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MARICOPA — School policies aim to keep kids in the classroom as much as possible, but when student behavior leaves them little choice, it takes some creativity to live up to that goal.
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MARICOPA — Students from Sequoia Pathway Academy organized a protest on Monday morning in solidarity with a teacher they say was unjustifiably fired.
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MARICOPA — Students from Sequoia Pathway Academy organized a protest on Monday morning in solidarity with a teacher they say was unjustifiably fired.
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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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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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CASA GRANDE -- Friends and family are hoping to raise money for the family of a Casa Grande man who was shot and killed earlier this month near Casa Grande Mountain.
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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.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis' controversial meeting on the Amazon has taken a criminal twist after thieves stole indigenous fertility statues from a Vatican-area church and tossed them into the Tiber River.
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 …
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NEW YORK — Sen. Martha McSally, the Arizona Republican appointed to the seat once held by John McCain, has a book deal.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — For Mick Mulvaney, the hits just keep on coming.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has announced an education proposal pledging to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on public schools while ending all federal funding to create new charter schools.
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WASHINGTON — For Mick Mulvaney, the hits just keep on coming.
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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.
Gerrit Cole, Max Scherzer and a slew of aces get the World Series started in Houston, then the scene shifts to Capitol Hill.
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.
DALLAS (AP) — Crews searched Monday through the rubble of homes and businesses torn apart by a tornado that ripped through the Dallas area the night before, and one person was killed by a falling tree in Arkansas as the storms moved to the northeast.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The suspect in a brutal torture killing in Alaska's biggest city ended up leading police right to him, first by losing a digital memory card labeled "Homicide at midtown Marriott" that contained video of the dying woman.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is planning to collect DNA samples from asylum-seekers and other migrants detained by immigration officials and will add the information to a massive FBI database used by law enforcement hunting for criminals, a Justice Department official said.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — There are plenty of sunny days to sweep the clouds away where SeaWorld is opening its next theme park.
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PHOENIX — "That's not real Mexican food," ''My grandma would slap you" and "sellout" are just some of comments Jose and Leticia Gamiz received when they started their pop-up vegan Mexican food business, Mi Vegana Madre, four years ago.
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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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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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BENI, Congo — When Germain Kalubenge gets a request for a ride on his motorcycle it can be a matter of life or death. The 23-year-old is a survivor of the Ebola virus and often is the only dri…
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AKCAKALE, Turkey — Angry over the U.S. withdrawal, residents of a Kurdish-dominated Syrian city hurled potatoes at departing American military vehicles as they drove by on Monday. Defense Secr…
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BERLIN (AP) — A 93-year-old German former Stutthof guard on trial in Hamburg on thousands of counts of accessory to murder says he regrets having served in the Nazi concentration camp.
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.
Miguel Sfeir remembers the first time he visited the small town of Superior. He had driven by on Highway 60 while riding his motorcycle, and a friend, Curtis Pierce, had a connection to the to…
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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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