CASA GRANDE — Fire investigators were on the scene Tuesday searching for the cause of a blaze Friday that destroyed a vacant warehouse in Casa Grande.
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COOLIDGE — Following a lengthy discussion that included plenty of questions from the Coolidge city council and some disagreement, the issue of refurbishing a 1992 fire truck that would serve as Coolidge Fire Department’s primary response vehicle was temporarily tabled.
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COOLIDGE — There was some good news and some bad news delivered during the Coolidge City Council preliminary budget meeting on Tuesday.
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FLORENCE — The Pinal County Historical Society Museum has received $10,000 in federal funding to support projects at risk because of lost revenue during the pandemic.
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MARICOPA — Chants rang out from a street corner in Maricopa on Monday and passing cars blared their horns in approval as peaceful demonstrators led a protest against police brutality.
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PHOENIX –Two Pinal County police departments are among nine Arizona agencies receiving nearly $400 million in federal grant funding.
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CASA GRANDE — Fire investigators were on the scene Tuesday searching for the cause of a blaze Friday that destroyed a vacant warehouse in Casa Grande.
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GLENDALE — The Arizona National Guard has called up about 900 soldiers to help the state deal with protests after Gov. Doug Ducey declared a statewide 8 p.m.-5 a.m. curfew on Sunday, Guard spokesman Maj. Aaron Thacker said.
PHOENIX (AP) — Gov. Doug Ducey has urged several Arizona mayors to aggressively confront any rioting in their communities and singled out Scottsdale as an example of how not to approach the problem due to the city’s response over the weekend to looting at an upscale mall.
PHOENIX – A cry of “I can’t breathe” in Minneapolis has reverberated thousands of miles away in Arizona, where protesters for several days have marched in sorrow and rage – peacefully for the most part, but sometimes clashing with police and looting and vandalizing several businesses in Phoe…
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona judge has rejected a plea deal for a man who used a homemade armored vehicle to block a highway bridge near the Hoover Dam in 2018.
Two men were killed and a teen badly injured when the off-road vehicle they were in crashed into a tree north of Payson Saturday afternoon.
PHOENIX (AP) — A tree trimmer has died after an incident at a Phoenix home, according to authorities.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A charity organization that supports the police department in Kentucky's capital city said it was not involved in the creation of a fundraising website under the name of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was killed by law enforcement in her home.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday turned up the pressure on governors to quell the violence set off by the death of George Floyd, demanding New York call up the National Guard to stop the “lowlifes and losers.”
LAS VEGAS — A police officer was on life support Tuesday after being shot during a protest on the Las Vegas Strip and a man who a federal official said was armed with a rifle was hit with a beanbag projectile and then fatally shot by officers protecting a federal courthouse, authorities said.
WYNNEWOOD, Okla. (AP) — A federal judge in Oklahoma has awarded ownership of the zoo made famous in Netflix's “Tiger King” docuseries to Joe Exotic's chief rival.
WASHINGTON — Wielding extraordinary federal authority, President Donald Trump threatened the nation’s governors on Monday that he would deploy the military to states if they did not stamp out violent protests over police brutality that have roiled the nation over the past week. His announcem…
LOS ANGELES — Jamie Foxx stood shoulder-to-shoulder with activists in Minneapolis, proclaiming that “we’re not afraid of the moment.” In Los Angeles, pop star Halsey and “Insecure” actor Kendrick Sampson were hit with rubber bullets during a tense stand-off. And in Chicago, John Cusack was f…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Cristobal formed in the southern Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, bringing some flooding to Mexico's southern Gulf coast and threatening more deadly inundations far…
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GAUHATI, India — Three mudslides triggered by overnight rains buried homes in northeastern India’s Assam state, killing 20 people and injuring at least seven others, authorities said Tuesday.
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When Andrés Manuel López Obrador won Mexico’s presidency after years of agitating for change, many expected a transformative leader who would take the country to the left even as much of Latin…
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PARIS — Parisians returned to the City of Light’s beloved sidewalk cafes as lockdown restrictions eased Tuesday, but health experts expressed deep concerns as several Latin American countries …
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CANCUN, Mexico — Amid a pandemic and the remnants of a tropical storm, Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador kicked off Mexico’s return to a “new normal” Monday with his first road trip…
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Standing at a lectern with a backdrop map of the world behind him reminiscent of one at the State Department, the spokesman of Iran’s Foreign Ministry made a poin…
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CASA GRANDE -- It’s been years since I’ve been to a Taco Bell restaurant, but when someone asked me recently to experiment with a few Taco Bell-style recipes that mimic some of the fast food favorites, it was a challenge I was happy to accept.
FLORENCE – Even a global pandemic can’t stop the 2020 Michelle Gallagher Softball Tournament.
FLORENCE — Like so many Arizonans, Bryn O’Rourke is not originally from the state. But she loves Arizona like home, which is one reason why she’s staying in the Grand Canyon State to play college basketball.
Once upon a time, Mike Tyson was the self-proclaimed Baddest Man on the Planet. Those days are long gone.
PHOENIX – It looks like the Phoenix Suns just might play basketball again after all.
PHOENIX – Unrest over George Floyd’s death continues to spread, prompting reaction from many, including those in the sports world. In Arizona, the only state in the country with African-Americ…
SAN FRANCISCO -- Pac-12 schools have agreed to perform COVID-19 and coronavirus antibody tests on all athletes upon their return to campuses for voluntary workouts.
PHOENIX -- Attorneys for the state and a former House speaker told a federal court Tuesday that the legislature is free to remove members for any reason at all -- including political affiliation and race -- as long as they can muster a two-thirds vote.
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WASHINGTON — A Republican senator spoke out Tuesday against President Donald Trump's use of the Bible “as a political prop” as the president warned protesters he would deploy the U.S. military to end violent protests against police brutality.
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PHILADELPHIA — Joe Biden on Tuesday blistered President Donald Trump a day after police drove back peaceful protesters near the White House so Trump could pose with a Bible before a damaged church. Biden said Trump's “narcissism has become more important than the nation that he leads.”
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WASHINGTON — Embracing the language of confrontation and war, President Donald Trump declared himself the “president of law and order” and signaled he would stake his reelection on convincing voters his forceful approach, including deploying U.S. troops to U.S. cities, was warranted in a tim…
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The bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington sharply criticized President Donald Trump for staging a visit to the historic St. John's Church across from the White House, where he held up a Bible after authorities had cleared the area of peaceful protesters.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Several Democratic governors on Monday pushed back against President Donald Trump's threat to deploy the U.S. military unless they dispatch National Guard units to “dominate the streets” in reaction to the violence that has erupted across the country.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — As an African American pastor who serves as a chaplain in the Minneapolis police precinct where the white officer charged with murdering George Floyd worked, the Rev. Charles Graham believes he is exactly where God intended.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Tens of thousands of mosques across Saudi Arabia reopened Sunday for the first time in more than two months, with worshipers ordered to follow strict guidelines to prevent the spread of the coronavirus as Islam's holiest site in Mecca remained closed to the…
NEW HOLLAND, Pa. — For the first time in weeks, kids played in the church cemetery. Nearby, a group of men in their 20s reflected on what it meant to gather again during the pandemic.
CASA GRANDE — While some area churches have canceled their Vacation Bible School events for this summer, Montlure Camp, held each year by First Presbyterian Church of Casa Grande, will be offered online.
NEW YORK — U.S. health officials removed some coronavirus reopening tips for religious organizations only hours after posting them late last week, deleting guidance that discouraged choir gatherings and the use of shared communion cups.
ATHENS, Greece — One by one, the children and adults line up for the centuries-old ritual of Holy Communion, trying to keep a proper social distance. The priest dips a spoon into the chalice of bread and wine, which the faithful believe is the body and blood of Christ, and puts it into the m…
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CASA GRANDE — For pharmacist Jose Cortez, the safety of the staff and patients at Casa Grande Pharmacy has been a top priority throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
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Target is temporarily closing 105 stores in 10 states after several were broken into during protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last week.
I f an area is lucky, a massive company will move in and bring thousands of jobs with high wages. That company’s economic impact will be immediately felt, and if it can stay in business growth…
The December groundbreaking at the Lucid Motors plant in Casa Grande officially cemented Pinal County as a hub for the budding electric vehicle manufacturing industry.
F arming is difficult, even when there is plenty of water. The historic, long-term drought that has parched Pinal County and cut farmers’ access to water here has made it even tougher.
FLORENCE — As the new Florence hospital on the north side of Anthem continues to grow into its community role, it began offering surgery early this year.
It is the dawn of a new decade, which brings any number of emotions. Some are excited about what’s to come while others dread the future. Some are flat-out terrified of the unknown. Whichever …
There is perhaps no place out there more aware of the constantly changing world than Biosphere 2. Those changes, after all, are what it’s all about.
I t’s pitch black at the bottom of a copper mine, hundreds or thousands of feet below the earth’s surface. That’s true now just as it was for the miners who worked in the Superior area a hundr…