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El Mercado de Guadalupe is the central shopping area of the small town.
Arizona Town To Design Cultural Training For Arpaio Deputies
Some of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s deputies in Arizona’s Maricopa County have agreed to go through a round of cultural training. The county approved the arrangement to reduce long-held tensions between the Sheriff’s office and indigenous and Latino residents in a small metro-Phoenix town.
“They want to get along with the sheriff, but they also want the sheriff to realize there has to be respect from his MCSO officers,” Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox said.
Obama Pushes For New Wildfire Suppression Financing
The annual cost of fighting wildfires in the United States has been close to $2 billion in the last three years. President Barack Obama wants that money to come from disaster relief funds instead of from the Department of Agriculture's budget.
Courtesy of wipp.energy.gov
Entrance to the Waste Isolation Power Plant.
Workers Exposed to Radiation At New Mexico Nuclear Waste Site
Officials with a nuclear waste site in New Mexico are monitoring the health of 13 workers who tested positive for radiation exposure.
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in southeastern New Mexico is the only dump site in the nation for nuclear weapons waste. The waste is stored in underground rooms mined out of an ancient salt bed.
Who’s Shooting Arizona’s Wild Burros?
Federal investigators in Arizona have a mystery on their hands. Since 2009, they have counted 18 unsolved shootings in the desert outside of Phoenix.
But let’s get something straight here. We are talking about donkeys, wild burros protected under the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act. In late January, two more from the Lake Pleasant herd were found dead among the desert scrub and beavertail cactus.
“We consider that a murder scene,” said the Bureau of Land Management’s Steve Bird.