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• The best top-loading washing machines with pole agitators

  28-07-2017 22:30
  
  These are the best traditional top-load agitator washing machines you can buy        
  
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• Arizona National Guard's deployment allows for more border agents to be on patrol

  24-05-2018 14:45
  
  Last month, Gov. Doug Ducey announced the deployment of the National Guard to the Arizona-Mexico border at President Trump’s request.
  
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• Our View: Cooperation key as forests close

  24-05-2018 12:45
  
  We’re coming up on Memorial Day Weekend in northern Arizona and entering new territory: Big parts of the forest are closed, as are most state lands. Never have land managers closed so much so early, but never has the forest…
  
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• Navajo presidential race draws several candidates so far

  24-05-2018 12:30
  
  WINDOW ROCK (AP) — Navajo President Russell Begaye has joined a handful of others in submitting paperwork for the tribe's top elected post.
  
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• Flagstaff still home to three NPA grads

  24-05-2018 12:30
  
  Second in a series
  
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• Around the Town: Festival celebrates Zuni culture and arts

  24-05-2018 12:15
  
  Celebrate the Zuni way of life at the 28th annual Zuni Festival of Arts & Culture, Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m.- 5 p.m., at the Museum of Northern Arizona, 3101 N. Fort Valley Road. Artists will be selling traditional…
  
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• Guest Column: Globalists work to stop spread of disease

  24-05-2018 12:00
  
  WASHINGTON — Those who find “globalists” to be villains should attend to recent events in Congo.
  
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• Undermining evolution is not-so-intelligent design

  24-05-2018 11:30
  Isn't it nice to see that our already vastly underfunded state public education system is now making a beeline to sink even lower?
  
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• Uber halts testing of self driving cars in Arizona

  24-05-2018 11:15
  
  PHOENIX -- Unable to currently test its self-driving vehicles in Arizona in the wake of a fatal mishap in March, Uber has decided to pull the plug on that program here.
  
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• Flagstaff developer ready to build some houses for $265,000

  24-05-2018 10:45
  
  A developer looking to build 119 homes in west Flagstaff may have more options after the city council opted to explore changes to the development agreement that would allow less expensive site-built homes in the project, instead of only manufactured…
  
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• Pay raises for TUSD teachers, staff will come at expense of school safety, repairs

  24-05-2018 08:59
  
  Tucson's largest school district plans to spend every penny it gets resulting from Ariona's #RedForEd movement, and $200,000 more.
  
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• Tucson Water customers' bills will going up beginning in July

  24-05-2018 08:58
  
  The increase would add $2.77 to the typical homeowner’s water bill.
  
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• Photos: Sunnyside High School 2018 Graduation

  24-05-2018 06:45
  
  Three hundred and ninety-six seniors received their diplomas during a graduation ceremony at Sunnyside High School. Friends and family cheered them on from the bleachers.
  
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• In TUSD, teacher raises will come at expense of school safety, repairs

  24-05-2018 05:30
  
  Teachers, support staff will see raises as capital needs fall by the wayside.
  
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• Arizona National Guard performing support roles at border

  24-05-2018 04:45
  
  The mission is to help get more Border Patrol agents on the ground, but quantifying how many more is not that simple, officials said Wednesday.
  
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• Man connected to vehicle burglary sought by Saguaro National Park officers

  24-05-2018 04:30
  
  National Park Service officers are asking the public's help identifying a man in connection to a burglary of a vehicle in the Saguaro National Park's east side district.
  
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• Northwest Healthcare plans 18-bed 'neighborhood hospital' in Sahuarita

  24-05-2018 04:00
  
  The two-story, 70,000-square-foot hospital is slated to open in late 2019, if approved by Sahuarita's mayor and council.
  
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• NAU's Grijalva set for 1500, 5K in NCAA track debut

  24-05-2018 04:00
  
  After sitting out the indoor track season as he rested from a long cross country campaign, Northern Arizona freshman Luis Grijalva quickly proved his value to the Lumberjacks.
  
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• Attorney: Firms boycotting Israel can be denied contract

  24-05-2018 03:19
  
  PHOENIX -- State lawmakers are free to deny government contracts to firms that won't do business with Israel or companies that operate there, an attorney for the state told a federal judge Wednesday.
  
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• Flagstaff plastic recyclables reduced to numbers 1 and 2 only

  24-05-2018 03:16
  Flagstaff’s curbside plastic recycling will see significant change beginning Friday, June 1. Residents, who were previously permitted to recycle all numbers (1-7), will now be able to recycle only numbers 1 and 2, a classification that includes plastic bottles and…
  
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• Court tosses case claiming bias against opposite-sex couples

  24-05-2018 02:34
  
  PHOENIX -- Heterosexual couples that always have had the right to marry in Arizona are not entitled to the same benefits that the state provided to gay couples who were not at the time entitled to wed, the state Court…
  
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• Hawaii volcano generates blue flames from burning methane

  24-05-2018 02:33
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — Blue flames from burning methane are the latest natural phenomena being seen at the eruption of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii.
  
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• Former Douglas border agent's 'attitude of dishonesty' leads to 3-month prison term

  24-05-2018 01:45
  
  Former agent's $500,000 in deposits loomed large at hearing Wednesday in federal court in Tucson.
  
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• Tucson Water customers' bills will increase about 7% beginning in July

  24-05-2018 01:00
  
  The increase would add $2.77 to the typical homeowner’s water bill.
  
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• NAU's APR scores lag behind other state, Big Sky programs

  24-05-2018 01:00
  
  With its multi-year academic progress rate down to 930, the Northern Arizona men’s basketball program landed at the NCAA’s minimum requirement to avoid potential penalties.
  
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• The Latest: Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests close 4 areas

  24-05-2018 00:45
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The Latest on wildfire-related partial closures of national forests in Arizona (all times local):
  
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• Arena football in Tucson? Rio Nuevo is banking on it

  24-05-2018 00:30
  
  Rio Nuevo president says odds of Tucson landing a team for 2019 is "better than 50 percent."
  
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• ACLU: Misconduct claims by children are widespread at border

  23-05-2018 23:12
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday released documents detailing widespread allegations of misconduct by U.S. border authorities toward children, including kicking one in the ribs, denying medical attention to a pregnant teen who complained of…
  
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• Northwest Healthcare planning "neighborhood hospital" in Sahuarita

  23-05-2018 22:34
  
  The 18-bed acute-care facility is slated to open in late 2019, if approved by Sahuarita's mayor and council.
  
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• Court overturns law prohibiting medical marijuana on Arizona college, university campuses

  23-05-2018 22:20
  
  The 2012 law altered what voters approved, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled.
  
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