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Arizona health officials are reporting 2,855 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and another 27 related deaths. The state Department of Health Services dashboard released the new figures Thursday morning. This brings the totals for Arizona since the pandemic’s onset to 1,058,774 cases and 19,360 deaths. Since Aug. 30, hospitalizations due to the virus have hovered just

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Sikh businessman Balbir Singh Sodhi was helping plant a flower bed at his Arizona gas station when he was shot dead by a man seeking to avenge 9/11. Mistaken for an Arab Muslim because of his turban and beard, Sodhi was the first person to die

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Julio Urías earned his major league-leading 18th victory, Gavin Lux singled in the go-ahead run in the fourth, and the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-3. The Dodgers won their sixth straight overall and ninth in a row at home, where they are

PHOENIX (AP) — The second-driest winter on record in the Salt River Project’s watershed was followed by a monsoon that the water and power utility said was the second-wettest since it started keeping records nearly 110 years ago. The 2021 monsoon provided nearly 250,000 acre-feet of inflow into the utility’s reservoirs on the the Salt

PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities in Phoenix say they have identified a man who died while in custody last week. Police received reports of a naked man running north of downtown Friday around 12:45 a.m. Responding officers say they found 28-year-old Jessee Rickman acting erratically and making nonsensical statements. Police say Rickman didn’t comply with officers’

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The four people on SpaceX’s first private flight are fairly ordinary, down-to-Earth types brought together by chance. They’ll circle Earth for three days at an unusually high altitude — on their own without a professional escort — before splashing down off the Florida coast.

PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say a man and woman are dead after a shooting in Phoenix. They say a fugitive wanted for a felony was spotted Wednesday afternoon outside a Phoenix hotel and he fatally shot himself in the head while he and the woman were running from the scene. Police say the woman then

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation on Wednesday reported 45 more COVID-19 cases and five additional deaths. The latest numbers pushed the tribe’s totals to 33,338 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 1,426 known deaths from the virus since the pandemic began more than a year ago. Navajo officials are urging people to get vaccinated,

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Authorities say a U.S. citizen living in Mexico who claimed ties to the Sinaloa cartel faces a 17-count indictment related to a drug trafficking operation between Mexico and Alaska. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Alaska says Miguel Baez Guevara was arrested by Mexican immigration authorities in

By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Pro Football Writer EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — Patrick Peterson put the Minnesota Vikings high on his wish list as a free agent this offseason. Peterson was more of a need than a want for the Vikings. They sought not only to upgrade their starting cornerbacks but to bring in experience that

PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say a Phoenix woman has been arrested on suspicion of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her two young daughters. Police say 35-year-old Retta Renee Cruse was booked into jail Tuesday after being released from a hospital following treatment for alleged self-inflicted stab wounds. According to court documents,

PHOENIX (AP) — Police in Phoenix are investigating the discovery of two dead bodies inside a car. They say the bodies of a man and a woman were found early Wednesday and there was evidence of drug usage near the car. Officers responded to a check welfare call shortly before 4 a.m. and found the

PHOENIX (AP) — Human rights groups are calling on the Biden administration to consider the effects that climate change-fueled heat has on migrants when designing the government’s border policies. Human Rights Watch on Wednesday released the letter sent by 68 groups to the U.S. government, urging a new approach to actions on the southwestern border

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Crews searching for a missing man at Grand Canyon National Park made an unexpected discovery this summer. They found the remains of another person who authorities believe was last seen at the park in 2015. The medical examiner’s office is working to confirm the identity. Park

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX’s first private flight streaked into orbit Wednesday night with two contest winners, a health care worker and their rich sponsor, the most ambitious leap yet in space tourism. It was the first time a spacecraft circled Earth with an all-amateur crew and no

By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — It’s no secret that Cardinals linebacker Chandler Jones is in the last year of his current contract and would like a lucrative new deal. He also has acknowledged he asked for a trade from the Cardinals during the offseason. But instead of pouting or holding

PHOENIX (AP) — The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has chosen a sitting member of the Arizona House to replace a state senator who resigned after being charged with child molestation. The board chose Rep. Raquel Teran on Wednesday from a list of three candidates to replace former Sen. Tony Navarrete. Supervisor Steve Gallardo announced

WICHITA, Kansas (AP) — A 7-year-old Arizona girl was killed in a head-on crash on U.S. Highway 50 in in southwest Kansas. The Kansas Highway Patrol says that the child, Isabella Rodriguez-Rivera, was a passenger in a Volkswagen Tiguan that tried to pass a vehicle Tuesday at around 1:50 p.m. near the highway’s intersection with

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona on Wednesday reported 2,432 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases and 29 deaths, increasing the state’s pandemic totals to nearly 1,056,00 cases and over 19,300 death, Meanwhile, virus-related hospitalizations remained over 2,000. In another development, Flagstaff-based Northern Arizona Healthcare is the latest major hospital system operating in Arizona to require that its employees

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press CUSTER CITY, S.D. (AP) — Government scientists say the pace of logging in South Dakota’s Black Hills National Forest is too much and the forest is shrinking. Worries about wildfires and tree-killing beetles drove U.S. officials to sharply ramp up logging years ago. Across the U.S. West, more trees have