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It may be early in the process for 2016 campaigns, but that’s not stopping political operatives from scurrying to suppress promising potential John McCain Senate seat challengers from pressing forward. Cue critics of Arizona State Senator Kelli Ward. “Only the political elite would make listening to voter concerns a bad thing,” Ward told Breitbart News concerning attacks coming against her from political and media sources. Ward recently began an exploratory committee to challenge McCain, now seeking his sixth 6-year term, for election to the U.S. Senate.

It seemed like a headache, nothing more. But when pain killers and a trip to the emergency room didn't fix Aaron Evans, the 14-year-old asked his dad if he was going to die. "No, no," David Evans remembers saying. "We didn't know. And here I am: I come home and I'm burying him." What was bothering Aaron was an amoeba, a microscopic organism called Naegleria fowleri that attacks the body through the nasal cavity, quickly eating its way to the brain. The doctors said he probably picked it up a week before while swimming in the balmy shallows of Lake...

LAKE HAVASU, Ariz. - A Quartz Hill man died in a boating accident Saturday at Lake Havasu when the lake craft he was riding in hit another craft head-on. The accident took place shortly after 1:15 a.m. near the main channel of the lake, according to the Mohave County Sheriff's Department. While the lake, a popular resort on the northwest portion of Arizona, had had a few accidents over the weekend, the time the accident took place was odd, a department spokeswoman said. "This is not a normal boating time," spokeswoman Trish Carter said. "I have not been informed as...