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Eds: APNewsNow. UPDATES with more details. TEMPE, Ariz. Arizona State University police say a graduate student fatally shot himself in a professor's office.

Residents of one Ohio city are complaining that police officers are telling them if they're fed up with crime in their neighborhoods they should move out.

Joyce C. Grossman , the deputy director for equal opportunity in Phoenix who investigated harassment allegations against the city's former chief spokesman, concluded that David J. Ramirez not only conducted himself in an inappropriate manner in the workplace but that his crude behavior "had overflowed into the public through Facebook." New evidence ...

Small-business lending has shot up since February, thanks to lower fees and higher levels of government guarantees, the head of the U.S. Small Business Administration told bankers this week.Putting capital in the hands of small businesses was the agency's No.

Air-traffic-control students at ASU Polytechnic will soon be learning to track and orchestrate the flow of airline flights in and out of airports with a satellite-based technology that replaces radar.

Emergency crews and law-enforcement officials gathered at the College of Design building at Arizona State University in response to a shooting call midday Monday, according to a dispatcher with the Phoenix Fire Department.

A new poll has found that the majority of Arizonans don't want a swine flu vaccination when it becomes readily available in the state.

Arizona State University is partnering with Allviant Corp. to bring a pilot program to the campus to alert students and staff of the availability of flu vaccines, which already are in high demand.

Former school superintendents are urging passage. The current mayor and four former mayors have given their blessings.

Political allies Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas get good performance ratings from Arizona voters.

Two Northwest Airlines pilots have told federal investigators that they were going over schedules using their laptop computers in violation of company policy while their plane overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles, the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday.

" Officials have identified the student who reportedly killed himself in front of a professor at Arizona State University's main campus late Monday morning.

A coroner says a South Carolina police officer shot and killed a 16-year-old student who stabbed him at a high school.

Instead of killing cancer cells, researchers at Arizona State University will use the laws of physics to figure out how to control them.

Arizona State University police say a graduate student fatally shot himself in a professor's office.

" A student reportedly killed himself in front of a professor at Arizona State University's main campus late Monday morning.

Arizona State University police say a graduate student fatally shot himself in a professor's office.

Goodyear's timeline for building the City Center is in flux. Council members earlier this week spent some time discussing whether building a new City Hall next year would dampen financial hopes to draw an Arizona State University campus to the city.

How do your views compare? Participate in the Arizona We Want survey online and compare your results to those of the Gallup Poll.

Noor Almaleki's lifestyle would not strike many Americans as unusual. The 20-year-old had pages on Facebook and MySpace.

Jaime Aguila is an assistant professor in the School of Letters and Sciences on the Arizona State University Polytechnic campus on Power Road in southeast Mesa.

Grady Gammage Jr., a senior research fellow at the Morrison Institute at Arizona State University, details a report from his organization saying that the state parks system needs revenues from sources other than entrance fees to keep it operating.

Thursday, October 22, 2009 In an email yesterday, Stan Karp called him a national treasure.

The world is already creating new forms of journalism. Governments can't be allowed to pick the winners and losers The sentiments behind Leonard Downie and Michael Schudson's new report on how to rebuild American journalism are fine ones.

Arizona State University's Tempe campus has regained its position as the largest in the nation with an enrollment of 55,592, the university reported Tuesday.

Arizona State University and an anti-abortion student group are being urged by judges to consider settling a battle over a campus free speech issue.

Chandler United Methodist Church will hold its annual Holiday Boutique from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov.

Stewart Nozette appears in a Web clip posted on YouTube by Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration, June 2009.

The Arizona-based magazine isn't striving for mainstream balance; it describes itself as "radical" and names Shell oil company as its "Ecoterrorist of the Season." Today's release is the second edition, but Rosebraugh is describing it as a "national launch," saying the magazine is now available at Borders and hundreds of other stores in the United ...

It's an experiment that has made back-to-school a little easier on the back: Amazon.com gave more than 200 college students its Kindle e-reading device this fall, loaded with digital versions of their textbooks.

In response to an AJC query into miraculous gains in her school's scores on state tests, Capitol View Elementary principal Arlene Snowden had a great answer: "We accept no excuses from our children." The Atlanta community shouldn't accept any excuses from Superintendent Beverly Hall, either.

It's an experiment that has made back-to-school a little easier on the back: Amazon.com gave more than 200 college students its Kindle e-reading device this fall, loaded with digital versions of their textbooks.

SOLAR LOOKS BRIGHT: Coming out of the recession, more adjustments might be coming to the economy in Arizona.

Arizona State University 's Del E. Webb School of Construction is holding its third annual Public Private Partnerships Conference on Oct.

State agencies heads say they would have to cut programs, lay off employees and reduce services in budget scenarios released Friday.

A special evening of words and music is anticipated when The Literary Southwest, the Hassayampa Institute's popular literary series at Yavapai College, presents "An Evening with the Yavapai College Creative Writing Faculty" at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct.

Officials governing Arizona's three public universities and K-12 schools around the state say any further budget cuts will have a crippling effect and warn of dire consequences.

East Valley Tribune Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News October 14, 2009 Wednesday STATE AND REGIONAL NEWS 20091014-MZ-ASU-students-working-on-Fiesta-renewal-plan-1014 649 words ASU students working on Fiesta renewal plan: Urban planning students to share ideas in December Oct.

RSC Equipment Rental, the operating company of RSC Holdings, last week launched an equipment emission tracking service that automatically calculates greenhouse gas and criteria pollutant emissions from diesel powered equipment.

CHICAGO The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University is providing the first university home for the National Center on Disability & Journalism, which provides resources for journalists covering people with disabilities.

Self-esteem of overweight women deflates when they view pictures of models of any size, while the reverse happens in case of their underweight counterparts, says a new study.

Douglas Ingram is chief administrative officer at Allergan Inc., a health care company headquartered in Irvine that develops and markets pharmaceuticals and other medical products and devices, perhaps the best known of which is Botox.

Elinor Ostrom, an Arizona State University research professor, was the founding director of ASU's Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity in 2008.

It's an experiment that has made back-to-school a little easier on the back: Amazon.com gave more than 200 college students its Kindle e-reading device this fall, loaded with digital versions of their textbooks.

Elinor Ostram, a faculty member at both Arizona State University and Indiana University, won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, which she shares jointly with Oliver E. Williams at the University of California Berkeley.

Arizona State University research suggests how much people eat may depend on the size of their dining companions.

The state faces the prospect of multibillion-dollar deficits, a dragging local economy, looming challenges in housing, transportation and education, and a gridlocked political culture at the Capitol.

Home-foreclosure activity has spilled across every geographic and socioeconomic border this year, proving that no community was too cautious, clever or well-funded to remain unscathed.

Whether your companions are overweight or skinny and how much they put on their plates can greatly influence how much you eat.

When Arizona State University declined to give President Barack Obama an honorary degree, saying it was too early in his presidency, Obama essentially agreed.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has announced the selection of David Carey, chair of Inspire Human Services Co-op in Phoenix, to receive a Community Health Leaders Award.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has a new ally in its fight to end certain types of experiments performed on animals in classes at Arizona State University: the students themselves.

Arizona State University police are warning students to be wary of an imposter who is posing as a campus safety escort.

These past two weeks I made sure that every person of faith within my reach added me to their prayer list as I faced surgery with Dr.

Gay rights will be up for discussion tonight at the Clinton School in Little Rock.

Students walk to their classes on the campus of ASU Polytechnic in Mesa. San Tan Valley and Queen Creek are seeking ways to bring higher education to their area and would welcome an ASU satellite campus.

A little more than two years ago, still smarting from one of the city's periodic budget crises, Mesa officials made a bold promise.

In what some might consider an ironic twist, on Wednesday a law making guns accessible and more portable in public went into effect the same day that restrictions on women's rights to choose to terminate an unintended pregnancy went into effect in Arizona.

Most forward-looking reports from policy think tanks or universities face a huge hurdle: selling their proposed goals and recommendations to the people.

PHOENIX a ' Arizona outspent all but one state on police protection and corrections as a percentage of overall state and local expenditures in 2007.

When Bridget and Ed Robertson lost their jobs last year, they thought they would be just fine.

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 7:57 AM Will Munsil writes for the Arizona State University newspaper, and he's dismayed that some big conservative voices have hurt the reputation of the party.