WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans weighed scaling back the tax cuts in their massive package to secure crucial support as congressional analysts said Thursday the legislation would add $1 trillion to the deficit over the next decade. Republicans were making major changes to the bill — a top political priority of President Donald Trump — … Continue reading
Legislation to build an aerial tram to take paying visitors to a riverside boardwalk in the Grand Canyon has been voted down by the Navajo Nation Council. Members of the council voted 16-2 against the bill during a special session Tuesday in Window Rock, Arizona. It was the first time the full council had … Continue reading
PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge has said the Border Patrol in Arizona violated court orders by failing to properly preserve surveillance video related to a lawsuit claiming the agency detains migrants in inhumane conditions. U.S. District Judge David Bury on Monday, March 13, partially granted a motion to hold the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector … Continue reading
PHOENIX (AP) — There is palpable momentum for Democrat Hillary Clinton in Arizona, a state so traditionally Republican that her party’s nominee for president has carried it just once in the past 64 years. Encouraged by Donald Trump’s failure to unite the GOP in Arizona, long-hungry Democrats are scrambling to capitalize in the campaign’s final … Continue reading
PHOENIX (AP) — An expert in meteorites says a bright flashing light and loud boom over the skies in metro Phoenix looks like a single meteor burning up as it entered the Earth’s atmosphere at thousands of miles per hour. Radar footage shows that meteorites — black rocks ranging in size from a pea to … Continue reading
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A heat wave in large parts of the West and Southwest has many scattering for reprieve from the sun. In places like Arizona, the triple-digit temperatures are a way of life, but many still seek ways to escape it. Most are also equipped with cold air conditioning. The heat wave is … Continue reading
PHOENIX (AP) — The mother of a slain Arizona woman says her daughter had recently revived an online dating profile in search of fairy tale romance, but was instead lured to an apartment by a man now accused of killing her and leaving the body in a shallow desert grave. Police found 24-year-old Angela Russo’s … Continue reading
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Ann Rodgers ate plants and a turtle and made a “help” sign large enough that a helicopter was able to find her after nine days in the Arizona wilderness. The 72-year-old Tucson woman, who was found in the White Mountains in eastern Arizona, says studying survival methods and taking a survival … Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — It was a spectacular discovery: Fossil remains in an Indonesian cave revealed a recent relative of modern humans that stood about 3 feet tall. The creatures were quickly nicknamed “hobbits.” With evidence that they had survived to just 12,000 years ago, the hobbits appeared to have been the last of our … Continue reading
PHOENIX (AP) — Hours-long waits for some Arizona residents for presidential primary voting have led to accusations of voter suppression from Democrats and civil rights proponents who cite a decision by elections officials to slash the number of polling places this year. Residents in metro Phoenix have been bristling for years over a perception … Continue reading
NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) — Donald Trump’s ambitious plan to build a giant wall on the border hits close to home for people like Berenice Andrews. The front door of her family’s home is just feet away from a fence separating the U.S. and Mexico. The home is so close to Mexico that the sounds of … Continue reading
PHOENIX (AP) — Bernie Sanders ventured to the northern reaches of Arizona on Thursday night, March 17, far away from the southern metropolises that house most of the state’s voters but onto the land of a key voting bloc in Tuesday’s Democratic primary — Native Americans. Sanders spoke before an overflow crowd of thousands at … Continue reading
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Investigators say they noticed something strange when they began tracking food stamp transactions coming out of two small convenience stores in a polygamous community on the Arizona-Utah border. The volume of food stamp purchased was so large that it rivaled big-box stores like Wal-Mart and Costco. They said they … Continue reading
ELOY, Ariz. (AP) — Colombian musician Juanes and singer John Legend met immigrants at a jail in Arizona on Wednesday before performing for a small crowd outside the facility to draw attention to immigration. The Grammy winners each played two songs separately and one together — Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” — as dozens of people … Continue reading
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The prosecution in the case against an Arizona couple accused of holding their three daughters captive said they’ve proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the girls were severely abused, malnourished and trapped inside a Tucson house. Prosecutor J. Alan Goodwin said there was plenty of evidence to show the girls were … Continue reading
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