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  • Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords listens to a speaker as her husband Mark Kelly hugs her March 6, 2013, in Tucson, Ariz., during a return to the site of a shooting that left her critically wounded to urge key senators to support expanded background checks for gun purchases. (Associated Press)

    Giffords urges support for background checks

    Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords returned to the scene of the horrific shooting that wounded her and killed six people two years ago, urging senators Wednesday to pass background checks for gun purchases in her first public event at the site since the rampage.


  • ** FILE ** In this Sept. 6, 2012, file photo, former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords blows a kiss after reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

    Giffords, Kelly launch gun control lobbying effort

    Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband launched a political action committee aimed at curbing gun violence on Tuesday as her Arizona hometown paused to mark the second anniversary of a deadly shooting rampage that left her with severe injuries.


  • Salmonella confirmed in peanut butter plant

    Salmonella has been found in a New Mexico plant that produces nut butters for retailer Trader Joe's and several other large national grocery chains, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday. The Trader Joe's peanut butter is now linked to 35 salmonella illnesses in 19 states _ most of them in children under the age of 10.


  • Animal rights goes corporate

    The president of an organization leading the fight against cramped cages for pregnant pigs said Tuesday that he is seeking a spot on Tyson Food Inc.'s board of directors to put more pressure on the nation's second-largest pork processor to abandon the crates.


  • **FILE** A customer departs grocery store Trader Joe's in Los Angeles on Feb. 11, 2008. (Associated Press)

    Peanut butter recall includes major retailers

    A recall of peanut butter and other nut products has some of the country's largest grocery stores pulling store-brand products off their shelves.


  • Giffords

    NUGENT: McNugent rule: Automatic death penalty

    What a psychotic piece of subhuman debris did on Jan. 11, 2011, outside a Tucson Safeway store where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was holding a "meet and greet" with constituents was an unfathomable act of barbarism.


  • Lincicome set to open title defense

    Defending champion Brittany Lincicome has some high praise for the Canadian Women's Open.


  • Japan's Mika Miyazato takes LPGA Tour

    Japan's Mika Miyazato shoot a 4-under 68 on Saturday to take a two-stroke lead after the second round of the LPGA Tour's Safeway Classic.


  • Pettersen in comfort zone in Safeway Classic

    Suzann Pettersen hopes to make herself right at home again in the Safeway Classic.


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