That statement ignited a firestorm of statements from politicians and Law Enforcements, who said there was no evidence to suggest politics played a role and that it was too soon to make...
Brewer Again Defends Arizona Amid Uproar
TUCSON, Ariz.—Gov. Jan Brewer, far from comfortable in the media spotlight, again finds herself trying to unite and defend her state in the midst of a national storm.
Last year, the Republican spoke out forcefully in defense of a Controversial state law cracking down on illegal Immigration.
Once again all eyes are on Arizona after Saturday's shooting that left six dead and U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, along with 13 others, injured.
On Tuesday, Ms. Brewer visited Tucson for the first tim...
The desperation of the left
Image by Getty Images via @daylife
Daniel Henninger:
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They expected to take losses in November. What they got instead was Armageddon. Suddenly an authentic reform movement, linked to the Republican Party, whose goal simply is to stop the public spending curve, had come to life. This poses a mortal threat to the financial oxygen in the economic ecosystem that the public wing of the Democratic Party has inhabited all these years.
The stakes for the American left in 2012 couldn't possibly be h...
Obama: Don't turn on each other
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Summoning the soul of a nation, President Barack Obama on Wednesday implored Americans to honor those slain and injured in the Arizona shootings by becoming better people, telling a polarized citizenry that it is time to talk with each other "in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds." Following a Hospital bedside visit with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the target of the Assassination, he said: "She knows we're here, and she knows we love her."
In a memorably dramatic...
President Obama: "Our hearts are broke"
Republican Governor Jan Brewer stated that the acts of Jared Loughner last Saturday morning outside of a Safeway in Tucson were those done by a “mad man” and “senseless”. The names of those who passed in the shooting were read and prayers and biblical scripture were cited by those in attendance. Additionally, President Obama stated that he had visited Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and stated that she had opened her eyes for the first time since the incident. P...
Thousands flock to Obama's Tucson memorial address
"This could be a way of people connecting. Sometimes tragedy can lead to community," said Los Angeles native Megan Henley, 25, as she stood in a line of people winding several city blocks hoping to enter the sports arena.
A 22-year-old College Dropout, Jared Lee Loughner, opened fire on a crowd in north Tucson on Saturday morning, gravely wounding local congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and killing six people including a Federal Judge and a 9-year-old girl.
Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama l...
Daniel Hernandez Speaks At Memorial For Victims Of Tucson Shooting
Openly Gay Student intern Daniel Hernandez delivered a terrific and humble Speech tonight at the memorial for the Victims of the Tucson shooting. He may disavow all the accolades, but the president later said it for all of us: "Daniel, we've decided. You ARE a hero."
(Via - AmericaBlog)
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