CASA GRANDE — Area residents will celebrate the miracle of Hanukkah as a 9-foot menorah is illuminated at 5 p.m. in front of Casa Grande City Hall on Sunday, Dec. 18.
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CASA GRANDE — Area residents will celebrate the miracle of Hanukkah as a 9-foot menorah is illuminated at 5 p.m. in front of Casa Grande City Hall on Sunday, Dec. 18.
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LAS VEGAS — Arizona City-based Native American performers The Band Blackbird recently performed on stage with legendary singer Wayne Newton.
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FLORENCE — A 19-year-old woman has been accused of murder after she is alleged to have caused the death of another driver while driving under the influence.
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CASA GRANDE — Plans for a new 145-room Marriott hotel along with a convention center advanced when the Casa Grande Planning and Zoning Commission approved a major site plan on Thursday evening.
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CASA GRANDE — Some early Christmas cheer was brought to Casa Grande on Thursday and Friday via the Arizona SonShine free health care clinic. The walk-in clinic was held at the roller derby hangar on North Picacho Avenue near City Hall.
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UPDATE: The power was restored on Thursday evening.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — It’s been a steady process of turning around the Poston Butte girls basketball program. After three consecutive postseason season appearances, each one gradually better than the previous, the Broncos are looking to go a step further this year.
FLORENCE – The Florence boys soccer team hasn’t had a winning soccer season lately, but that may be about to change.
CASA GRANDE — It’s been a culmination of things that turned the Maricopa volleyball team back into a playoff contender over the past two seasons.
COOLIDGE — Finding stability and consistency on the court has proved to be a tough task for the Santa Cruz Valley Dust Devils. Over the past three seasons, the Dust Devils have won a combined two games and have seen a revolving door of coaches come in and out of the program.
COOLIDGE — The Coolidge Bears may have graduated their 3A Region Player of the Year, Brooklyn Pablo, going into this season, but coach Aaron Monteverde is eager for the leveling of effort and opportunity this may create for the rest of the team in her stead.
FLORENCE – There’s renewed interest in wrestling this season, with 29 kids practicing most days after only nine in the varsity lineup last year.
PHOENIX — A new research program combining the efforts of Northern Arizona University and the University of Washington aims to create a vaccine for Valley fever, an infectious fungal disease that poses an increasing threat as the climate continues to warm and dry.
PHOENIX — A bipartisan group of legislators called on Gov. Doug Ducey to live up to his promise to call a special session to address a school spending crunch before he — and some of them — leave office at the end of the year.
PHOENIX — Appellate judges grilled an assistant attorney general over his claim that a territorial-era law banning most abortions once again makes the practice a crime despite a new law specifically permitting doctors to terminate a pregnancy through the 15th week of pregnancy.
WICKENBURG — Savannah Barteau dropped out of college to become a rancher nearly nine years ago. Now, the 26-year-old Flagstaff native runs the beef business at Date Creek Ranch outside Wickenburg with her husband.
MESA — Kelly Gleave converted his grass lawn to xeriscape in April. In June, he and his wife saw a 3,000 gallon reduction in their water use.
SAFFORD (AP) — The latest survey shows another increase in the population of the endangered Mount Graham red squirrel in the Pinaleno Mountains of southeastern Arizona, according to authorities.
AL RAYYAN, Qatar (AP) — Memphis Depay and Daley Blind scored in the first half and Denzel Dumfries added a late goal as the Netherlands eliminated the United States from the World Cup with a 3…
PHOENIX — Jalen Green sccored 30 points to jolt the Houston Rockets’ offense and even managed to slow down the scorching Devin Booker — at least a little.
LAS VEGAS — No. 12 Utah pounded a limping, bloodied Caleb Williams and roared past No. 4 Southern California 47-24 on Friday night to win the Pac-12 Championship and put USC’s College Football…
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LAS VEGAS — Arizona City-based Native American performers The Band Blackbird recently performed on stage with legendary singer Wayne Newton.
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Twitter has suspended rapper Ye after he tweeted a picture of a swastika merged with the Star of David.
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MARICOPA — This weekend, Merry Copa invites the community to experience an "evening of lights" and an "afternoon of wonder" over two days.
HOUSTON — A 33-year-old man was arrested on a murder charge in the shooting of rapper Takeoff, who police on Friday said was an “innocent bystander” when he was struck by gunfire outside a Houston bowling alley.
Infowars host Alex Jones filed for personal bankruptcy protection Friday in Texas, citing debts that include nearly $1.5 billion he has been ordered to pay to families who sued him over his conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook school massacre.
HONOLULU — When Willette Kalaokahaku Akima-Akau looks out at the lava flowing from Mauna Loa volcano and makes an offering of gin, tobacco and coins, she will be taking part in a tradition passed down from her grandfather and other Native Hawaiians as a way to honor both the natural and spir…
WASHINGTON — America’s newest nuclear stealth bomber is making its public debut after years of secret development and as part of the Pentagon’s answer to rising concerns over a future conflict with China.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron will head to Louisiana on Friday to celebrate longstanding cultural ties and to discuss energy policy.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to decide whether the Biden administration can broadly cancel student loans, keeping the program blocked for now but signaling a final answer by early summer.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday tried to allay concerns raised by French President Emmanuel Macron about a clean energy law that benefits electric vehicles and other products made in North America. But the U.S. and Europe remain divided over the landmark law.
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MIAMI (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may need some help from the state Legislature if he proceeds with a highly anticipated bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
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To help Democrats win their 51st Senate seat in a Georgia runoff election, President Joe Biden is headed north — to Massachusetts. Days before polls close on Tuesday, Biden still has no plans to visit Georgia. Instead Biden will aim to help Sen. Raphael Warnock’s reelection campaign from afar with appearances Friday at a Boston phonebank and a fundraiser. The appearances mark the culmination of the support-from-a-distance strategy Biden employed throughout the midterms. Biden is set to join a phonebank helping Warnock’s campaign before appearing at a fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which has spent millions of dollars to boost Warnock’s campaign over Republican challenger Herschel Walker.
PHOENIX — The state elections director wants prosecutors to investigate and “take appropriate enforcement actions’’ against two Cochise County supervisors who refused to certify election results by the deadline as legally required.
PHOENIX — Hand-count audits of the November election results in 12 Arizona counties found no problems with electronic ballot tabulators, but three counties didn’t conduct the post-election audits required by law.
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The Group of Seven nations and Australia have joined the European Union in agreeing to a $60-per-barrel price cap on Russian oil. It's a key step as Western sanctions aim to reorder the global oil market to prevent price spikes and starve President Vladimir Putin of funding for his war in Ukraine. The nations needed to set the discounted price that other nations will pay by Monday, when an EU embargo on Russian oil shipped by sea and a ban on insurance for those supplies take effect. The price cap aims to prevent a sudden loss of Russian oil to the world that could lead to a new surge in energy prices.
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More than 2,000 experts wrapped up a week of negotiations on plastic pollution Friday, at one of the largest global gatherings ever to address what even industry leaders in plastics say is a crisis.
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CCONCHACCOTA, Peru (AP) — From her home under the baking sun of Peru's southern Andes, Vilma Huamaní can see the small Cconchaccota lagoon, the axis of her community’s life. It has been a sour…
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine on Friday banned the activities of religious organizations “affiliated with centers of influence” in Russia and said it would examine the links between the Ukraini…
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RIO DE JANEIRO — The Amazon region has lost 10% of its native vegetation, mostly tropical rainforest, in almost four decades, an area roughly the size of Texas, a new report says.
CASA GRANDE — Area residents will celebrate the miracle of Hanukkah as a 9-foot menorah is illuminated at 5 p.m. in front of Casa Grande City Hall on Sunday, Dec. 18.
CASA GRANDE — Fundraising efforts are underway to collect money for food, medicine and medical supplies for children in orphanages in Eastern Nigeria.
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ELOY — Sit down with Eloy Mayor Micah Powell for just a few minutes and one thing becomes evident: Powell is passionate about seeing the city of Eloy, and its residents, thrive.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Austan Goolsbee, who was a top economic adviser to President Barack Obama, has been chosen as the next president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the regional Fed bank announced Thursday.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden assured Americans on Friday that the U.S. economy is chugging along in the holiday season, but the very strength of a new jobs report showed that high inflation remains a recession threat.
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WASHINGTON — The nation’s employers kept hiring briskly in November despite high inflation and a slow-growing economy — a sign of resilience in the face of the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Worries about inflation are hurting Wall Street Friday after a report showed wages for U.S. workers are accelerating, which is good news for them but could feed into even higher inflation for the nation.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate ticked down for the third week in a row and have fallen more than a half-point since hitting a 20-year high less than a month ago.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits came back down last week, hovering near levels suggesting the U.S. labor market has been largely unaffected by the Federal Reserve's aggressive interest rate hikes.
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