About
Kevin Stone is KTAR’s Senior Web Content Editor. He is a seasoned journalist who was born in New York and grew up in Phoenix. He got his start doing agate for the Mesa Tribune sports section — remember newspapers? — in the 1990s while completing his print journalism degree. He went on to work for The Dallas Morning News as a copy editor and page designer for the paper’s award-winning sports section before spending nearly a decade in various positions with ESPN.com. He returned to the Valley in 2013 and joined the KTAR News digital team in 2018. His favorite activities are collecting records, going to concerts and sporting events, and dining out with his beautiful wife.
Expertise
- News and sports writing and editing
- Social media management
- Wordle wizardry
Education
- University of Arizona – Bachelor’s degree in general studies with minors in English, sociology and psychology.
- Arizona State University – Bachelor’s degree in journalism.
Social Media Profiles
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 5, 2021Scottsdale mansion sells for $21M, second-most ever in Arizona
A Scottsdale mansion fetched a whopping $21 million, a few million shy of the state record, the listing company announced Friday.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 5, 2021Officials seek owners of $45M in unclaimed property in metro Phoenix
The Arizona Department of Revenue is trying to find the rightful owners of around $45 million in unclaimed property in metro Phoenix.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 5, 2021
Arizona expert says 1-shot vaccine is ‘game-changer,’ but don’t shop around
Arizona’s former health director said the pending one-shot COVID-19 vaccine will be a “game-changer,” but there's no reason to shop around when it comes to getting vaccinated.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 4, 2021Arizona AG Brnovich says he filed lawsuit after DHS ignored him
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said federal authorities blew off concerns he raised about its deportation moratorium before he filed a lawsuit to stop it.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 4, 2021
Arizona to get $13M of McKinsey’s settlement over role in opiod crisis
Arizona will receive more than $13 million of a nearly $600 million settlement with a consulting firm over its work with pharmaceutical companies during the opioid epidemic.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 3, 20213 Arizonans, including state lawmaker, join Biden administration
Three Arizonans, including a Democratic state lawmaker, have recently accepted positions in President Joe Biden's administration.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 3, 2021Arizona attorney general sues over Biden’s deportation moratorium
Arizona’s Republican attorney general is suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over the Biden administration's 100-day deportation moratorium.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 3, 2021Arizona’s 21,000 new COVID-19 vaccine spots filled in under an hour
All 21,000 of the appointments for COVID-19 vaccines at Phoenix Municipal Stadium made available Wednesday morning were snapped up in 39 minutes.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 3, 2021Gov. Ducey presses Arizona’s members of Congress for more vaccines
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey sent a letter to the state’s congressional delegation requesting help acquiring more COVID-19 vaccines.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 3, 2021Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers to undergo heart bypass surgery
Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers was hospitalized this week and is scheduled to undergo heart bypass surgery on Thursday.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 2, 2021Numbers show that Arizona has upped its COVID-19 vaccine game
Nearly 60% of Arizona’s COVID-19 vaccine supply has been administered, the state health department said Tuesday, a big jump from a week earlier.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 2, 2021FilmBar shuttering downtown Phoenix theater, will live on in new form
FilmBar’s funky but charming downtown Phoenix movie house will soon be no more, but, like a cult-movie zombie, the business will live on in a new incarnation.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 2, 2021Arizona Country Thunder festival delayed again because of pandemic
The Arizona Country Thunder music festival in Florence has been rescheduled for a third time, from April to October, because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 1, 2021Dining domes pop up outside Culinary Dropout at Scottsdale Quarter
Desert Domes have popped up outside the Culinary Dropout at Scottsdale Quarter, providing a fresh dining-out experience with COVID-19 safety in mind.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 1, 2021Rural Arizona counties can expect COVID-19 vaccine boost soon
It could be a while before Arizona’s overall COVID-19 vaccine allotment increases significantly, but the state’s rural counties can expect a boost this week, according to Dr. Cara Christ.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 1, 2021Tomaso Maggiore, Phoenix restaurant icon, has died
Arizona restaurant legend Tomaso Maggiore, a fixture on the Valley culinary scene for more than four decades, died after battling cancer.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 29, 2021Phoenix police officer who fatally shot Ryan Whitaker won’t be charged
Calling the case “a tragedy,” prosecutors said they won’t charge a Phoenix police officer who fatally shot a man after he answered his apartment door while carrying a gun.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 29, 2021Despite questions, Kelli Ward says Arizona GOP election results are final
As Republicans continue to raise questions about the accuracy of the state party election, Arizona GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward said the results are “final, final.”
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 28, 2021Arizonans more willing to get vaccine, more worried about virus, poll finds
As COVID-19 cases surged, Arizonans grew more concerned about the pandemic and increased their willingness to get vaccinated, according to a new public opinion poll.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 28, 2021Arizona GOP chair runner-up calls for audit of party elections
The Arizona Republican Party, whose leader has repeatedly questioned the validity of Joe Biden’s presidential election victory in the state, is under internal scrutiny over its own elections.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 28, 20212 Arizona fugitives captured 5 days after prison escape
The two inmates who escaped from a central Arizona state prison over the weekend were apprehended Thursday in a Coolidge farm field, ending a 110-hour manhunt less than 15 miles from where it started.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 28, 2021Fixes for Arizona COVID-19 vaccine registration website are in works
The Arizona Department of Health Services is responding to complaints by making its online COVID-19 vaccination registration system more user friendly.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 27, 2021Arizona dealing with sign-up issues for 2nd doses of COVID-19 vaccine
Arizona Health Director Dr. Cara Christ said that authorities are actively working to help people struggling to schedule their second COVID-19 vaccine shot.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 27, 2021
Arizona consumer confidence fell as virus surged at end of 2020
Consumer confidence in Arizona’s economy was down toward the end of 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic surged, according to the Greater Phoenix Chamber’s Arizona Business Index.