Chloe Armstrong’s days are like any other teenager's: wake up, go to school, participate in the occasional after-school activity, go home, do homework, go to bed and wake up the next day to do…
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MARICOPA — At a recent city council meeting, Maricopa Police Chief Mark Goodman gave the department’s annual report for 2023.
MARICOPA — The Maricopa Arts Center will accept submissions now through May 11 for a public art display at the Maricopa Agricultural Center.
COOLIDGE — Pinal County residents, whether finding a job or trying to fill one, offered their insights into the workforce to help improve Arizona@Work’s services.
COOLIDGE — Coolidge High School FBLA students are excited to see the sites in Florida and aim to do well competing at nationals.
COOLIDGE — El Grotto will celebrate the bar’s one-year anniversary over Cinco de Mayo weekend.
ELOY — On March 1 and 7, AmeriCorps NCCC team Fire 5, under the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension of Pinal County, volunteered at the Eloy Veterans Center.
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SIGNAL PEAK — Losses don’t get much uglier than the 14-6 defeat inflicted upon the Central Arizona College baseball team by South Mountain in Thursday’s opener of their best-of-three playoff series at McSwain Field.
PHOENIX — While the Santa Cruz Valley softball team is no stranger to the playoffs, the team came into the state tournament as the No. 8 seed, its lowest seeding since 2021.
CASA GRANDE — There’s always a uniqueness that comes along with signing ceremonies for high school athletes as they make a commitment to continue competing in the sport they love while furthering their education.
SIGNAL PEAK — Being the top seed in the NJCAA Division I Region 1 baseball playoffs provides no significant advantage, according to Central Arizona College coach JoJo Howie.
MESA — It was a tough draw for the Maricopa boys volleyball team as the program closed out its time in the 6A Conference for the time being.
FLORENCE — Despite coming into the game as the higher seed, the Florence baseball team did not look like itself in Tuesday’s first-round game of the 3A Conference state tournament against the visiting Buckeye Odyssey Institute Minotaurs.
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.
Two years after a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion signaled that the nation's abortion landscape was about to shift dramatically, the issue is still consuming the nation's courts, legislatures and political campaigns — and changing the course of lives.
LOS ANGELES — At least 200 people were arrested at UCLA Thursday, bringing the nationwide total of arrests to more than 2,000 at dozens of college campuses since police cleared an encampment at Columbia University in mid-April, according to a tally by The Associated Press.
PHOENIX — Arizona is waving goodbye to a Civil War-era ban of nearly all abortions as a repeal bill reaches the desk of Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs.
President Joe Biden on Thursday expanded two national monuments in California following calls from tribal nations, Indigenous community leaders and others for the permanent protection of nearly 120,000 acres of important cultural and environmental land.
PHOENIX — House Democrats lost their privilege Tuesday of using meeting rooms after they conducted a “drag story hour,’’ what Speaker Ben Toma called “radical activism to promote dangerously perverse ideology.’’
TUCSON, Ariz. — A man has been charged with causing a car crash that killed an on-duty Tucson police officer two months ago, authorities said Wednesday.
PHOENIX — Yoshinobu Yamamoto threw six scoreless innings, rookie Andy Pages hit a two-run homer as part of a five-run second inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 8…
PHOENIX — WNBA star Brittney Griner said she thought about killing herself during her first few weeks in a Russian jail after her 2022 arrest on drug-related charges.
PHOENIX — Mat Ishbia knows the offseason chatter around the Phoenix Suns is it's a team with a top-heavy roster, salary cap issues and precious little room to maneuver after a disappointing season.
SCOTTDALE — Before the realigned Big 12 — sans Oklahoma and Texas —even kicks off, the expanded College Football Playoff’s new revenue structure has created a perception that the conference is…
MARICOPA — The Maricopa Arts Center will accept submissions now through May 11 for a public art display at the Maricopa Agricultural Center.
Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as “Rebel Rouser” and “Peter Gunn” helped put the twang in early rock ‘n’ roll and influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and countless other musicians, has died at age 86.
COOLIDGE — A local teacher hopes to bring “pure fun” and laughter to the community through Coolidge Comedy Hour.
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.
In a way, the black-and-white Palestinian scarf draped over Hannah Sattler’s shoulders this week and the tie-dyed T-shirts of 1968 are woven from a common thread.
NEW YORK — Jurors in the hush money trial of Donald Trump heard a recording Thursday of him discussing with his then-lawyer and personal fixer a plan to purchase the silence of a Playboy model who has said she had an affair with the former president.
The number of people arrested in connection with protests on college campuses against the Israel-Hamas war has now topped 2,000. The Associated Press has tallied arrests at 35 schools since a tent encampment began at Columbia University on April 17.
Man who bragged that he 'fed' an officer to the mob of Capitol rioters gets nearly 5 years in prison
WASHINGTON — A Georgia business owner who bragged that he “fed” a police officer to a mob of rioters storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on Thursday to nearly five years in prison for his repeated attacks on law enforcement during the insurrection.
NEW YORK — Lawyer Keith Davidson returned to the witness stand in Donald Trump's hush money trial on Thursday following a contempt hearing over whether the former president violated a gag order again.
BEIRUT — Hamas said Thursday that it was sending a delegation to Egypt for further cease-fire talks, in a new sign of progress in attempts by international mediators to hammer out an agreement between Israel and the militant group to end the war in Gaza.
NEW YORK — Jurors in the hush money trial of Donald Trump heard a recording Thursday of him discussing with his then-lawyer and personal fixer a plan to purchase the silence of a Playboy model who has said she had an affair with the former president.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — President Joe Biden said Thursday he was praying for loved ones and all those left behind after he met privately with the families of law enforcement officers shot to death on the job. The visit came just a week after he sat down with the grieving relatives of two cops kill…
Two months to count election ballots? California's long tallies turn election day into weeks, months
LOS ANGELES — Nearly two months after the election, a recount settled the outcome in a Northern California U.S. House primary contest, breaking a mathematically improbable tie for second place but also spotlighting the lengthy stretch it took count the votes.
Man who bragged that he 'fed' an officer to the mob of Capitol rioters gets nearly 5 years in prison
WASHINGTON — A Georgia business owner who bragged that he “fed” a police officer to a mob of rioters storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on Thursday to nearly five years in prison for his repeated attacks on law enforcement during the insurrection.
Two years after a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion signaled that the nation's abortion landscape was about to shift dramatically, the issue is still consuming the nation's courts, legislatures and political campaigns — and changing the course of lives.
BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbian lawmakers on Thursday voted into office a new government that reinstated two pro-Russia officials who are sanctioned by the United States, reflecting persistent close ties with Moscow despite the Balkan nation's proclaimed bid to join the European Union.
The number of people arrested in connection with protests on college campuses against the Israel-Hamas war has now topped 2,000. The Associated Press has tallied arrests at 35 schools since a …
KYIV, Ukraine — The situation on the front line in eastern Ukraine is worsening but local defenders are so far holding firm against a concerted push by Russia’s bigger and better-equipped forc…
NEW YORK — Lawyer Keith Davidson returned to the witness stand in Donald Trump's hush money trial on Thursday following a contempt hearing over whether the former president violated a gag orde…
BEIRUT — Hamas said Thursday that it was sending a delegation to Egypt for further cease-fire talks, in a new sign of progress in attempts by international mediators to hammer out an agreement…
WARSAW, Poland — Polish police have arrested a 16-year-old male on suspicion of attacking a synagogue with Molotov cocktails and said they plan to ask prosecutors on Thursday to open an investigation.
DUESSELDORF, Germany — Herbert Rubinstein was 5 years old when he and his mother where taken from the Jewish ghetto of Chernivtsi and put on a cramped cattle wagon waiting to take them to their deaths. It was 1941, and Romanians collaborating with Germany's Nazis were rounding up tens of tho…
WARSAW, Poland — Warsaw's main synagogue was attacked with firebombs by an unknown perpetrator, but sustained minimal damage and nobody was hurt, Poland's chief rabbi said Wednesday. The incident was strongly condemned by political leaders.
CASA GRANDE — Robert Miguel may be the chairman of the Ak-Chin Indian Community, but in his mind, he will always be “Bob,” the same approachable guy whom kids would get excited about seeing roll up to the local convenience store because they knew he would emerge from the store with a few ext…
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in Los Angeles on Thursday sentenced a scuba dive boat captain to four years in prison and three years supervised release for criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard the vessel.
For ex-Derby winner Silver Charm, it's a life of leisure and Old Friends at Kentucky retirement farm
GEORGETOWN, Ky. — Michael Blowen can step outside his house any day of the week and visit retired racehorses at Old Friends, the thoroughbred retirement farm he founded in Kentucky two decades ago that attentively cares for former winners and losers alike.
Artists from Universal Music Group, which include Drake, Adele, Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish, will be returning to TikTok as the two parties have struck a new licensing agreement following an approximately three-month long dispute.
LOS ANGELES — At least 200 people were arrested at UCLA Thursday, bringing the nationwide total of arrests to more than 2,000 at dozens of college campuses since police cleared an encampment at Columbia University in mid-April, according to a tally by The Associated Press.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific managers undermined the U.S. government’s efforts to assess safety at the railroad in the wake of several high-profile derailments across the industry by coaching employees on how to respond and suggesting they might be disciplined, federal regulators say.
WASHINGTON — The House passed legislation Wednesday that would establish a broader definition of antisemitism for the Department of Education to enforce anti-discrimination laws, the latest response from lawmakers to a nationwide student protest movement over the Israel-Hamas war.
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