CASA GRANDE — Monday’s City Council meeting will signal the end of an era with lifelong Casa Grande resident Dick Powell saying goodbye from the council bench for the last time.
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CASA GRANDE — Monday’s City Council meeting will signal the end of an era with lifelong Casa Grande resident Dick Powell saying goodbye from the council bench for the last time.
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Update: Pinal County announced Monday morning that the intersection had been reopened.
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CASA GRANDE — Area residents will celebrate the miracle of Hanukkah as a 9-foot menorah is illuminated at 5 p.m. in front of Casa Grande City Hall on Sunday, Dec. 18.
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LAS VEGAS — Arizona City-based Native American performers The Band Blackbird recently performed on stage with legendary singer Wayne Newton.
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FLORENCE — A 19-year-old woman has been accused of murder after she is alleged to have caused the death of another driver while driving under the influence.
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CASA GRANDE — Plans for a new 145-room Marriott hotel along with a convention center advanced when the Casa Grande Planning and Zoning Commission approved a major site plan on Thursday evening.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — It’s been a steady process of turning around the Poston Butte girls basketball program. After three consecutive postseason season appearances, each one gradually better than the previous, the Broncos are looking to go a step further this year.
FLORENCE – The Florence boys soccer team hasn’t had a winning soccer season lately, but that may be about to change.
CASA GRANDE — It’s been a culmination of things that turned the Maricopa volleyball team back into a playoff contender over the past two seasons.
COOLIDGE — Finding stability and consistency on the court has proved to be a tough task for the Santa Cruz Valley Dust Devils. Over the past three seasons, the Dust Devils have won a combined two games and have seen a revolving door of coaches come in and out of the program.
COOLIDGE — The Coolidge Bears may have graduated their 3A Region Player of the Year, Brooklyn Pablo, going into this season, but coach Aaron Monteverde is eager for the leveling of effort and opportunity this may create for the rest of the team in her stead.
FLORENCE – There’s renewed interest in wrestling this season, with 29 kids practicing most days after only nine in the varsity lineup last year.
PHOENIX (AP) — The trial of a man accused of fatally shooting nine people in the Phoenix metro area over an 11-month span has been pushed back again, this time to February 2024.
PHOENIX (AP) — Three people were killed and two others injured after a fiery car crash in west Phoenix, authorities said Sunday.
PHOENIX (AP) — Jim Kolbe, a Republican congressman who represented a heavily Democratic region of Arizona for more than two decades and was a proponent of gay rights, has died. He was 80.
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Former Tucson police Officer Ryan Remington, who was indicted on a manslaughter charge in the shooting of a shoplifting suspect, will have his case heard again by a grand jury.
PHOENIX — A new research program combining the efforts of Northern Arizona University and the University of Washington aims to create a vaccine for Valley fever, an infectious fungal disease that poses an increasing threat as the climate continues to warm and dry.
PHOENIX — A bipartisan group of legislators called on Gov. Doug Ducey to live up to his promise to call a special session to address a school spending crunch before he — and some of them — leave office at the end of the year.
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Desmond Cambridge Jr. scored 19 points and Arizona State used a late run to beat Stanford 68-64 Sunday night for the Sun Devils' sixth consecutive win.
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Azuolas Tubelis and Oumar Ballo combined for 42 points and 19 rebounds, and No. 4 Arizona bounced back from its first loss by holding off winless California 81-68 on Sunday.
Wyoming (7-5, Mountain West) vs. Ohio (9-4, MAC) Dec. 30, 4:30 p.m. ET, Barstool
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LAS VEGAS — Arizona City-based Native American performers The Band Blackbird recently performed on stage with legendary singer Wayne Newton.
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Twitter has suspended rapper Ye after he tweeted a picture of a swastika merged with the Star of David.
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MARICOPA — This weekend, Merry Copa invites the community to experience an "evening of lights" and an "afternoon of wonder" over two days.
HONOLULU (AP) — USS Arizona sailor Lou Conter lived through the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor even though his battleship exploded and sank after being pierced by aerial bombs.
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A serial killer known as the “Torso Killer” admitted Monday to killing a 23-year-old woman outside a Long Island shopping mall in 1968 and four other women decades ago.
CARTHAGE, N.C. (AP) — Tens of thousands of people braced for days without electricity in a North Carolina county where authorities say two power substations were shot up by one or more people with apparent criminal intent.
HAVACO, W.Va. (AP) — Mayapple plants sprout in the sunken soil where the bodies lie, their leaves sheltering the unmarked graves like tiny umbrellas. The forgotten burial ground is overrun by four-wheel tire tracks near a path strewn with discarded bottles and other trash.
HOUSTON — A 33-year-old man was arrested on a murder charge in the shooting of rapper Takeoff, who police on Friday said was an “innocent bystander” when he was struck by gunfire outside a Houston bowling alley.
Infowars host Alex Jones filed for personal bankruptcy protection Friday in Texas, citing debts that include nearly $1.5 billion he has been ordered to pay to families who sued him over his conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook school massacre.
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PHOENIX — Arizona's top officials certified the midterm election results Monday, formalizing victories for Democrats over Republicans who falsely claimed the 2020 election was rigged.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors started deliberating Monday in the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud trial, weighing charges that former President Donald Trump’s company helped executives dodge personal income taxes on perks such as Manhattan apartments and luxury cars.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is hearing the case of a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for gay couples, a dispute that's the latest clash of religion and gay rights to land at the highest court.
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BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts ex-town official seen on surveillance video marching through the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to 15 days in prison for her role in the riot carried out by supporters of former Republican President Donald Trump to stop the transfer of presidential …
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WASHINGTON (AP) — As a businessman and president, Donald Trump faced a litany of lawsuits and criminal investigations yet emerged from the legal scrutiny time and again with his public and political standing largely intact.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to decide whether the Biden administration can broadly cancel student loans, keeping the program blocked for now but signaling a final answer by early summer.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday denounced a European Union proposal to create an U.N.-backed special tribunal to prosecute crim…
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to boost Russian morale Monday by driving a vehicle across a bridge to Crimea that a truck bomb had damaged in October.
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LONDON (AP) — Asked to sum up 2022 in a word, the public has chosen a phrase.
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LONDON (AP) — St. Edward’s Crown, the centerpiece of the Crown Jewels viewed by millions of people every year at the Tower of London, has been moved to an undisclosed location for modification…
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LONDON (AP) — The British Museum has pledged not to dismantle its collection, following a report that the institution’s chairman has held secret talks with Greece’s prime minister over the ret…
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The Group of Seven nations and Australia have joined the European Union in agreeing to a $60-per-barrel price cap on Russian oil. It's a key step as Western sanctions aim to reorder the global oil market to prevent price spikes and starve President Vladimir Putin of funding for his war in Ukraine. The nations needed to set the discounted price that other nations will pay by Monday, when an EU embargo on Russian oil shipped by sea and a ban on insurance for those supplies take effect. The price cap aims to prevent a sudden loss of Russian oil to the world that could lead to a new surge in energy prices.
CASA GRANDE — Area residents will celebrate the miracle of Hanukkah as a 9-foot menorah is illuminated at 5 p.m. in front of Casa Grande City Hall on Sunday, Dec. 18.
CASA GRANDE — Fundraising efforts are underway to collect money for food, medicine and medical supplies for children in orphanages in Eastern Nigeria.
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ELOY — Sit down with Eloy Mayor Micah Powell for just a few minutes and one thing becomes evident: Powell is passionate about seeing the city of Eloy, and its residents, thrive.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell in midday trading on Wall Street Monday and bond yields rose as investors face a mostly quiet week that will be capped by a closely watched update on inflation.
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Most people no longer get a tax deduction when they donate to charity. That shouldn’t keep you from making donations, but you may want to change your approach.
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Hertz says it will pay approximately $168 million by the end of the year to settle the majority of the lawsuits brought against the rental car company by some of its customers who were wrongly accused of stealing cars they had rented.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Austan Goolsbee, who was a top economic adviser to President Barack Obama, has been chosen as the next president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the regional Fed bank announced Thursday.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden assured Americans on Friday that the U.S. economy is chugging along in the holiday season, but the very strength of a new jobs report showed that high inflation remains a recession threat.
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WASHINGTON — The nation’s employers kept hiring briskly in November despite high inflation and a slow-growing economy — a sign of resilience in the face of the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes.
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