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The site would be home to a new arena and perhaps a retail mall. The apparent Glendale deal stunned Scottsdale officials, who were scheduled to meet today with Ellman about Los Arcos. "Who would have thought that Glendale would have taken a project like this from Scottsdale?" said state Sen. Scott Bundgaard, R-Glendale, who confirmed that a deal had been struck. The Glendale City Council is expected to vote this morning behind closed doors on an incentive package, but it was unclear late Tuesday what incentives were being offered.

Mayor Elaine Scruggs declined to comment Tuesday night. However, she said last week that any proposal would not require a vote of the public. Ellman said he and Wayne See COYOTES Page A2 By Craig Harris, Catherine Reagor and Shaun McKinnon The Arizona Republic Glendale and the Phoenix Coyotes have apparently reached a deal that would lure the hockey team away from a home in Scottsdale and into a new West Valley arena. Coyotes owner Steve Ell-man, who has been at odds with Scottsdale for months, reportedly negotiated all weekend with Glendale officials for an offer sweet enough to entice him into dumping his arena project at Mark WatersThe Arizona Republic the former Los Arcos Mall. Ellman is negotiating to buy approximately 220 acres Faces' mi CAT'S MEOW? Rachael Leigh Cook has the title role in Josie and the Pussycats.

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The Dutch Senate on Tuesday made the Netherlands the first country to fully legalize euthanasia. A20. TODAY'S TALKER Corri Takemoto WilliamsThe Arizona Republic RuralMetro firefighters put out an explosion-linked fire Tuesday. A Scottsdale mother and her two children apparently died in the house. The husband and father is missing.

Dallas Morning News OKLAHOMA CITY U.S. Attorney General John Ash-croft signaled Tuesday that he favors allowing survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing and victims' relatives to witness Timothy McVeigh's execution by closed-circuit television. He promised to announce a decision this week after he returns to Washington and confers with federal Bureau of Prisons officials. "I'm going to do what I can to accommodate the needs of these families," he said. He met privately here for nearly an hour with about 100 survivors and victims' families to discuss the possibility of such an unprecedented telecast.

Visiting the bombing site for the first time, Ashcroft also expressed disgust at McVeigh's recent description of the 19 children who died in the blast as "collateral damage." And Ashcroft vowed to limit the convicted bomber's platform to spread his "offensive" views in the weeks before the scheduled May 16 lethal injection at the federal death row chamber. "I am not interested in providing any additional tools to an individual who wants to disrespect this culture," he said as survivors and victims' families cheered. "There are obviously ways that we can minimize the ability of this convicted terrorist-murderer to make his points" and protect the public's "need for information." Ashcroft's visit came little more than a week before the sixth anniversary of the April 19, 1995, attack that killed 168 people and five weeks before McVeigh's scheduled execution. The attorney general toured a new museum that is part of the 3.3-acre Oklahoma City National Memorial, on the site of the bombing. Dead believed to be his family By Tom Zoellner and Judd Slivka The Arizona Republic Police were searching for a Scottsdale man after his wife and two children were believed killed in a violent explosion that ripped through the family's home Tuesday morning.

Authorities said trie father, Robert Fisher 40, is not considered a suspect in the blast, but officers were advised to approach him with caution. "We know he does have hunting rifles and guns," said Scott Reed, a police spokesman. "We don't know what to expect here." Fisher has not been seen since an explosion destroyed his ranch-style house in the 2000 block of North 74th Place at 8:42 a.m. A subsequent fire sent flames 20 feet into the air and quickly reduced the See BLAST I Page Like a hole in the head Two men pleaded guilty to practicing medicine without a license for drilling holes in a woman's skull. Some New Age followers believe the centuries-old practice promotes higher consciousness and relieves depression.

Peter Halvorson, 54, and William Lyons, 56, of Paro-wan, Utah, were placed on three years' probation, fined $500 and ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation Monday. Prosecutors learned of the operation when it was broadcast by ABC's 2020 in February 2000. Halvorson, who bored a hole in his own head 29 years ago with a power drill, said the case helped publicize the procedure. "It's personally been helpful to me," he said. Associated Press INDEX By Robbie Sherwood The Arizona Republic Arizona Rep.

Steve May will leave the Army on Saturday, not because he violated the nation's "Don't ask, don't tell" rule on homosexuality, but because he wants to. May waged a nationally publicized, two-year battle to stay in the Army until the end of his term as a reservist. In January, he won an unprecedented victory when the Army backed off its effort to oust him and allowed him to serve his final three months as a lieutenant in Phoenix. Saturday is just a formality: paperwork followed by a check-out. May actually donned his uniform for the final time during weekend drills.

"I sat there thinking, 'I'm never going to wear this uniform again, I'm not going to see my soldiers May, R-Paradise Valley, said in an exclusive interview with The Arizona Republic. "It was tough." He first put on an Army uniform Aug. 18, 1989. "I was proud to be making a commitment to give my life for my country," he said. "And I thought about the effort it took just to stay to this last day." May, 29, has become the subject of national attention, profiled by both Newsweek and 60 Minutes, and has crisscrossed the country up to three times a month on speaking engagements.

He said he has donated some honorariums to his legal defense fund and used early speeches as campaign fund-See REP. MAY I Page A2 Phil MonahanChannel 12 News Flames rise above a Scottsdale house after an explosion Tuesday. Firefighters kept the blaze from spreading to neighboring homes, although the heat was intense enough to melt some of their face shields. Youth sports score stadium-linked funding Obituaries B6 Opinions Puzzles Television E8 Weather Astrology E2 Classifieds CU Comics E6.CL26 Lottery Movie ListingsES New park sites The Tburism and Sports Authority tentatively has approved money for two youth sports projects. The South Mountain YMCA will receive $150,000 to help pay for a baseball diamond and a flag football and soccer field behind its existing facility on Central Avenue south of Baseline Road at a total cost of $830,000.

111th year No. 328 A Gannett Newspaper Copyright 2001, The Arizona Republic McDowell Rd. about whether this was all a smoke screen and whether money would in fact be spent on youth and amateur sports," authority Chairman Jim Grogan said. "Well, in fact, it will be." The projects: Avondale will receive $4.4 million toward a $6.6 million sports complex that will include at least nine soccer fields, along with baseball and Softball diamonds at McDowell Road west of 115th Avenue. By Shaun McKinnon The Arizona Republic Avondale and the South Mountain YMCA will build the first youth sports projects funded by Proposition 302, the Cardinals stadium measure that wooed voters last year with images of kids and soccer fields.

The Tourism and Sports Authority tentatively committed more than $4.5 million for the two proposals Tuesday. "There has been so much skepticism in the community -Avondale site News tips: (602) 444-2466 Circulation: (602) 444-1000 Classified: Baseline Rd. acerrtralcom Read previous articles and editorials on stadium issues at ctadlumjizcentral.com. 5 miles South I Mountain YMCA (602)444-2424 bkm Pressline: (602) 271-5656 Jo Anne IzumiThe Arizona Republic j-jg oaagij JLlJULiUiiJ 1-800-204-084G -17 at Bell Road www.midwaynissan.com 1" Jiijgsa i 40 freight, $969 Automate, $249 doc. fee, $350 marketing, tax, title license..