Ron Barber will run for the seat vacated by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) this fall, not just in the upcoming special election, he told reporters Monday. Barber was a longtime aide to the ex-congresswoman, and he was shot in the Tucson massacre that killed six people and wounded 13. Giffords, who was shot in the head, resigned in January to focus on her own recovery. Read full article > >

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This post has been updated. Just over a year ago, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) sat outside a Tucson Safeway meeting with constituents. A hail of bullets ended the meeting, killing six people and greviously injuring Giffords. Read full article > >

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Gabrielle Giffords finishes ‘Congress On Your Corner’ meeting

TUCSON — Bells rang across Tucson on Sunday marking the exact time last year that the city was rocked by a deadly shooting rampage that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords gravely wounded and six people dead. The bells at 10:11 a.m., the moment of the Jan. 8, 2011, shooting, opened a day of remembrance events across Tucson for survivors of the shooting, the victims’ families and city residents. Read full article > >

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Bells toll as Tucson marks anniversary of deadly shooting rampage

Bells rang across Tucson on Sunday to mark the one-year anniversary of a deadly shooting spree that stunned this Arizona city.

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In Tucson, a Year After the Shooting of Gabrielle Giffords

In day of remembrance in Tucson.

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Giffords Marks One Year Since Shooting

TUCSON, Ariz. — It’s been a year since that bloody Tucson morning — a year of reflecting on lives shattered, of struggling with flashbacks and nightmares, of replaying the what-ifs before the deadly rampage that shocked a nation. And in the middle of it: one woman, Gabrielle Giffords, forging one of the most grueling journeys back of all. Read full article > >

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PHOENIX — Christina-Taylor Green’s mother made sure her daughter had a hoodie to keep her warm and was buckled into the car that would take her to grocery store where she going to meet Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The plan was for the 9-year-old budding student of politics to ask the congresswoman about global warming and then go get her toes done and eat lunch with the neighbor who arranged the outing. Green’s mother, who had to pick up Christina-Taylor’s brother at karate, told her daughter that she loved her, and her daughter did the same. Read full article > >

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Book by mother of girl killed in Tucson shooting reflects on daughter’s life, pain of attack

Public schools in Tucson, Arizona, face millions of dollars in penalties after a ruling that the district's Mexican-American studies program violates state law.

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A former intelligence specialist with Immigration and Customs Enforcement pleaded guilty last week to embezzling more than $50,000, the second agency employee recently convicted in an unfolding travel voucher kickback scheme that stretches from Arizona to Washington. William J. Korn, 53, of Tucson admitted in a plea agreement to a felony charge of aiding and abetting the conversion of public money for his role in the scheme. Read full article > >

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Giffords Serves Thanksgiving Meals

Ten months after a gunman shot her at point-blank range at a constituent event in Tucson, Rep. Gabrielle Gifffords (D-Ariz.) appeared on national television Monday night, sang along to the Broadway show tune “The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow” and said she wanted to get better more than she wanted to return to Congress. Read full article > >

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‘Beat up but not beaten,’ Giffords speaks in first TV interview since shooting

Update: An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated the number of people killed in the Tucson shooting. Six people died. We regret the error. Ten months after a bullet shattered her skull in a sniper attack, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords appeared smiling and joking in a preview of an interview with Diane Sawyer to air Monday night on ABC. Read full article > >

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In her new memoir, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) vows that she will return to Capitol Hill, the Associated Press reports . The memoir, “Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope,” is set for release on Nov. 15th. It was ten months ago that Giffords was shot in the head by a gunman at a constituent event in Tucson, Ariz., during a shooting that left six people dead, including a member of the congresswoman’s staff. Read full article > >

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Gabrielle Giffords pledges return to Congress, some day

Gabrielle Giffords will spend nearly two weeks in Asheville, N.C., to receive additional therapy as she continues to recover from the Jan. 8 shootings in Tucson.

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Almost 10 months after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords last spoke in public, the congresswoman will appear on television and give her first interview since the Tucson shooting. Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly will appear on the Diane Sawyer show Nov. 14 at 10 p.m. EST. The broadcast will air the night before the publication of “Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope.” Read full article > >

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