SHOW LOW — Show Low Police reports a 35-year-old man driving a pickup ran over a group of 40 to 50 bicyclists on the Deuce of Clubs about 7:25 a.m. Saturday.
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ELOY – An Eloy man is facing assault charges after he allegedly attempted to strangle a woman and broke a door.
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CASA GRANDE — The City Council will discuss a partnership between the city and Arizona Water Company for development of the huge Copper Mountain Ranch community west of Pinal Avenue during Monday’s City Council meeting.
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ELOY — Eloy Police Chief Chris Vasquez referenced a fairy tale for emphasis during his speech at the ribbon cutting and dedication ceremony for the newly renovated public safety building on Friday morning.
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CASA GRANDE — Casa Grande City Hall may get some beautification that goes beyond just safety improvements. Back in April, the City Council approved a contract with Capital R Construction worth nearly $50,000 for security enhancements.
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SUPERIOR — Pinal County health officials issued an air quality advisory as smoke from an on-going massive wildfire has hovered over the region.
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CASA GRANDE — Firefighters are hailing an unknown commercial truck driver as a hero after he saved two small children from the rear seat of an SUV that was on fire Thursday.
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CASA GRANDE — As a high school football player at Vista Grande, Elizsha Bear-Encinas always felt overlooked. He wants to make sure other players don’t feel the same, and he’s doing something about it.
College football has gotten it wrong for a long time.
CASA GRANDE — It will be a tale of two local mixed martial arts fighters on Sunday afternoon in Phoenix as Zezar Lopez and Daniel Fessler compete in the RUF MMA 41 Summer Showdown.
Chris Paul has been a known NBA commodity for more than 15 years. But at age 36, he’s doing things for the Phoenix Suns that defy any sort of established narrative.
PHOENIX -- The six-time world champion Arizona Rattlers defeated the Tucson Sugar Skulls 44-34 in their home opener at Phoenix Suns Arena on Saturday.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Late Friday afternoon, the Arizona Daily Star reported that Luna and teammate Randy Abshier had been put on interim suspension by UA’s dean of students for this weekend’s series against Ole Miss for an off-campus incident in which they were deemed to have violated the student …
PHOENIX — The Southwest U.S. continued to bake Saturday, and weather forecasters kept warnings in effect for excessive heat in Arizona, Nevada and desert areas, at least through the weekend.
SHOW LOW — Show Low Police reports a 35-year-old man driving a pickup ran over a group of 40 to 50 bicyclists on the Deuce of Clubs about 7:25 a.m. Saturday.
TUCSON (AP) — Researchers at the University of Arizona will be launching a study of how prone Hispanic children are to asthma in Tucson compared with their peers on the other side of the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Sonora.
LOS ANGELES -- Death Valley National Park, California, is known as the "hottest place on Earth." Temperatures reached 128 degrees Fahrenheit on June 17, as tourists visited the park during a record heat wave.
STRAWBERRY (AP) — A wildfire that broke out near a popular camping area in the mountains northeast of Phoenix forced officials to order evacuations of the small communities of Strawberry and Pine.
PHOENIX — An Arizona teenager suspected of killing one person and injuring a dozen others during a 90-minute string of drive-by shootings in metropolitan Phoenix told police he believed people were after him because of his involvement in another shooting, according to court documents release…
PHOENIX — Will Smith has been behind the plate for plenty of Walker Buehler's starts dating back to their minor league days. It doesn't take the Dodgers catcher long to know if Buehler's got t…
OMAHA, Neb. — Vanderbilt made it to Omaha with a young team, one almost entirely different from the one that won the national championship here in 2019.
NEW YORK — The Milwaukee Bucks withstood Kevin Durant's NBA-record 48 points in a Game 7, advancing to the Eastern Conference finals by beating the Brooklyn Nets 115-111 in overtime Saturday night.
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FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — The Grand Canyon is known first and foremost for its enormity, and Farmington artist Marilyn Taylor acknowledges that its sheer size, especially when viewed from the perspective of the rim, can be overwhelming.
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Kevin Hart can make us laugh and cry, it seems, even if the vehicle was practically engineered to bring on the waterworks. In “Fatherhood,” on Netflix on Friday, he plays a new dad whose wife dies shortly after childbirth and he’s left raising their daughter on his own.
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Toward the end of “The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard,” there’s a scene where Ryan Reynolds is repeatedly smashing a man’s head into a jukebox aboard a yacht, as sometimes happens. Each time the bloodied head goes in the machine, it triggers a new song. Until it lands on “The Sign” by Ace of Base.
BATTLE, Creek, Mich. (AP) — In one of the first group cycling rides in more than a year, about 50 people were reminded of a bicycling tragedy five years ago.
WILTON MANORS, Fla. (AP) — A driver slammed into spectators Saturday evening at the start of a Pride parade in South Florida, killing one man and seriously injuring another, authorities said.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two brothers from San Francisco say they have set a record for the longest highline ever walked in both Yosemite National Park and California, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
NEW ORLEANS — Authorities in Alabama say a suspected tornado spurred by Tropical Storm Claudette demolished or badly damaged at least 50 homes in a small town just north of the Florida border.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — For 20 years, Sacramento’s Black community has organized a Juneteenth festival to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States.
CARSON CITY, Nev. — Record-breaking heat and historic drought in the U.S. West are doing little to discourage cities from planning to welcome millions of new residents in the decades ahead.
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Anti-government activist Ammon Bundy on Saturday came out with his first videos announcing his campaign to become governor of Idaho.
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WILMINGTON, Del. — President Joe Biden announced Saturday that Champ, the older of the family’s two dogs, had died “peacefully at home.” The German shepherd was 13.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — After a year of protests over police brutality, some Republican-controlled states have ignored or blocked police-reform proposals, moving instead in the other direction by granting greater powers to officers, making it harder to discipline them and expanding their autho…
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Congress and President Joe Biden acted with unusual swiftness this week in approving Juneteenth as a national holiday. That shifted the battle to the states, where the holiday faces a far less enthusiastic response.
PHOENIX — Gov. Doug Ducey signed a $100 million plan to fight current fires, but not before hearing from Democratic leaders about what's not in the legislation: preventing future blazes by dealing with climate change.
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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Camille Touton, a veteran congressional water policy adviser, has been nominated to lead the agency that oversees water and power in the U.S. West.
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CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico — Gunmen aboard a number of vehicles staged attacks in several neighborhoods in the Mexican border city of Reynosa on Saturday, and at least 15 people died in clashes t…
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LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II was smiling broadly as she attended the final day of the Ascot races on Saturday, where environmental protesters urged the monarch to press politicians to act …
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PARIS (AP) — French police clashed with party-goers as they tried to break up an unauthorized rave in western France, authorities said Saturday. A 22-year-old man lost his hand and several oth…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic and changing consumer habits threaten to put an end to a decades-old practice of allowing elderly people in Mexico to earn extra income as grocery s…
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranians voted Friday in a presidential election dominated by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s hard-line protege after the disqualification of his stronges…
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BRASILIA, Brazil — As Brazil hurtles toward an official COVID-19 death toll of 500,000 — second-highest in the world — science is on trial inside the country and the truth is up for grabs.
CASA GRANDE — St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church, working in partnership with Pinal County Health Department, will offer Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations.
HARVARD, Neb. (AP) — When Frank VanCampen built a custom barn wood casket for a woman in Haxtun, Colorado, the piece got plenty of attention.
U.S. Catholic bishops overwhelmingly approved the drafting of a “teaching document” that many of them hope will rebuke Catholic politicians, including President Joe Biden, for receiving Communion despite their support for abortion rights.
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SHARPSVILLE, Pa. — Michael Kovach got into the farming business 13 years ago with the purchase of a 107-acre farm in Mercer County after retiring from the oil and gas industry at 39.
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MARIETTA, Pa. (AP) — Luke Brubaker admitted that he’s proud of his soil as he bent over and gestured with an extended arm to a field on his northwestern Lancaster County dairy operation.
FLAGSTAFF -- With water levels in Lake Mead dropping at an alarming rate, the western United States needs to look to other solutions to meet its water needs. That solution can be as simple as changing the way farmers fallow land, which can significantly reduce water usage while not seeing si…
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LAS VEGAS -- Hilton has almost doubled its presence in Las Vegas over the past three years.
PHOENIX -- Unable to advance his proposed $1.9 billion permanent tax cut at the Capitol, Gov. Doug Ducey is now going public -- or at least to business interests -- in a bid to build public pressure.
PHOENIX — Arizona’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained unchanged in May at 6.7% as overall employment increased by just 900 jobs from April.
It’s easy to think of Maricopa as a brand new city. In many ways, when comparing its lifespan to everywhere else, this is true. But whether it feels this way or not, it is now approaching 20 y…
MARICOPA -- For the time being, Maricopans have no need to fret about maintaining a pool or backyard garden for their home.
MARICOPA -- Housing trends in Maricopa are built on the foundation laid by Mike Ingram’s El Dorado Holdings. Ingram is El Dorado’s founder and chairman.
Last spring was memorable, and I was feeling anxious as I squeezed into my chair at a day-long medical conference in a local hotel. My sister and brother-in-law were coming to stay with us for…
MARICOPA -- Perhaps unlike anywhere else, Maricopa residents are keenly aware of the real estate market. They have to be, as so much of the local economy is based on housing. That is how the c…
As I begin my first column for Copacetic, I want to thank Maricopa Monitor for the opportunity to present a superintendent’s column to inform readers about the MUSD programs, promise and poten…
MARICOPA — In much the same way that a bodega or corner store remains a central part of urban city culture, Water and Ice stores have made their way into the storefronts of the Southwest, serv…
MARICOPA -- It’s all about the details for Maricopa artist Herman Zelig Neuberger.
MARICOPA -- In most communities in the United States, the farm is far removed from the table. Food can travel thousands of miles from the farm to the grocery store before ending up in people’s…
Maricopa Nursery owner Agnes Gabica is one of the go-to plant suppliers in Maricopa and has her green thumb on the pulse of the latest gardening trends in Arizona. Many of these trends revolve…
It’s a common story in the home improvement industry: homeowner watches HGTV, homeowner attempts home improvement themselves, mayhem ensues.
MARICOPA -- Area pool builders say the past year has had record-breaking demand for new pool construction and backyard improvements and they expect the trend to continue.
MARICOPA -- If Harrah’s Ak-Chin Casino blackjack dealer Agnes Gabica was told in 2009 she would be running a successful plant nursery and landscaping business in just 12 years, she would’ve laughed.
- Arizona researchers to study cross-border childhood asthma
- Q&A: UA Health Sciences pediatrics expert addresses parents’ vaccine questions
- Extra COVID vaccine may help protect transplant patients
- J&J vaccine doses to be released, but many will be tossed
- Summer camps return but with fewer campers and counselors
- As tax changes loom, farmers worry about the next generation
- Amid report on farm-related pollution, conservation cited
- Expert: The ‘silver bullet’ to the West’s water crisis lies in what we feed cattle
- In Tigray, food is often a weapon of war as famine looms
- Sinkhole at Mexico farm swallows more land, traps 2 dogs
- Community Action at work: CAHRA provides multitude of services to assist area residents
- Hope Women's Center keeps doors open for women who need help
- Healing with Hoofbeats: Nonprofit offers equine-assisted therapy
- CAHRA helped single mom find new footing, restart her life
- Racing to give: Nonprofit marathon designed to support local community