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Amanda Shelley

First lady Michelle Obama and guests listen as President Barack Obama gives State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday Jan. 28, 2014. Front row, from left are, Sabrina Simone Jenkins, Craig, Remsburg, Sgt. 1st Class Cory Remsburg, first lady Michelle Obama, Misty DeMars and Jill Biden. Second row, from left are, Jeff Bauman, Carlos Arredondo, Amanda Shelly, Nick Chute and John Soranno. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Jan 29, 2014

Five Arizonans among 24 people sitting with first lady for State of the Union

When she got a call Friday inviting her to come to the White House and meet with first lady Michelle Obama, Gilbert resident Amanda Shelley “thought I was being pranked by my friends.”

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., has agreed to let hearings proceed on five of the six people nominated to vacant federal judgeships in Arizona. The state’s senior senator, John McCain, right, had agreed last fall to allow the hearings. (Cronkite News Service photo by Connor Radnovich)
Jan 29, 2014

GOP lawmakers dislike the ‘how’ as much as the ‘what’ of Obama speech

Republicans in Arizona’s congressional delegation quickly attacked President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address not just for what the president wants to do but how he vowed to do it.

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