SONOYTA, Mex. (AP) — Residents of the town of Sonoyta, across from Lukeville, Arizona, briefly blocked the main road leading south from the U.S. border over the weekend over fears of coronavir…
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CASA GRANDE -- A three-vehicle collision with six occupants occurred Saturday afternoon at a busy Casa Grande intersection.
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SAN TAN VALLEY -- The number of coronavirus cases in the San Tan Valley/Queen Creek area topped 1,000 Saturday.
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ARIZONA CITY — Walter “Chick” McGill is an active 74-year-old besides being a natural healer, Vietnam veteran and pastor.
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FLORENCE — As the number of coronavirus cases continues to surge, Pinal County has named a new health director.
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CASA GRANDE — COVID-19 may have residents celebrating the Fourth of July a little closer to home this year, and that may mean more people buying and setting off fireworks in their yards.
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COTTONWOOD (AP) — A man has turned himself in to Cottonwood police after his wife was found dead at the couple's Black Canyon City home, authorities said Sunday.
PEORIA (AP) — A woman has died after allegedly being stabbed by her husband in a domestic violence incident in Peoria, according to police.
Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego is pointing to a “crisis” involving coronavirus testing shortages in her city due to surging cases in Arizona, which leads the U.S. in new coronavirus cases per capita.
SCOTTSDALE (AP) — A suspect is in custody in connection with several armed robberies and a shooting at a Scottsdale convenience store that killed an alleged accomplice, police said.
PHOENIX (AP) — A man is dead after an officer-involved shooting in west Phoenix, according to police.
TUCSON (AP) — Many Arizona residents have raised concerns about how long insurance providers will cover video visits and telephone calls to doctors — instead of face-to-face interactions — during the pandemic.
SEATTLE — A car drove onto a closed freeway early Saturday and struck two people in a crowd protesting against police brutality, killing one and critically injuring the other, authorities said.
PHILADELPHIA — In a nearly empty Philadelphia courtroom in July 2015, a lawyer for Bill Cosby implored a federal judge to keep the comedian’s testimony in an old sexual battery lawsuit under wraps. It was sensitive. Embarrassing. Private.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Justin Gauger can remember almost everything from the day that changed his life.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A man photographed fleeing smoke and debris as the south tower of the World Trade Center crumbled just a block away on Sept. 11, 2001, has died from coronavirus, his family said.
SEATTLE — A 27-year-old man drove a white Jaguar onto a closed freeway in Seattle early Saturday and barreled through a panicked crowd of protesters, critically injuring two women, officials said.
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An officer who was responding to a disturbance call in a store parking lot was shot and killed early Saturday morning by an intoxicated man holding a beer, police said.
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SONOYTA, Mex. (AP) — Residents of the town of Sonoyta, across from Lukeville, Arizona, briefly blocked the main road leading south from the U.S. border over the weekend over fears of coronavir…
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Sunday instituted mandatory mask-wearing as fears mount over newly spiking reported deaths from the coronavirus, even as its public increasingly shrugs off the danger of…
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TOKYO — Deep floodwaters and the risk of more mudslides that left at least 34 people confirmed or presumed dead hampered search and rescue operations Sunday in southern Japan, including at eld…
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BEIJING (AP) — A wide swath of southern China braced Sunday for more seasonal rains and flooding that state media said has already left more than 120 people dead or missing this year.
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SYDNEY (AP) — Several thousand people rallied in Black Lives Matter protests across Australia over the weekend to call for racial equality and highlight deaths of Indigenous people while in po…
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NAIROBI, Kenya — The crunch of young locusts comes with nearly every step. The worst outbreak of the voracious insects in Kenya in 70 years is far from over, and their newest generation is now…
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CASA GRANDE — There will still be fireworks on the Fourth of July, but this year celebrations will be different in most Pinal County communities.
Editor’s note: Former Dispatch sports editor Ed Petruska (1979-2016) will revisit on a periodic basis some of the most memorable events he covered. Today’s installment: Casa Grande Union defeats Flagstaff Coconino 71-63 on March 4, 1989, at the Arizona State University Activity Center to win…
MARICOPA — Facing an alarming surge of COVID-19 cases in Arizona, Maricopa football coach Brandon Harris took it upon himself to postpone summer workouts.
CASA GRANDE — When the NFL announced it had decided to cancel the Hall of Fame preseason game, that was a red flag for Randy Robbins.
PHOENIX — Arizona's new pitching addition Madison Bumgarner was having a little fun on the mound during his first summer workout on Saturday, dropping down sidearm and firing a fastball that b…
AMERICAN FORK, Utah (AP) — A former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher and three others died in a plane crash in rural Utah.
His N-95 mask squarely in place, Mike Trout stroked line drives, streaked around the bases and caught flyballs at Angel Stadium. The sport’s biggest star then let something drop — he’s not “co…
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ATLANTA — From Mississippi retiring its state flag to local governments removing Confederate statues from public spaces, a bipartisan push across the South is chipping away at reminders of the Civil War and Jim Crow segregation.
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WASHINGTON — On a day meant for unity and celebration, President Donald Trump vowed to “safeguard our values” from enemies within — leftists, looters, agitators, he said — in a Fourth of July speech packed with all the grievances and combativeness of his political rallies.
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TOPEKA, Kan. — A weekly Kansas newspaper whose publisher is a county Republican Party chairman posted a cartoon on its Facebook page likening the Democratic governor's order requiring people to wear masks in public to the roundup and murder of millions of Jews during the Holocaust.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has a vision for his second term, if he wins one, of establishing a “National Garden of American Heroes” that will pay tribute to some of the most prominent figures in U.S. history, a collection of “the greatest Americans to ever live.”
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TEMPE (AP) — Tempe’s first Black mayor, who is recovering from a mild bout of COVID-19 and self-quarantining at home, took the oath of office Thursday from his kitchen.
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MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL, S.D. (AP) — At the foot of Mount Rushmore and on the eve of Independence Day, President Donald Trump dug deeper into America's divisions by accusing protesters who have pushed for racial justice of engaging in a “merciless campaign to wipe out our history.”
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — It was not until Aug. 7, 1970, when his brother, Ken, was buried alive while sand-surfing down a Michigan dune, that Steve Klemz began to lean toward the ministry.
Psalms 33:12 How blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom He choose for his own inheritance. Let us take a moment from our busyness to reflect on what it means to us personally that this nation was established by men who believed in God and knew that everything that t…
BOSTON — America’s nightclubs are largely closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, but that isn’t stopping an interfaith coalition from launching a campaign to stop what organizers call the “disrespectful” use of sacred Buddhist and Hindu statues as decor.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli regulators on Sunday announced they ordered a U.S.-based evangelical broadcaster taken off the air, saying the channel hid its missionary agenda when it applied for a license.
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — No one knows how many skeletons are under St. Mary’s in Norfolk, or why the 162-year-old Catholic church was built right on top of a cemetery.
CASA GRANDE — A new pastor will take the helm July 1 at the United Methodist Church of Casa Grande.
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SCOTTSDALE — Jim and Bobbi Moss had been banking on what looked like a promising economic rebound, only to lose some hope and retreat into a strict limit on their discretionary spending. They now make all their meals at home, and online shopping, Bobbi Moss said, is limited to items that “su…
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PHOENIX — For the third straight day, two dozen health clubs in metro Phoenix were defying Gov. Doug Ducey’s order Thursday to close gyms, leading officials who had been criticized for acting indecisively during the pandemic to threaten to sue two club chains if they didn’t shut down.
RED ROCK — For the first time in over a decade, a Pinal County planned community will have a new home builder.
Editor’s note: Interviews for articles in this issue of Pinal Ways were conducted in early or mid-May, and reflect the state of the industry at that time.
Editor’s note: Interviews for articles in this issue of Pinal Ways were conducted in early or mid-May, and reflect the state of the industry at that time.
Editor’s note: Interviews for articles in this issue of Pinal Ways were conducted in early or mid-May, and reflect the state of the industry at that time.
Editor’s note: Interviews for articles in this issue of Pinal Ways were conducted in early or mid-May, and reflect the state of the industry at that time.
Editor’s note: Interviews for articles in this issue of Pinal Ways were conducted in early or mid-May, and reflect the state of the industry at that time.
Editor’s note: Interviews for articles in this issue of Pinal Ways were conducted in early or mid-May, and reflect the state of the industry at that time.
Editor’s note: Interviews for articles in this issue of Pinal Ways were conducted in early or mid-May, and reflect the state of the industry at that time.
Editor’s note: Interviews for articles in this issue of Pinal Ways were conducted in early or mid-May, and reflect the state of the industry at that time.
Editor’s note: Interviews for articles in this issue of Pinal Ways were conducted in early or mid-May, and reflect the state of the industry at that time.
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