PHOENIX — Donald Trump supporters hired by Arizona Senate Republicans to review the 2020 vote count are preparing to deliver their findings on Friday, the climax of a bizarre quest to find evi…
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PHOENIX -- A state lawmaker representing part of Pinal County has called on the state to decertify the 2020 election ahead of the release of an 'audit' of Maricopa County votes.
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MARICOPA — Gaze into the colorful lights on the screen and in a few seconds Spot will determine if a student's eyes pass or need to be re-screened.
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SUPERIOR – While motorists who routinely travel between Superior and the Globe-Miami area may not know what’s involved with maintaining and repairing the only highway between the communities, they’ve come to know even small projects can mean big travel delays.
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MARICOPA — The city of Maricopa is moving forward with funding to improve the connection with Casa Grande via Val Vista Road, which could provide residents with an easier alternative to State Route 347 when needed.
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APACHE JUNCTION -- Drivers will need to use alternate routes at times this weekend (Sept. 25-26) when sections of US 60 (Superstition Freeway) are closed east of the Loop 202 interchange in the Mesa and Apache Junction area, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation.
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FLORENCE — The town will receive $1 million from the state to replace the bridge over a canal on East Butte Avenue.
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APACHE JUNCTION — The Apache Junction Prospectors opened up last season with a 25-point loss to the eventual 4A champions, Gilbert Mesquite. In the 356 days between then and Thursday night’s rematch, it feels as if the right storm of events has occurred for the Prospectors to come out on top…
CASA GRANDE – If all cylinders are firing efficiently on offense for both teams, Friday night’s football game between Casa Grande Union and Chandler Seton Catholic at Al Van Hazel Stadium has the potential of being a high-scoring affair.
CASA GRANDE — Vista Grande received a heavy blow during last week’s 34-0 loss to Waddell Canyon View, senior running back Arnold Castro hobbled his way over the sideline early in the first quarter.
CASA GRANDE — Casa Grande Union entered Tuesday’s match riding a six-game win streak after dropping its season opener to Vail Cienega last month.
Phoenix — Coolidge was hoping to have a bounce back game against non-region opponent Phoenix Christian. Backed by a stellar run game, the Bears got the win they were looking for in blowout fashion, taking out the Cougars 49-13 Friday.
SAN TAN VALLEY - Before the Poston Butte Broncos charged the field on Friday night, head coach Dain Thompson told his guys to “make a statement.” But it was Oro Valley Canyon Del Oro who made the statement early by putting the Broncos in a 14-point hole deficit.
TEMPE (AP) — A former Tempe police detective has died after contracting West Nile virus, authorities said Thursday.
PHOENIX (AP) — An ongoing nursing shortage in Arizona will likely keep non-COVID-19 patients from quickly getting transferred to more equipped hospitals.
PAGE (AP) — A single-engine plane has crashed in far northern Arizona, killing the pilot and injuring the lone passenger, authorities said Thursday.
MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) — The father of a man charged with killing four people in Minnesota and hiding their bodies in an SUV abandoned in Wisconsin is accused of helping his son after the slayings.
WASHINGTON – A planned hunt of bison on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon this week appears to be moving forward, despite last-minute pleas by lawmakers in Colorado to move the animals there instead.
PHOENIX — Thunderstorm activity is forecast to increase in the drought-plagued Southwest this week, but forecasters say that may not necessarily be good news.
PHOENIX (AP) — With a little over a week left in the season and his team tied for the worst record in the major leagues at 48-104, Arizona manager Torey Lovullo was given a one-year contract e…
PHOENIX — Carson Kelly hit a tying three-run homer in a five-run seventh inning, Daulton Varsho followed with a go-ahead double and the last-place Arizona Diamondbacks beat the NL East-leading…
TEMPE — Arizona State's offense has had a problem with moving backward. The issue for Colorado is its offense isn't moving much at all.
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An emergency dispatch center doesn’t exactly sound like the most visually exciting place to set an entire film. But the technical limitation of being imprisoned in a soulless office while high stakes action takes place off screen can be an inspired storytelling gimmick in the right hands, as…
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ARIZONA CITY — Organizers are accepting applications from vendors, artists and crafters who wish to take part in a craft show to be held in November at First Baptist Church of Arizona City, 13955 S. Sunland Gin Road.
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CASA GRANDE — Pinal County residents looking to stay busy and entertained won’t have to look too far this fall.
A shooter attacked a grocery store in an upscale Tennessee suburb on Thursday afternoon, killing one person and wounding 12 others before the shooter was subsequently found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at the store, authorities said.
BILLINGS, Mont. — Federal officials say the boyfriend of Gabby Petito, whose body was found at a national park in Wyoming after a cross country trip with him, has been indicted for unauthorized use of a debit card as searchers continued looking for him in Florida swampland.
NEW ORLEANS — The death toll has risen from seven to 15 among nursing home residents evacuated before Hurricane Ida to a warehouse where conditions were found too squalid for safety, the state health department said Thursday.
A former Louisiana State Police trooper has been charged with a civil rights violation for pummeling a Black motorist 18 times with a flashlight — the first criminal case to emerge from federal investigations into troopers' beatings of at least three Black men.
REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Evacuations were ordered Thursday in a Northern California community as a new wildfire spread, authorities said.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Albuquerque city officials plan to use ground-penetrating radar as they research the history of a site where dozens of Native American boarding school students are believed to have been buried more than a century ago.
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PHOENIX — Donald Trump supporters hired by Arizona Senate Republicans to review the 2020 vote count are preparing to deliver their findings on Friday, the climax of a bizarre quest to find evidence supporting the former president’s false claim that he lost because of fraud.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Pennsylvania’s attorney general sued Thursday to block a Republican-approved subpoena to state election officials in what Republicans call a “forensic investigation” of last year’s presidential election, spurred on by former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims that he…
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WASHINGTON — The White House and congressional Democrats have agreed to a framework of options to pay for their huge, emerging social and environment bill, top Democrats said Thursday. Now they face the daunting task of narrowing the menu to tax possibilities they can pass to fund President …
CASA GRANDE — The road from Chandler to Casa Grande is a notorious two-lane stretch of Interstate 10, but the road to widen that 20-mile stretch goes through the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in Congress.
PHOENIX – Advocates and government officials are praising the newly expanded Child Tax Credit, which has provided thousands of dollars to Arizona households, calling it “help when we need it the most.”
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BUDAPEST, Hungary — Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday that he is hopeful the new conservative majority on the Supreme Court created during his and President Donald Trump's administration will soon overturn abortion rights in the United States.
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UNITED NATIONS — Using apocalyptic images, three presidents and seven foreign ministers warned Thursday that a warmer world is also a more violent one.
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CIUDAD ACUÑA, Mexico — A camp where more than 14,000 migrants had waited along the Texas border just days ago was dramatically smaller Thursday, while across the river in Mexico, Haitian migra…
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Millions of people have found solace during the pandemic in cuddling a dog or cat. For a few, comfort comes in other forms — those of a horse or a pig, perhaps a possum-like sugar glider or ev…
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TODOQUE, Canary Islands — The advance of lava from a volcanic eruption in Spain’s Canary Islands has slowed significantly, raising fears Thursday that it might fan out further and wreak more d…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has extradited a former Chilean guerrilla who carried out kidnappings in Mexico.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The father of three young girls who were killed last week in New Zealand said Thursday his precious angels had been ripped away from him in a loss he would carry for …
Washington National Cathedral has chosen contemporary artist Kerry James Marshall, renowned for his wide-ranging works depicting African American life, to design new stained-glass windows with themes of racial justice that will replace a set with Confederate imagery that the landmark sanctua…
NEW YORK — Amid the Boy Scouts of America’s complex bankruptcy case, there is worsening friction between the BSA and the major religious groups that help it run thousands of scout units. At issue: the churches’ fears that an eventual settlement — while protecting the BSA from future sex-abus…
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Wednesday that masks will be required inside temples to limit the spread of COVID-19.
CASA GRANDE — After more than two decades with Sun Life Family Health Center, including 15 years as the CEO, Travis Robinette is retiring.
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CASA GRANDE -- Lucid’s Dream Edition vehicles now have an EPA range accreditation and the company is using the news as a springboard for some new customer promotions.
FLAGSTAFF (AP) — An Arizona water and power utility has announced it will partner with a developer of large-scale solar and energy store projects in building a solar plant on private land northwest of Flagstaff.
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NEW YORK — Target will hire fewer seasonal workers this year as it navigates a tight labor market, instead offering more hours and flexibility to the employees it does have.
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BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Chicago-based aerospace giant Boeing has announced plans to build a new type of drone military aircraft in Australia.
PHOENIX — The State Board of Nursing is slow in handling complaints, according to a new state report, a practice it says that could endanger public safety.
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DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford Motor Co. is investing $50 million in an upstart electric vehicle battery recycling company as the automaker moves to shore up its U.S. battery supply chain.
Last year was an unforgettable demonstration of resilience, flexibility, perseverance, and patience. We have been transformed as a community and emerge with talents and skills we never expected.
MARICOPA — Americans have heard the numbers. Thirty-three million COVID-19 cases in the United States alone, and 600,000 people dead from the virus in the last year. Those 600,000 represent gr…
MARICOPA — As students in Maricopa prepare for the new school year, many are looking forward to a return to in-person education. For some students though, the transition to online school has b…
Maricopa is a city of dreams and ambitions. That’s how it started, of course, with a group of developers staring at miles and miles of farmland and dreaming of a time when they would all be fi…
Can you imagine a high school taught at a movie theater? Or online? Due to varieties of events, our first year was taught at a movie theater (scholars loved it!); our second year was a COVID o…
When Joe Jackson finally makes his way onto a court in Japan, he will be representing Maricopa on quite the international stage.
You are riding your bike along Whimsical Drive here in beautiful Maricopa admiring the Estrellas and thinking about that slice of rhubarb pie you are going to enjoy after your exercise when yo…
MARICOPA — It’s been more than a year since the applause and cheers of crowds could be heard in The Events Center at Harrah’s Ak-Chin Casino, but with a slate of concerts on the schedule, fans…
A public health crisis is hard enough for any community to get through, but it might be a little easier if there’s a hospital in town. While all can hope that there isn’t another pandemic for …
You might have seen the phrase hung up on walls at a diner or in a well-stocked house: “Home is where the food is.” The problem in Maricopa was that the food itself didn’t have a home, a perma…
MARICOPA — More than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the closure of churches, worshipers have been returning to Maricopa area churches.
It seemed just like any night, sitting in my car and waiting for my turn in line. It could have been a drive-thru at a fast food restaurant based on the whole vibe. But finally I drove under t…
In the spring of 2020, as the pandemic was sending people home and shutting down the economy, Kooline Plumbing Heating & Air President Mohammed Nazeem received some bad news. His general m…
Kids heading back to school are not only starting out a new school year, they’re starting a “new normal” — a post-pandemic school system. Students last year were faced with obstacles most have…
MARICOPA — Workplaces around the world looked a lot different last year.
- Drought drying Carson River hits Nevada pastures, ranchers
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- Federal court rejects Idaho pollution permit for dairies
- Australia predicts record farm production despite challenges