PHOENIX — A murder charge has been dismissed for a California divorce lawyer in the suburban Phoenix shooting death of his stepdaughter’s husband nearly 11 years ago.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — A California man is facing assault charges after Pinal County deputies brought him in for allegedly driving drunk and he threatened to harm them.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — Legacy Traditional Schools has announced it will be opening a new campus in San Tan Valley in fall 2022.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — Florence Unified School District is proposing two options for adjusting school boundaries in response to a growing local population and has scheduled public meetings to hear comments before the school board takes action in January.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — A San Tan Valley man is facing a charge after he allegedly blew past a Pinal County Sheriff’s Office patrol vehicle at a high rate of speed with three open beer bottles in his vehicle.
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PHOENIX — A San Tan Valley man accused of siphoning off nearly $700,000 in payroll taxes from clients has pled guilty to one count of federal tax evasion.
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SIGNAL PEAK — In an unusual move, the Central Arizona College Governing Board began its latest meeting on Nov. 16 by publicly admonishing board member Jerry Walker for comments he made the previous month while visiting the Superstition Mountain Campus.
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FLORENCE — Pinal County personnel are clearing a road to an isolated 10-acre tract south of Arizona Farms Road for a future sheriff’s shooting range, which neighbors fear will cause property values to plummet in the surrounding pristine desert and open range land north of Florence.
SAN TAN VALLEY — A San Tan Valley woman is facing disorderly conduct charges after allegedly firing a gun in her backyard.
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FLORENCE — Pinal County staff and a majority of the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended against it, but the Board of Supervisors approved Village at San Tan, an apartment community and commercial area on Queen Creek’s southeast border.
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NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump is endorsing Rep. Paul Gosar, one day after the Arizona Republican was censured by the House of Representatives for posting a violent cartoon video that depicted a character with his face killing one with New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's.
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FLORENCE — A San Tan Valley man asked the Pinal County Board of Supervisors to reconsider a Sheriff’s Office shooting range north of Florence.
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WASHINGTON — The House voted Wednesday to censure Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona for posting an animated video that depicted him killing Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword, an extraordinary rebuke that highlighted the political strains testing Washington and the country.
WASHINGTON — The House will vote Wednesday on a resolution to censure Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona for tweeting an animated video that depicted him striking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., with a sword.
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WASHINGTON – House Democrats continued to press for action Friday against Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Prescott, over a violent cartoon video that appears to show him attacking the president and killing a liberal House Democrat.
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FLORENCE — A Florence man is facing charges after he allegedly threw rocks through the windows and doors of a church because of a bird.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — Now that Lucid Motors has begun delivering luxury electric vehicles to customers, is Nikola Motor Co. far behind?
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FLORENCE — The Pinal County Board of Supervisors is considering a new written policy for invocations, or prayers, at the beginning of its regular meetings.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten House Democrats, led by the co-chairs of the Democratic Women's Caucus, said Wednesday that they will introduce a House resolution to censure Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., for tweeting a video that included altered animation showing him striking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Corte…
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SAN TAN VALLEY — Combs High School’s 8th Annual Homecoming parade and festivities will be held Friday.
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FLORENCE — Fifteen years after its K-6 school opened next door, American Leadership Academy broke ground on its new 7-12 campus, ALA Anthem South, Friday afternoon.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar was facing criticism after he tweeted a video that included altered animation showing him striking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword.
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FLORENCE — A Pinal County Superior Court judge has granted a San Tan Valley man’s request to represent himself in a second-degree murder case.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — A San Tan Valley man was arrested, along with three juveniles, for allegedly burglarizing a series of vehicles.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — A San Tan Valley man accused of shooting his neighbor reportedly told Pinal County deputies that he shot in self-defense.
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APACHE JUNCTION — A San Tan Valley man is facing charges after he allegedly scuffled with deputies who were trying to remove his wife from a verbal dispute.
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FLORENCE — Property owners near where a proposed Pinal County Sheriff’s Office shooting range would be located are objecting.
FLORENCE — Pinal County Economic Development Director Tim Kanavel, who died on Feb. 9, has been honored by the Arizona Association of Economic Development with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
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FLORENCE — Two months after they voted to reject it, the Pinal County Board of Supervisors will reconsider on Nov. 3 accepting a $3.3 million federal grant to bring COVID vaccines to underserved populations.
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FLORENCE — Pinal County deputies will receive raises to make their pay more competitive with neighboring jurisdictions following the Board of Supervisors’ approval of a budget amendment of $684,353 Wednesday.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — A San Tan Valley man was charged with multiple counts of aggravated assault after he allegedly attempted to bite and kick a deputy and several medical professionals.
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FLORENCE – Neal Carter was appointed to fill the remainder of the late Frank Pratt’s term as state representative in District 8, and Teresa Martinez was appointed state representative in District 11 to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Bret Roberts.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting incident between neighbors in San Tan Valley.
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FLORENCE – Some Arizona counties continue to grapple with administering COVID-19 vaccines equitably, even as cases spiked across the state in recent months and vaccination rates still lag in rural communities and among some people of color.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — A San Tan Valley teen who was killed in September was allegedly shot over a defective marijuana vape cartridge, according to reports from the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office.
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SAN TAN VALLEY – Pinal County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a San Tan Valley man for allegedly driving off with someone else’s truck.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — A San Tan Valley man is facing charges after he allegedly struck a woman he lived with and drove off with their child.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — A 15-year-old boy is being held on a $500,000 bond in the Pinal County Youth Justice Center in connection with the death of a San Tan Valley teen in September.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — A San Tan Valley teen has been arrested in connection with the September shooting death of another teen.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — A San Tan Valley man is facing aggravated assault charges after he allegedly bit a deputy on the foot.
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SAN TAN VALLEY -- Officials with a Pinal County justice court have initiated a program to clean up roadways in the San Tan Valley area.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — Florence school board members indicated they were losing patience with “after-the-fact” bills that weren’t processed correctly, show up late and aren’t covered in the current budget.
CHANDLER — The Gila River Indian Community plans to build a new casino on tribal property at Gilbert Road and Hunt Highway near the Pinal-Maricopa county line.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — A San Tan Valley man is facing charges after allegedly pulling a gun on a family member.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — New houses are springing up all around it, but Florence Unified School District isn’t planning any new schools for the next 10 years.
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PHOENIX -- Republican Congressman Paul Gosar tweeted out a video meme last week, which he later deleted, that has roots in neo-Nazi and white nationalist culture.
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QUEEN CREEK — A historic cemetery in Phoenix received some extra love recently when several area Daughters of the American Revolution members teamed up with other volunteers to spend some time cleaning headstones.
FLORENCE — Joe Foss American Legion Post 97 is hosting a “Vitalant Neighborhood Blood Drive” event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30, at the San Tan Valley Veteran Center, 5764 E. Hunt Highway in Florence.
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QUEEN CREEK — Rodeo queening is a long-standing tradition in the American West, dating to the first rodeo queen who was crowned 111 years ago. And the founding of the Miss Rodeo America organization in 1955 took rodeo queening to a national scale, setting up state organizations across the country.
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FLORENCE — New state funding will help Pinal County health personnel respond to schools affected by COVID-19. A separate grant will help the county work to reduce a high rate of sexually transmitted diseases.