PHOENIX — A Chandler police officer killed when he was run over by a fleeing suspect was described Saturday as a caring man who served his community and his profession while showing compassion…
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GLOBE (AP) — A route between metro Phoenix and the White Mountains in eastern Arizona's high country remained closed Saturday because of a wildfire that for a time burned on both sides the highway.
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MARCIOPA – A Maricopa man is facing assault charges after he allegedly tried to strangle a woman.
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CASA GRANDE -- A Vista Grande High School junior has collected more than 4,000 hygiene items for people in area domestic violence shelters.
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ELEVEN MILE CORNER — It’s raining cats and dogs in Pinal County, and that’s a problem for animal shelters. Pinal County Animal Care and Control announced Friday afternoon that the facility had reached capacity.
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CASA GRANDE – A Sacaton man is facing charges after allegedly pulling a knife on a man in Casa Grande.
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COOLIDGE — An 85-year-old man living in the 300 block of West Coolidge Avenue allegedly was punched and stabbed with knives Wednesday by two people after the man accused them of squatting at the residence.
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CASA GRANDE — About 45 minutes after their softball counterparts won a first-round state playoff game on the adjacent field, the Vista Grande baseball team also tasted victory.
CASA GRANDE — Vista Grande has high expectations for itself in the 4A softball state playoffs. It didn't just want a win Saturday, it wanted to win convincingly.
SAN TAN VALLEY — Poston Butte’s first batter, Junior Lopez, hit the ball out of the park Saturday, which may have told Coconino High School they were in for a tough day.
SCOTTSDALE — The Casa Grande Union baseball team was back in the playoffs for the first time in four years, unfortunately for the Cougars they had the tall task of going up against the No. 2 seed in Scottsdale Horizon.
PHOENIX — The Santa Cruz Valley softball roster includes 10 underclassmen, half of which are freshmen. Given that the season was canceled last year, those 10 underclassmen got their first taste of the postseason this year.
SIGNAL PEAK — Pitching, defense, long ball, small ball — the Central Arizona College baseball team had it all in Saturday’s playoff game against South Mountain.
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona on Saturday reported 939 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases and 16 more deaths.
PHOENIX — A Chandler police officer killed when he was run over by a fleeing suspect was described Saturday as a caring man who served his community and his profession while showing compassion to those in need, including fellow officers coping with stress.
PHOENIX (AP) — A Phoenix police officer shot and wounded a man who had raised a gun toward the officer after earlier shooting at a different officer, the Police Department said Saturday.
FLAGSTAFF (AP) — It's nearly two years since a fire burned nearly 3.1 square miles (8.1 square kilometers) in hills north of Flagstaff but rows of concrete barriers and stacks of sandbags remain in place in neighborhoods along a wash.
CAMP VERDE (AP) — A scenic stretch of the Verde River popular for outdoor recreation in north-central Arizona will be closed to the public for the next two weeks while contractors round up and remove unauthorized or feral cattle.
GRAND CANYON NATIONAP PARK (AP) — The North Rim of the Grand Canyon is about to reopen after being closed over the winter.
CLEVELAND — Wade Miley pitched baseball’s second no-hitter in three days — and fourth already this season — leading the Cincinnati Reds to a 3-0 win Friday night over the Cleveland Indians, wh…
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Phil Kessel scored the go-ahead goal for his 900th career point and Victor Soderstrom scored his first NHL goal as the Arizona Coyotes beat the San Jose Sharks 5-2 on Friday night.
PHOENIX — Chris Paul got knocked to the ground by a flagrant foul and popped up angry.
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Tawny Kitaen, the sultry red-haired actress who appeared in rock music videos during they heyday of MTV and starred opposite Tom Hanks in the 1984 comedy “Bachelor Party,” has died. She was 59.
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A sleepy and aimless stab at something earnestly “feel-good,” “Here Today” is a wasted pairing of Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish that juggles dementia, grief and family squabbles about as adeptly as a daytime soap.
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CASA GRANDE — With a new music video and a new CD, the Arizona Wildflowers musical group has been busy.
MIAMI — A shooting at a South Florida shopping mall that was sparked by a fight between two groups of people sent panicked shoppers fleeing and left three persons injured Saturday afternoon, police and witnesses said.
WOODLAWN, Md. (AP) — Three people were killed, including a suspect, and two were injured in a shooting and fire early Saturday morning in Maryland, according to authorities.
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — After skipping a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest is set to return to the Florida Keys this summer.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The card that millions of people use to prove their identity to everyone from police officers to liquor store owners may soon be a thing of the past as a growing number of states develop digital driver’s licenses.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — David Estes found something he needed at Galisteo Basin Preserve after a move to Santa Fe in the winter, when the coronavirus pandemic was near its peak and the stresses of life were mounting.
HARRISVILLE, Utah (AP) — The smell of burning sage wafted over a crowd of around 100 people gathered on Harrisville Road as Darren Parry, the former chairman of the Northwestern Band of Shoshone, invoked a blessing: “Oh Great Spirit ... let us speak to each other today and always with medici…
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PHOENIX (AP) — An elected Arizona utility regulator has shared discredited conspiracy theories while trying to persuade energy and power providers not to require their employees to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
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WINDHAM, N.H. (AP) — Meetings of the Windham Board of Selectmen are usually as sleepy as they sound — a handful of residents from the New Hampshire town, a discussion of ambulance fees, maybe a drainage study.
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PHOENIX — Gov. Doug Ducey has signed several bills limiting civilian oversight of law enforcement and making it harder for prosecutors to keep track of dishonest cops.
PHOENIX -- Senate President Karen Fann said Friday she may not pursue a controversial door-to-door canvass of some neighborhoods as part of its audit of the 2020 election returns.
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WASHINGTON — Conservatives in and out of Congress are expressing opposition to Rep. Elise Stefanik’s rise toward House Republicans’ No. 3 leadership job, grumbling that is unlikely to derail her but serves notice that the right wing is battling again to affect the party’s future.
PHOENIX — Gov. Doug Ducey has signed legislation to declare gun shops “essential’’ and protect them, firearms manufacturers and even trade associations like the National Rifle Association from being sued by those who are killed or injured by their products.
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SONOYTA, Mexico (AP) — The U.N. Human Rights agency on Saturday condemned the killing this week of an online journalist in Mexico’s northern border state of Sonora.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The death toll from the collapse of an elevated section of the Mexico City metro rose to 26 Friday after an injured passenger died in a hospital.
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JERUSALEM — Palestinian worshippers clashed with Israeli police late Friday at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, a major holy site sacred to Muslims and Jews, in an escalation of weeks of violence …
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BUCARAMANGA, Colombia — Kevin Anthony Agudelo wanted to live in a country where corruption was not part of everyday life. That dream motivated the electrician to join thousands of Colombians i…
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Preliminary data released Friday signaled deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon in April was the highest for that month in at least five years, a report that comes two weeks after …
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday that Mexico has complained to U.S. officials about their alleged financing for an anticorruption group that he said has eng…
CASA GRANDE — Rabbi Moshe Sasonkin and his wife Chaya recently moved to Casa Grande and are hoping to connect with the area Jewish community.
SUPERIOR – The Sikh Coalition and the San Carlos Apache would not appear to have much in common at first glance, but they have found a shared interest in the fight over a patch of land in Pinal County.
CASA GRANDE — Area residents observed National Day of Prayer Thursday with a car procession through Casa Grande.
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PHOENIX — Gas prices increased for another week in Arizona and around the nation, and analysts say they could have risen a bit further if a slight decrease in demand hadn't helped to limit the size of the increase.
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LOS ANGELES — Southern California air quality regulators on Friday approved a rule that would curb diesel emissions from thousands of trucks that ferry goods from the growing number of massive warehouses in the region run by Amazon and other companies.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden insists an unexpected slowdown in companies’ hiring is clear new proof the U.S. needs the multitrillion-dollar federal boost he’s pushing. But his sales effort is challenged by critics who say Friday’s jobless figures show his earlier aid legislation — succes…
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona State University forecasters say the state's economy is rebounding and poised in coming months to recover all the jobs lost in 2020 due to the pandemic recession.
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About 1.64 million people were screened at U.S. airports Thursday, the busiest day for air travel since March 2020, the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.
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PHOENIX — Nikola Corporation has announced a collaboration with Total Transportation Services Inc., one of Southern California’s prominent port trucking companies, to expedite zero-emission transportation at the port of Los Angeles/Long Beach.
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 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 -- 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.
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…
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 -- 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 -- 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.
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…
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 -- 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 -- For the time being, Maricopans have no need to fret about maintaining a pool or backyard garden for their home.
- Community Action at work: CAHRA provides multitude of services to assist area residents
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- CAHRA helped single mom find new footing, restart her life