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Explorer Francisco VA squez de Coronado didn't have to obey the highway speed limit, make hotel reservations or fuss with other such travel details when he rode the route that now bears his name.

It turns out that strip-searching a 13-year-old girl suspected of bringing ibuprofen to school is unreasonable.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision to declare a strip-search of an Arizona student unconstitutional also "announces the safest place to secrete contraband at school," says Justice Clarence Thomas.

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The BLM will host nine open house meetings in upcoming weeks in New Mexico and Arizona along the corridor being studied for the power line.

By Rebecca LaFlure Killeen Daily Herald Savana Redding, a 13-year-old honor roll student from Safford, Ariz., was strip-searched by school officials in 2003 after a peer accused her of hiding prescription-strength ibuprofen pills - the equivalent of two Advils.

The Supreme Court struggled Tuesday to find the right balance between student privacy and public school safety in the case of an Arizona middle school girl who was strip-searched on suspicion of having an ibuprofen pill.

The US supreme court today will hear a suit brought by the mother of a 13-year-old girl who was strip searched at school for drugs.

As the Supreme Court weighs arguments in the case of an Arizona girl strip-searched by school officials looking for drugs, some Long Island educators said that although the practice is unheard of here, they will be watching how the court balances students' privacy with districts' responsibility to protect students and staff.

The United States Supreme Court spent an hour on Tuesday debating what middle school students are apt to put in their underwear and what should be done about it.

Even some U.S. Supreme Court liberals expressed concern on Tuesday about preventing all strip searches of students for drugs as they heard arguments in a case pitting the authority of school officials against a 13-year-old girl's privacy rights.

Thirteen-year-old Savana Redding, an eighth-grade honor student in Safford, Ariz., was strip-searched when a classmate who was found carrying ibuprofen pills tried to blame Savana as the source.

Reporting from Safford, Ariz. -- When Savana Redding, now 19, talks of what happened to her in eighth grade, it is clear that the painful memories linger.

By Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY SAFFORD, Ariz. - Eighth-grader Savana Redding was scared and confused when an assistant principal searching for drugs ordered her out of math class, searched her backpack and then instructed an administrative aide and school nurse to conduct a strip search.

Savana Redding, now 19, was strip-searched as an eighth-grader at Safford Middle School in Arizona on suspicions she might have ibuprofen.

At approximately 6:45 PM, Safford units were dispatched to the Best Western on 14th Avenue and Thatcher Boulevard in reference to a motor vehicle accident that had occurred minutes before. Safford Police arrived on the scene to find a Red 4-door Ford pickup truck and a red GMC Jimmy, and they requested assistance from the Safford Fire Department to extricate the victims. Minutes later, SPD officers requested two medical helicopters and further assistance from Pima Fire/Rescue and Thatcher Fire. A third medical helicopter was put on stand-by in Willcox. Thatcher Police officers responded to the intersections of 14th Avenue/Thatcher Boulevard and 8th Street/14th Avenue to direct traffic. They were assisted by Arizona DPS and Pima Police. No names have yet been released and it is suspected that this accident has caused one fatality.

IT is a Friday morning in March and Bill Civish is examining the menu at El Coronado, a lunch counter in downtown Safford, Arizona.

Adam Liptak of the Times reports on School Officials Gone Wild: SAFFORD, Ariz. - Savana Redding still re members the clothes she had on - black stretch pants with butterfly patches and a pink T-shirt - the day school officials here forced her to strip six years ago.

Hundreds of miners being laid off by Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold may avoid losing their homes under a company decision.

Some people are finding it impossible to keep their horses as the economy worsens, leaving owners scrambling to sell or find shelters for their animals.