CASA GRANDE — A multistory over-55 development dubbed Olas Senior Living on 340 Pottebaum Avenue south of Florence Boulevard goes before the Casa Grande City Council Monday.
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SANTAN (AP) — The Gila River Indian Community has issued a temporary ban on dances after a tribal police officer was fatally shot and another wounded while responding to a reported disturbance at a San Tan home, tribal officials said Sunday.
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CASA GRANDE — A multistory over-55 development dubbed Olas Senior Living on 340 Pottebaum Avenue south of Florence Boulevard goes before the Casa Grande City Council Monday.
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PHOENIX (AP) — A tribal police officer and another person were killed and a police officer and at least three other people were wounded in a shooting early Saturday at a home in the Gila River Indian Community north of Sacaton
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CASA GRANDE — The term “blue collar firefighter” applies to the approach Frank Ricci takes to his job. The newly appointed Casa Grande fire marshal told PinalCentral he relishes being out in the field with his fellow firefighters in helping keep the city safe.
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CASA GRANDE — The market has prompted a shift to more multifamily housing in the Casa Grande area over the past year, rather than the historical single-family type, to meet the demand for a wider breadth of housing options. Affordability, though, remains a complex issue.
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PHOENIX — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday reinstated the death sentence of Danny Lee Jones, who killed two people 32 years ago in Bullhead City.
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CASA GRANDE — Antonio Hurt has quickly gained knowledge of the Pinal County high school basketball scene.
CASA GRANDE — Two Casa Grande brothers are preparing to compete in the National Junior High School Finals Rodeo next month.
SIGNAL PEAK — Lin Laursen spent 34 years as the Central Arizona College women’s basketball coach, retiring after the 2007-08 season with what was then an NJCAA record total of 971 wins.
WEST MONROE, La. — Grace Kombetto of Central Arizona College took first place in the women’s 800 meters at the NJCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, and the Vaqueras finished seventh in the team standings.
MESA — Trace White is building quite the legacy at American Leadership Academy-Anthem South.
MARICOPA — Three more athletes were celebrated to close out the school year at Maricopa on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON — Defects with the federal application for financial aid have left thousands of Arizona students still unsure if they can afford college — or at least, how much they’ll have to pay — with less than three months to go before classes start.
PHOENIX — High mortgage interest rates are pushing prospective homebuyers to consider build-to-rent communities instead.
David Hom suffered from diabetes and felt nauseated before he went out to hang his laundry in 108-degree weather, another day in Arizona’s record-smashing, unrelenting July heat wave.
BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho man charged with murdering his wife and his girlfriend’s two youngest children was driven to commit the crimes by money, power and sex, a prosecutor told jurors during closing arguments on Wednesday.
Officials in America’s hottest big metro are working to better protect people amid temperatures already hitting the triple digits this spring. That's after a year that saw a staggering record 645 heat-related deaths despite scores of cooling centers and other measures in Maricopa County, Arizona. This year, some of the centers will extend their hours. At least two will operate all night so that people can sit in air conditioning and have chilled water. Bilingual health workers are staffing a call center to help fill the centers.
PHOENIX — Priscilla Orr, 75, was living in her old white Kia in a supermarket parking lot last summer after telling her family she lost her money and home to a romance scam.
TUCSON — Logan Suave had three hits and drove in three runs, West Virginia scored multiple runs in four of the first five innings and the Mountaineers dispatched Grand Canyon 10-6 on Sunday ni…
OKLAHOMA CITY — Stanford and UCLA players and coaches were emotional when it sunk in they had finished the last game between Pac-12 softball teams before the league splits up due to conference…
EDMONTON, Alberta — For the Edmonton Oilers, the journey from worst to first in the Western Conference is complete. And now a chance at the Stanley Cup is their reward.
PHOENIX — Diana Taurasi hit 7 of 9 from 3-point range and finished with a season-high 31 points to help Phoenix beat the Los Angeles Sparks 87-68 on Sunday and snap the Mercury's four-game skid.
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MARICOPA — “Wheel of Fortune Live,” a live theatrical experience, will be coming to The Events Center at Harrah’s Ak-Chin Casino.
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FLORENCE — An 11th grade Florence High School art class has produced many works inspired by local history, and they’re now on display at Pinal County Historical Museum, 715 S. Main St.
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COOLIDGE — Students from Imagine Prep Coolidge worked hard to bring a short film to life that was screened at Harkins Theatres in Casa Grande.
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Season 3 of Netflix’s popular romance series “Bridgerton” was released this month and while many are wondering if Colin and Lady Penelope Featherington will finally fall in love this season, others are asking what exactly are these characters eating at all the parties and balls? And what are…
BALTIMORE — A memorial for the six victims of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore was vandalized over the weekend.
WASHINGTON — Waverly Woodson Jr., a medic who was part of the only Black combat unit to take part in the D-Day invasion of France during World War II, is being posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in recognition of the heroism and determination he showed treating troops under…
JERUSALEM — At the start of its devastating offensive on the Gaza Strip, Israel set an ambitious goal: destroy Hamas. At the time, the Biden administration committed to the objective, lending Israel considerable stocks of weaponry and voicing its support.
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has had plenty to say since his hush money trial conviction last week.
Palestinian health officials said Israeli strikes killed 11 people overnight into Monday, including a woman and three children, in central Gaza.
BOISE, Idaho — A jury in Idaho unanimously agreed Saturday that convicted killer Chad Daybell deserves the death penalty for the gruesome murders of his wife and his girlfriend’s two youngest children, ending a grim case that began in 2019 with a search for two missing children.
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WILMINGTON, Del. — Prospective jurors in a federal gun case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter were questioned Monday on their thoughts about gun rights and drug addiction while the first lady watched from the front row of the courtroom in a show of support for her son.
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NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to reject former U.S. Rep. George Santos ’ bid to have some of the fraud charges against him dropped as his trial approaches.
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has had plenty to say since his hush money trial conviction last week.
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BEIRUT — Iran’s acting foreign minister dismissed a Gaza cease-fire deal proposed by U.S. President Joe Biden and warned Israel against launching an all-out war on Lebanon during a visit to Beirut Monday, his first official diplomatic visit since his predecessor died last month.
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MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s newly elected president held out an olive branch Monday to the more than one-third of Mexicans who didn’t vote for her, but the first woman to win the job faces a tough path toward reconciling a country left deeply divided by outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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ATHENS, Greece — The head of Greece’s extreme far-right Golden Dawn party will return to prison after a council of judges rescinded his early conditional release on Monday.
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JERUSALEM — Four more hostages kidnapped on Oct. 7 were declared dead by the Israeli military — including three older adults seen in a Hamas video begging to be released. Monday's announcement…
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JERUSALEM — At the start of its devastating offensive on the Gaza Strip, Israel set an ambitious goal: destroy Hamas. At the time, the Biden administration committed to the objective, lending …
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Palestinian health officials said Israeli strikes killed 11 people overnight into Monday, including a woman and three children, in central Gaza.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Palestinian officials have applied at the top U.N. court for permission to join South Africa's case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.
BERLIN — A man stabbed several members of a group that describes itself as opposing “political Islam” on a central square in the German city of Mannheim on Friday, authorities said. Six people were wounded, including a police officer who intervened.
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana could soon become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom — in another expansion of religion into day-to-day life by a Republican-dominated legislature.
INDIANAPOLIS — Former U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly is stepping down as U.S. ambassador to the Vatican and returning to Indiana two years after assuming the role.
CASA GRANDE — It’s been 40 years since the Frito-Lay plant in Casa Grande began operations.
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WILMINGTON, Del. — Prospective jurors in a federal gun case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter were questioned Monday on their thoughts about gun rights and drug addiction while the first lady watched from the front row of the courtroom in a show of support for her son.
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NEW YORK — A technical issue caused the temporary halt in trading for dozens of stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange Monday, including at least one whose price briefly fell nearly 100%.
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NEW YORK — Meme stocks are shaking Wall Street once again Monday. And, as is so usually the case, it all started online.
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Donald Trump has joined the popular video-sharing app TikTok, a platform he once tried to ban while in the White House, and posted from a UFC fight two days after he became the first former president and presumptive major party nominee in U.S. history to be found guilty on felony charges.
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WASHINGTON — Relatives of passengers who died in two jetliner crashes pushed federal officials Friday to prosecute Boeing on criminal charges related to the accidents no later than this fall but said they got no commitment from the Justice Department.
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PHOENIX -- Two Arizona firms are being sued in federal court by the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission over paperwork violations.
Pinal has plenty of natural beauty, encompassing everything from scenic mountainous horizons to landscapes dotted with the vibrant yellows and purples of wildflowers to vistas filled with the …
With gloves, trash bags and a go-getter attitude, volunteers every spring and fall blanket Pinal County to pick up the trash and debris that accumulates along the roadways.
Arizona is blessed with an abundance of natural resources, one of those being a rich reserve of copper ore. In this article, I’m going to focus on three very different mining projects, all loc…
Now that we’ve reached 2024, you might be thinking about your goals and hopes for the new year. But in addition to whatever personal resolutions you might make — volunteering, going to the gym…
CASA GRANDE — The city Fire Department's addition of ambulance service and a new station come as residential and industrial growth continue to boom in town.
Every year, as winter slowly gives way to spring, the desert landscape in Pinal transforms from sand-colored browns and tans to blankets of purple, yellow, reds and other hues as wildflowers c…
Recently Arizona has received its fair share of rain and, in some places, snow. And while the winter precipitation may be good for improving drought conditions, it can also bring some dangers …
With beautiful wildflowers blooming, an abundance of soft-hued color schemes and the warmer temperatures that come with the end of winter, spring is a great season for crafting and changing ho…
With scenic state routes and plenty of ground to cover, there's a lot of great reasons to road-trip in and around Pinal County. There are also a host of wonderful destinations to see. Here are…
Since it reopened last year, the Arizona City Community Library at 13254 S. Sunland Gin Road has become popular, especially with retirees and families with young children, Manager Jeff Prock s…
While the first of the year is well behind us, the spring is sometimes the best time to really make the most out of our New Year's resolutions, mostly because the weather is great.
A huge shout-out to Brianna González for submitting this adorable picture snapped at the Casa Grande Street Fair's Car Show in January.
Trees and shrubs, especially those that naturally thrive in the desert, can add another layer of beauty to any landscape.
Spring is a time for growth, both literally and figuratively.
In describing the Maricopa Fire/Medical Department, one word comes to mind for Chief Brad Pitassi. It is “passionate,” and it’s one thing he wishes more people knew about the department’s staff.
In the eyes of Luis Ascencio, the owner of AZ Quality Plumbing, plumbing isn't just what he does for a living — it's a passion.
Although things are changing over at Maricopa City Hall, you may see some familiar faces.
For husband and wife Maria and Ivan Pour, visual and performing arts are a passion and, as teachers, they work to share their art with the next generation.
Wendy Webb still remembers driving to people's houses or meeting people in the Fry's parking lot to deliver food. The food bank moved into a trailer, then into its current home in the blue bar…
Whether he's installing an air-conditioning unit at a home or organizing a fundraiser for a charitable cause, Robert Felix said his strong sense of community is what drives him.
Family, community and justice are important to Angel Raymond.
Issues like the one you are currently holding in your hands are among my favorite to put together.
Amber Liermann joined the Maricopa City Council three years ago and, recently, began her journey as vice mayor.
Thirty years is a long time to spend with one employer.
Chloe Armstrong’s days are like any other teenager's: wake up, go to school, participate in the occasional after-school activity, go home, do homework, go to bed and wake up the next day to do…
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