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CASA GRANDE -- A blowing dust advisory has been issued for the Casa Grande Valley and western Pinal County Saturday afternoon.
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ORACLE -- Drought will soon descend on the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 rain forest, and an international research team will be ready with an array of instruments to record what unfurls under the glass.
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CASA GRANDE -- A group of students at Mission Heights Preparatory High School have long wanted an outside flagpole to fly the American flag on campus and now, they’re on a mission to raise the money to have one installed.
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When I heard we were going to have a story on a man in Superior arrested for choking a 14-year-old boy with a phone cord because he was in his daughter’s room, I pondered if we should turn off the Facebook comments. I knew what was about to come, and it wasn’t going to be any good.
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COOLIDGE — For the third time in less than two school years, the CAVIT Governing Board is moving forward with the process to terminate a teacher.
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FLORENCE — Jesus Manuel, 21, of Coolidge was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison and the rest of his life on probation for the sexual assault of a child.
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SACATON — A public meeting is planned next week on the proposed widening of Interstate 10 between Casa Grande and Chandler.
The NCAA has this fantasy that it’s riding in on a white horse to save everyone from evil California politicians who want college athletes to be paid for the use of their name, image and likeness. In reality, NCAA President Mark Emmert rides in on a broken-down burro, emblematic of his organ…
CASA GRANDE — Just about everything was clicking for the Casa Grande Union football team on Friday night.
APACHE JUNCTION — A fiery halftime speech from Apache Junction coach Vance Miller woke his team out of a slumber, and it went on to dominate the second half in a 37-7 win over Vista Grande on Friday.
MARICOPA — Phoenix South Mountain ran wild against Maricopa on Friday, to the tune of 254 rushing yards, with 179 of them coming from K’rashee Smith in a 33-20 win.
CHANDLER (AP) — Authorities say at least seven people including a 6-month-old child needed treatment after separate bee attacks in Mesa and Chandler.
TUCSON (AP) — Testing of zero-emission electric shuttles has begun at Sabino Canyon, a population outdoor recreation site on the outskirts of Tucson.
PHOENIX — Indian Sikh immigrant Rana Singh Sodhi still preaches love and tolerance 18 years after his brother was gunned down in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by a man who mistook him for a Muslim because of his turban and beard.
PHOENIX -- The Arizona Supreme Court will decide Monday how much leeway -- if any -- business owners have to refuse to serve certain customers based on religious beliefs.
PHOENIX (AP) — The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office says detectives and members of a fugitive apprehension unit shot and wounded a suspect in Phoenix.
PHOENIX (AP) — Two off-duty Arizona highway officers have stopped a wrong-way driver travelling on a Phoenix highway.
CASA GRANDE — Compass Christian Church is hosting a health and wellness fair in October and is seeking community agencies to take part in the event.
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“The root cause of wrongdoing is ignorance, and we must therefore hold fast to the tools of perception and knowledge. Good character must be taught. Light must be spread afar, so that, in the school of humanity, all may acquire the heavenly characteristics of the spirit, and see for themselv…
ABERDEEN, S.D. — The Rev. Tom Hartman’s first call was as a father. His second was as a Catholic priest.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — At a black church known nationally for the white supremacist violence that occurred there more than a half-century ago, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Sunday declared the current era of racial tensions a defining national crucible on par with the civil righ…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — At least two Democratic presidential candidates are calling for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the face of a new, uninvestigated, allegation of sexual impropriety when he was in college.
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SANTA FE, N.M. — Donald Trump lost New Mexico by 8 percentage points in 2016. Last year, his party lost a House seat and the governor's mansion. Last week, a congressional candidate went viral by taunting the president by name in an ad.
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DES MOINES, Iowa — Pete Buttigieg would like to turn the fight for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination into a contest about generational change. But there's one looming problem: He has yet to win over his own.
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PHOENIX — Eugenio Suárez homered twice in support of Trevor Bauer, who held his former team to one run on four hits in the Cincinnati Reds' 3-1 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday.
BALTIMORE — Playing for the Ravens last season, Arizona Cardinals linebacker Terrell Suggs had an up-close view of rookie quarterback Lamar Jackson's on-the-job training.
LAS VEGAS — NASCAR's playoffs begin at Las Vegas Motor Speedway with Clint Bowyer leading all four Fords from Stewart-Haas Racing to the green flag.
SCOTTSDALE — Phoenix Rising’s home clash against Los Angeles Galaxy II came to an early end after items were thrown on the field, yet the team still clinched top seed in the Western Conference.
BALTIMORE — Lamar Jackson kept the Cardinals guessing all afternoon, supplementing an effective passing attack with more than an occasional jaunt out of the pocket.
TUCSON — Arizona scored one touchdown on a bursting run, hit some chunk plays in the passing game.
CHICAGO — Teachers in the nation's third-largest school district are inching closer to a strike that could happen as early as next month.
SALT LAKE CITY — The photo that flashed onto the courtroom screen showed a young man dead on his bedroom floor, bare feet poking from the cuffs of his rolled-up jeans. Lurking on a trash can at the edge of the picture was what prosecutors said delivered this death: an ordinary, U.S. Postal …
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A suspended New York judge has pleaded guilty to attempted burglary for trying to sneak into a neighbor's home to steal her underwear.
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DETROIT — Roughly 49,000 workers at General Motors plants in the U.S. plan to go on strike just before midnight Sunday, but talks between the United Auto Workers and the automaker will resume.
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WASHINGTON — When the Census Bureau reported an increase in the number of people without health insurance in America, it sent political partisans reaching for talking points on the Obama-era health law and its travails. But the new numbers suggest that fears of the Trump administration's imm…
PHOENIX -- The Arizona Supreme Court will decide Monday how much leeway -- if any -- business owners have to refuse to serve certain customers based on religious beliefs.
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CASA GRANDE — The Casa Grande Roller Derby team, Big House Bombers, are revving up for a new season and have a home bout scheduled in October.
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Eddie Money, who left behind a career as a New York police officer to become one of the top-selling rock stars of the 1970s and '80s, with hits like "Two Tickets to Paradise" and "Take Me Home Tonight," has died. He was 70.
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ELOY -- When one thinks of the Fiestas Patrias anywhere in the world they automatically think of mariachi music and ballet folklorico.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A weekend drone attack on Saudi Arabia that cut into global energy supplies and halved the kingdom's oil production threatened Sunday to fuel a regional crisis, a…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Courts have freed another 24 people implicated in one of the country's most notorious crimes, the disappearance of 43 students, a federal official said Sunday.
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HONG KONG — Police fired chemical-laced blue water and tear gas at protesters who lobbed Molotov cocktails outside the Hong Kong government office complex Sunday, as violence flared anew after…
At the Dust Bowl Theater on Main Street, J.W. Tidwell could watch two movies and a cartoon, eat popcorn and a candy bar and drink a soda for the dollar in his pocket. He even left with a littl…
You don’t know how big a 747 jet airplane is until you are standing on the ground next to it, looking up. It’s not the same as looking out the terminal window at an international airport. The …
For some people a car is just a way to get around. For others, it’s much more than that.
The Great Recession 10 years ago destroyed a lot of businesses, but in the dusty desert southwest of Maricopa, it helped start one.
They’re a group of military veterans who belong to the American Legion and regularly visit their local post, and they enjoy riding motorcycles together. Whatever you do, though, don’t call the…
Pinal County is more than 5,000 square miles, so it’s a difficult place to get around for people who don’t own a car.
The Saddlebrooke Cyclemasters ride their bicycles around.
The California Zephyr was a passenger train that ran between Chicago and Oakland, California, from 1949 to 1970 and was once called “the most talked about train in America.”
High-end vehicle enthusiasts in and near Maricopa who wanted a place to store their cars and their own track to drive on got their wish in March.
I don’t know why driving an automobile brings out the worst in people. They wait until the last minute to merge, cut each other off, tailgate, speed and run red lights — and those are some of …
Stella Garcia is well known around Pinal County for her upbeat personality and willingness to help people. She made friends during her years working in marketing at Central Arizona College and…
By the late 1930s in Florence, the Wild West era was thought to be over. It had been 50 years since the infamous gunfight in which former Sheriff Pete Gabriel shot and killed his former deputy…
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” — John Milton (1608-1674), English poet
Twelve-step programs have been helping people overcome addictive and compulsive behaviors since Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in the 1930s. The 12 steps aim to condition the mind for health…
Emily Sebring is used to skeptics. The holistic health care practitioner has encountered a few during the last seven years as the owner of Root 2 Route Botanicals & Natural Medicine, forme…
Physician shortages in rural parts of the United States have become increasingly alarming in recent years, with Arizona at the forefront. A 2015 report released by the American Medical Associa…
Every day thousands of people turn 65 and are therefore eligible for Medicare. For many, Medicare options can be confusing.
A relative of mine recently was in a hospital, then was moved to a care facility. My wife joined other relatives one day keeping him company and waiting for the doctor so they could ask questi…
- Pinal singer felt more at home than ever at Country Thunder
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