http://www.phxnews.com/ Breaking news from the Phoenix area, Tucson and Flagstaff, Arizona http://backend.userland.com/rss091 en http://www.phxnews.com/images/phx_logo_11.jpg http://www.phxnews.com/ http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61053 BELGRADE (Reuters) - Radovan Karadzic will conduct his own defence at the Hague tribunal and is convinced he will be cleared of charges of genocide, relatives and associates of the war crimes suspect said on Wednesday. http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61050 NEW YORK (AP) — Hip-hop artist Nas is protesting Fox News's coverage of Barack Obama. http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61045 "Talk show host Bruce Jacobs tears into the illegal alien-loving stooge Phil Gordon, the guy who calls the sheriff a Nazi for catching illegal aliens. There is a campaign underway to oust this numskull from office now. Thanks to 'Lone Wolf' for uploading this video to You Tube. The video was recorded on July 22, 2008." This video is a must view. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8b0K6YIGFc This just might be an eye opener to ... http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61052 [UPDATED -- CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER] http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61051 EL PASO, Texas — A 15-year-old missing since early July is considered endangered after authorities learned she may be with a registered sex offender, El Paso police said Wednesday. http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61049 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans next week to slash the pay of more than 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum of $6.55 per hour to deal with the state's budget crisis, according to a draft executive order obtained by the Chronicle today. http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61048 "I had the courage and the judgment to say that I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war," John McCain said during a Rochester, N.H., town meeting on July 22. "It seems to me that Senator Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign." It was a remarkable statement, as intemperate a personal attack as I've ever heard a major-party candidate make in a presidential campaign, the sort of thing that no potential President of the United States should ever be caught saying. ... http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61047 OBAMA VISITS WESTERN WALL IN OLD CITY JERUSALEM... ARRIVES AT 5:08 AM LOCAL TIME [10:08 PM ET]... SUNRISE... SHOUTING MAN: 'JERUSALEM IS NOT FOR SALE, OBAMA'... MOB SCENE... CHAOS... BOWING HIS HEAD IN PRAYER... PLACES NOTE IN WALL... POSES FOR PHOTOS... LOTS OF SHOUTING... LEAVES 5:20 AM... DEVELOPING... http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61046 Here is a list of crimes that have been committed in our country....READ this link below first before you say it is a "racist" report and why they post these FACTS of actual news stories. For those who say Whites commit most of the crimes in this country, I beg to differ. http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61044 "In the wake of the murder in San Francisco of a father and his two sons, ages 20 and 16 years old, by an illegal alien, Mayor Gavin Newsom blamed his city’s illegal alien sanctuary policy on our "broken immigration system". If our immigration system weren’t broken, argued the mayor of the city that kicked off the sanctuary movement back in 1989, we wouldn’t have needed to break federal immigration laws in the first place." http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61043 Police have identified a suspect in the Sunday rape and robbery of a 73-year-old Tempe woman, but they are asking the public’s help in locating him. http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61042 Republican John McCain pushed back on Wednesday against Democratic criticism that he misstated when the troop buildup ordered by President Bush began, saying elements were put in place before Bush announced the strategy in early 2007. http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61041 A group of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's critics gathered inside and outside the Maricopa County Supervisors meeting this morning to protest the sheriff's stance against illegal immigration.More than 300 people attended the meeting in hopes of keeping pressure on the supervisors to change Arpaio's immigration policy, including his crime suppression sweeps that have resulted in many arrests of illegal immigrants. http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61040 What did Bush say at Olson Fundraiser? http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61039 A former global warming alarmist and creator of the model that measures Australia's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol says that while global warming is real, there is no evidence that the main cause is carbon emissions. David Evans says that C02 emissions play — at most — a minor role. http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61038 TSA Agents Forced Woman To Remove Nipple Rings, Pulled Pants Off Disabled Man http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61037 RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian baker Nasir Abdul Hadi is so grateful Barack Obama is making time to visit the occupied West Bank that he has named a bagel after him. http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61036 "IT'S NOT 'IMMIGRATION' AND THEY'RE NOT 'IMMIGRANTS': http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61035 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. stock market would fare better in the first year after a victory by Republican presidential candidate John McCain than by his Democratic rival Barack Obama, according to a majority of economists at U.S. banks and research groups polled by Reuters. http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61034 BELGRADE, Serbia - Radovan Karadzic's secret life included a mistress, a bogus family he claimed he left behind in the U.S., and frequent visits to a Belgrade pub called "The Madhouse," acquaintances said Wednesday. http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61033 WASHINGTON — Congress is considering a second economic stimulus package that could include $15 billion in infrastructure spending, a senior member of the House told Reuters on Tuesday. http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61032 Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said Wednesday he does not want to be considered as vice president on the GOP ticket, making him among a growing number of those pulling themselves out of the race. http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61031 NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- President Bush dropped his threat Wednesday to veto a sweeping housing bill that will offer up to $300 billion in assistance to troubled homeowners and throw government support behind mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=61030 ROCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN) – It's VP tea leaf reading season, and a Republican source who attended a small private meeting with John McCain Tuesday in New Hampshire tells CNN that the GOP candidate dropped a serious hint about Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty.