CASA GRANDE — Bernice Whitaker celebrated her 99th birthday on Jan. 16 surrounded by her friends and the staff at the Copper Sky Assisted Living facility.
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CASA GRANDE — Bernice Whitaker celebrated her 99th birthday on Jan. 16 surrounded by her friends and the staff at the Copper Sky Assisted Living facility.
CASA GRANDE — It took a pandemic for Casa Grande residents to shop more locally rather than in the Valley.
SIGNAL PEAK — Evelyn Casuga and Jerry Walker were sworn in as the newest members of the Central Arizona College Governing Board on Tuesday. Casuga was immediately elected to become vice president and David Odiorne president, taking over from board member Dan Miller.
PHOENIX — As Arizona remains the worst state in the nation for the rate of new COVID-19 cases, a public health expert warned Wednesday that more people in the state need to get tested.
COOLIDGE — A high-speed chase in Coolidge ended abruptly when the driver fleeing police hit a stop sign.
CASA GRANDE — A Casa Grande man is facing charges after he allegedly was found sitting in a stolen vehicle.
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ELOY — Santa Cruz Valley wrestling coach Ray Belloc understands the challenges and how much can go wrong when it comes to COVID-19.
MARICOPA — The Rams girls basketball team has been practicing since September to get rid of the sour taste left by last year's losing season, and they couldn’t wait to get back on the hardwood.
COOLIDGE — Every team is under different circumstances heading into the girls basketball season in the days of COVID-19. At Coolidge, worry over the virus has led to a massive drop in turnout, with only eight players available as the season begins.
COOLIDGE — Everything was lining into place. The coach who led Coolidge to the top of Arizona high school basketball had returned. The star player who missed his entire junior season due to injury had returned. Even kids who grew up in Coolidge but chose another school had changed their mind…
SIGNAL PEAK — There is no benefit to having a “what-if” mentality.
FLORENCE — With eight seniors on the team, most of whom know coach David Silvas and each other quite well, the Florence boys basketball team is looking for another banner year.
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A federal judge in Tucson has sentenced a former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer from Nogales to 2.5 years in prison on a bribery conviction.
PHOENIX (AP) — A suspect in a homicide case from last year in Phoenix has been arrested, according to police.
TUCSON (AP) — The Arizona Game and Fish Department is offering a $1,500 reward for information leading to an arrest in the unlawful killing of a javelina in Tucson.
PHOENIX — Facing a contempt vote in the Senate and a possible adverse court ruling, Maricopa County supervisors agreed Wednesday to give lawmakers pretty much everything they are demanding in election materials and access to voting equipment.
PHOENIX — A former Arizona politician must report to prison Thursday to begin serving the first of three sentences for running an illegal adoption scheme that paid pregnant women from the Marshall Islands to come to the U.S. to give up their babies.
TUCSON (AP) — Pima County authorities report that one person was injured in a Tucson-area incident in which deputies were “involved in a shooting" but that no deputies were injured.
LAS VEGAS — Shea Theodore scored two goals, Marc-Andre Fleury made 21 saves and the Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Arizona Coyotes 5-2 on Wednesday night.
HOUSTON — Deandre Ayton had season highs with 26 points and 17 rebounds and the Phoenix Suns beat the Houston Rockets 109-103 on Wednesday night to end a two-game skid.
Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott is stepping down at the end of June, ending an 11-year tenure in which the conference landed a transformational billion dollar television deal but struggled to …
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A full-throated, supremely confident Lady Gaga belted out the national anthem Wednesday in a very Gaga way — with flamboyance, fashion and passion.
Doug Liman’s “Locked Down,” one of the first and most ambitious films to be conceived and shot during the pandemic, is, like our own quarantine experiences, erratic, a little absurd and sporadically delightful.
WASHINGTON — Three new senators were sworn into office Wednesday after President Joe Biden’s inauguration, securing the majority for Democrats in the Senate and across a unified government to tackle the new president’s agenda at a time of unprecedented national challenges.
SEATTLE (AP) — Researchers say the population of gray whales off the West Coast of the United States has fallen by nearly one-quarter since 2016, resembling a similar die-off two decades ago.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — His presidency over, Donald Trump bid farewell to Washington on Wednesday but also hinted at a comeback despite a legacy of chaos, tumult and bitter division in the country he led for four years. “Goodbye. We love you. We will be back in some form,” Trump told support…
SALT LAKE CITY — President Joe Biden said Wednesday he plans to review the Trump administration's downsizing of two sprawling national monuments in the American Southwest, including one on lands considered sacred to Native Americans who joined environmental groups in suing when the boundarie…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A pair of endangered Mexican gray wolves and their seven pups have been sent from a zoo in New Mexico's largest city to Mexico as part of conservation efforts in that country.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Months-old embers from a deadly California fire were blown back to life Tuesday by powerful winds that raked the state and prompted safety blackouts to tens of thousands of people.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that “democracy has prevailed” and summoning American resilience and unity to confront the deeply divided nation's historic confluence of crises.
PHOENIX -- A plan by a Peoria lawmaker to curb what he says is an opportunity for election fraud could end up throwing roadblocks in the path of some who want to cast a ballot.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — His presidency over, Donald Trump bid farewell to Washington on Wednesday but also hinted at a comeback despite a legacy of chaos, tumult and bitter division in the country he led for four years. “Goodbye. We love you. We will be back in some form,” Trump told support…
PHOENIX — Arizona lawmakers are considering legislation to quadruple the size of a program that allows people to use tax money for private school tuition for foster children and students with disabilities.
SAN DIEGO — For the opening salvo of his presidency, few expected Joe Biden to be so far reaching on immigration.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump pardoned former chief strategist Steve Bannon in the final hours of his White House term as part of a flurry of clemency action that benefited more than 140 people, including rap performers, ex-members of Congress and other allies of him and his family.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — New testimony by a cooperating witness directly implicates Mexico's army in the disappearance of 43 college students in a 2014 incident that continues to haunt the country, …
LONDON — A lawyer for the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper said Wednesday that the Duchess of Sussex had no reasonable expectation of privacy for a letter she sent to her estranged father…
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Thefts of oxygen mounted as Mexico reported its highest daily death toll since the coronavirus pandemic began, with 1,584 deaths confirmed Tuesday. There was also a near-rec…
CARACAS, Venezuela — The Trump administration issued a parting shot at Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday, announcing a sweeping round of stiff financial sanctions that target a ne…
EL FLORIDO, Guatemala (AP) — A once large caravan of Honduran migrants that pushed its way into Guatemala last week had dissipated by Tuesday in the face of Guatemalan security forces. Small g…
GENEVA (AP) — A panel of experts commissioned by the World Health Organization has criticized China and other countries for not moving to stem the initial outbreak of the coronavirus earlier a…
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took their oaths of office on Wednesday using Bibles that are laden with personal meaning, writing new chapters in a long-running American tradition — and one that appears nowhere in the law.
TUCSON -- A federal lawsuit accuses the Tucson Diocese and Los Angeles Diocese of violating Arizona’s racketeering laws by burying allegations that some priests sexually abused children and moving those priests from parish to parish instead of turning them over to law enforcement.
RANDOLPH — Almost 80 years ago, the congregation of St. Paul moved to a new site in Randolph following a church fire in Coolidge. On the afternoon of Jan. 7, St. Paul Church of God in Christ suffered the same fate of its predecessor.
CASA GRANDE — Mimi’s Cafe unexpectedly closed its doors for good over the weekend.
PHOENIX — The Republican-controlled Arizona Legislature is moving to strip the state utility regulation commission of the power to require electric utilities to get a certain percentage of their power from renewable sources.
COOLIDGE — At the end of last month, the Coolidge Chamber of Commerce was awarded a grant in order to help small businesses in the area.
SILVER SPRING, Md. — General Motors is teaming up with Microsoft to accelerate its rollout of electric, self-driving cars.
AppHarvest — an indoor farming company backed by Martha Stewart — thinks the agriculture sector is ripe for disruption. And now, its tomatoes are ripe for eating.
COOLIDGE — Nikola Motor Company’s first hiring event in downtown Coolidge drew more than 100 prospective employees on Saturday.