COOLIDGE — First-year school therapist Melonie Call is pioneering a new therapeutic photography group to help students dealing with difficult emotions brought on by the pandemic at Heartland R…
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MARICOPA — A former Maricopa resident’s life has taken her to many interesting places, and now with her debut novel she is excited to share the joy with others.
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COOLIDGE — First-year school therapist Melonie Call is pioneering a new therapeutic photography group to help students dealing with difficult emotions brought on by the pandemic at Heartland Ranch Elementary.
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FLORENCE — Pinal County officials are planning to raise $126.5 million to buy land for economic development through the sale of taxable revenue bonds.
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ARIZONA CITY — A Pinal County Sheriff’s deputy on Monday fatally shot a 30-year-old man who the department said was threatening to take his own life with a knife he was holding.
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MARICOPA — Congress took up the city's request to help build a bridge that would increase accessibility in Maricopa.
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FLORENCE — Harold Smith has known thousands of children and teens.
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ELOY — After former coach Rishard Davis departed Santa Cruz following a 2020 state title victory, James Fitzgerald was brought in to keep the winning tradition alive. However, after only one year, Fitzgerald has decided to leave the program.
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The second of six throws in the women’s discus went a long way for Princess Kara of Central Arizona College at the NJCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, which concluded Saturday.
SOUTH JORDAN, Utah — Playing postseason elimination games is bringing out the best in the Central Arizona College baseball team.
TEMPE — The Pac-12 champion Arizona State softball team never faltered this time around in hosting regionals over the weekend.
TEMPE — The biggest take away so far through the second day of the Tempe regionals is that opponents should not sleep on San Diego State.
TEMPE — Although Poston Butte alum Lindsay Lopez did not make an appearance, the rest of her Arizona State teammates showed up in a big way in the team's opening regional game against Cal State Fullerton, taking down the Titans 5-2, and taking their first step toward the Women's College Worl…
DONNA, Texas — The head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday that he is developing a new policy for vehicle pursuits with an eye toward increasing safety after a spate of deaths.
PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a man's convictions and death sentences in the 2012 killing of his nine-months pregnant girlfriend who was bound, handcuffed and gagged when her partially burned body was found in a bed by firefighters responding to an apartment fire.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona's six national forests and some local governments and land management agencies are implementing stricter campfire and smoking restrictions because of the heightened wildfire threat, officials announced Wednesday.
NEW YORK — The organizers of a “We Build The Wall” campaign to raise money for a wall along the U.S. southern border lied to donors by saying all their money would fund the wall when they were actually pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars, a prosecutor told a jury at the start of a cri…
PHOENIX — State senators refused Monday to outlaw or even restrict the use of ballot “drop boxes’’ despite claims they are opportunities for fraud — and despite backers citing a political movie claiming that they were responsible for the 2020 election being stolen from Donald Trump.
PHOENIX — A 2021 statement by a veteran Republican lawmaker may be just enough to allow voting rights groups to challenge a law eliminating the state’s permanent early voting list.
Becky Hammon vowed before the season tipped off that the Las Vegas Aces would be shooting more 3-poitners this year.
BOSTON — Huge leads. Lengthy scoring droughts. Blowouts.
PHOENIX — Christian Walker and Pavin Smith homered and Ketel Marte’s two-run double broke a fourth-inning tie when Arizona beat Kansas City 9-5 in Zack Greinke’s return to Chase Field on Monda…
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MARICOPA — A former Maricopa resident’s life has taken her to many interesting places, and now with her debut novel she is excited to share the joy with others.
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FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Jurors in Johnny Depp’s libel lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard heard a snippet of testimony Tuesday contradicting one of Heard’s key witnesses, but much of the context was stripped away.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The dramatic story of an iconic movie costume from “The Wizard of Oz” thought lost for decades went through another plot twist Monday, when a judge blocked its planned sale at auction.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Spurred by Tuesday's deadly elementary school shooting in Texas, California senators approved giving people the power to sue those who traffic in illegal firearms, mimicking a Texas law that is intended to deter abortions.
PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. (AP) — A man who died when he and three other people fell off a Southern California ocean cliff was identified Tuesday as a 25-year-old from Los Angeles, authorities said.
LOS ANGELES — The University of California system announced Tuesday it will pay nearly $375 million to more than 300 women who said they were sexually abused by a UCLA gynecologist, bringing a record amount in total payouts by a public university in a wave of sexual misconduct scandals by ca…
BOSTON (AP) — Nineteen people have been indicted in a complex money laundering scheme to move millions of dollars in drug proceeds from Colombian cartels through U.S. banks, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — An 18-year-old gunman opened fire Tuesday at a Texas elementary school, killing at least 18 children, officials said, and the gunman was dead.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden prepared to address the nation Tuesday night shortly after returning to the White House from a five-day trip to Asia that was bookended by “horrific” mass tragedy.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. will close the last avenue for Russia to pay its billions in debt back to international investors on Wednesday, making a Russian default on its debts for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution all but inevitable.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Republican-dominated Indiana House voted Tuesday to override the GOP governor’s veto of a bill banning transgender females from competing in girls school sports, setting up a Senate vote that would have Indiana join more than a dozen other states adopting similar laws in t…
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BILLINGS, Mont. — Montana health officials say transgender people can't change their birth certificates even if they undergo gender-confirmation surgery, in defiance of a court order that had blocked the Republican-controlled state's bid to restrict transgender rights.
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HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, who came to Congress representing Sandy Hook, begged his colleagues to finally pass legislation addressing the nation’s gun violence problem as the latest school shooting unfolded Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas.
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HAVANA — Marylín Álvarez seemed to be just the sort of person that eased American sanctions on Cuba were meant to help.
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden on Tuesday denied that it was providing any “financial assistance or military support” to Kurdish groups or entities in Syria — claims that Turkey's using to back its opposition to Sweden's and neighboring Finland's historic bids to join NATO.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican experts said Monday that 35% more monarch butterflies arrived this year to spend the winter in mountaintop forests, compared to the previous season.
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea launched three ballistic missiles toward the sea on Wednesday, South Korea’s military said, the Norths’ first weapons firings in about two weeks as the country…
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Police in Rio de Janeiro raided the Vila Cruzeiro favela before dawn Tuesday. setting off a fierce firefight that authorities said killed more than 20 people.
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BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday said the U.S., Britain and other foreign powers are seeking to sabotage its foreign relations by orchestrating criticism surrounding a trip by the top United Na…
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KIGALI, Rwanda — Rwanda’s military has accused neighboring Congolese forces of injuring several civilians in cross-border shelling and asked regional monitors to investigate.
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JENIN, West Bank — Who killed Shireen Abu Akleh?
Top administrative leaders for the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in America, said Tuesday that they will release a secret list of hundreds of pastors and other church-affiliated personnel accused of sexual abuse.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Tuesday named a bishop in his own image, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, as the new head of the Italian bishops conference, as the Italian Catholic Church comes under mounting pressure to confront its legacy of clerical sexual abuse with an independent inquiry.
HONG KONG — Arrested former Hong Kong Catholic leader Cardinal Joseph Zen and five others denied charges on Tuesday that they failed to register a relief fund aimed at assisting protesters who faced legal costs during 2019 anti-government protests.
CASA GRANDE — For Scott McEuen, one important measure of a community’s health is its dedication to service.
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WASHINGTON — Facebook parent Meta said it will start publicly providing more details about how advertisers target people with political ads just months ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Ford Motor Company on Tuesday settled claims by 40 U.S. state attorneys general that the company made misleading claims about the fuel economy and payload capacity of some of its vehicles, violating state consumer protection laws.
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WASHINGTON — A massive recall is getting most of the blame for the U.S. baby formula shortage, but experts say the products have long been vulnerable to this type of crisis due to decades-old policies that have allowed a handful of companies to corner the market.
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DETROIT — A class action lawsuit is accusing three automakers and a parts manufacturer of knowingly selling vehicles containing air bag inflators that are at risk of exploding. Two deaths and at least four injuries have been linked to such explosions.
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KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian military said Russia has fired at Ukrainian border guards in the northeastern Sumy region in the latest of a series of alleged cross-border attacks over the past few weeks.
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BOSTON — Massachusetts’ highest court on Tuesday rejected a bid by ExxonMobil to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the state that accuses the oil giant of misleading the public about the role its fossil fuels play in causing climate change.
Those who marvel at the new fence at the Casa Grande Art Museum, gaze upon the artwork at Casa Grande Municipal Airport or chat with artists during the twice-annual tours might not know the na…
The recording studio at Central Arizona College’s Signal Peak Campus is a state-of-the-art facility with instruments and equipment that can produce professional-quality sound. But maybe the ke…
Florence started celebrating its big annual country music festival a few days early with the “Road to Country Thunder,” a free concert Saturday night, from 5 to 10 p.m., on North Main Street.
Michael Baca is in demand as a portrait photographer, in Arizona’s metro areas as well as his home base of Florence. He has also been hired to shoot in Sedona, Flagstaff and on the beach in So…
Lisa Swanson and her ArtMobile van are often spotted at various places throughout Casa Grande, Stanfield, Arizona City and other parts of Pinal County. And when they see her, people know that …
Florence starts celebrating its big annual country music festival a few days early with the “Road to Country Thunder,” a free Saturday night concert on North Main Street.
Dancing gives the opportunity for self-expression and communication without having to use words. Ceylan Gentilella describes it as a “beautiful, ever-changing art” that’s a “way of life” and a…
A huge thanks to everyone who submitted their work as painters, cake designers, jewelry makers and artists of all kinds to be featured in this issue. We owe another big thank you to the Artist…
A day drip across the county: Seeing the arts wherever you go
Spring is always a wonderful time of year in Arizona. Consistently sunny, clear and temperate days are strung together throughout this special season like bright blue beads on a necklace.
From world-famous photographers to muralists, for decades, Pinal County has been a home for artists.
Amil Pedro is now 78 years old. His wife passed away a decade ago and his sister died in February. He lost a leg to diabetes in 2015. He admitted there have been periods recently where he’s fo…
When it comes to art forms, architecture is considered one of the most intricate and complex.
Home decor can help liven any house to make it feel like a true home, and that is the mission for the dedicated workers of Signjunkie.
After October’s “catch-up” event, Country Thunder is glad to be back in April for the first time in three years.
"What words do we live by every day and everywhere?"
I was on my way home during the hot dry summer of 2020 when I saw my neighbor Alice and her dog, Bailey, trying to cross a busy street on a hot afternoon in July. I stopped and gave them a rid…
MARICOPA — Photographer and painter Ruby Valadez said she's always been an artist.
One of Arizona’s little quirks that often gets a chuckle from people who come here from elsewhere is that we do everything in the winter. Over in the Midwest and the Northeast, nobody plans an…
For most kids, no school is synonymous with all play.
Youth sports at Copper Sky provide a positive atmosphere for summer fun to develop life skills, make new friends and become more confident.
MARICOPA — For those wanting to spend more time with family close to home, there's lots of options in Maricopa to help families do just that.
MARICOPA — For those looking for some summertime fun out of the sun, the Ak-Chin entertainment complex and Harrah's Ak-Chin Casino have activities lined up to keep area residents cool and ente…
Those who drove through Maricopa as recently as 2000 might not have even realized where they were. The area was still unincorporated, with a smattering of businesses in between farms and dairi…
Morgan Godfrey is the head lifeguard at Copper Sky. He helps make sure things run smoothly, everyone makes it to their shift and everything is ready for the pool guests.
