WASHINGTON (AP) -- An estimated 10.5 million illegal immigrants were living in the United States in 2005, the federal government said in a report Friday.

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Committee talks border security
SIERRA VISTA - Three members of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee peppered a panel of local and regional law enforcement officials with questions about border security and surveillance during an open hearing on Thursday.

Governing board approves continuance hearing in Gomez termination case
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Voter identification measure and hearing purposes 'strictly politics'
PHOENIX - Federal legislation to impose national voter identification requirements is designed largely to maintain the Republican majority and not to deal with fraud, a Democratic member of the state's congressional delegation charged Thursday.

State Education computer system is exposed for attacks
PHOENIX - The computer system being run by the state Department of Education allows "sensitive information'' to be exposed "due to security weaknesses,'' the state Auditor General's Office has concluded.

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More to okra than just the South
Many cookbooks, except for southern ones, don't spend much time on okra except to note - as food maven Mark Bittman did in "How to Cook Everything" (Wiley, 1998) - "many northerners have never come to appreciate" it. Yet John Martin Taylor, author of "The New Southern Cook" (Bantam, 1995) claims that okra's flavor "is one of the best in the vegetable kingdom." And a British writer, the late Jane Grigson, waxed poetic about the vegetable.

Desert foods for diabetes featured at Farmer's Market
Desert foods can be beneficial for diabetics. At 10 a.m. on August 19, Yolanda Nora of the Douglas office of the Cochise County Health Department will demonstrate preparing and cooking with prickly pear cactus fruits (tunas) and pads (nopalitos).

Organ concert at Bisbee Presbyterian Church
On Sunday, August 13, at 2 o' clock in the afternoon, Marc Bellassai will present an organ concert at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Bisbee.

LDS Church is the second-fastest growing religion in U.S.
SALT LAKE CITY - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the second-fastest growing church in the United States, according to the 2006 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, published by the National Council of Churches.

Migrants find care at border
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