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ARIZONA NEWS | Jun 5, 2021Navajo College accepts Biden’s COVID-19 vaccination goal
A college on the Navajo Nation is accepting President Joe Biden's challenge to get students and others vaccinated against COVID-19 by July 4.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jun 4, 2021Arizona House to reconvene Monday to try and push through budget
Republican leaders of the Arizona House plan to call members back to the Capitol Monday and try to muscle though a budget they negotiated with GOP leaders of the Senate and Gov. Doug Ducey, but there remain doubts that they can get the job done.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jun 3, 2021Tempe man accused of killing roommate’s pet rabbit, Pickles
A Tempe man is accused of killing his roommate's domesticated pet rabbit while the roommate was in the process of moving out.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jun 3, 2021Federal judge greenlights contempt hearing against Sheriff Paul Penzone
A federal judge said he will hold a contempt of court hearing against Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone in the same racial profiling case that led to rulings against his predecessor.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Jun 2, 2021World’s largest meat producer getting back online after cyberattack
The world’s largest meat processing company, which has a facility in metro Phoenix, is getting back online after production around the world was disrupted by a cyberattack just weeks after a similar incident shut down a U.S. oil pipeline.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jun 2, 2021AP FACT CHECK: Sinema, Manchin do not vote with GOP more
President Joe Biden is stretching the facts when he suggests that two moderate Democrats in the Senate, including Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, might be a reason why his legislative agenda, such as a sweeping voting rights bill, isn’t quickly getting done on Capitol Hill.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jun 2, 2021Judge permanently blocks marketing of bottled-water brand sold in Arizona
A U.S. judge has permanently blocked Las Vegas-based bottled-water brand Real Water from being marketed in Arizona and other states while an investigation continues into at least one death and multiple cases of liver illness among people who reported drinking it.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jun 1, 2021Former Arizona National Guard head McGuire files to run for US Senate
PHOENIX (AP) — Retired Maj. Gen. Michael McGuire, the former head of the Arizona National Guard, has filed…
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ARIZONA NEWS | May 30, 2021Unprecedented outbreak of side blooms on saguaros in Arizona
Cactus experts are tracking an unprecedented outbreak of “side blooms” on saguaros across Southern Arizona this year.
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ARIZONA NEWS | May 29, 2021Man arrested after body found in duffel bag in storage unit
A Kingman man is accused of killing a woman last year, hiding her body in a duffel bag in a storage unit and then driving her car.
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ARIZONA NEWS | May 29, 2021Suit alleges Phoenix police retaliated against protesters
A lawsuit filed Friday alleges that Phoenix officers retaliated against 124 people at a protest of police violence nearly a year ago unlawfully.
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ARIZONA HEALTH NEWS | May 29, 2021Biden’s $6T budget: Social spending, taxes on business
President Joe Biden is proposing a $6 trillion budget for next year that's piled high with new safety net programs for the poor and middle class.
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ARIZONA NEWS | May 27, 2021Arizona Senate calls off budget vote, adjourns until June 10
The Arizona Senate on Thursday pulled the plug on a plan to vote on a budget and instead adjourned until June 10 unless they break the impasse earlier on the $12.8 billion spending plan.
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ARIZONA NEWS | May 27, 2021Arizona regulators revive renewable energy plan but with slower timeline
The Arizona Corporation Commission revived a renewable energy requirement for state-regulated utilities but under a slower timetable than a previously rejected proposal.
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ARIZONA NEWS | May 26, 2021Flagstaff, Coconino County to drop mask mandates June 1
Flagstaff, the most populous city in Coconino County in northern Arizona, and the county itself are dropping masking mandates they implemented last June to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.
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ARIZONA NEWS | May 26, 2021Arizona House votes down ID requirement for mail ballots
The Arizona House on Wednesday voted down a bill that would have required voters to include identification with their mail-in ballots, a defeat for Republicans looking to impose more restrictive voting procedures.
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ARIZONA NEWS | May 26, 2021Arizona budget faces Republican opposition as debate delayed
Contentious division among Republican lawmakers about a state budget deal negotiated between GOP Gov. Doug Ducey and majority Republican legislative leaders is in the forefront as the Arizona House delayed a scheduled Wednesday debate.
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ARIZONA NEWS | May 25, 2021Judge rejects bid to toss DNA evidence in Hacienda rape case
A former nurse charged with sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman who later gave birth at a Phoenix long-term care facility has lost a bid to throw out DNA evidence that authorities say links him to the crime.
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ARIZONA NEWS | May 25, 2021Firm drops out of Arizona Senate’s audit of Maricopa County election
A subcontractor working on a Republican-led audit of the 2020 election results in Maricopa County has dropped out of the project.
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ARIZONA NEWS | May 25, 2021Couple charged with murder of kids in strange doomsday case
The mother of two kids who were found dead last year in Idaho and her new husband have been charged with murder in a bizarre case involving doomsday religious beliefs.
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ARIZONA NEWS | May 25, 2021Arizona prisoner whose beard was forcibly shaved files federal complaint
Lawyers are seeking a federal civil rights investigation of the policies that let Arizona corrections workers forcibly shave off the beard of a prisoner who is Sikh and told the employees that his religion forbids shaving.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | May 25, 2021Moderna says its COVID-19 shot protects kids as young as 12
Moderna said Tuesday its COVID-19 vaccine strongly protects kids as young as 12, a step that could put the shot on track to become the second option for that age group in the U.S.
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ARIZONA NEWS | May 24, 2021Tax-slashing $12.8B Arizona budget introduced in House
A $12.8 billion spending plan for the coming budget year that slashes income taxes by 25% over three years and shields the wealthy from having to directly pay a new surcharge to boost education spending was introduced in the Arizona House on Monday.
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ARIZONA HEALTH NEWS | May 22, 2021With more border crossers, US groups seek to stem deaths
Last summer's record heat and dry weather in Arizona were the main causes behind the 227 deaths counted by a migrant aid group, the highest in a decade.