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Some Western cities nix July 4 fireworks for shortages, fire dangers

PHOENIX – The skies over a scattering of Western U.S. cities will stay dark for the third consecutive Fourth of July as some major fireworks displays are canceled again this year, this time ...

DATE: Jun 27, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

‘Little Miss Nobody’ identified over 60 years later with DNA

PHOENIX (AP) – “Little Miss Nobody” finally has a name. The Yavapai County Sheriff’s office said Tuesday the previously unidentified little girl whose burned remains were found over 60 year...

DATE: Mar 15, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Migrant activists leave life-saving caches of water, food in Arizona wilderness

Activism has roots in the 1981 founding of the Sanctuary Movement

DATE: Jul 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Western heat wave threatens health in vulnerable communities

PHOENIX – Extreme temperatures like the ones blistering the American West this week aren’t just annoying, they’re deadly. The record-breaking temperatures this week are a weather emergenc...

DATE: Jun 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Wintry weather bedevils holiday weekend travelers around U.S.

Wintry weather bedeviled Thanksgiving weekend travelers across the United States on Saturday as a powerful and dangerous storm moved eastward, dumping heavy snow from parts of California to ...

DATE: Nov 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Sikh preaches love 18 years after brother killed over turban

PHOENIX – Indian Sikh immigrant Rana Singh Sodhi still preaches love and tolerance 18 years after his brother was gunned down in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by a man who ...

DATE: Sep 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

More West Nile Virus cases being seen throughout Southwest

PHOENIX – West Nile Virus is increasingly being detected around the Southwest after a rainier winter, with a record number of cases in Arizona’s Maricopa County and seven deaths statewide th...

DATE: Aug 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Phoenix voters rejecting anti-rail initiative by wide margin

PHOENIX – Phoenix voters said “yes” to expanding light rail transportation in the nation’s fifth largest city Tuesday by soundly saying “no” to a measure that aimed to stop any more developm...

DATE: Aug 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Film airing on PBS recalls Arizona city’s dark deportation history

BISBEE, Ariz. – The darkest, most violent chapter in the history of Bisbee was an open secret for decades in the funky old Arizona copper town 7 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. ...

DATE: Jul 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Killing of black teen over rap music complaint sparks outrage

PHOENIX – Hundreds of people, including a presidential candidate, spoke out on Twitter this week after a 17-year-old black youth was killed at suburban convenience store, allegedly by a whit...

DATE: Jul 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Phoenix trails most big police forces in use of body cams

PHOENIX – A Phoenix police officer yelled obscenities and forced an unarmed black man suspected of shoplifting up against a patrol car. Another aimed his gun at the man’s pregnant fiancee, o...

DATE: Jul 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Family of men shot by Phoenix police emboldened after video

PHOENIX – Relatives of Hector Lopez, who was fatally shot by Phoenix police in May, say passing officers have laughed and made obscene gestures – a charge the department vehemently denies – ...

DATE: Jun 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News