ELOY — In a time when drought and water concerns are on the rise, Pinal County farmers are seeking the right crops that can survive with less water.
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MARICOPA — The city of Maricopa announced the death of its public works director Mike Riggs on Friday.
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MILLINGTON, Tenn. — The daughter of a Maricopa resident serving at Naval Medical Readiness and Training Command, Naples, Italy, was recently named Optical Fabrication Enterprise’s Fabricating Optician of the Year for 2021.
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GLENDALE — A Casa Grande woman will be among the more than 125 cancer survivors set to perform alongside the Arizona Cardinals cheerleaders during the “Crucial Catch” halftime show at the Cardinals game on Sunday, Oct. 9, against the Philadelphia Eagles.
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CHANDLER — The Casa Grande Dispatch received 13 awards and Maricopa Monitor 12 in the state newspaper contest in their respective divisions. The Dispatch won second place in the overall General Excellence category and the Monitor tied for second.
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ELOY — In a time when drought and water concerns are on the rise, Pinal County farmers are seeking the right crops that can survive with less water.
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FLORENCE — Voters in Florence Unified School District No. 1 will elect two members of the Governing Board on Nov. 8, filling the seats currently held by Steven Johnson and Jim Thomas. This is the fourth in a series of articles in which the candidates respond in writing to questions from the …
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MARICOPA — The Sequoia Pathway Pumas have had their highs and lows in the 2022 season. Although led by senior outside hitter Kaliyah Brown, the team is surrounded by a number of freshmen who are still learning the ropes of varsity volleyball.
CASA GRANDE — Vista Grande has the opportunity to do something that hasn’t been done in program history — win four consecutive games.
FLORENCE – Two teams that have been enjoying great seasons are looking forward to finding out just how good they are on Friday night in Florence.
CASA GRANDE — When asked how going from Division II to Division I has been for her squad, Casa Grande Union swim head coach Kim Batina was open and candid about the experience, saying, “It has been a work in progress.”
CASA GRANDE — At the halfway point of the season, the Casa Grande Union volleyball team sits with a 3-6 record after falling to Phoenix Mountain Pointe in four sets: 25-19, 25-21, 16-25 and 25-22 on Tuesday.
TUCSON – On the first drive of the game against Colorado, Arizona QB Jayden de Laura threw a quick backwards pass to freshman WR Tetairoa McMillan. McMillan looked down the field on the trick play to throw to an open receiver, but could not find anyone, so he ran to the other side of the bac…
PHOENIX — Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly distanced himself from President Joe Biden on Thursday, calling the U.S.-Mexico border “a mess” and saying his party doesn't understand border issues during his first and only debate against his Republican challenger Blake Masters.
PHOENIX — A parade of character witnesses provided a judge Thursday with glowing reports about a southern Arizona woman who admitted collecting four voted early ballots in the 2020 primary election, as her lawyer seeks leniency and prosecutors urge him to send her to prison for a year.
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A University of Arizona professor who authorities say was fatally shot on campus by a former graduate student was an expert on desert water issues who faculty and former students described as a kind and brilliant colleague.
BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho judge has postponed the trial of a woman charged with conspiring to kill her two youngest children and her fifth husband's late wife until officials can determine if she's mentally competent.
PHOENIX — Arizona voters this November will decide whether to allow students regardless of their immigration status to obtain financial aid and cheaper in-state tuition at state universities and community colleges.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California water agencies that rely on the parched Colorado River said Wednesday they can reduce their use by one-tenth starting in 2023 in response to calls for cuts from the federal government.
The owner of a sports memorabilia auction house says he has offered $2 million to the fan who caught Aaron Judge's American League-record 62nd home run.
PHOENIX — The Arizona Diamondbacks were a dreadful baseball team in 2021, losing 110 games.
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Through four games, the Philadelphia Eagles are the hottest team in the NFL.
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NEW YORK — The first witness at a civil trial in which Kevin Spacey is accused of making a sexual advance on a 14-year-old boy in the mid-1980s testified Friday that Spacey made a similar move on him years earlier.
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CASA GRANDE — For Casa Grande firefighter Joe Leos, the screams and the laughter are the best parts of hosting a haunted house for the community every year.
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MARICOPA — Maricopa's annual popular Halloween event Pacana Pumpkin Walk returns on Oct. 26.
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:
DALLAS — A man charged with killing 22 women in the Dallas area over a two-year span was found guilty Friday in one of their deaths — his second murder conviction.
FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. — William Wellema has been living under a bridge for four days, waiting to get to Fort Myers Beach on Florida's Estero Island to see if his vacation home survived Hurricane Ian. On Friday, he was beyond frustrated as he continued to await permission to drive across.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — An attacker accused of killing two people and wounding six others with a large kitchen knife in stabbings along the Las Vegas Strip is expected in court Friday.
New York City's mayor declared a state of emergency on Friday over the thousands of migrants being sent from southern border states since the spring, saying the demand being put on the city to provide housing and other assistance is “not sustainable."
NORTH PORT, Fla. — Christine Barrett was inside her family’s North Port home during Hurricane Ian when one of her children started yelling that water was coming up from the shower.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Judges on Maryland's highest court questioned a lawyer's argument Friday that it would be unconstitutional to let mail-in ballots be counted earlier than currently allowed.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The group photo of the Supreme Court's nine members is a long-standing ritual. But it has never looked quite like the one taken on Friday.
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CINCINNATI — The nation's abortion debate arrived in a courtroom in Ohio on Friday, as attorneys fighting for and against extending a stay on the state's near total ban on the procedure presented providers, medical scholars and ethicists to make their cases to a county judge.
PHOENIX -- Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters sought to distance himself Thursday from his earlier statements that abortions should be illegal nationwide.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Attorney General Keith Ellison sued Fleet Farm on Wednesday, alleging the retailer negligently sold firearms to two straw buyers, including one gun that was used in a shootout in a St. Paul bar that left one person dead and 14 bystanders injured.
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At least 66 clinics in 15 states have stopped providing abortions since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to an analysis released Thursday.
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JERUSALEM — The severed head and decapitated torso of a 25-year-old Palestinian were discovered on the side of a road in the occupied West Bank, police said Friday, confirming gruesome details…
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russia concentrated attacks in its increasingly troubled invasion of Ukraine on areas it illegally annexed as the death toll from earlier missile strikes on apartment buildings…
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KYIV, Ukraine — Human rights activists from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a strong rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose invasion of Ukraine rupt…
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PRAGUE — European Union leaders struggled Friday to bridge significant differences over a natural gas price cap as winter approaches and Russia’s war in Ukraine fuels a major energy crisis, dr…
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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military on Thursday cleared itself of wrongdoing in the death of a 7-year-old Palestinian boy whose family says he “died of fear” after an encounter with Israel…
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BANGKOK — A court in military-ruled Myanmar has sentenced a Japanese journalist to serve seven years in prison after he filmed an anti-government protest in July, a Japanese diplomat and the S…
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a high school football coach’s right to pray on the field after games, there were predictions of dramatic consequences from across the ideological spectrum. But three months after the decision, there’s no sign that large numbers of coaches have b…
CASA GRANDE — An arts and crafts show planned by the Daughters of St. Anthony Court 2651 will feature more than 44 artisans and crafters.
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ELOY — Fiestas Patrias has a long history in Eloy. And Mary Lou Rosales has been a part of this much celebrated event in Eloy for decades.
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NEW YORK — Good news on the economy remains bad news for Wall Street, and stocks are falling sharply Friday on worries a still-strong U.S jobs market may actually make a recession more likely.
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President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday designed to allay European concerns that U.S. intelligence agencies are illegally spying on them. It promises strengthened safeguards against data collection abuses and creates a forum for legal challenges.
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WASHINGTON — America’s employers slowed their hiring in September but still added 263,000 jobs, a solid figure that will likely keep the Federal Reserve on pace to keep raising interest rates aggressively to fight persistently high inflation.
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FRANKFURT, Germany — Major oil-producing countries led by Saudi Arabia and Russia have decided to slash the amount of oil they deliver to the global economy.
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WASHINGTON — More interest rate increases will be necessary to wrestle inflation under control, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said Thursday, echoing several tough speeches by other central bank officials this week.
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Wall Street expects the latest round of quarterly profits to show burn marks from the hottest inflation in four decades, and the damage could linger into 2023.
To most kids, the word "summer" may as well be synonymous with fun.
It may not be the ideal time of year, but there are people enjoying the desert's beauty these days at Lost Dutchman State Park.
Pinal County and many of our communities are once again leading Arizona in the rate of population growth, growing living wage jobs and becoming a leader in economic prosperity. To keep the eco…
With many folks seeking to regain a semblance of "normal" following two years of restrictions caused by the pandemic, you couldn’t find a more fitting place for an experience of old school Ame…
When the summer temperatures ramp up in Arizona, residents look for fun ways to spend their time while also beating the heat. Tucked away in Eloy, Skydive Arizona presents not only a fun activ…
Whether it's the soft green grass, the shade of the sprawling trees, the playgrounds or a chance to watch ducks frolicking in a pond, the municipal and county parks throughout the area are pop…
There are few places in Pinal County that are quite as serene as Boyce Thompson Arboretum.
It’s naturally a little cooler, plus there’s often a nice breeze blowing though the mountainous terrain — just one reason visitors are drawn to Arizona Zipline Adventures.
CASA GRANDE — With the onset of the long, lazy days of summer, it's tempting for Pinal County residents to retreat to their air-conditioned homes, avoiding the balmy outdoors and Arizona's cha…
Located only minutes away from the hustle and bustle of Florence Boulevard, the Casa Grande Mountain trails offer local residents several hiking options complemented with picturesque and spect…
Guests can pretend they're cruising down the mighty Mississippi almost 200 years ago. But on a desert lake, they'll enjoy views that a young Mark Twain never had.
Once again, we asked and local readers and photographers delivered. A special thank you to Ann Loyd and Lisa Manifold for their submissions of these incredible nature scenes snapped in differe…
Laser tag and the arcade at Ak-Chin Circle Entertainment Center have reopened, offering new, fun options for the community to enjoy with more to come.
There's something about a few hours in a place where animals live and play that can turn your whole day around.
If you've ever driven to Coolidge by way of State Route 87 or driven past the city on your way into the Valley, you may have passed by the massive structure under the protection of an equally …
Ron Harrison composed hundreds of songs back in the day, but now he plays piano for himself and those who stop by to listen.
In March, the Maricopa Pantry lost nearly everything to a massive fire that consumed multiple semi trailers of food and a storage container.
It’s just before 5 p.m. on Monday, April 4. Maricopa commuters are making their way home from another long workday. About halfway between the Phoenix metropolis and the city of Maricopa, traff…
As I mentioned in my previous article, Pinal Partnership’s committees are proving to be the go-to forum where some of our best subject matter experts explore a full range of possibilities to g…
Pinal County and many of our communities are once again leading Arizona in the rate of population growth, growing living wage jobs and becoming a leader in economic prosperity. To keep the eco…
Surgery has been around for years with the first surgical procedure, trepanation, taking place in 6500 B.C. Think a drill hole in the skull.
Maricopa Mayor Christian Price shocked the city in April when he announced that he would be stepping down from his position at the end of June to become the president and CEO of Maricopa Econo…
With its large farmers market-style produce section in the center of the store, aisles of healthy bulk items, spices and unique foods, the Sprouts grocery store has become a popular spot for M…
The start of a new school year was always something I, equal-parts, dreaded and looked forward to as a kid. I dreaded it because the end of those two months off marked the end of meeting up wi…
With the 2022 election season in full swing, it's always a good idea to get acquainted with local and state candidates. We spoke with four of the five candidates running for seats in the Arizo…
The brand new Desert Sunrise High School opens on Thursday, and staff members say they're eager to meet the new students and welcome them back to a new year at a new school. Copacetic intervie…