WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump lauded Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey at the White House on Wednesday, as he pointed to the state as a model for the nation for handling “embers” of the coronavirus.
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CASA GRANDE — Arizona Water Company on Monday gave the Casa Grande City Council an update on its list of future repair projects in the older part of town.
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COOLIDGE — Facing continued uncertainty over state guidance, the Coolidge Unified School District will not welcome students back into physical classrooms until after Labor Day.
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CASA GRANDE — Casa Grande Union High School District students, family and staff will have a few extra days to get ready for what promises to be an unusual school year.
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ARIZONA CITY — The Toltec School District will begin classes through distance learning on Aug. 17.
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COOLIDGE — The Coolidge Public Library has been awarded a CARES Act sub-grant that will enable the library to ramp up its security.
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COOLIDGE — A new home builder is coming to Coolidge.
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PHOENIX — A day after Gov. Doug Ducey was celebrated by President Donald Trump for Arizona's efforts to stem the coronavirus outbreak, the state reported it has now topped 4,000 deaths from the virus.
TUCSON -- The U.S. is engaged in a national debate about how to deal with monuments to Confederate leaders, enslavers and other historical figures with complex, and often racist, histories.
TUCSON (AP) — Five suspects have been arrested in connection with a homicide last month at a mobile home park on Tucson’s south side, according to authorities.
WINSLOW (AP) — An inmate at the state prison in Winslow died Wednesday from an apparent suicide, Arizona Department of Corrections officials said.
CHANDLER (AP) — A man was arrested Wednesday after DNA evidence allegedly linked him to a 1991 sexual assault, Chandler police said.
PHOENIX — Arizona corrections officials have said that 517 inmates at the state prison in Tucson have tested positive for the coronavirus even as the overall spread in the state seems to be turning a corner.
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A southern New Mexico school district blocked efforts Tuesday to repeal a vote to change the name of a high school named after a brutal Spanish conquistador.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A former U.S. Department of Homeland Security investigator was sentenced to more than a decade in federal prison Wednesday in California for stealing more than $100,000 in smuggled drug money, authorities said.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego County plans to set up its first testing site for the coronavirus at one of the world’s busiest pedestrian international border crossings, officials said Wednesday.
U.S. testing for the coronavirus is dropping even as infections remain high and the death toll rises by more than 1,000 a day, a worrisome trend that officials attribute largely to Americans getting discouraged over having to wait hours to get a test and days or weeks to learn the results.
SALT LAKE CITY — The U.S. government settled a lawsuit Wednesday brought by the state of Utah over a mine waste spill caused by federal workers that sent wastewater downstream to several states from the inactive Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado five years ago.
BANNING, Calif. (AP) — Slightly cooler weather Wednesday helped firefighters make progress against a huge blaze in mountains east of Los Angeles.
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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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MEXICO CITY — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador inaugurated a dam in northern Mexico on Wednesday even though work was symbolically suspended by anthropologists because it is flooding thou…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Somewhat predictably, an attempt by three people to smuggle two howler monkeys in southern Mexico was undone when the protected animals locked in a suitcase began emitting t…
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BERLIN (AP) — British scientists say there are more emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica than previously thought based on evidence of bird droppings spotted from space.
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Fireworks and ammonium nitrate appear to have been the fuel that ignited a massive explosion that rocked the Lebanese capital of Beirut, experts and videos of the blast suggest.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Unidentified assailants opened fire on the offices of a newspaper in the Mexican city of Iguala Tuesday, two days after a journalist from another outlet was killed there alo…
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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…
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LOS ANGELES — FBI agents including a SWAT team served a search warrant at the home of YouTube star Jake Paul on Wednesday.
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.
MARICOPA — George Rubelsky and Ashley Menne took home the top honors at the Maricopa Junior Championship golf tournament, held Thursday and Friday at Ak-Chin Southern Dunes.
PHOENIX – At 17, Adam Stewart was convicted of armed robbery and aggravated assault. Tried as an adult, he faced a maximum of 21 years. If that sounds like a lot, for Stewart it was the norm, …
BALTIMORE — Five pitchers combined on a four-hitter for Don Mattingly’s undermanned, gritty and first-place Miami Marlins, who beat the Baltimore Orioles 2-1 Wednesday night for a doubleheader sweep.
PHOENIX — Kole Calhoun hit his first career inside-the-park homer with the help of a crazy bounce, David Peralta had four RBIs and the Arizona Diamondbacks used a nine-run burst in the fourth …
PHOENIX -- Democrats won't get a free seat this year on the Arizona Corporation Commission.
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New York’s attorney general sued the National Rifle Association on Thursday, seeking to put the powerful gun advocacy organization out of business over allegations that high-ranking executives diverted millions of dollars for lavish personal trips, no-show contracts for associates and other …
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PHOENIX — Arizona has grown more politically moderate in the past five years, but Republican primary voters haven’t entirely abandoned Joe Arpaio, the six-term sheriff of metro Phoenix who lost the job in 2016 amid voter frustration over his legal troubles and headline-grabbing tactics.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump lauded Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey at the White House on Wednesday, as he pointed to the state as a model for the nation for handling “embers” of the coronavirus.
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PHOENIX — Arizona voters turned out in near-record numbers to set the stage for a high stakes battle for the U.S. Senate, keep former Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s comeback hopes alive and give a strong challenger to a wounded incumbent congressman.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Republican Sen. Martha McSally is challenging Mark Kelly to seven debates, claiming her Democratic rival has evaded scrutiny and presented a manicured image of himself.
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.
COOLIDGE — In 1990, everything changed for Vince Smith.
ELOY -- There are bountiful religions and churches to choose from in the Eloy-Arizona City area.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Muslim pilgrims have started arriving in Mecca for a drastically scaled-down hajj, as Saudi authorities balance the kingdom’s oversight of one of Islam’s key pillars and the safety of visitors in the face of a global pandemic.
CASA GRANDE — Another new hotel is in the works for Casa Grande.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street’s big rally keeps rolling, and the S&P 500 rose for a fourth straight day Wednesday to sit just 1.7% below its record.
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Samsung aims to lift its sinking smartphone sales with three new models that will test consumer willingness to buy high-priced gadgets during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
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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- Arizona dairy farms pivot from restaurants to food banks as COVID-19 shifts demand
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