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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 21, 2022Republicans on Arizona Senate panel OK guns on college campuses
Republicans on the Arizona state Senate Judiciary committee on Thursday approved legislation that would require public colleges and universities to allow anyone with a concealed weapons permit to carry a gun.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 20, 2022Casa Grande cancels annual O’Odham Tash, Cowboy Days, cites pandemic
The pandemic has prompted Casa Grande to cancel the south-central Arizona city's annual event celebrating Native American culture and the spirit of the American cowboy.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 20, 2022Air Force Thunderbirds to open show season at Glendale’s Luke AFB
The Thunderbirds, the U.S. Air Force's aerial demonstration squadron, have begun a monthlong training trip to Arizona and New Mexico in preparation for their 2022 show season.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 19, 2022Republican state lawmakers go at Arizona School Boards Association
The Arizona School Boards Association, which successfully sued the Arizona Legislature to invalidate key parts of the state budget last year, is now being targeted by Republican lawmakers who have long opposed its efforts to lobby for local school boards.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 19, 2022Luke AFB airman sentenced to life in prison in Mennonite woman’s death
An Air Force airman has been sentenced to life in prison in the death of a Mennonite woman whom he kidnapped from northwestern New Mexico, fatally shot and left in the freezing cold outside Flagstaff, Arizona.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 19, 2022Sanders says he may support Sinema challenger in Arizona primary
Sen. Bernie Sanders suggested Tuesday that he'd support primary challengers against Democratic colleagues Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, further intensifying a political battle within the party.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 18, 2022Navajo Nation increases ability to do COVID testing, vaccinations
Health facilities on the Navajo Nation are increasing the ability to test for COVID-19 and vaccinate people as the omicron variant spreads, tribal leaders said.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 16, 2022Tucson man gets 10-year prison term for girlfriend’s murder
Pima County prosecutors said Jahkwez Desean Wilson was given a 10-year prison term on a murder charge and reckless child abuse.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 16, 20222 dead in murder-suicide at Arizona assisted living facility
Two residents at an assisted living facility in Sun City are dead after an apparent murder-suicide Sunday, authorities said.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 16, 2022
Ducey quietly taps $95M in virus cash to boost trooper pay
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey quietly tapped $95 million in federal coronavirus relief money in November to boost pay for state troopers.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 16, 2022
Former President Trump tests GOP loyalty during rally in Arizona
Former President Donald Trump stepped up his election-year effort to dominate the Republican Party, holding a rally in Arizona on Saturday.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 14, 2022Arizona Gov. Ducey’s $14.2 billion budget proposal includes tax credits, border funding
Gov. Doug Ducey on Friday proposed a tax credit for Arizona's working poor, the first time in his eight years of pushing tax cuts that he pitched a benefit targeted at the lowest-income taxpayers.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 14, 2022Biden administration threatens Arizona COVID funding over school mask policies
The Biden administration is threatening to recoup COVID-19 relief funds sent to Arizona over state provisions that it says discourage families and school districts from following federal guidance recommending face masks.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 14, 2022Man known as ‘Baked Alaska’ gets 30 days in jail over Scottsdale assault
Far-right social media personality Tim Gionet, who calls himself “Baked Alaska,” was sentenced to 30 days in jail Thursday for attacking a Valley bar employee with pepper spray.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Jan 13, 2022Supreme Court blocks business COVID vaccine rule, OKs health care worker mandate
The Supreme Court is stopping the Biden administration from enforcing a requirement that employees at large businesses be vaccinated against COVID-19, but is allowing a mandate for most health care workers to proceed.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 13, 2022Arizona lawmakers urge Gov. Ducey to use war power at border
A group of Republican state lawmakers and two former Trump administration officials called Wednesday on Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey to use war powers to repel what they call an “invasion" of migrants at the southern border.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 12, 2022Remains of 226 people found last year near Arizona’s border with Mexico
The number of suspected migrant deaths in Arizona's borderlands was little changed last year, figures released Tuesday show.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 12, 2022Investigators say 2 planes aborted approaches before 1 crashed in Arizona
A plane that crashed Dec. 22 near a rural Arizona airport had just aborted an approach because of proximity to another small plane, federal investigators say.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 12, 2022Sonora Quest, Arizona’s largest lab, bolstering COVID-19 test operation
Sonora Quest, Arizona's largest diagnostic testing lab, said it will expand its operation and be able to take on thousands more COVID-19 test samples.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 11, 2022Ground beef distributed to Arizona stores recalled over E coli concerns
An Oregon meat distributor has recalled more than 28,300 pounds of ground beef shipped to Arizona and other states because of concerns it may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 11, 2022
Neo-Nazi gets 7 years for threats to reporters, activists in Arizona, elsewhere
A neo-Nazi who helped lead a campaign to threaten journalists and Jewish activists in Arizona and two other states was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in federal prison.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 11, 2022
Ex-Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen loses appeal of adoption scheme sentence
Former Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen, in prison for running an illegal adoption scheme in three states involving women from the Marshall Islands, has lost an appeal of one of his sentences.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 10, 2022Arizona Gov. Ducey proposes $1 billion water plant during State of State address
Gov. Doug Ducey on Monday proposed setting aside $1 billion to remove the salt from sea water and bring it to Arizona, a major legacy project as he enters his eighth and final year in office.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 10, 2022
Arizona man sentenced to prison for sexual assault at tribal resort-casino
A 26-year-old Arizona man who admitted to sexually assaulting a woman at a tribal resort-casino has been sentenced to prison.