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CASA GRANDE — Another possible use for the old Sacaton Mine is in the works.
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CASA GRANDE — A battle over ownership of the old Sacaton Mine is developing between two companies — one that wants to return the property to mining and another that wants to create hydropower.
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CASA GRANDE — A battle over ownership of the old Sacaton Mine is developing between two companies — one that wants to return the property to mining and another that wants to create hydropower.
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Last Saturday my wife and I journeyed down to Tucson to watch the University of Arizona basketball team take on Colorado in an early afternoon game.
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MARICOPA — Maricopans have been left reeling over the number of dangerous and deadly accidents this past week, including another alert from the city of Maricopa that came out early Friday morning.
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FLORENCE — Jose Antonio Lopez will serve 24 years flat time for the murder of Mia Alvarez, the 21-month-old girl he was babysitting for his fiancée in Arizona City in July 2007.
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FLORENCE — In a discussion of transportation needs, the words “state funding” don’t come up often enough, and there’s a good reason for that, attendees at a Pinal Partnership breakfast were told Friday.
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COOLIDGE — Florence coach David Silvas sat in the locker room outside of the Coolidge Roundhouse with a look of total exhaustion Friday night.
SIGNAL PEAK — Mat Olsen was magnificent in his Central Arizona College baseball debut, and Calvin Schapira was no slouch either as the defending national champion Vaqueros opened the season with a 4-0 home victory over Phoenix College on Friday.
CASA GRANDE — Casa Grande Union and Vista Grande entered Thursday night’s girls soccer game wanting to win, but for different reasons.
CASA GRANDE — A year ago, Casa Grande Union entered region play 2-5 and proceeded to finish 0-4-1 in the 4A Kino region.
SIGNAL PEAK — The top three scorers for the Central Arizona College women’s basketball team definitely made their presence known in Wednesday night’s game against Arizona Western.
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LOS ANGELES — Ewan McGregor says any delay in completing work on in his new Obi-Wan Kenobi “Star Wars” streaming series will be brief and is aimed at making it better.
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CASA GRANDE — Dice, cards and a hope for good luck set the scene for the fifth annual Bunco and Poker Night fundraiser, an event that raises money for the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Casa Grande Valley.
PAYSON (AP) — A Mesa man was killed but two others survived when their plane crashed Friday in mountains in east-central Arizona, the Gila County Sheriff's Office said.
PHOENIX (AP) — Transportation planners are spreading the word that the start of a multiyear project to rebuild a critical freeway corridor in the heart of the metro area is only about a year off.
PHOENIX (AP) — A 62-year-old man was cited in Arizona this week after trying to disguise a fake skeleton as a passenger just to use the HOV lane.
PHOENIX (AP) — Nearly 170,000 deadly fentanyl pills have been seized by a federal task force that also included members from Phoenix police and the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the federal agency says.
DENVER — Growing up in a small rural community on Colorado's plains, Ian McBeth went to work as a ranch hand in neighboring Nebraska at 14 and was a standout athlete in football, wrestling and track.
PHOENIX — A woman charged with murder in the deaths of her three young kids in Phoenix was the subject of several home visits by police and child-welfare authorities when she previously lived in Oklahoma, according to police reports.
TUCSON (AP) — Aari McDonald had nine of her 24 points in the fourth quarter and finished with 11 rebounds to help No. 18 Arizona beat No. 16 Arizona State 59-53 on Friday night.
TEMPE — When Arizona State faces the Arizona Wildcats Saturday, the basketball rivalry on its own will put an electric charge through the crowd at Desert Financial Arena.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — NFL free agent Antonio Brown was granted bail on Friday after turning himself in at a Florida jail on charges that he and his trainer attacked the driver of a moving tr…
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PHOENIX — Devin Booker has produced the kind of all-around numbers for the past few seasons that suggest he should be an NBA All-Star. He usually commands the respect of opposing defenses like…
TUCSON – The Pac-12 Conference announced its weekly award winners on Monday and Arizona freshman forward Zeke Nnaji was named Freshman of the Week for the third time this season.
NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein trundled into court this week for the start of a New York City rape trial, facing the prospect of a conviction that could put him in prison for the rest of his life.
MARLIN, Pa. (AP) — Seltzer, Pennsylvania, is undeniably having a moment this winter.
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — Richie Plass was 16 when he became his high school's mascot.
WINDOW ROCK -- Lawmakers from the country's largest American Indian reservation may have thrown a wrinkle into efforts aimed at establishing a permanent buffer around Chaco Culture National Historical Park, as New Mexico’s congressional delegation, environmentalists and other tribes try to k…
WASHINGTON — E-commerce has unleashed an increasing torrent of fake merchandise upon the world and private companies and the U.S. government must do more to address the problem, Trump administration officials said Friday as they released a plan aimed at cracking down on counterfeit goods.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon disclosed on Friday that 34 U.S. service members suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iran’s missile strike this month on an Iraqi air base, and although half have returned to work, the casualty total belies President Donald Trump’s initial claim that no Americans w…
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's lawyers opened their impeachment trial defense in a rare Saturday session by accusing Democrats of striving to overturn the results of the 2016 election, saying the Democrats' investigations into his dealings with Ukraine were not a fact-finding mission …
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WASHINGTON — As tensions between Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren rose earlier this month, Sanders found himself with an unusual ally: President Donald Trump.
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WASHINGTON — A blueprint the White House is rolling out to resolve the decades-long conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is as much about politics as it is about peace.
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NEW YORK — President Donald Trump can be heard in a taped 2018 conversation saying he wants to get rid of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, whose removal a year later emerged as an issue in Trump's impeachment. The president was talking with a small group that included Lev Parnas, an associate…
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WASHINGTON — House Democrats warned as they closed their arguments Friday in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial that the president will persist in abusing his power and endanger American democracy unless Congress intervenes to remove him before the 2020 election.
PHOENIX — Gov. Doug Ducey on Friday blamed “the media’’ for spreading what he says is false information about funding for education.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Saturday urged Iraqi President Barham Saleh to guarantee the safety of Christians and ensure they have a future place in the war-battered country.
CASA GRANDE — The First Presbyterian Church mission team plans a spaghetti dinner fundraiser from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Friday.
ARIZONA CITY — Central Lutheran Church in Arizona City celebrates its 30th anniversary on Sunday with a special event beginning at 2 p.m. in the church sanctuary, 12921 S. Sunland Gin Road.
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Christ overcame the world by his obedience to the one who sent him. He was born in a family; however, he was peculiar in his nature and actions. His goal in life was not of this world, but he came to complete the works of the Father who sent him.
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Hoisting a large leather Bible above her head, Bolivia’s new interim president delivered an emphatic message hours after Evo Morales fled under pressure, the end of a nearly 14-year presidency that celebrated the country’s indigenous religious beliefs like never before.
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CLEARWATER, Minn. — Cattle perked up and started to moo as Matt Maier fired up his tractor to bring over a fresh roll of baleage for his herd.
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LOS ANGELES — The company that controls the dot-org universe is trying to sell the online registry to an investment firm for more than $1 billion, drawing opposition from activists who protested Friday and others who fear costs would soar if a for-profit company is in charge of registering t…
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — On this court, the butler keeps score.
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BEIJING — The virus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan, already on lockdown, banned most vehicle use downtown and Hong Kong said it would close schools for two weeks as authorities scrambled Saturday t…
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BEIJING (AP) — A new virus that started in China and is popping up around Asia hung over the first day of the Year of the Rat in much of the region.
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CANBERRA, Australia — The bodies of three U.S. flying firefighters and the cockpit voice recorder from the water bomber in which they died battling Australia’s unprecedented wildfire crisis we…
During the holiday season, we are all bombarded with million-dollar marketing campaigns pushing the bulk distribution of the hottest gifts. That’s what it takes for major corporation to grow t…
W hile the lifespan of a business can see many different people and directions, the same can be said for a building.
CASA GRANDE — Life has a way of throwing curveballs. In the late 1970s, Janie Garza Brown was looking for work and found a job at an insurance shop. She had no idea that one day she would be r…
E ven in his young adulthood, Bob Brutinel had no idea he was going to be a plumber, or that he was going to live in Casa Grande. Yet now his name, and indeed his face, have become synonymous …
COOLIDGE — On a Friday in early November, the normally workmanlike atmosphere at The Tire Factory in Coolidge was noticeably different. There was a party going on.
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