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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 30, 2022Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey to focus on semiconductors in Taiwan visit
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday to woo suppliers for a $12 billion semiconductor plant being built in his state.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 29, 2022Teenage girl dies after semi-truck rear-ends school van on Arizona freeway
A teenage girl was killed and four other people were seriously injured Sunday in a school van crash in eastern Arizona, authorities said.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 26, 2022
Arizona judge reverses ruling, says initiative on voting laws didn’t make ballot
An Arizona judge revised an earlier decision and said the Free and Fair Elections Act did not make the ballot.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 26, 2022Border Patrol rescues 2 children left alone by smugglers in Arizona desert
The Border Patrol says one of its agents rescued an infant and a toddler who were left alone by migrant smugglers in western Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 26, 2022Judge dismisses Lake, Finchem lawsuit asking Arizona officials to count ballots by hand
A federal judge refused Friday to require that Arizona officials count ballots by hand in November, dismissing a lawsuit filed by the Republican nominees for governor and secretary of state based on false claims of problems with vote-counting machines.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 26, 2022
4 killed, including constable, in shooting at Tucson apartment
Four people were killed, including a local law enforcement official, in a shooting Thursday at an apartment complex in southern Arizona, officials said.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 25, 2022Flash flood washes out eastbound I-10 heading into Arizona
The main highway from Los Angeles to Phoenix was damaged by a flash flood that washed out part of the road through the Southern California desert.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 25, 2022Arizona Supreme Court rejects challenges to 2 voter initiatives for November ballot
The Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected challenges to two voter initiatives filed for November's ballot, one already certified for the ballot.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 24, 2022Arizona Supreme Court could issue warrant of execution for death row inmate in 2 months
The Arizona Supreme Court said Wednesday that a warrant of execution for death row inmate Murray Hooper could be issued in two months.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Aug 24, 2022
Uvalde school board fires police chief after mass shooting
The Uvalde school district’s embattled police chief was fired Wednesday following allegations that he made mistakes during the mass shooting.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 24, 2022Armed man on campus detained by University of Arizona police
University of Arizona police said they have detained a man suspected of bringing a gun on campus Wednesday.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 23, 2022Phoenix man charged with robbing nearly a dozen stores in Arizona, California
A Phoenix man was charged Monday with robbing 10 stores in Southern California and Arizona before accidentally shooting himself after a bullet-punctuated high-speed chase, federal prosecutors said.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 19, 2022
Arizona judge hears state request to enforce abortion ban
An Arizona attorney on Friday urged a judge to allow the state to enforce a near-total ban on abortions under a law that has been blocked for nearly 50 years through a now-overruled U.S. Supreme Court decision.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 18, 2022Judge limits privilege defense in Arizona religious sex abuse case
An Arizona judge overseeing a high-profile lawsuit accusing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of conspiring to cover-up child sex abuse has ruled that the church may not refuse to answer questions or turn over documents under the state’s “clergy-penitent privilege.”
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 18, 2022Arizona judges reject challenges to 2 voter initiatives for November ballot
Judges rejected challenges to two Arizona voter initiative on Wednesday, siding with proponents of a measure limiting so-called predatory debt collection and for one that would require people who fund political campaigns through nonprofit groups to be identified.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 16, 2022Battles rage in Arizona courts over 3 voter initiatives
Proponents of three voter initiatives who each turned in hundreds of thousands of signatures last month to qualify them for the November ballot are trying to beat back legal challenges that could prevent them from going before voters.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 16, 2022
Arizona takes another hit in new round of Colorado River water cuts
U.S. officials announced that Arizona and Nevada will face more Colorado River water cuts as they endure extreme drought.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 15, 2022
2 killed, 5 injured when plane crashes into Lake Powell near Arizona-Utah border
Two people were killed and five others injured after a small plane crashed into Lake Powell near the Arizona-Utah border, authorities said.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 11, 2022Pinal County to waive election costs to cities after primary ballot woes
Pinal County, where the Aug. 2 primary election was beset with multiple issues that led to the firing of its election director, will waive the costs for running municipal elections in 11 cities and towns.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 11, 2022Joe Arpaio loses Fountain Hills mayoral race, plans to consult lawyer
Joe Arpaio, the 90-year-old former Arizona sheriff, was defeated Wednesday in a race for mayor of the affluent suburb of Fountain Hills.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Aug 8, 2022
Father and son get life for hate crime in Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting
The father and son convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting were sentenced to life in prison for committing a federal hate crime.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Aug 8, 2022Former President Donald Trump says FBI is searching Mar-a-Lago; reasons unclear
Former President Donald Trump said in a lengthy statement Monday that the FBI was conducting a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 4, 2022With support from Arizona’s Sinema, Democrats say agreement reached on economic package
With new support from U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Senate Democrats have reached an accord to their top-priority economic legislation, they announced late Thursday.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 2, 2022Former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio trails in bid to become mayor of Phoenix suburb
Joe Arpaio, the 90-year-old former Phoenix metro sheriff who was ousted by voters frustrated with his headline-grabbing tactics and legal troubles, is trailing his opponent in the race for mayor of the affluent suburb where he has lived for more than two decades.