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ARIZONA NEWS | Jul 27, 2020Workers at closed Navajo Nation casinos to stop getting paychecks
Hundreds of people who had been on paid leave from their jobs with the Navajo Nation's gambling enterprise won't be paid after Monday.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Jul 27, 2020Virus vaccine put to final test in thousands of volunteers
The world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine study got underway Monday with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers helping to test shots created by the U.S. government.
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WORLD NEWS | Jul 26, 2020Olivia de Havilland, Oscar-winning actress, dies at 104
Havilland, the sister of fellow Oscar winner Joan Fontaine, died peacefully of natural causes, said New York-based publicist Lisa Goldberg.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jul 26, 2020Navajo casino employees might stop receiving paychecks while on leave
The majority of employees at four Navajo casinos have been paid while on leave, but they were warned that paychecks might soon stop.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Jul 25, 2020Mnuchin: Coronavirus aid package soon, $1,200 checks by August
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Saturday that Republicans were set to roll out the next COVID-19 aid package Monday.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Jul 25, 2020Regis Philbin, television personality and host, dies at 88
Regis Philbin, the genial host who shared his life with television viewers over morning coffee for decades has died at 88.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jul 25, 2020Case of human plague identified in northeastern Arizona
County health officials in northeastern Arizona said a man has contracted the human plague and are warning the public to take precautions.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Jul 25, 2020Fight for police-free schools has been years in the making
Madison quickly joined cities like Minneapolis, Phoenix, Denver and Portland, Oregon, in abandoning partnerships with police on campuses.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jul 23, 2020Buckeye police say suspect arrested in 2010 killing
A suspect has been arrested in a decade-old killing in Buckeye, police said.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jul 22, 2020Tucson approves budget that doesn’t defund police department
Tucson officials have approved a new $1.7 billion budget that does not defund the police department in Arizona's second-largest city.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jul 18, 2020Arizona AG asks Supreme Court to decide Tucson election date
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich on Friday asked the state Supreme Court to weigh in on Tucson's plans to hold elections in 2021.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jul 18, 202028-year-old woman shot while driving stolen car in Phoenix
One 28-year-old woman is in critical condition after being shot while driving a stolen vehicle near the intersection of Indian School Road and 83rd Avenue.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Jul 18, 2020Border agency fires 4, suspends 38 for social media posts
The Border Patrol's parent agency said Friday that it fired four employees and suspended 38 without pay for inappropriate social media activity.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Jul 17, 2020John Lewis, lion of civil rights and Congress, dies at 80
John Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, has died.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jul 17, 2020Navajo Nation leader urges residents to stay home ahead of lockdown
Officials on the Navajo Nation are urging residents to refrain from traveling off the reservation ahead of a weekend lockdown meant to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jul 16, 2020Arizona, low on hospital space, sends COVID-19 patients to New Mexico
Arizona COVID-19 patients are being transferred to New Mexico under a federal law that requires hospitals to accept patients from neighboring states if they have space.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jul 16, 2020UArizona lets professors choose remote, in-person or hybrid classes
Individual professors at the University of Arizona will decide whether to teach their fall classes in person, remotely or in a hybrid fashion.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Jul 16, 2020Tribal nations appeal ruling over federal virus relief funds
Tribal nations are challenging a court decision that allows Alaska Native corporations to receive a share of $8 billion in federal coronavirus relief funding set aside for tribes.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jul 15, 2020Arizona teachers want school closures as coronavirus cases rise
Several Arizona teachers voiced fears from their cars Wednesday about returning to school as the state continues to be ravaged by the coronavirus.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jul 15, 2020Arizona ban on evictions set to end as heat, coronavirus cases soar
Housing advocacy groups in Arizona have joined lawmakers in lobbying Gov. Ducey to extend his coronavirus-related moratorium on evictions, which will expire next week.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Jul 14, 2020First coronavirus vaccine tested in US poised for final testing
The first COVID-19 vaccine tested in the U.S. revved up people’s immune systems just the way scientists had hoped, researchers reported Tuesday -- as the shots are poised to begin key final testing.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jul 14, 2020Harassment claims reinstated in Juan Martinez ethics case
The Arizona Supreme Court has reinstated sexual harassment allegations in an ethics case against a former prosecutor best known for winning a conviction in the Jodi Arias murder case.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jul 14, 2020Funeral service held for Peoria officer who died in motorcycle crash
Hundreds of police officers and others attended a funeral service Tuesday for a Peoria police officer killed in an on-duty motorcycle crash after a demonstration at a school.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jul 14, 2020‘Empire’ actor arrested in metro Phoenix, accused of abusing wife
“Empire” actor Bryshere Gray has been arrested in Arizona on accusations of abusing his wife, police said.