AP Arizona

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities are investigating the cause of death this week of a Mexican woman whose leg was entangled while using a climbing harness and ended up hanging upside down off the border wall in eastern Arizona. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials offered few details. The local sheriff’s

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities are investigating the cause of death this week of a female migrant whose leg was entangled while using a climbing harness and ended up hanging upside down off the border wall in eastern Arizona. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials offered few details. The local sheriff’s

GOLDEN VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — A Mohave County man faces animal cruelty charges after 183 frozen animals, including dogs, turtles, lizards, snakes and birds, were found in a freezer at a Golden Valley home where at least some were placed while alive. A sheriff’s office statement said deputies and animal control officers found the frozen

By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Ketel Marte had the game-ending sacrifice fly in the 10th inning after Seth Beer tied it with a single, and the Arizona Diamondbacks rallied for a 3-2 win over the Houston Astros. The game was full of missed opportunities for both offenses until each team scratched

By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The arrival of four women from the 2020 U.S. Olympic women’s gymnastics team has thrust the NCAA gymnastics championships into the spotlight. Olympic champion Sunisa Lee as well as gold medalist Jade Carey and silver medalists Jordan Chiles and Grace McCallum are all college

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Federal officials say it may be necessary to reduce water deliveries to Colorado River users to prevent the shutdown of a huge dam on the Arizona-Utah border. Glen Canyon Dam supplies hydropower to some 5 million customers across the U.S. West. Officials had hoped snowmelt would

PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say a man accused of driving 115 mph has been arrested after allegedly causing a crash in south Phoenix that left a woman dead and her 4-year-old daughter critically injured. Police say 18-year-old Eulalio Juarez Rodriguez has been booked into jail on suspicion of manslaughter, but impairment doesn’t appear to be

By PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will continue truck inspections that have gridlocked the U.S.-Mexico border for days. The two-term Republican governor said Wednesday he would not repeal his new policy at all bridges until there are more assurances of security. Abbott

By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson says the state has reached a settlement with e-cigarette giant Juul Labs, which will pay the state $22.5 million. The company also agreed to a variety of reforms to prevent underage use and sales. Ferguson filed a consumer protection

PHOENIX (AP) — In a story published April 10, 2022, about the overcount of the U.S. Asian population in the 2020 census, The Associated Press erroneously named an advocacy group. It is Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC, not Asian Americans Advancing Justice.

PHOENIX (AP) — State utility regulators have rejected a proposed power plant expansion project that pitted environmental justice concerns against metro Phoenix’s increasing electricity demands during Arizona’s summer heat. The Arizona Corporation Commission’s 4-1 vote Tuesday was a victory for residents of Randolph, a small historically Black community near Coolidge in Pinal County. Citing concerns

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Protests over Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest border security measure are slowing down the flow of trade on the U.S.-Mexico border. Since Monday, Mexican truckers have blocked the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge in protest after the Republican governor last week directed state troopers to pull over

By JACK MAGRUDER Associated Press GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Fabian Zetterlund and Kevin Bahl got their first career goals and New Jersey scored twice in the final minute of the second period, sending the Devils to a 6-2 victory over the Arizona Coyotes. Tomas Tatar and Jesper Boqvist scored 22 seconds apart late in the

By ADAM GELLER, CARLA K. JOHNSON and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press On the deadliest day of a horrific week in April 2020, COVID took the lives of 816 people in New York City alone. Lost in the blizzard of pandemic data that’s been swirling ever since is the fact that 43-year-old Fernando Morales was one

By ADAM GELLER, CARLA K. JOHNSON and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press On the deadliest day of a horrific week in April 2020, COVID took the lives of 816 people in New York City alone. Lost in the blizzard of pandemic data that’s been swirling ever since is the fact that 43-year-old Fernando Morales was one