Some people go through life without ever having a mentor, but the Native SOAR program is working to change that for Indigenous students — whether they’re in kindergarten or doctoral students.
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CASA GRANDE — Randy Robbins’ life has taken him from one big journey to another. Now, on the verge of retiring from his work at Casa Grande Union High School, he’s excited to see what the next one will look like.
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COOLIDGE — The Coolidge Fire Department extinguished a fire on Friday that destroyed a home at Seventh Street and Wilson Avenue.
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CASA GRANDE — Mayor Craig McFarland has told PinalCentral after a whirlwind visit to Washington, D.C. last week there is strong support from the Arizona congressional delegation for a $300 million grant for widening Interstate 10.
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MARICOPA — A pioneer for her school, Lealani Escalade has fond memories of her time in class, though she looks forward to what's next.
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FLORENCE — A 58-year-old Queen Creek man has been indicted by a Pinal County grand jury after being accused of having sex with an underage girl over a period of two years in San Tan Valley.
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FLORENCE — The 57-year-old Coolidge man accused of killing a Casa Grande man in Maricopa and bombing a Social Security office almost 10 years ago has faced a lot of turns in the judicial system.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — Roy Carrasco and Ethan Hatch were already batterymates before they arrived at Poston Butte their freshman year.
SIGNAL PEAK – So far, it’s been a magical ride for the sixth-ranked Central Arizona College baseball team as it seeks to make a third consecutive trip to the NJCAA World Series.
SIGNAL PEAK – Led by the defending women’s discus national champion, Central Arizona College will have several track and field athletes competing in this week’s NJCAA Outdoor Championships.
COOLIDGE — Following a record-setting turnout at the 2021 edition, Coolidge basketball coach Dave Glasgow is bringing back his summer camps.
MESA — Over the course of the regular season, Coolidge track and field coach Kim Hoke constantly gushed about the Bears’ sophomore class and its potential. That was realized on Saturday as one of those young athletes took home a Division III individual state title.
MESA — Kendra Johnson and Wrangler Guilliams were the lone representatives for the Florence track and field team at the Arizona Interscholastic Association’s final day of the state meet on Saturday.
Some people go through life without ever having a mentor, but the Native SOAR program is working to change that for Indigenous students — whether they’re in kindergarten or doctoral students.
PHOENIX — Arizona has a legal right to challenge a provision in the federal COVID relief package that forbids using the money for tax cuts, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
WASHINGTON — A Navajo Nation official told a Senate panel this week that the tribe’s police department lacks the resources to attract and retain officers, a problem that experts say is faced by tribal police departments across the country.
NEW ORLEANS — Pandemic-related restrictions on migrants seeking asylum on the southern border must continue, a judge ruled Friday in an order blocking the Biden administration’s plan to lift them early next week.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Federal officials are warning that expanding drought conditions coupled with hot and dry weather, extreme wind and unstable atmospheric conditions have led to explosive fire behavior in the southwestern U.S., where large fires continued their march across New Mexico on Friday.
PHOENIX — A federal appeals court on Thursday revived Arizona’s lawsuit challenging the part of President Joe Biden’s massive coronavirus rescue law that bars states from using the federal money to offset tax cuts.
TEMPE — The biggest take away so far through the second day of the Tempe regionals is that opponents should not sleep on San Diego State.
TEMPE — Although Poston Butte alum Lindsay Lopez did not make an appearance, the rest of her Arizona State teammates showed up in a big way in the team's opening regional game against Cal Stat…
BOSTON — Trevor Story hit a grand slam over the Green Monster — and into the hands of a former Red Sox player — a night after hitting three over Fenway Park’s fabled left field wall, leading B…
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina judge granted bond on Friday to the former “American Idol” contestant accused of barreling into a man with his pickup truck and killing him.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — New rules about how and when actors can use guns while filming failed to pass the California Legislature on Thursday just months after a gun actor Alec Baldwin was holding went off and killed a cinematographer on a movie set in New Mexico.
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Rosmarie Trapp, whose Austrian family the von Trapps was made famous in the musical and beloved movie “The Sound of Music,” has died.
DETROIT — The Michigan Supreme Court said Friday it wants more information from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer about her request to erase a state abortion ban from decades ago.
A current U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent and a former supervisor in the agency were charged Friday with leaking confidential law enforcement information to defense lawyers in Miami in exchange for $70,000 in cash.
GAYLORD, Mich. — A rare tornado tore through a small northern Michigan community on Friday, inflicting injuries, flipping vehicles, tearing the roofs off buildings and causing other damage.
OCILLA, Ga. (AP) — A jury on Friday found a man accused of killing a popular high school teacher who vanished from her rural Georgia hometown in 2005 not guilty of murder.
HELENA, Mont. — It's been a month since a Montana judge temporarily blocked enforcement of a state law that required transgender people to undergo surgery before they could change their gender on their birth certificate, and the state still isn't in compliance with the court order, the ACLU …
NEW YORK — When police confronted the white man suspected of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, he was the very poster boy for armed and dangerous, carrying an AR-15-style rifle and cloaked in body armor and hatred.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An abortion opponent was arraigned Thursday on charges of felony stalking and other misdemeanors after he targeted a physician at home and barged into the San Francisco health clinic where the physician works, frightening the doctor, patients and staff, District Attorney…
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WASHINGTON — The United States has removed five extremist groups, all believed to be defunct, from its list of foreign terrorist organizations. In notices published in the Federal Register on Friday, the State Department said it had removed the groups after a mandatory five-year review of th…
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NEW YORK — Convicted California lawyer Michael Avenatti wants leniency at sentencing for defrauding former client Stormy Daniels of hundreds of thousands of dollars, his lawyers say, citing a letter in which he told Daniels: “I am truly sorry.”
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s Republican primary for an open U.S. Senate seat is too close to call and is likely headed for a statewide recount to decide the winner of the contest between heart surgeon-turned-TV celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — With Oklahoma only days away from enacting the toughest state ban on abortion in the U.S., providers were preparing to stop terminating pregnancies as questions remained Friday about enforcing the law's limited exceptions.
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OREGON CITY, Ore. — A Democratic state lawmaker in Oregon is calling for a formal investigation into a ballot-printing fiasco that will delay results from Tuesday’s primary by weeks in the state’s third-largest county, with a key U.S. House race hanging in the balance.
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MADRID (AP) — Large parts of Spain were under alert Friday as a wave of intense heat began sweeping across the country, leaving residents sweltering through May temperatures that rank among th…
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POKROVSK, Ukraine — Russia claimed to have captured Mariupol on Friday in what would be its biggest victory yet in its war with Ukraine, after a nearly three-month siege that reduced much of t…
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POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russia claimed to have captured Mariupol on Friday in what would be its biggest victory yet in its war with Ukraine, after a nearly three-month siege that reduced much…
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TOKYO — The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency stressed the importance of transparency on Friday after visiting the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, where he observe…
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BERLIN (AP) — A tornado swept through the western German city of Paderborn on Friday, injuring at least 30 people as it blew away roofs, toppled trees and sent debris flying for miles, authori…
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The lawyer for a Russian soldier who was the first to go on trial for an alleged war crime in Ukraine asked a Kyiv court Friday to acquit his client, who had admitted kill…
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — It was lunch hour at the abortion clinic, so the nurse in the recovery room got her Bible out of her bag in the closet and began to read.
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s financial trial took a series of surreal turns Thursday when a former suspect-turned-star witness was thrown out of the tribunal and a defendant asserted in court documents that she escorted two emissaries of Russian President Vladimir Putin into the Holy See to …
CASA GRANDE — For Scott McEuen, one important measure of a community’s health is its dedication to service.
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WASHINGTON — Arizona businesses welcomed the federal government’s release this week of another 35,000 H-2B visas for temporary guest workers, as a tight U.S. labor market has left companies scrambling to fill vacancies.
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WASHINGTON — More Americans applied for jobless aid last week, but the total number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits is at a 53-year low.
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MILAN (AP) — Netflix has agreed to pay more than 55.8 million euros ($59 million) to settle a tax dispute, Milan prosecutors said Friday.
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NEW YORK — Wall Street rumbled to the edge of a bear market Friday after another drop for stocks briefly sent the S&P 500 more than 20% below its peak set early this year.
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BANGKOK — With world economies all suffering from more than two years of the coronavirus pandemic and global supply problems exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States has an “incredible opportunity” to engage with other nations on a common playing field and forge new pa…
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in California has dismissed a securities fraud and defamation lawsuit filed by a Tesla investor against CEO Elon Musk, one of Musk's supporters and Tesla.
A huge thanks to everyone who submitted their work as painters, cake designers, jewelry makers and artists of all kinds to be featured in this issue. We owe another big thank you to the Artist…
Home decor can help liven any house to make it feel like a true home, and that is the mission for the dedicated workers of Signjunkie.
When it comes to art forms, architecture is considered one of the most intricate and complex.
Dancing gives the opportunity for self-expression and communication without having to use words. Ceylan Gentilella describes it as a “beautiful, ever-changing art” that’s a “way of life” and a…
Florence started celebrating its big annual country music festival a few days early with the “Road to Country Thunder,” a free concert Saturday night, from 5 to 10 p.m., on North Main Street.
Florence starts celebrating its big annual country music festival a few days early with the “Road to Country Thunder,” a free Saturday night concert on North Main Street.
Spring is always a wonderful time of year in Arizona. Consistently sunny, clear and temperate days are strung together throughout this special season like bright blue beads on a necklace.
Amil Pedro is now 78 years old. His wife passed away a decade ago and his sister died in February. He lost a leg to diabetes in 2015. He admitted there have been periods recently where he’s fo…
A day drip across the county: Seeing the arts wherever you go
The recording studio at Central Arizona College’s Signal Peak Campus is a state-of-the-art facility with instruments and equipment that can produce professional-quality sound. But maybe the ke…
The scenic Superstition Mountains with their intricate formation and impressive ridges are a source of inspiration for plenty of people, from hikers and trail blazing adventurers to photograph…
From world-famous photographers to muralists, for decades, Pinal County has been a home for artists.
Those who marvel at the new fence at the Casa Grande Art Museum, gaze upon the artwork at Casa Grande Municipal Airport or chat with artists during the twice-annual tours might not know the na…
Each person has a story.
Lisa Swanson and her ArtMobile van are often spotted at various places throughout Casa Grande, Stanfield, Arizona City and other parts of Pinal County. And when they see her, people know that …
One of Arizona’s little quirks that often gets a chuckle from people who come here from elsewhere is that we do everything in the winter. Over in the Midwest and the Northeast, nobody plans an…
Morgan Godfrey is the head lifeguard at Copper Sky. He helps make sure things run smoothly, everyone makes it to their shift and everything is ready for the pool guests.
Youth sports at Copper Sky provide a positive atmosphere for summer fun to develop life skills, make new friends and become more confident.
Those who drove through Maricopa as recently as 2000 might not have even realized where they were. The area was still unincorporated, with a smattering of businesses in between farms and dairi…
MARICOPA — Maricopa Community Theatre welcomes all to its family and hopes to bring entertainment and culture to the local community.
MARICOPA — For those looking for some summertime fun out of the sun, the Ak-Chin entertainment complex and Harrah's Ak-Chin Casino have activities lined up to keep area residents cool and ente…
I was on my way home during the hot dry summer of 2020 when I saw my neighbor Alice and her dog, Bailey, trying to cross a busy street on a hot afternoon in July. I stopped and gave them a rid…
MARICOPA — Photographer and painter Ruby Valadez said she's always been an artist.
"What words do we live by every day and everywhere?"
For most kids, no school is synonymous with all play.
