Where are college grads going?

Arizona universities will graduate thousands of students this month and for many of them it’s time to make the big “what’s next?” decision. A 2013 University of Arizona Career Services survey found about half of the UA grads were headed to work; 16 percent planned to continue on to graduate school and 9 percent were…

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A drunk crime, not a hate crime

In the past month, the Tempe Police Department has answered at least six reports of residents tossing bottles, eggs, cans and other objects off the balconies of high-rise housing complexes near Arizona State University — a situation mirroring the recent spat of University of Arizona students dropping beer bottles off their balconies at a new high-rise…

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Haunted Arizona Hotels to visit on Halloween

  With Halloween this weekend and Día de los Meurtos next week, folks who are into the paranormal or just fans of ghost stories might be checking in to Tucson’s Hotel Congress. They say it’s haunted. Ditto for Flagstaff’s Hotel Weatherford. Hotel lore has it that a woman committed suicide the night before her wedding…

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Is Bollywood the new Zumba?

Bollywood dancing —fists pumping in the air, crazy mad core gyrations and furious cardio bursts — is quickly becoming the new Zumba for exercise enthusiasts, spreading much like the Latin American dance that sparked one of the biggest exercise crazes of the last decade. “Bollywood teaches simple and fun dance steps that everyone can catch on…

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