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BOY IN SWING-SET MISHAP The boy was taken to the hospital the backyard of their Gilbert home
DIES FROM INJURIES Monday afternoon after efforts to hanging from a nylon strap that had
revive the unconscious child were been added to the swing set.
PHOENIX — Authorities say a 4- unsuccessful. He died on Tuesday. The Arizona Republic says the boy
year-old Gilbert boy who somehow The identity of the child hasn't wasn't breathing. His mother and a
got entangled in a swing set has died been released yet. neighbor performed CPR on him.
of his injuries. The boy's mother found him in — Associated Press

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Neither the Aldridges the scalp, doctors said Tuesday Floyd Hamilton
would-be assassin shot said Riggs, who is not Monday from Florida,
nor Mayor Mark Nexsen her in the head Jan. 8,
critically wounding her,
involved in Giffords' care.
The implant is placed
where she watched her
astronaut husband, Mark
hailed the visit
were available for comment killing six people and
injuring 12 others at a
under the scalp, allowing
hair to
Kelly, rocket into space.
When Endeavour's five
has raised the funding that
ASU requested to jump
erty lines the lake just off London Bridge Road in the political event in her grow on Americans and one start campus renovations.
unincorporated Desert Hills area. hometown of Tucson, top so it Italian got off the ground The organization has
Ariz. is not vis- on Monday, Giffords raised almost half of the
Aldridge never submitted the plan for The Motorcoach The three-term
Resort to the Mohave County Board of Supervisors for i b l e . watched in private from a total $2 million it said it
Democratic congress- R i g g s would contribute to ASU’s
approval because it would be faster working with the city wheelchair on the roof of
woman has been wear- said the campus opening. The
to start the resort, Today’s News-Herald previously report- ing a helmet adorned the launch control center
piece of and remarked, "good funding, a combination of
ed. Aldridge also previously had said the annexation with an Arizona state flag. cash, service donations
GIFFORDS skull that stuff, good stuff," accord-
would further secure their access to water. Doctors said when she doctors and pledges, will be used
City staff has previously said annexing The Refuge arrived in Houston in late ing to her staff. on campus renovations.
removed likely was con- That Giffords would
could cost the city up to $4,000 a year to provide addition- January they hoped to do “We have done what we
the cranial surgery in taminated or shattered watch the shuttle launch
al fire and police services. Aldridge submitted an analysis by the bullet that pierced said we were going to do in
May. seemed improbable a lit- a very short period of
in August 2010 showing the annexation could have gener- the left side of Giffords'
Dr. Richard Riggs, tle more than four time,” Greeley said.
ated an extra $180,000 a year in tax revenue for the city. brain. That would make months ago. And some
chair of physical medi- Floyd Hamilton, a
City staff has previously said it was too costly to conduct cine and rehabilitation at the skull unfit to be reat- patients don't have this
its own analysis. tached, which is why HFHE board member, said
Cedars-Sinai Medical type of surgery until after he thought Crow’s visit was
The Lake Havasu City Council approved the annexa- Center in Los Angeles, doctors would use an they are released from
tion in October 2010. But residents collected more than implant, Riggs said. “super.”
said the surgery to place the hospital.
1,600 signatures, which required the City Council to the plastic implant is rel- Giffords' chief of staff, “It’s the culmination,
Her doctors have said really, of all the effort and
repeal the annexation, call for a special election or place atively simple. Recovery Pia Carusone, declined to she has made remarkable
is short — a day or two at comment on whether time we’ve put in on this
the issue on the ballot for the general election in progress in what will be a project,” Hamilton said. “It
November. The special election cost about $138,000. the most — and is mostly Giffords would undergo
the surgery on long recovery. validates what we’ve been
Councilman Dave McAtlin recused himself from several from the effects of anes-
thesia, he said. Wednesday. Giffords' The next step will be to doing, really, is the bottom
votes involving the annex because of his “private-sector doctors do not comment release her from the hos- line.”
"This gives her quality
employment,” Today’s News-Herald had previously of life because she won't on her condition without pital. Then she will con- You may contact the
reported. have to worry about the approval from her family. tinue speech, occupa- reporter at
You may contact the reporter at jleatherman@hava- helmet and protection Giffords returned to tional and physical thera- jleatherman@hava-
sunews.com when moving around," Houston and rehab late py at an outpatient clinic. sunews.com

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