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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 31, 2021Former Arizona legislator pleads guilty to submitting false income tax returns
Former Arizona legislator and ex-Pima County Justice of the Peace Keith Bee has pleaded guilty in federal court to submitting false income tax returns.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 31, 2021
Backpage founders set to go to trial over alleged sex ads
Two journalists who founded an alternative weekly newspaper in Phoenix and later created the lucrative classified site Backpage.com are scheduled to go on trial Wednesday on charges of facilitating prostitution and laundering money in what authorities say was a scheme to knowingly sell ads for sex on the site.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Aug 29, 2021
Voting rights advocates rally for stronger elections laws
Thousands of voting rights advocates rallied across the country Saturday to call for sweeping federal laws that would wipe out voting restrictions.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 28, 2021Arizona schools struggle to balance spending of coronavirus relief money
Arizona schools have received billions in coronavirus relief funding but struggle on deciding how to spend the money.
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GENERAL NEWS | Aug 27, 2021
US drone strike kills 2 Islamic State members in Afghanistan
Acting swiftly on President Joe Biden's promise to retaliate for the deadly suicide bombing at Kabul airport, the U.S. military said it killed two members of the Islamic State group's Afghanistan affiliate with a drone strike in the group's eastern stronghold.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 26, 2021Pinal County records 1st case of West Nile virus this mosquito season
Authorities have confirmed the first case of West Nile virus in Pinal County during Arizona’s mosquito season.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Aug 26, 2021
Suicide attacks at Kabul airport kill at least 13 US service members, 60 Afghans
At least 13 U.S. service members and 60 Afghans are among the dead after two suicide bombers attacked crowds flocking to Kabul's airport Thursday.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 25, 2021Arizona Supreme Court declines to revive death penalty bid in 2015 case
The Arizona Supreme Court has declined to revive an effort to seek the death penalty against a Mexican immigrant charged in the 2015 killing of a Mesa convenience store clerk.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 25, 2021Man driving fake Border Patrol vehicle arrested near Tucson
A man wearing a fake U.S. Border Patrol uniform and driving a bogus patrol vehicle has been arrested in southern Arizona, accused of attempting to smuggle migrants into the country, authorities said.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 24, 2021Monsoon flooding damages border wall gates in Arizona
Several metal flood gates in the newly built section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in easternmost Arizona were ripped off their hinges last week by flooding from unusually heavy monsoon rains, authorities say.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 24, 2021
Arizona Supreme Court justice delays release of Cyber Ninjas’ audit records
An Arizona Supreme Court justice put a hold on a lower court order for Cyber Ninjas to release their audit records by Aug. 31 while the high court considers an appeal.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 23, 2021Navajo Nation issues vaccine mandate for all tribal workers
All Navajo Nation executive branch employees will need to be fully vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19 by the end of September or be required to submit to regular testing, officials said.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Aug 23, 2021Regulators in US give full approval to Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
The U.S. gave full approval to Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, a milestone that may help lift public confidence in the shots as the nation battles the most contagious coronavirus mutant yet.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 23, 2021Arizona AG says private businesses can require COVID-19 vaccines
Private Arizona businesses can require their employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 but must allow reasonable religious and medical exemptions under state and federal law, state Attorney General Mark Brnovich wrote in a legal opinion.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Aug 21, 2021Democrats face new hurdles in legal fight over redistricting
The fight over redrawing political maps is just ramping up in state legislatures and nonpartisan commissions around the country.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 21, 2021Police: Plainclothes officer, man exchange gunfire in Tucson
The Tucson Police Department is investigating a gunfight between a plainclothes officer and a man that occurred on Friday.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 21, 2021Governor tours flood area as Arizona sees 4 deaths in a week
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Friday toured Gila Bend where recent flooding inundated homes and led to four deaths amid a fierce monsoon season.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 20, 2021Former Arizona prison guard union boss gets 18 months in theft case
The former president of the union that represents Arizona's corrections officers has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for embezzling money from the union treasury, the Arizona Attorney General's office announced Friday.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 20, 2021Appeals court orders release of Arizona Senate audit records
An appeals court Thursday rejected an effort by the Arizona Senate to keep secret records of its ongoing review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County that are in the possession of the contractors conducting the recount.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 19, 2021Officer files suit over Phoenix police souvenir depicting injured protester
A police officer has filed a lawsuit seeking to bar the city of Phoenix from continuing its internal investigation of him for allegedly possessing a law enforcement souvenir that depicted a protester getting shot in the groin outside a 2017 rally held by then-President Donald Trump.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 19, 2021Tucson police officers’ union challenges city vaccine requirement
The union representing Tucson police officers is challenging the city’s decision to require employees to get the coronavirus vaccine.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Aug 19, 2021Arizona high court won’t block new voter-approved education tax
The Arizona Supreme Court says a new tax on high earners approved by the state’s voters in November can remain in effect while a lower court determines if the revenue it raises for schools will exceed a constitutional spending limit.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Aug 19, 2021North Carolina man surrenders after claiming to have bomb near US Capitol
A North Carolina man who claimed to have a bomb in a pickup truck near the U.S. Capitol surrendered to law enforcement after an hourslong standoff Thursday that prompted a massive police response and the evacuations of government buildings in the area.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Aug 18, 2021US health officials recommend booster shots against COVID-19
U.S. health officials Wednesday recommended all Americans get COVID-19 booster shots to shore up their protection amid the surging delta variant and evidence that the vaccines' effectiveness is falling.