With Bill on vacation. Dan Shearer hosts the Friday Focus on end of life issues. Guests included John Fanning, Southern Arizona representative for Final Exit Network, and Stephen Drake, research analyst for Not Dead Yet. Then, the Reporters’ Roundtable with Linda Valdez, editorial writer for the Arizona Republic, and Sarah Garrecht Gassen, editorial writer for the Arizona Daily Star. Plus, Matt Russell with the Weekend Watch.... Read more»
Travis County, Texas, resident Michael Moore isn’t dead. And he doesn’t know why he has to prove it to be able to vote. He received one of about 82,000 letters asking Texas voters to prove they are not deceased.... Read more»
An affair of the heart has new meaning after researchers found men who die during sex are more likely to be cheating, an American Heart Association study says.... Read more»
Davy Jones, lead singer with 60s band The Monkees, has died at the age of 66.... Read more»
A British man whose son died from deep vein thrombosis which he attributes to playing games on his Xbox for up to 12 hours at a time is campaigning for better awareness of the issue.... Read more»
An autopsy carried out Monday did not establish what killed 27-year-old singer Amy Winehouse.... Read more»
A study on life expectancy shows “big extremes” between Arizona counties, with residents of some counties likely to live more than seven years longer than residents in others.... Read more»
A Russian woman woke up to discover she had been declared dead and was being prepared for burial — and promptly died of a heart attack brought on by the shock.... Read more»
Lance Cpl. Randy R. Braggs, 21, of Sierra Vista, died Saturday while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan, the Department of Defense said Monday.... Read more»
A former Sahuaro High School student was killed in combat in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the Department of Defense announced Friday. Sgt. 1st Class Todd Harris, 37, died in Badghis province of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with small arms fire. ... Read more»
Sgt. Martin Lugo, 24, died Thursday in Puli Alam, Afghanistan, when his unit was attacked by insurgents, the Department of Defense announced Friday morning.... Read more»
A soldier from Sierra Vista died in Afghanistan on Friday. Spc. Christian M. Adams, 26, died in Kandahar of wounds from a non-combat incident, the Pentagon said in a news release Monday.... Read more»
Four U.S. airmen, including two from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, were killed when their helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan on Wednesday.... Read more»
Universal, affordable health care may be expensive, but the world’s first comprehensive adult mortality study provides hard evidence of how well it works to preserve lives.... Read more»
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