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• Snakes, mine shafts challenge crews battling Arizona wildfire

  Mon May 14, 2012
  • Open ventilation shafts are a much bigger hazard, and I have seen several of them in the Bradshaw Mountains. Literally unmarked square holes in the ground, about 3 ft by 3 ft, that drop straight down a hundred feet or more.

• Snakes, mine shafts challenge crews battling Arizona wildfire

  Mon May 14, 2012
  • I thought Texans were the Colorado wannabes. It sure seems that way during ski season.

• 18 dismembered bodies found near Guadalajara, Mexico

  Thu May 10, 2012
  • I was just there 2 weeks ago, 17 of us drove our cars to the beach in northern Mexico -- as we have been doing a few times a year for 20 years. I've never had or heard of any problems, and never met a people more friendly or helpful.

• Snakes, mine shafts challenge crews battling Arizona wildfire

  Mon May 14, 2012
  • scotti, I visit CK a couple times a year, and I'm sure the area is as beautiful as you remember. Sadly, a few years ago they lost the Saddleback Saloon to a kitchen fire, but the rest of the town hasn't changed in the 25 years I've been visiting.

• Snakes, mine shafts challenge crews battling Arizona wildfire

  Mon May 14, 2012
  • Good idea Jack, maybe she should. This is the feds' problem anyway. Arizona has no jurisdiction over a national forest.

• Snakes, mine shafts challenge crews battling Arizona wildfire

  Mon May 14, 2012
  • Aw c'mon WeldDem, do you hate Indians and Mexicans too, or just whites & African-Americans?

• Snakes, mine shafts challenge crews battling Arizona wildfire

  Mon May 14, 2012
  • That's funny, but you actually don't need a map. From Wikipedia: "Gold was first discovered in the Bradshaws in the 1863, over $2,000,000 worth being taken from just the Crown King Mine.[5] Copper and silver were also mined in the early part of the 20th century."

• Feds sue Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio, alleging racial profiling

  Thu May 10, 2012
  • You almost got it right. This sheriff thinks we have no rights at all anymore, and no laws. He needs to get out of this state and let the feds deal with him, since this above the law sheriff has terrorized so many politicians here that nobody in Arizona will stand up to him.

• Feds sue Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio, alleging racial profiling

  Thu May 10, 2012
  • Forcing someone to sit on the hood of a car here in summer time is a form of torture that most likely would result in 2nd degree burns. She was an American citizen in her own driveway.

• Snakes, mine shafts challenge crews battling Arizona wildfire

  Mon May 14, 2012
  • Only the northern 2/3 of the state, which includes the largest Ponderosa Pine forest on planet Earth.