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FLORENCE — This summer, the Pinal County Board of Supervisors asked the top contenders for the county manager’s job to respond to a hypothetical scenario.
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TUCSON (AP) — The University of Arizona Gem and Mineral Museum will sparkle a bit brighter next year with a new name and big new space.
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CASA GRANDE – The Casa Grande City Council may start the ball rolling on a city-owned ambulance service at Monday night’s meeting.
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CASA GRANDE – Dreamport Villages may be dissolving into the desert.
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CASA GRANDE -- Friends and family are hoping to raise enough money to cover funeral expenses for a Casa Grande man who was shot and killed earlier this month near Casa Grande Mountain.
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ELOY - Last week Chicanos Por La Causa - Early Childhood Development held its "Farm to School" event at the GWC Center in Eloy.
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ELOY - After it's override failed to pass last year, the Santa Cruz Valley Union High School District called a special budget override election to be held on Nov. 5.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — San Tan Foothills and Florence essentially matched each other in the first half Friday, with three touchdowns each by their star running backs, Foothills’ Amahri Bailey and Florence’s Josh Maignan.
CASA GRANDE — It wasn’t the way Jake Barro drew it up, but Casa Grande Union got a much-needed 38-20 win over Tucson Catalina Foothills on Friday.
MARICOPA — In less than a minute in the opening quarter, Maricopa watched as Gilbert Williams Field quickly took a 9-0 lead and eventually led 23-0 after the first quarter.
SAN TAN VALLEY — The Poston Butte Broncos had a feeling Friday night was going to be a shootout with the Gilbert Mesquite Wildcats in town.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Police in Phoenix say a man has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend and another woman.
TUCSON (AP) — The University of Arizona Gem and Mineral Museum will sparkle a bit brighter next year with a new name and big new space.
FLAGSTAFF (AP) — Authorities in Flagstaff are investigating a possible arson at a Walmart store, which will remain closed until further notice due to severe fire and water damage.
TUCSON -- When you conjure an image of the Sonoran Desert in your mind’s eye, it’s likely populated with pale sand baking under a constant sun and plump cactus parked beneath twiggy trees flecked with miniature leaves. During the day, animals lay in shade while cicadas saturate the senses wi…
SOMERTON (AP) — An Arizona man is being held on charges that include aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after authorities say he opened fire in his house with three family members inside and on a road outside his house.
PHOENIX (AP) — Federal authorities say a man accused of conspiring to export military and space-grade technology to China without a license has been sentenced to more than three years in prison.
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CASA GRANDE — The Rev. Carl Bengtson has taken the helm at Sonland Lutheran Church.
The portion of Americans with no religious affiliation is rising significantly, in tandem with a sharp drop in the percentage that identifies as Christians.
SALT LAKE CITY — A proposed ban on so-called conversion therapy in Utah is in danger of being derailed after the influential Church of Jesus of Christ of Latter-day Saints came out Tuesday night in opposition, just months after it said it wouldn't stand in the way of a similar measure under …
ELOY — On Saturday, Oct. 26, from 2 to 4:30, the Baha’i community of southern Pinal County will host an event entitled “Musical Celebration of Unity” at Desert Rose Baha’i Institute, 1950 W. William Sears Dr. to honor the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Bab, the forerunner and herald o…
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WASHINGTON — For Mick Mulvaney, the hits just keep on coming.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — For only the fourth time in U.S. history, the House of Representatives has started a presidential impeachment inquiry. House committees are trying to determine if President Donald Trump violated his oath of office by asking a foreign country to investigate a political opponent.
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SAN ANTONIO — The shout of "2024!" from the crowd was unmistakable. It stopped Donald Trump Jr. cold.
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WASHINGTON — Three years of simmering frustration inside the State Department is boiling over on Capitol Hill as a parade of current and former diplomats testify to their concerns about the Trump administration's unorthodox policy toward Ukraine.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The game was billed as the return of Saquon Barkley to the New York Giants' lineup and the matchup of first-round rookie quarterbacks Kyler Murray and Daniel Jones. It …
Ohio State edged past Clemson to No. 3 in The Associated Press college football poll and Wisconsin dropped to 13th after being upset ahead of its showdown with the Buckeyes.
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LOS ANGELES — Kenan Christon only got in the game because the first three tailbacks on Southern California's depth chart were all hurt and the fourth-stringer had just fumbled.
HOUSTON — Jose Altuve, the 5-foot-6 driving force of Houston, delivered a swing that will play in Astros' highlights forever.
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Robert Breedlove, a 53-year high school football official, tells a sobering story.
MASON, Texas (AP) — The local celebrities arrived at the Mason Mountain Wildlife Management Area the night before, nestled in a cluster of plastic tubs secured in the back of Vicky Poole's SUV.
PORTLAND, Maine — A group representing Maine's lobstermen says it's now willing to work with the federal government on a plan to protect right whales after withdrawing its support for the plan this summer.
AZTEC, N.M. (AP) — It was a cold Monday morning at C.V. Koogler Middle School in Aztec. Students stumbled into Shannon Albores' history class and take off their rumpled jackets. After reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, they greeted their teacher by saying in unison, 'magandang umaga!'— which…
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DALLAS — A former senior Boeing test pilot told a co-worker that he unknowingly misled safety regulators about problems with a flight-control system that would later be implicated in two deadly crashes of the company's 737 Max.
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A Google affiliate started using drones Friday to deliver customers' Walgreens and FedEx purchases in a test being run in a Virginia town.
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SPOKANE, Wash. — They call it the Cosmic Crisp. It's not a video game, a superhero or the title of a Grateful Dead song.
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FLORENCE — Bowl with pumpkins and play other midway games, enjoy food and wander through a 3-acre corn maze on weekends Oct. 11 through Halloween at the Rankin Family Farm Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch, 924 W. Butte Ave., next to the Windmill Winery.
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The first DLC pack for RAGE 2 has been released and with Rise of the Ghosts; players are introduced to a new region called the “Overgrown City” and they soon find themselves at odds with a group known as the “Ghosts”. The Ghosts are Feltrite powered enemies who have many of your Ranger abili…
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MIDWAY ATOLL, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (AP) — A crew of deep-sea explorers and historians looking for lost World War II warships have found a second Japanese aircraft carrier that went do…
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BEIRUT — Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese protesters of all ages flooded major cities and towns nationwide Sunday demanding an end to corruption and the rule of the country's political elite.…
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AKCAKALE, Turkey — Dozens of vehicles rolled out of a besieged Syrian border town, evacuating Kurdish fighters and civilians and opening the way for Turkish-backed forces to take over in the f…
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In a sense, the people of the Ak-Chin Native American community have always been involved in gambling. Translated, Ak-Chin means “mouth of the wash” and refers to farming that relies on the de…
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Frank Pinkley was 19 years old in 1900 when he arrived in Arizona on a train from Missouri. He was scheduled to stay six months to recover from a mild case of tuberculosis. He never left.
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