MARICOPA — A semi tractor-trailer rolled on Interstate 10 near Riggs Road Monday, closing the westbound lanes of the freeway for three hours while the scene was cleaned up.
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KOMELIK – U.S. Border Patrol agents patrolling on the Tohono O’odham Nation near the town of Komelik arrested four people while conducting a welfare check Tuesday night.
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CASA GRANDE — On Monday Mayor Craig McFarland gave safety tips for Thanksgiving and asked residents to continue wearing masks and be safe as they enter the holidays.
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FLORENCE — Pinal County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a man in connection with the armed robbery of an 84-year-old Oracle man.
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ELOY — Due to the recent spike in positive COVID-19 cases, the city of Eloy is reminding residents that face coverings are a requirement.
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MARICOPA — A semi tractor-trailer rolled on Interstate 10 near Riggs Road Monday, closing the westbound lanes of the freeway for three hours while the scene was cleaned up.
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With three members of the Board of Supervisors leaving at year’s end, Pinal Partnership invited all five to speak at an online breakfast Friday morning. They shared memories, how they’d like to be remembered and future plans, among other topics.
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ELOY — Anyone who has attended a Santa Cruz Valley home game this season, has also witnessed an impressive pyrotechnic display courtesy of the Eloy Fire District.
SCOTTSDALE — For the second straight year, Williams was a little too big, too strong and too deep for Superior to overcome.
SAN TAN VALLEY — The 2020 Poston Butte Broncos weren’t supposed to have a season this year. No high school teams appeared likely to play as COVID-19 ran roughshod through Arizona all summer.
CASA GRANDE — Trailing 21-7 with 4:58 remaining in the second quarter, the Casa Grande Union football team was down but far from out in Friday night’s Class 4A state tournament play-in game against Lake Havasu at Al Van Hazel Stadium.
MARICOPA — There were big stakes Friday for Maricopa; if it beat Gilbert Campo Verde, it would have a shot for the 5A state playoffs. However, the game didn’t favor Maricopa as penalties and allowing big plays hurt the Rams in a 35-14 loss on senior night and homecoming.
FLORENCE — San Tan Foothill’s Justice Gutierrez caught a 48-yard touchdown pass from junior quarterback Peyton Moore in the game’s final seconds, thrilling fans. But it was Florence who was in control throughout the game in a 42-12 win.
PHOENIX -- Arizona's available hospital beds for a potential surge in COVID-19 patients are as low as they've been since July with predictions they could run soon.
PHOENIX (AP) — Health officials in Arizona are reporting 2,659 new COVID-19 cases but no additional deaths.
TEMPE — A new study shows that universities’ demographics follow national population trends. Immigrants and children of immigrants are driving the growth in postsecondary education enrollment around the country.
EL MIRAGE (AP) — An El Mirage police officer shot and wounded a man after nearly being run down during a traffic stop, according to authorities.
TUCSON -- Antonio Tavera-Reyes, a triple major at the University of Arizona, had a harrowing, yet common, Sonoran Desert experience over the summer.
TUCSON — Tucson’s Reid Park Zoo is taking the next steps in an ambitious decade-long, $80 million expansion plan.
CLEVELAND — Terry Francona's feeling more fit and a little feisty. That's welcome news for the Cleveland Indians.
TEMPE – Eight months ago, Remy Martin threw his name into the hat that is the NBA Draft, leaving Arizona State basketball without its starting point guard. Two weeks after losing the poster ch…
LAS VEGAS — Even after Jason Witten's touchdown put the Las Vegas Raiders ahead with 1:43 to play, the mood on the Kansas City Chiefs' sideline was calm and cool.
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Here’s a collection of 2020 holiday albums reviewed by The Associated Press.
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NEW YORK (AP) — “Jeopardy!” record-holder Ken Jennings will be the first in a series of interim hosts replacing Alex Trebek when the show resumes production next Monday.
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Treyarch returns to Call of Duty with Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and updates the franchise while staying true to what has made it such a massive success.
DENVER — A man was arrested on suspicion of reckless endangerment and arson after firing a flare gun into his car, which contained items soaked with gasoline outside a Denver police station, authorities said Monday.
About 1 million Americans a day packed airports and planes over the weekend even as coronavirus deaths surged across the U.S. and public health experts begged people to stay home and avoid big Thanksgiving gatherings.
WASHINGTON — More than three months after his birth, the National Zoo's new panda cub finally has a name.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Two people died and multiple others were injured in a stabbing Sunday night at a church in California where homeless people had been brought to shelter from the cold weather, police said.
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A fire engine wailed its siren up Cotton Avenue and disappeared behind the El Paso Long Term Acute Care hospital.
HARTFORD, Conn. — Jury duty notices have set Nicholas Philbrook’s home on edge with worries about him contracting the coronavirus and passing it on to his father-in-law, a cancer survivor with diabetes in his mid-70s who is at higher risk of developing serious complications from COVID-19.
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WASHINGTON — The General Services Administration ascertained Monday that President-elect Joe Biden is the “apparent winner” of the Nov. 3 election, clearing the way for the start of the transition from President Donald Trump’s administration and allowing Biden to coordinate with federal age…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden on Monday tapped Obama-era officials for top national security and economic roles, signaling a stark shift from the Trump administration's “America First” policies that disparaged international alliances and favored deregulation and tax cuts.
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LANSING, Mich. — Michigan election officials on Monday certified Democrat Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote victory in the state, another setback for President Donald Trump in his futile effort to undermine the results of the Nov. 3 election through baseless legal challenges and unsupported claims of fraud.
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PHOENIX — A judge has rejected the Arizona Republican Party’s bid to postpone the certification of election results in Maricopa County and dismissed the party’s legal challenge that sought a new audit of a sampling of ballots.
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KINGMAN — Elected leaders in the last Arizona county to certify its results from the Nov. 3 election signed off on their tally Monday, setting the stage for state leaders to formalize Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s historic win in the Grand Canyon State.
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WASHINGTON — A firearms-toting congresswoman-elect who owns a gun-themed restaurant in Rifle, Colorado, has already asked Capitol Police about carrying her weapon on Capitol grounds, her office has acknowledged. If she does so, she apparently won't be alone.
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WENCHANG, China — China launched an ambitious mission on Tuesday to bring back rocks and debris from the moon’s surface for the first time in more than 40 years — an undertaking that could boo…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Roman Catholic Church on Sunday criticized a vote in the Senate to legalize the possession, cultivation and use of small amounts of marijuana.
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GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemala’s government called fires set by protesters at Congress “terrorist acts” while the Inter-American Human Rights Commission on Sunday condemned what it called an “exce…
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MADRID (AP) — Madrid’s ancient and emblematic Rastro flea market reopened Sunday after a contentious eight-month closure because of the COVID-19 pandemic that has walloped the Spanish capital.
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BERLIN — A video went viral Sunday in Germany of a confrontation at a coronavirus protest, where a young woman compared herself to a famous Nazi resistance fighter and then was accused by a se…
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ROME — Skeletal remains of what are believed to have been a rich man and his male slave attempting to escape death from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago have been discover…
Pope Francis lauded a delegation of NBA players who met with him at the Vatican on Monday as “champions" and said he supported their work on addressing social injustice.
CASA GRANDE — Members of the Knights of Columbus Council 3136, Catholic Daughters and other volunteers distributed more than 170 turkeys and supplies to make a complete Thanksgiving dinner Saturday at St. Vincent de Paul in the Wilbert J. Soltau Plaza.
CASA GRANDE — A group of area pastors will gather in Peart Park Sunday afternoon to pray for the city and its people and to say say “thank you” to God.
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DETROIT — General Motors is switching sides in the legal fight against California's right to set its own clean-air standards, abandoning the Trump administration as the president's term nears its close.
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DETROIT — General Motors will recall about 7 million big pickup trucks and SUVs worldwide to replace potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators.
FLAGSTAFF -- Snow in the Valley? Unlikely, but Arizonans can make their way about two hours north from Phoenix to Flagstaff to get a taste of winter.
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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County announced new coronavirus-related restrictions Sunday that will prohibit in-person dining for at least three weeks as cases rise at the start of the holiday season and officials statewide begged Californians to avoid traveling or gathering in groups for Thank…
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LAS VEGAS — As the coronavirus surges to record levels in Nevada, the governor has implored residents to stay home. But Democrat Steve Sisolak has also encouraged out-of-state visitors, the lifeblood of Nevada's limping economy, to come to his state and spend money in Las Vegas.
CASA GRANDE — The mayor hosted a Path to the Trades roundtable discussion on Wednesday afternoon in hopes of fostering and retaining trades-based talent in the community.
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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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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.
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 he global spread of the coronavirus changed the way many companies, government institutions and other organizations do business overnight.
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