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.
COOLIDGE — The Coolidge Fire Department extinguished a fire on Friday that destroyed a home at Seventh Street and Wilson Avenue.
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.
MARICOPA — A pioneer for her school, Lealani Escalade has fond memories of her time in class, though she looks forward to what's next.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
WASHINGTON — More Americans applied for jobless aid last week, but the total number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits is at a 53-year low.
MILAN (AP) — Netflix has agreed to pay more than 55.8 million euros ($59 million) to settle a tax dispute, Milan prosecutors said Friday.
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.
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…
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.