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ELOY — Officer Adam Edmonds walks around a residence, checking to see if it’s been burglarized.
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ELOY — Officer Adam Edmonds walks around a residence, checking to see if it’s been burglarized.
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Debbie Miller, pastor of Estrella Community Church in Eloy, recalls the struggles she went through as a woman on her path to leading a congregation.
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ORO VALLEY — Democrat Ralph Atchue did not refrain from taking some jabs at his political opponents Friday night during a debate that covered taxes, education and water.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — A family-owned movie screen manufacturing company is relocating to Pinal County.
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FLORENCE — Court records show the driver and passenger of an SUV involved in a deadly head-on crash that left them, two Eloy residents and four Guatemalan men dead, had been previously convicted of immigrant smuggling charges.
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FLORENCE — A change in constable positions will save county taxpayers money, records show.
THATCHER — It was a rough road trip for Santa Cruz Valley on Friday night as the Dust Devils fell 48-6 to undefeated Thatcher in their final game before kicking off regional play.
APACHE JUNCTION — An unsuccessful fourth-quarter two-point conversion attempt left the Apache Junction Prospectors trailing by a point. In the game’s final 10 1/2 minutes against Phoenix Shadow Mountain, the Prospectors couldn’t make it up, and the Matadors enjoyed a 14-13 win on Friday night.
CASA GRANDE — Vista Grande matched Combs touchdown for touchdown on Friday night. Unfortunately for the Spartans, they lost in gut-wrenching fashion for the third consecutive week.
FLAGSTAFF (AP) — Four Native Americans who claimed they were sexually abused while enrolled in a now-defunct Mormon church foster program decades ago filed paperwork to dismiss their cases after reaching financial settlements, a lawyer said.
TUCSON — Nogales Border Patrol agents arrested at the Interstate 19 immigration checkpoint two legally admitted permanent residents who attempted to smuggle five illegal immigrants in their semi-truck sleeper cab during separate incidents this past week.
WASHINGTON – The president of the National Association of Immigration Judges criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday for what she called unrealistic standards his Justice Department has set for immigration courts.
PHOENIX — It ultimately may not matter if Arizonans vote in November to require utilities to generate more of their electricity from renewable sources.
HOLBROOK (AP) — Authorities say lab tests have not shed any light on what led to the deaths of two dozen cows in the Heber and Overgaard area.
WASHINGTON – Sarah Herve’s plan for the dozen volunteers she oversees every season at the Petrified Forest National Park is simple.
VILNIUS, Lithuania — Tens of thousands of Lithuanians lined the narrow streets of the Old Town of Vilnius and cheered Saturday as Pope Francis' popemobile passed by, an exuberant greeting that must have been welcome to a pope battered by new revelations in the Catholic Church's long-running …
CASA GRANDE — Concert pianist Jim Sorensen will perform during a special worship service that celebrates music and favorite hymns on Sunday, Sept. 30, at First Presbyterian Church of Casa Grande.
CASA GRANDE — 2 Corinthians 2:12-17; 3:14: “But thanks be to God, who in the Messiah constantly leads us in a triumphal procession and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of what it means to know him.”
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CASA GRANDE — Brian Kellar, the new CEO of Banner Casa Grande Medical Center, says he’s in the “people business,” not the health care business.
DALLAS — America's rediscovered prowess in oil production is shaking up old notions about the impact of higher crude prices on the U.S. economy.
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MARICOPA — Although she looks small on the outside, Alexis Ball is actually a CrossFit powerhouse who dominated a recent Arizona fitness competition.
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MARICOPA — The Maricopa Music Festival has selected the Maricopa Veterans Care Center Project and the Maricopa Zonta Chapter as the beneficiaries of its upcoming 2019 event.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Militants disguised as soldiers opened fire on an annual Iranian military parade in the country’s oil-rich southwest, killing at least 25 people and wounding over 60 in the…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — With rising unilateralism challenging its very existence, the United Nations convenes its annual meeting of world leaders Monday and will try once more to tackle problems…
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — It was a stunning discovery. As rescue divers probed a capsized Tanzanian ferry two days after the disaster and the death toll soared past 200, a man was found in an air …
CASA GRANDE -- Omar, a little blonde dog, has a job.
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Chloe Buchanan of Casa Grande is becoming a leader in the area of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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