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ARIZONA NEWS | Sep 6, 2021
Judge refuses to block new law allowing sports betting in Arizona
A judge on Monday evening refused to block a new Arizona law allowing sports gambling to be run by professional sports teams in a decision that will allow the major gambling expansion start as planned later this week.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Sep 6, 2021
Interest in Gov. Ducey’s anti-mask private school vouchers outpaces federal funds
A program announced by Arizona’s Republican governor last month giving private school vouchers to students whose parents object to school mask requirements has seen a surge of applications.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Sep 4, 2021Bureau of Indian Education issues vaccine mandate for school employees
The federal agency that oversees schools that educate some Native Americans in nearly two dozen states, including Arizona, issued an employee vaccine mandate Thursday.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Sep 3, 2021Eviction cases in Maricopa County were down before ban ended
Preliminary figures show that eviction filings in Arizona’s largest county were trending down in August before the Supreme Court issued a decision that ended a national moratorium on lockouts.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Sep 3, 20211 arrested after Arizona school encounter with principal over COVID restrictions
Several men objecting to an Arizona elementary school student being required to quarantine and miss a field trip because of a possible contact to the coronavirus threatened to make a citizen's arrest of the school principal while at least one brandished cable ties, school officials said Friday.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Sep 3, 2021Maine National Guard member deployed to Arizona charged with sex abuse
A Maine National Guard soldier has been charged with kidnapping and sexually abusing a colleague while serving on the southern border in Arizona, officials said.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Sep 3, 2021Arizona horned rioter pleads guilty to felony charge in Capitol mob case
Jacob Chansley, who was widely photographed in the Senate chamber with a flagpole topped with a spear on Jan. 6, could face 41 to 51 months in prison under sentencing guidelines, a prosecutor said.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Sep 2, 2021Arizona high court rejects major part of Tucson hospital opioids lawsuit
An Arizona Supreme Court ruling rejects a major part of a Tucson hospital's lawsuit accusing a pharmacy chain of negligence and seeking compensation for care provided to opioid-addicted patients.
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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.