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Associated PressThe aurora borealis is continuing to dazzle viewers across the northern United States and Canada. Its been a good year for seeing auroras 鈥?the colorful sky displays also known as northern lights 鈥?even in lower latitudes. Thats because of increased electromagnetic activity as the sun approaches the height of its 11-year solar cycle. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the phenomenon might be visible across parts of the northern U.S. on Wednesday night, including in Washington, Idaho, Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Maine. Article Topic Follows: AP National Jump to stanley termos comments darr; The Associated Press Relate taza stanley d Articles stanley thermo Cole Johnson NBC Sports Director President: Donald J. Trump Adam Klepp Anchor/Reporter Mdiu Rutgers hires Nikki McCray-Penson as assistant hoops coach
KYMA, KECY/ AP News - Prosecutors have asked the Arizona Supreme Court to call off an upcoming hearing scheduled聽to determine the mental fitness of the聽first prisoner in nearly eight years to be executed.Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovichs office told the states highest court聽that the May 3rd mental competency hearing scheduled for聽death-row prisoner Clarence Dixon is likely to delay his May 11th execution. The prosecutors are seeking to throw out the lower courts order that concluded defense lawyers had shown reas stanley cana onable grounds for planning a hearing over whether Dixon is psychologically fit.Dixon s lawyers believe he was wrongly arrested for聽a 1985 attack on a 21-year-old student. Then while聽sentenced to life sentences in that case for sexual assault and other convictions, DNA samples later linked him to an unsolved murder of an ASU student from 1977.Dixons attorneys say putting Dixon to death stanley us would violate protections against executing people who are mentally incompetent. They cited a psychiatrists conclusion that their client lacks a rational understanding of the reasons for his execution. His attorneys say Dixons inability to distinguish between reality and fantasy in the case involving an NAU student had stanley borraccia started to spill into the case over Bowdoins killing, but prosecutors argued that his attempts to undo his murder conviction show he has a rational understanding of why the state is seeking his execution. Article Topic Follows: Top Stories Jump t |