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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has named a new head of the U.S. Border Patrol.
FLORENCE — Ronald Bragonier, a Maricopa man charged with child molestation, was found guilty on all counts Friday morning.
SUPERIOR -- Rock blasting for the US 60 Pinto Creek Bridge project between Miami and Superior is complete, officials say.
FLORENCE — A jury in the trial of a Maricopa man charged with child molestation ended deliberations Thursday without reaching a verdict and will reconvene Friday morning.
MARICOPA — Tyler Anderson, 21, of Maricopa was arrested Jan. 16 after allegedly stalking a woman.
FLORENCE — Despite the town’s efforts to improve its business friendliness in recent years, it still has a poor reputation around the state and what’s missing is an apology, an economic development consultant said.
ARIZONA CITY — Arizona Public Service Co. was planning to turn off the power in part of Arizona City Wednesday but that had to be delayed due to the weather.
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CASA GRANDE — Casa Grande Union and Vista Grande entered Thursday night’s girls soccer game wanting to win, but for different reasons.
CASA GRANDE — A year ago Casa Grande Union entered region play 2-5 and proceeded to finish 0-4-1 in the 4A Kino region.
SIGNAL PEAK — The top three scorers for the Central Arizona College women’s basketball team definitely made their presence known in Wednesday night’s game against Arizona Western.
School: Casa Grande Union
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SIGNAL PEAK — Starting the second go-round of Arizona Community College Athletic Conference play, the Central Arizona College men’s basketball came through with a sorely needed victory on Wednesday night.
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There's been a lot of talk recently about so-called “dad movies,” partly sparked by the success of “Ford v Ferrari.” And when it comes to that driving flick, a new movie says, “Hold onto your Dockers.”
CASA GRANDE — A 1956 Ford Thunderbird was the ultimate crowd-pleaser Jan. 18 at the 20th annual Casa Grande Street Fair and Car Show.
WASHINGTON – Arizona enacted a ban on texting while driving last year, after 10 years of trying, but it still wasn’t enough to pull the state from the bottom of a national report card on traffic safety laws.
NOGALES, Ariz. — U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested two men attempting to smuggle more than 165 pounds of suspected methamphetamine through a legitimate underground drainage tunnel Jan. 17.
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey ordered that flags at all state buildings be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset Friday to honor a Buckeye man killed in a plane crash while fighting wildfires in Australia.
SYDNEY (AP) — The American tanker plane that crashed while fighting Australian wildfires had just dropped a load of retardant on a fire before it went down in New South Wales state, investigators said Friday.
SUN CITY (AP) — Authorities have identified the body of an elderly man found floating in a Sun City pond.
PHOENIX (AP) — Police in Phoenix are searching for a suspect after a man was fatally shot near a north Phoenix community center.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — NFL free agent Antonio Brown was granted bail on Friday after turning himself in at a Florida jail on charges that he and his trainer attacked the driver of a moving tr…
No. 22 Arizona (13-5, 3-2) vs. Arizona State (11-7, 2-4)
PHOENIX — Devin Booker has produced the kind of all-around numbers for the past few seasons that suggest he should be an NBA All-Star. He usually commands the respect of opposing defenses like…
TUCSON – The Pac-12 Conference announced its weekly award winners on Monday and Arizona freshman forward Zeke Nnaji was named Freshman of the Week for the third time this season.
HONOLULU (AP) — Former Arizona State University head football coach Todd Graham has been introduced as the next head coach of the University of Hawaii football program, university officials said.
PHOENIX — T.J. Warren's first game against his former team went about as well as possible. He scored a game-high 25 points, had three steals and played excellent defense against former teammat…
NEW YORK — It's the defense's go-to question at Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial: If he's such a monster, why did some of his accusers stay in friendly contact with him for years after the alleged assaults?
HOUSTON — A massive explosion early Friday leveled a warehouse in Houston and damaged nearby buildings and homes, rousing frightened people from their sleep miles away and leaving one worker missing.
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City firefighters battled a raging blaze that broke out Thursday night at a building in Chinatown.
SALINAS, Calif. (AP) — A man has been arrested for allegedly using a slingshot and glass marbles to randomly attack dozens of vehicles on two Northern California highways, shattering their windows and frightening drivers, authorities announced Thursday.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The killing of a Utah mother and three of her children by a gunman identified by police as her 16-year-old son is “nearly unbearable" for the father of their children, a lawyer said Thursday.
NEAR THE MARIAS RIVER, Mont. (AP) — The Blackfeet Nation commemorated the 150th anniversary of the Baker Massacre on Thursday, hearing calls to learn their past and embrace their ancestry.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has named a new head of the U.S. Border Patrol.
WASHINGTON — It was just four years ago that a political committee supporting one of Donald Trump's Republican rivals unveiled an ad slamming his views on abortion, complete with footage from a 1999 interview in which he declared, “I am pro-choice in every respect."
WASHINGTON — In the otherwise scripted impeachment trial, it was a rare spontaneous moment: Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump's chief defenders, stopped Rep. Adam Schiff, the lead prosecutor, to shake his hand and compliment him on his arguments for Trump’s removal.
WASHINGTON — Democratic House prosecutors made an expansive case Thursday at Donald Trump's impeachment trial that he abused power like no other president in history, swept up by a “completely bogus” Ukraine theory pushed by attorney Rudy Giuliani.
SEATTLE — A federal judge in Washington state is considering whether to block President Donald Trump from diverting billions of dollars from military construction projects to build sections of border wall along the Southern border.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has concluded that it should have ended its surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser earlier than it did because it lacked “insufficient predication" to continue eavesdropping, according to an order made public Thursday by a secretive intellige…
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Hoisting a large leather Bible above her head, Bolivia’s new interim president delivered an emphatic message hours after Evo Morales fled under pressure, the end of a nearly 14-year presidency that celebrated the country’s indigenous religious beliefs like never before.
WASHINGTON – Arizona religious groups said the Trump administration’s release this week of regulations aimed at protecting religious expression “rights a serious wrong,” but others expect the moves will have little practical impact.
MEXICO CITY — The administrator of the elite Catholic school in Cancun, Mexico, used to take the girls out of class and send them to the chapel, where the priest from the Legion of Christ religious order would sexually abuse them.
CASA GRANDE — A Casa Grande man who travels to Nigeria each year to deliver money and goods to an orphanage said donations from area residents and businesses have impacted the lives of many.
CASA GRANDE — Central Lutheran Church is hosting a Holocaust Remembrance Day event at the church, 324 N. Sacaton St.
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ELOY - Peter and Kelsey Redwine raised two daughters in Casa Grande and during that time they realized that there wasn't much available for their two girls to do around town.
FLAGSTAFF — The closure of a coal-fired power plant on the Navajo Nation sooner than expected will be a major blow to a region where coal has been a mainstay of the economy for decades.
PHOENIX — Arizona's economy continues to improve, with the state's jobless rate dropping in December to the lowest point since January 2008.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Eleven young people, mostly teenagers, who were hunting small animals died in a fire that swept through a sugarcane field in Venezuela, authorities said Friday.
FRONTERA HIDALGO, Mexico (AP) — From the roadside stand where his family sells mole, barbecue and chicken stew, Miguel Ángel Vázquez has seen all the caravans of Central American migrants and …
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — More airports are beginning to screen passengers arriving from China amid growing concerns Friday over the outbreak of a new virus there that has already killed m…
COOLIDGE — On a Friday in early November, the normally workmanlike atmosphere at The Tire Factory in Coolidge was noticeably different. There was a party going on.
E ven in his young adulthood, Bob Brutinel had no idea he was going to be a plumber, or that he was going to live in Casa Grande. Yet now his name, and indeed his face, have become synonymous …
W hile the lifespan of a business can see many different people and directions, the same can be said for a building.
During the holiday season, we are all bombarded with million-dollar marketing campaigns pushing the bulk distribution of the hottest gifts. That’s what it takes for major corporation to grow t…
CASA GRANDE — Life has a way of throwing curveballs. In the late 1970s, Janie Garza Brown was looking for work and found a job at an insurance shop. She had no idea that one day she would be r…
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- Pinal singer felt more at home than ever at Country Thunder
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- Country Thunder helps Maricopa CERT team prepare for emergencies at home
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