CASA GRANDE — On the first day of school this year, Elijah Glickman, 14, plans to wake up early, put on his new school clothes and settle in for a day of classes, all without leaving his home.
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CASA GRANDE – A Casa Grande man was arrested after he was allegedly spotted breaking into a neighbor’s car.
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CASA GRANDE — An Arizona Department of Public Safety trooper got into a scuffle with a woman from Texas after she refused to follow directions upon being pulled over.
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MARICOPA — After multiple days of the Maricopa City Council race looking like it had settled into a particular order, a Friday evening update threw everything back into the air.
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CASA GRANDE – After much discussion about trees and paint colors, a new hotel and a Firestone tire shop received a nod from the Casa Grande Planning and Zoning Commission Thursday evening.
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It's primary election night, and PinalCentral will be updating results for the races relevant to Pinal County throughout the night, and however many days after it takes for all the votes to be counted.
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PICACHO PEAK — An 18-year-old man was arrested after speeding well in excess of 100 mph on Interstate 10.
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SCOTTSDALE (AP) — Scottsdale police have made more arrests in the May looting of the city's signature mall that also involved YouTuber Jake Paul.
PHOENIX — Gov. Doug Ducey isn’t going to get additional time to fight a judge’s order that he have a process in place by Tuesday to allow gyms and fitness centers to seek to reopen.
PHOENIX — State health officials may now have standards of when they think it’s safe for kids to go back to school.
PHOENIX — New cases of coronavirus in Arizona continues its downward trend.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of an ongoing series of stories remembering people from around the world who have died from the coronavirus around the world.
YUMA (AP) — An incomplete tunnel found stretching from Arizona to Mexico appears to be “the most sophisticated tunnel in U.S. history,” authorities said.
NEW YORK (AP) — Alcohol-based hand sanitizers can help stop the coronavirus from spreading, but drinking the products turned out to be deadly for four people in two states.
DENVER (AP) — A man who escaped from a Colorado prison in 1974 was found living under an alias in a small town in northern New Mexico after the Denver police officer he shot decades ago helped track him down, authorities said.
STURGIS, S.D. — Thousands of bikers poured into the small South Dakota city of Sturgis on Friday as the 80th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally rumbled to life despite fears it could lead to a massive coronavirus outbreak.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland's nightly protests turned violent again even after the city's mayor pleaded for demonstrators to stay off the streets and a police officer hit by a rock early Friday suffered what was described as a serious injury.
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. -- Crews were on the scene of a new brush fire Thursday afternoon burning in Santa Clarita, California about 30 miles north of Los Angeles.
BOSTON — For the second time in a decade, a New Hampshire woman has a new face.
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LONDON — The British government vowed Friday to strengthen border measures after a record daily number of people crossed the English Channel to the U.K. in small boats.
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ROME (AP) — Experts were closely monitoring a Mont Blanc glacier on Friday, a day after they evacuated 75 tourists and residents amid fears the glacier could soon break apart and crash into a …
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NEW DELHI (AP) — A mudslide triggered by heavy monsoon rain and flooding killed at least 15 people and buried 20 homes of tea plantation workers in southern India on Friday, police said.
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BEIRUT — Rescue teams pulled more bodies from the rubble of Beirut's port Friday, nearly three days after a massive explosion sent a wave of destruction through Lebanon's capital, killing near…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican coastal city of Acapulco pulled a pair of controversial video ads Thursday touting the faded resort’s reputation as an “anything goes” tourism destination becaus…
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BEIRUT — Lebanese officials targeted in the investigation of the massive blast that tore through Beirut sought to shift blame for the presence of explosives at the city’s port, and the visitin…
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The funniest part of “ An American Pickle ” isn’t even really in the movie. It’s a little scene in the middle of the credits in which Seth Rogen’s Herschel Greenbaum, a 1920s laborer who wakes up 100 years after falling into a vat of pickle juice, watches “Yentl” with his millennial great-gr…
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For more than a century, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “The Secret Garden,” first published in 1911, has endured. It remains one of the great classics of children’s literature, a book that deftly combines the dreams and nightmares of childhood. Its balance of dark and light, death and rebirth is…
CASA GRANDE — High school football coaches across Arizona have differing opinions on when football should start.
The Arizona sports community has been on pins and needles waiting for some new information regarding a return to high school sports. A road map is now in place, but questions remain.
MARICOPA — Starting a new job can be a stressful situation no matter the circumstance, but to do so when everything you’re supposed to do is up in the air and changing by the day adds a whole new level.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Pinch-hitter Michael Perez hit a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning on his 28th birthday, six Tampa Bay pitchers combined on a two-hitter and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the…
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — The last time Devin Booker walked off the court as a winner in four consecutive games, these were the opponents: Hampton, Cincinnati, West Virginia and Notre Dame.
SAN DIEGO — Zach Davies retired the first 13 Arizona batters, Fernando Tatis Jr. hit a leadoff homer and rookies Jake Cronenworth and Edward Olivares also went deep to give the San Diego Padre…
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It's primary election night, and PinalCentral will be updating results for the races relevant to Pinal County throughout the night, and however many days after it takes for all the votes to be counted.
COOLIDGE — The Pinal County Elections Department has more ballots left to count than previously thought, and some races remain close.
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WASHINGTON — A last-ditch effort by Democrats to revive Capitol Hill talks on vital COVID-19 rescue money collapsed in disappointment Friday, making it increasingly likely that Washington gridlock will mean more hardship for millions of people who are losing enhanced jobless benefits and fur…
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MARICOPA — After it was revealed in mid-July that some Pinal County voters did not receive a complete ballot for their respective cities or towns, the offices of the Secretary of State and Pinal County Elections promised a full investigation into how this occurred.
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NEW YORK — President Donald Trump has ordered a sweeping but vague ban on dealings with the Chinese owners of popular social media apps TikTok and WeChat on security grounds, a move China's government criticized as “political manipulation."
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PHOENIX — Every day, 29-year-old Maico Olivares tries to call about 25 people, mostly within the Latino community, to persuade them to register to vote.
ELOY — St. Helen of the Cross Catholic Church will recognize its patroness’s feast day beginning at 7 p.m. on Aug. 17 with a video message from the Rev. Marco Carrasco, pastor of the church.
Matthew 5:10-12; 44-45, 10: “How blessed are those who are persecuted because they pursue righteousness! For the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.”
CLEVELAND — President Donald Trump billed his trip to Ohio Thursday as a chance to promote economic recovery, but he quickly pivoted to a deeply personal attack on Joe Biden, even questioning without foundation the former vice president's faith in God.
WASHINGTON — The principle of religious freedom is important to most Americans. But as President Donald Trump touts his support for it during his reelection bid, there are notable fault lines among people of different faiths and political ideologies over what it truly means.
NEW YORK — After a three year halt due to financial problems, work resumed Monday on a Greek Orthodox church being built to replace one destroyed in the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — From the night of Nov. 6, 1978 – when his sister, Maxine Ellen Andrews, was murdered in Johnstown’s Cambria City neighborhood – until just a few days ago, the Rev. Clarence J. Washington never read a newspaper article about her death.
PHOENIX -- The state attorney general is accusing a major testing laboratory of lying to consumers about how quickly they will get their results.
GREELEY, Colo. -- Use it or lose it.
FLORENCE — Sixty-four businesses in unincorporated Pinal County received checks totaling $529,071 to help cover their losses related to the pandemic and the state’s recent stay-at-home order, and the Pinal County Board of Supervisors expressed an interest in extending and possibly expanding …
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.
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- Colorado’s abandonment list incentivizes water users to take share
- Arizona dairy farms pivot from restaurants to food banks as COVID-19 shifts demand
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- Goat farming a growing industry in Iowa
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