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Feb 20 2023
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Man slain in Arizona workplace attack IDed as plant employee
CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — The person killed over the weekend at a microprocessor manufacturing facility in suburban Phoenix was a 49-year-old man who worked at the plant, authorities said Monday. Chandler police identified the victim as Dan Foster, an employee of the Intel plant. Court documents say he was found dead in the cafeteria of Intel’s Ocotillo Campus with blunt-force trauma from a
Associated Press
Nov 28 2022
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GOP-controlled Arizona county refuses to certify election
Republican officials in a rural Arizona county refused on Monday to certify the 2022 election, despite no evidence of anything wrong with the count, amid pressure from prominent Republicans to reject results showing Democrats winning top races.
State election officials have said they will sue Cochise County if the board of supervisors misses Monday’s deadline to approve the official
Associated Press
Feb 15 2023
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Deadly Acid Truck Crash Sparks Evacuation Orders in Arizona
A truck tractor pulling a trailer with toxic acid crashed on an interstate highway near Tucson, Arizona, on Tuesday, leading to shelter-in-place and evacuation orders as the dangerous cargo spilled into the open. The Arizona Department of Public Safety confirmed the driver had been killed in the incident which saw liquid nitric acid gushing out of the wreck on Interstate 10. A section of the
Daily Beast
Feb 15 2023
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Nitric acid spill on Arizona freeway prompts evacuation order
A truck hauling liquid-form nitric acid crashed on the I10 highway near Tucson, Ariz. on Feb. 14, and prompted evacuations orders. (Video: Kieryn Zizzo via Storyful, Photo: Arizona Department of Public Safety/Kieryn Zizzo via Storyful) A truck that spilled nitric acid when it crashed forced Arizona authorities to evacuate people in the area and close off a busy freeway — the second chemical
Washington Post
Apr 14 2023
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University of Arizona shares new safety suggestions following shooting of professor
Safety measures such as adding locks to doors and keyless entry to buildings are being implemented at the University of Arizona following the deadly shooting of a professor in October, the university president announced Friday. The changes come just two weeks after the release of a campus safety and security report published by PAX Group, a consulting company led by a former FBI agent, for the
AZ Central
Jul 27 2023
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Arizona teen missing since 2019 found 'safe, happy and healthy' in small Montana town
A 14-year-old Arizona girl who mysteriously went missing in 2019 has been found "safe, happy and healthy" in Montana, authorities said. Alicia Navarro, now 18, went alone to a police department in a small Montana town near the Canadian border to identify herself and ask for help to get cleared off a missing juvenile list, the Glendale, Arizona, police announced Wednesday. When she came forward
ABC News (Online)
Feb 14 2023
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Tapped out: An Arizona community symbolizes West’s water woes
In the American Southwest, people are having to conserve water as never before – from states wrangling over the Colorado River to one small Arizona community where a key source just dried up.
It was never a secret that the water situation was complicated.
There is no municipal water supply in this 18-square-mile flatland of dirt roads, ranches, and dun-colored homes. Indeed,
Christian Science Monitor
Jun 29 2023
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Universities say Supreme Court's affirmative action ban should have no effect in Arizona
Thursday's landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action admissions policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina isn't expected to have any effect in Arizona, where voters already prohibited such policies. Driving the news: In a 6-3 vote led by the high court's conservative bloc, the justices ruled that the two universities' admissions policies, which gave
Axios
Feb 27 2024
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Shopping center in San Tan Valley closed due to bomb threat
A bomb threat at a post office in San Tan Valley, Arizona led to the evacuation and closure of a nearby shopping center. The incident occurred when an individual entered the post office and left a suspicious package claiming it was a bomb. The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office was notified and quickly evacuated surrounding businesses, setting up a perimeter to ensure safety. A bomb squad from the
Alaska Commons
Sep 21 2023
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Arizona Attorney General Joins Representatives Nguyen & Bliss in Urging Repeal of Unlawful Phoenix Ordinance for Overseas Firearm Transfer
PHOENIX, AZ – In response to a 1487 complaint filed one month ago by House Judiciary Chairman Quang Nguyen and Vice Chair Selina Bliss, the Arizona Attorney General's Office has issued an investigative report concurring with the legislators. The report finds that the recently passed City of Phoenix ordinance permitting the transfer of 599 unclaimed firearms to Ukraine's national police force
The Prescott Times