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CASA GRANDE — Every year, a few nights before Christmas, the residents at Casa Verde Estates line their streets with 5,000 luminarias and turn on their decorated homes in the park with holiday…
MARICOPA — The biennial discussion of salaries for the Maricopa City Council and mayor was on the table at Tuesday night’s council meeting.
FLORENCE — Interim County Manager Leo Lew reported Wednesday that Pinal County has closed on a bond issue to pay its pension debt.
FLORENCE — The Pinal County Board of Supervisors made the final results of the Nov. 3 general election official with the canvass on Wednesday.
FLORENCE — Two Florence subdivisions that were shelved during the Great Recession have moved a step closer to construction.
FLORENCE — Three Florence area schools will have a police officer on campus, beginning in early 2021, thanks to a state grant, following approval of the school board.
CASA GRANDE — Every year, a few nights before Christmas, the residents at Casa Verde Estates line their streets with 5,000 luminarias and turn on their decorated homes in the park with holiday lights. Then, they open up the gates and allow the community to drive through and see the lights.
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APACHE JUNCTION — What was a great football story has now abruptly concluded its final chapter in true 2020 fashion.
MARICOPA — It all sounds like a broken record when it comes to COVID-19 and the effect it's had on high school sports.
CASA GRANDE — The Class 2A, 3A and 4A football games that will be played Friday are called “play-in” round games, but for all intents and purposes, the postseason begins now.
SAN TAN VALLEY — Kyleigh Potter was swinging the hottest bat in Pinal County before COVID-19 canceled her junior softball season earlier this year.
PHOENIX – The Arizona Interscholastic Association recommended postponing the start of winter high school sports such as basketball, wrestling and soccer to its executive board Monday, possibly pushing the start of those sports into January.
CASA GRANDE — Signing day is always an exciting day for high school athletes, and the majority of them have enjoyed the recruitment process and being wooed by different colleges.
SELLS – U.S. Border Patrol agents in Arizona apprehended a group of 29 illegal aliens, including a convicted felon¸ near the international border with Mexico Tuesday night.
PHOENIX (AP) — A 9-year-old boy has died after being struck by a car while trying to cross a busy street, police said Thursday.
PHOENIX (AP) — Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel remains hospitalized but is responding well to treatment while recovering from surgical removal of a blood clot from bleeding on her brain experienced after a Nov. 3 fall, her treating physician said Thursday.
PHOENIX (AP) —U.S. Sen.-elect Mark Kelly on Thursday got a grim briefing from advisers on the status of Arizona's COVID-19 outbreak.
PHOENIX — Arizona on Thursday reported 4,123 additional known COVID-19 cases, the most in a single day since July.
PHOENIX (AP) — The city of Phoenix has renamed two streets many consider offensive. One is because of its demeaning reference to Native American women and the other because of its glorification of the Confederacy.
TUCSON – When the dust settled on the 2020 NBA Draft, which was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Arizona Wildcats had three players selected, tying Duke and Kentucky for the mo…
PHOENIX – Would you play a round of golf with Roy Williams at Pinehurst? How about a foursome involving Ken Griffey Jr. at a Michael Jordan-owned course in Florida? Does hitting chip shots wit…
SEATTLE — There was little time for Kyler Murray and DeAndre Hopkins to enjoy the celebration after one of the great game conclusions in Arizona Cardinals history.
CASA GRANDE — Although there won’t be an electric light parade in Casa Grande this year, there will be lights, Santa and plenty to see and do.
CASA GRANDE — With a free virtual animal dance party on Monday, Nov. 23, Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona hope to introduce area young people to the fun of scouting.
ORACLE — The University of Arizona's Biosphere 2 has reopened to the public.
DETROIT, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan State Police trooper pulled a man from a burning vehicle, Michigan State Police’s First District said on Tuesday.
NEW YORK — With the coronavirus surging out of control, the nation’s top public health agency pleaded with Americans on Thursday not to travel for Thanksgiving and not to spend the holiday with people from outside their household.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California organizations encompassing both police chiefs and rank-and-file officers proposed legislation Thursday in the wake of recent civil unrest that they said would raise standards for police recruiting and training while increasing diversity.
WEST HAVEN (AP) — Two workers who died at a Connecticut Veterans Affairs hospital last week were killed by the rapid release of hot water vapor during maintenance work on the steam system, state police said Thursday.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Hollywood man was arrested Thursday for allegedly operating a drone that crashed into a Los Angeles Police Department helicopter and forced an emergency landing two months ago, the U.S. attorney's office said.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Authorities now say five homes were destroyed and 24 damaged by a wind-driven wildfire that roared through a Reno neighborhood.
PHOENIX -- A judge on Thursday removed the last legal hurdle to certifying the results of the election and handing Arizona's 11 electoral votes to Joe Biden.
FLAGSTAFF — Voting rights advocates had long argued that if Native Americans and other minority groups were mobilized, they could be decisive in a tight race.
When President Donald Trump sends lawyers to court, it seems he’s not sending his best.
WASHINGTON – A sometimes emotional Sen. Martha McSally, R-Arizona, gave her farewell address on the Senate floor Wednesday, saying that “serving and fighting for Arizona as a U.S. senator has been the opportunity of a lifetime.”
BILLINGS, Mont. — Down to its final weeks, the Trump administration is working to push through dozens of environmental rollbacks that could weaken century-old protections for migratory birds, expand Arctic drilling and hamstring future regulation of public health threats.
PHOENIX -- Gov. Doug Ducey said Wednesday he has seen no evidence of "widespread fraud or irregularity'' in the conduct of the Arizona election.
LONDON (AP) — Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip will celebrate their 73rd wedding anniversary Friday, and for the occasion the royal couple have released a photograph of themselve…
MEXICO CITY — Mexico's foreign secretary said Thursday the country no longer wants officials accused of corruption to be put on trial in the United States, a move that could scale back a tradi…
BERLIN — The U.N.’s climate chief says deadlines set by some of the world’s top polluters to end greenhouse gas emissions, along with U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s pledge to take Washington…
BERLIN — Seventy-five years ago, the dock of Courtroom 600 of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice was packed with some of the most nefarious figures of the 20th Century: Hermann Goering, Rudolf He…
PARIS — One of the passengers who wrestled and disarmed an Islamic State gunman aboard a high-speed train, foiling what could have become a mass slaughter, recounted Thursday how he had been m…
LONDON — A courtroom drama mixing celebrities, amateur sleuthing and social media kicked off in London on Thursday, where one famous soccer spouse denies leaking stories about another to the t…
Catholics split almost evenly in supporting Donald Trump or Joe Biden in the presidential election. Now they’re sharply divided over a declaration by the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that the president-elect's support for abortion rights presents the church with a “difficu…
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WARSAW, Poland — Polish bishops defended St. John Paul II on Friday against evidence that he rejected reports that ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick slept with his seminarians, seeking to salvage a papal legacy that has been badly tarnished by his inaction on clergy sexual abuse.
DETROIT — General Motors says a pending breakthrough in battery chemistry will cut the price of its electric vehicles so they equal those powered by gasoline within five years. The technology also will increase the range per charge to as much as 450 miles.
DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government's road safety agency is asking for public comment on how it should regulate safe deployment of self-driving vehicles.
PHOENIX -- Arizona's rising COVID numbers could put a dent in the state's economic recovery, a state economic analyst said.
WASHINGTON – Coconino County Supervisor Art Babbott urged senators Wednesday to pass a bill that would let limbs and trees left over from forest maintenance be burned for renewable energy.
PHOENIX (AP) — Federal regulators say they and the operator of an Arizona nuclear power plant have resolved previously reported apparent violations involving safe handling and storage of spent nuclear fuel, which is high-level radioactive waste.
PHOENIX (AP) — Apple will pay $113 million to settle the latest case alleging the the trend-setting company duped consumers by deliberately slowing down older iPhones to help extend the life of their batteries.
I ’ve always viewed the fall as the start of new beginnings. Growing up in Northern California, I loved watching tree leaves turn colors before eventually drifting down to the earth. In Centra…
CASA GRANDE -- It’s become one of the hottest Mexican food restaurants since coming to Casa Grande over a year ago.
FLORENCE -- At the Windmill Winery in Florence, the grapevines, barn and farm-like setting provide a rustic backdrop for happy brides celebrating nuptials, couples observing an anniversary or …
T he global spread of the coronavirus changed the way many companies, government institutions and other organizations do business overnight.
FLORENCE -- W illiam “Mac” McWilliams visited the Windmill Winery one day while he was looking for a house to buy in Florence. The 79-year-old former Navy diver, who had worked for oil compani…
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Just a year ago, the Future Forward Foundation had evolved beyond its previous passion for planting backyard gardens. The group and its volunteers were focused on big production on larger plot…
T here’s an anecdote behind how St. Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Monastery found it’s spot not far from the town of Florence that says much about the place that eventually became a key hub for mem…
COOLIDGE -- COVID-19 has changed a lot of things. Long-awaited events have been canceled, many are working from home and schools have put off campus reopenings.
MARICOPA -- As if there were storm clouds rising from the horizon, Jim Schoaf could see trouble coming. The reports were coming out of Asia and Europe of a highly contagious virus that was upe…