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CASA GRANDE — After recent wins in the Arizona State Fiddle Contest, the Arizona Wildflowers band is preparing for another busy season of performances.
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CASA GRANDE — After recent wins in the Arizona State Fiddle Contest, the Arizona Wildflowers band is preparing for another busy season of performances.
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PHOENIX -- Just because a silicone breast implant ruptures does not give the patient the right to sue, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
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ELOY — It takes guts to jump out of a plane. The adrenaline is pumping as you’re plummeting to the ground at around 120 miles per hour.
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FLORENCE — Christina Lopez, a former CoreCivic corrections officer who was accused of having sex with an inmate, was sentenced Friday to two years supervised probation.
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CASA GRANDE – After waiting for several years, the new groundwater model for Pinal County has been posted to the Arizona Department of Water Resources website.
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CASA GRANDE — The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office is hunting for three men in connection with a fatal shooting early Thursday morning near Casa Grande Mountain that left a man dead and a woman wounded, according to unofficial sources.
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QUEEN CREEK — In a game against a team still searching for its first win, the Coolidge Bears were expected to score early and often. It was surprising, then, when their running attack was shut down early. But the team knows the talent they have, and that if they just keep working, the produc…
TEMPE — Winning a football game is tough as it is.
ELOY — It was an uncharacteristic start for the Dust Devils as they trailed early on at the start of the game to Phoenix Arizona Lutheran Academy.
SAN TAN VALLEY — The Combs Coyotes knew this was the part of their schedule where they needed to rack up some wins, and they are doing so in dominating fashion.
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GLENDALE (AP) — Police in Glendale say a man has been fatally shot after officers responded to an illegal party in an industrial district in the city.
PHOENIX (AP) — Two decades after it was approved by Arizona voters, a law mandating an English-only education for non-native speakers may get repealed in 2020.
SURPRISE (AP) — An Arizona homeowners association says it's building a wall that would block elementary school students from a school entrance and force them to walk an extra mile.
TUCSON (AP) — Two Tucson retirement communities are the launching pad for a program to see how virtual reality technology helps senior citizens with cognition, dementia, loneliness and other issues.
TUCSON (AP) — A Jan. 14 trial has been scheduled for an Arizona man accused of showing undercover federal agents how to make explosive devices during two 2017 sting operations.
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona county prosecutor says the former owner of Seattle's now defunct Impact indoor soccer team has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting two young women he hired to babysit his children.
CASA GRANDE — CrossRoads Church will celebrate the Christmas season this year by giving away an estimated 1,500 pairs of tennis shoes to area children.
CASA GRANDE — A banquet set to take place in Casa Grande will educate and update attendees about efforts to provide accurate and high-quality Bible translations in some high-risk regions of the world.
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis urged bishops on Sunday to boldly shake up the status quo as they chart ways to better care for the Amazon and its indigenous people amid threats from forest fires, development and what he called ideological “ashes of fear.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is returning from a two-week recess on Tuesday, but some lawmakers barely left Washington.
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WASHINGTON — Amid growing chaos in Syria, President Donald Trump has ordered all U.S. troops to withdraw from the country's north to avoid a bloody conflict between Turkey and U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters that "gets worse by the hour," Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday.
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WASHINGTON — A U.S. ambassador is expected to tell Congress that his text message reassuring another envoy there was no quid pro quo in their interactions with Ukraine was based solely on what he was told by President Donald Trump.
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WASHINGTON — There were dozens of ears listening to President Donald Trump's 30-minute phone call with the leader of Ukraine that is at the center of a House impeachment inquiry , and as many eyes that saw what he said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — LSU moved up to No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll, giving the Southeastern Conference the top two teams in the country for the 29th time and putting the Tiger…
STUTTGART, Germany — Everyone counts Simone Biles' medals except Simone Biles.
TUCSON — Jacob Eason and the Washington offense had struggled for the better part of two games by the time the quarterback saw Aaron Fuller sprinting toward the front corner of the end zone. T…
DENVER — Pavel Francouz had plenty of time to think about his first NHL start, and the 29-year-old goaltender made it a memorable one.
TEMPE — Arizona State's defense limited the damage of a late shanked punt, holding Washington State to a field goal and a three-point lead.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Quarterback Justin Herbert said the No. 13 Oregon Ducks focused all week on a more balanced attack.
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A white police officer who killed a black woman inside her Texas home while responding to a neighbor's call about an open front door "didn't have time to perceive a threat" before he opened fire, an attorney for the woman's family said.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Officials in New Orleans say they are continuing to look for one person missing in the rubble of a hotel that collapsed while under construction.
Most of the women in Samuel Little's hand-drawn portraits seem to be frowning.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A surge in construction jobs continues in New Mexico thanks in large part to the oil and gas boom in the southeastern corner of the state.
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About 2,000 workers at copper producer Asarco are preparing to picket in Arizona and Texas after voting to strike.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — A young Henry Heinz got his business start in Sharpsburg, hawking horseradish to local grocers before the Civil War. By the time the United States entered World War I, he was leading a Pittsburgh-based, multimillion-dollar international company.
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CASA GRANDE — October and the Halloween season brings out the thrill-seeker in most of us and throughout Pinal County, there are plenty of opportunities for fun or a good scare.
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CASA GRANDE — From the music and the screams to the blood-splattered rooms and cast of lurking, creepy characters, every element of the FreakShow Experience is designed to deliver a spine-tingling, heart-thumping fright to all who dare walk through the door.
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ELOY — It takes guts to jump out of a plane. The adrenaline is pumping as you’re plummeting to the ground at around 120 miles per hour.
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's president warned Sunday it would be "a big mistake" to think his country won't respond to threats after a mysterious attack on one of its oil tankers. Hassan Rouhani's re…
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BERLIN — Thousands of people in Berlin protested against anti-Semitism on Sunday, days after a man attacked a synagogue in the eastern German city of Halle.
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TOKYO — Helicopters, boats and thousands of troops were deployed across Japan to rescue people stranded in flooded homes Sunday, as the death toll from a ferocious typhoon climbed to as high a…
In a sense, the people of the Ak-Chin Native American community have always been involved in gambling. Translated, Ak-Chin means “mouth of the wash” and refers to farming that relies on the de…
Miguel Sfeir remembers the first time he visited the small town of Superior. He had driven by on Highway 60 while riding his motorcycle, and a friend, Curtis Pierce, had a connection to the to…
When my wife and I go on vacation, I normally make the schedule for the week and then buy airplane tickets and rent a car.
Frank Pinkley was 19 years old in 1900 when he arrived in Arizona on a train from Missouri. He was scheduled to stay six months to recover from a mild case of tuberculosis. He never left.
Oracle was in its infancy as a mining and cattle ranching community around 1891 when it was mentioned in a medical journal. The article stated that the area north of Tucson was a great place f…
The world-famous Heard Museum in Phoenix has about 130,000 square feet of space. Then there’s the World’s Smallest Museum in Superior, which has about 130.
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