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ELOY — The Eloy Chamber of Commerce and PinalCentral will host a virtual political forum featuring the candidates running for three City Council seats.
SAN TAN VALLEY — David Malton is running for a seat on the Pinal County Board of Supervisors, but his eligibility for the office is an open question.
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PHOENIX — The chairman of the House Ethics Committee wants to drop further investigation into the conduct of Rep. David Cook.
ELOY — The City Council disagreed on a decision to wait a few months to decide whether compensation should be increased for future council members and the mayor.
CASA GRANDE — Casa Grande Union High School District students and parents should expect a notice about the district’s reopening plans sometime in the next few days.
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PHOENIX — One of the nation's coronavirus hot spots got a sliver a good news Wednesday when two health experts said an exponential rise in the percentage of people testing positive for the virus in Arizona appears to have leveled off.
PHOENIX — The state’s top lawyer is telling a federal judge that there may be legitimate claims that Gov. Doug Ducey has exceeded his legal authority in closing certain businesses.
PHOENIX (AP) — A suspect has been arrested in the stabbing deaths of a woman and two children in a Phoenix apartment last month, police said Wednesday.
PHOENIX (AP) — A woman is expected to survive after being wounded when officers returned fire after she fired a shot during a struggle, the Phoenix Police Department said.
PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police have presented prosecutors with findings from their investigation into the Memorial Day fatal shooting of a Black man by an Arizona state trooper during an encounter on a freeway.
PHOENIX -- Stiff breezes will substantially elevate the risk of new wildfire ignition and could cause existing fires to rapidly spread this week in Arizona and the western United States.
WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will be issuing new guidance for the reopening of schools in the fall.
TIERRA AMARILLA, N.M. — The dusty town of Tierra Amarilla perches in the shadows of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Here, five decades ago, this poor northern New Mexico community saw one of the most violent clashes in civil rights history when armed Mexican American ranchers raided a courth…
SEATTLE (AP) — Mary Kay Letourneau, a teacher who married her former sixth-grade student after she was convicted of raping him in a case that drew international headlines, has died. She was 58.
RENO, Nev. — A northern Nevada wildfire burning out of control near the California line more than tripled in size on Tuesday, closing a U.S. highway, forcing evacuations and threatening hundreds of homes as hundreds of firefighters battled the flames from the air and on the ground.
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Prosecutors in Iowa have filed a rarely used leak charge against Black Lives Matter protesters accused of stealing a confidential police document and displaying it during a television news broadcast.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Crews carried out a statue of Christopher Columbus from the center of the California Capitol rotunda on Tuesday, three weeks after legislative leaders announced it would be removed.
MEDELLIN, Colombia — Eight-year-old Eros trots through the streets of this hilly city several times a day with a straw basket in his jaws, taking vegetables, fruit and packaged foods to custom…
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says he is confident that he will swiftly recover from the new coronavirus thanks to treatment with hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria dru…
MEXICO CITY — For his first foreign trip as president, Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador travels to Washington Tuesday to meet with President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly taken shots at…
ROME — Doctors at the Vatican’s pediatric hospital said Tuesday they have successfully separated conjoined twins whose skulls were fused back-to-back, an exceedingly rare surgery for an equall…
TOKYO — Soldiers used boats to rescue residents as floodwaters flowed down streets in southern Japanese towns hit by heavy rains that were expanding across the region on Tuesday. At least 55 p…
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia has seized 1.5 tons of methamphetamines, with an estimated street value of some 2 billion euros ($2.26 billion), which was being smuggled into the country …
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CASA GRANDE — Two years ago, coaches and administrators from Pinal County and across the state sat and watched in disgust as junior college football was eliminated in Arizona. Now a sense of deja vu is setting in, with potentially all sports on the chopping block.
CASA GRANDE — Former Central Arizona College pitcher Tyson Brummett played professional baseball for eight seasons. The right-hander’s career highlight came on Oct. 3, 2012, when he made his one and only major league appearance as a reliever for the Philadelphia Phillies.
Editor’s note: Former Dispatch sports editor Ed Petruska (1979-2016) will revisit on a periodic basis some of the most memorable events he covered. Today’s installment: Casa Grande Union defeats Flagstaff Coconino 71-63 on March 4, 1989, at the Arizona State University Activity Center to win…
PHOENIX — Playoff hockey is arguably the most electric postseason in all of sports, a grueling four rounds and best-of-seven series that culminate with lifting the Stanley Cup. This NHL postse…
As Major League Baseball cautiously tiptoes closer toward beginning its delayed 2020 season, several teams welcomed back players who might have been exposed to the coronavirus and the San Fran…
The Ivy League on Wednesday became the first Division I conference to suspend all fall sports, including football, because of the coronavirus pandemic, leaving open the possibility of moving s…
Determined to reopen America’s schools despite coronavirus worries, President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to hold back federal money if school districts don’t bring their students back in the fall. He complained that his own public health officials’ safety guidelines are impractical…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has made building some 450 miles of wall on the U.S.-Mexico border a defining issue of his presidency, and long vowed that Mexico would pay for it.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, who has denigrated Mexican migrants and threatened the U.S. ally with crippling tariffs, welcomed President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to the White House on Wednesday with lofty language and he called America's southern neighbor a cherished partner. Trum…
NEW YORK (AP) — Kanye West says he is no longer a Trump supporter.
WASHINGTON — Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a national security aide who played a central role in President Donald Trump's impeachment case, announced his retirement from the Army on Wednesday in a scathing statement that accused the president of running a “campaign of bullying, intimidation, a…
PHOENIX – A White House panel of parents, teachers and school administrators said Tuesday that reopening schools this fall should be the nation’s top priority, for the wellbeing of students and parents and as a move to “stabilize our society.”
NEW YORK — The paths of two New York City churches diverged this week — one reopened and one stayed closed. But they have shared a tragic fate, together losing at least 134 members of their mostly Hispanic congregations to the coronavirus.
When Jesus said, “Apart from Me, you can do nothing,” (John 15:5) He was talking about bearing eternal “fruit that remains.” This referred to eternal things rather than merely temporal things. For the things which are seen are temporary; but the things which are not seen are lasting. (2Co 4:18b)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — It was not until Aug. 7, 1970, when his brother, Ken, was buried alive while sand-surfing down a Michigan dune, that Steve Klemz began to lean toward the ministry.
Psalms 33:12 How blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom He choose for his own inheritance. Let us take a moment from our busyness to reflect on what it means to us personally that this nation was established by men who believed in God and knew that everything that t…
BOSTON — America’s nightclubs are largely closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, but that isn’t stopping an interfaith coalition from launching a campaign to stop what organizers call the “disrespectful” use of sacred Buddhist and Hindu statues as decor.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli regulators on Sunday announced they ordered a U.S.-based evangelical broadcaster taken off the air, saying the channel hid its missionary agenda when it applied for a license.
Walgreens will squeeze primary care clinics into as many as 700 of its U.S. stores over the next few years in a major expansion of the care it offers customers.
The Jeep Wrangler is America’s favorite off-road vehicle. The upgraded Rubicon package makes it even better, with a list of equipment to improve performance in the dirt. So how can we make it better? By giving it the long-awaited diesel engine, of course.
PHOENIX — An Arizona health club chain was in court Monday arguing that it should be allowed to stay open during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic
Editor’s note: Interviews for articles in this issue of Pinal Ways were conducted in early or mid-May, and reflect the state of the industry at that time.
Editor’s note: Interviews for articles in this issue of Pinal Ways were conducted in early or mid-May, and reflect the state of the industry at that time.
Editor’s note: Interviews for articles in this issue of Pinal Ways were conducted in early or mid-May, and reflect the state of the industry at that time.
Editor’s note: Interviews for articles in this issue of Pinal Ways were conducted in early or mid-May, and reflect the state of the industry at that time.
Editor’s note: Interviews for articles in this issue of Pinal Ways were conducted in early or mid-May, and reflect the state of the industry at that time.
Editor’s note: Interviews for articles in this issue of Pinal Ways were conducted in early or mid-May, and reflect the state of the industry at that time.
Editor’s note: Interviews for articles in this issue of Pinal Ways were conducted in early or mid-May, and reflect the state of the industry at that time.
Editor’s note: Interviews for articles in this issue of Pinal Ways were conducted in early or mid-May, and reflect the state of the industry at that time.
Editor’s note: Interviews for articles in this issue of Pinal Ways were conducted in early or mid-May, and reflect the state of the industry at that time.
- Safe injection sites may curb opioid deaths, report suggests
- Hayes: Deaths from suicide, alcohol and drugs may continue to be a regional epidemic
- Health panel may open lung cancer screening to more smokers
- ASU researchers develop cheaper, faster saliva test for COVID-19
- Doctors say experimental treatment may have rid man of HIV