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FLORENCE — Litigation connected to Pinal County Supervisor Kevin Cavanaugh has cost Pinal $169,291 in legal fees and insurance deductibles, but Cavanaugh said it’s actually the county attorney…
UPDATE, 10:06 a.m.: ED3 says power has been restored throughout the city. The original article follows below.
FLORENCE — Litigation connected to Pinal County Supervisor Kevin Cavanaugh has cost Pinal $169,291 in legal fees and insurance deductibles, but Cavanaugh said it’s actually the county attorney’s “bad hiring practices and political games” that have cost taxpayers.
CASA GRANDE — The Casa Grande Resilience Coalition held a roundtable conference on issues including community health, mental well-being, youth issues and current trends in criminal justice. A number of confronting topics were presented regarding drug addiction and increased incidences of vio…
CASA GRANDE — Mayor Craig McFarland had much to say Thursday during his final speech in front of the Casa Grande Faith Alliance, covering topics such as his best moments in office, the state of the city’s budget and his future intentions.
MARICOPA — A routine traffic stop turned criminal when the driver allegedly became aggressive toward Maricopa police officers on April 13.
CASA GRANDE — It’s a stretch of Interstate 10 that in Pinal County, and even other parts of Arizona, has come to be seen as the epitome of heavy traffic, congestion and repeated crashes thanks to its narrowing lanes.
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SAN TAN VALLEY — Since his days playing Pop Warner Football as a child, San Tan Valley resident Dan Silver, now 56, has been collecting O.J. Simpson memorabilia.
SIGNAL PEAK — The Central Arizona College baseball team clinched the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference title and the No. 1 seed in the upcoming Division I Region 1 playoffs in one of the most unusual ways possible.
SAN TAN VALLEY — The softball regular season ends on Monday and many teams are still fighting for every inch in hopes of either sneaking into the postseason or improving their rankings.
QUEEN CREEK — A battle between two of Pinal County’s best softball teams resulted in a slugfest, as both the American Leadership Academy-Ironwood Warriors and Coolidge Bears looked to improve their rankings before the postseason.
CASA GRANDE — Vista Grande celebrated six more of its senior athletes during a college signing ceremony on Wednesday morning.
FLORENCE — In baseball, all it takes is a spark to fire up a team to victory.
FLORENCE — The sun has set on another weekend full of country music in the Florence desert. As Country Thunder 2024 came to a close, some attendees said that despite a more “low-key” lineup, they still had plenty of fun at the four-day festival.
FLORENCE — Already having a big moment on the Main Stage at Country Thunder, Avery Anna had a surprise audience visit from a former teacher who traveled down to watch her perform at Country Thunder.
FLORENCE — Country Thunder, with its blowing dust and lack of showers, doesn’t tend to be a place where people look better as the weekend goes along. But thanks to a barber-for-the-stars and a local salon owner, fans and musicians alike can stay looking sharp.
TEMPE – A Sensory Friendly Job Fair gave individuals with autism and autism spectrum disorder an opportunity to meet and be interviewed by more than a dozen potential employers on April 9 in Tempe.
A new rule from President Joe Biden's administration blocking blanket policies to keep transgender students from using school bathrooms that align with their gender identity could conflict with laws in Republican-controlled states.
PHOENIX — An Arizona judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of a rancher accused of fatally shooting a Mexican man on his property near the U.S.-Mexico border.
PHOENIX – What started as a tribute to a single mother of four has since grown into a support system for the many cancer warriors who have been in her shoes.
PHOENIX — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider a request by Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake to ban the use of electronic vote-counting machines in Arizona.
Supermarket chains Kroger and Albertsons said Monday they will sell more of their stores in an effort to quell the federal government’s concerns about their proposed merger.
ST. LOUIS — Nolan Gorman snapped an 0-for-19 slump with a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning that gave the St. Louis Cardinals a 5-3 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monda…
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FLORENCE — The sun has set on another weekend full of country music in the Florence desert. As Country Thunder 2024 came to a close, some attendees said that despite a more “low-key” lineup, they still had plenty of fun at the four-day festival.
FLORENCE — Already having a big moment on the Main Stage at Country Thunder, Avery Anna had a surprise audience visit from a former teacher who traveled down to watch her perform at Country Thunder.
FLORENCE — Country Thunder, with its blowing dust and lack of showers, doesn’t tend to be a place where people look better as the weekend goes along. But thanks to a barber-for-the-stars and a local salon owner, fans and musicians alike can stay looking sharp.
NEW YORK — Veteran tabloid publisher David Pecker returned to the witness stand in Donald Trump’s hush money case on Tuesday.
BALTIMORE — Officials in Baltimore plan to open a deeper channel for commercial ships to access the city’s port starting on Thursday, marking a significant step toward reopening the major maritime shipping hub that has remained closed to most traffic since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collap…
A new rule from President Joe Biden's administration blocking blanket policies to keep transgender students from using school bathrooms that align with their gender identity could conflict with laws in Republican-controlled states.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The University of Michigan is informing students of the rules for upcoming graduation ceremonies: Banners and flags are not allowed. Protests are OK but in designated areas away from the cap-and-gown festivities.
HOUSTON — A legal battle over a lack of air conditioning in Texas prisons is bringing together advocates on the issue and one current inmate who says his health is being endangered by the state’s hot prisons — the former mortician whose murder case inspired the movie “Bernie.”
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court wrestled with major questions about the growing issue of homelessness on Monday as it considered whether cities can punish people for sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking.
NEW YORK — Veteran tabloid publisher David Pecker returned to the witness stand in Donald Trump’s hush money case on Tuesday.
NEW YORK — Prosecutors in the historic hush money trial of Donald Trump urged a judge Tuesday to fine him and hold him in contempt over social media posts that they say violated a gag order barring attacks on witnesses, jurors and others involved in the case.
A new rule from President Joe Biden's administration blocking blanket policies to keep transgender students from using school bathrooms that align with their gender identity could conflict with laws in Republican-controlled states.
NEW DELHI — India's main opposition party accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of using hate speech after he called Muslims “infiltrators" — some of his most incendiary rhetoric about the minority faith, days after the country began its weekslong general election.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The University of Michigan is informing students of the rules for upcoming graduation ceremonies: Banners and flags are not allowed. Protests are OK but in designated areas away from the cap-and-gown festivities.
PHOENIX — As Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives devised and executed a plan on April 17 to block Democrats’ efforts to repeal the state’s 1864 abortion ban, scores of opponents of abortion rights looked on from the gallery above them, eagerly cheering them on.
LONDON — Four Aboriginal spears that were taken to England by Captain James Cook more than 250 years ago were returned Tuesday to Australia's Indigenous community at a ceremony in Cambridge Un…
More deaths in the English Channel underscore risks for migrants despite UK efforts to stem the tide
LONDON — Five more people died in the English Channel on Tuesday, underscoring the risks of crossing one of the world’s busiest sea lanes in overloaded inflatable boats just hours after Britis…
NEW DELHI — India's main opposition party accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of using hate speech after he called Muslims “infiltrators" — some of his most incendiary rhetoric about the mino…
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro met with the head of the International Criminal Court as he faces an ongoing investigation by the tribunal into crimes against humanity…
MEXICO CITY — By mid-2024, Claudia Sheinbaum will most likely become Mexico’s first female president. She would also be its first leader with a Jewish background in a country that’s home to nearly 100 million Catholics.
TUNIS, Tunisia — Jewish Tunisians who organize an annual pilgrimage to one of the world’s oldest synagogues are planning a scaled-down event next month, citing concerns about security less than a year after a deadly shooting there shook their community.
CASA GRANDE — Casa Grande resident Marcy Swearingen turned 100 on Tuesday, surrounded by more than 200 of her neighbors, friends and fans at a birthday party in the Fiesta Grande RV Resort ballroom.
CASA GRANDE, Art has been a significant part of Regis Sommers’s life for as long as she can remember.
UnitedHealth says files with personal information that could cover a “substantial portion of people in America” may have been taken in the cyberattack earlier this year on its Change Healthcare business.
NEW YORK — When Anna Branch, 37, had her hours at work reduced at the start of the pandemic in 2020, she suddenly noticed ads for an app called EarnIn.
DETROIT — Despite a small dip in U.S. vehicle sales, General Motors' first-quarter net income rose more than 25% on strong deliveries of pickup trucks and other higher-profit vehicles.
BALTIMORE — Officials in Baltimore plan to open a deeper channel for commercial ships to access the city’s port starting on Thursday, marking a significant step toward reopening the major maritime shipping hub that has remained closed to most traffic since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collap…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The University of Michigan is informing students of the rules for upcoming graduation ceremonies: Banners and flags are not allowed. Protests are OK but in designated areas away from the cap-and-gown festivities.
LAS VEGAS — A $12 billion passenger bullet train linking Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area was dubbed the first true high-speed rail line in the nation on Monday, with the private company building it predicting millions of ticket-buyers will be boarding trains by 2028.
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