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- McComish plays key role in deal to keep Cubs in Valley
- Garin Groff
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- New details have on the cost for a new Chicago Cubs spring training facility in Mesa, and where the money will come from. The total project would cost $119 million, an amount not given before. The... Full story
- Senior center on chopping block
- By Doug Murphy Ahwatukee Foothills News
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- The Phoenix City Council approved expanding the sales tax to food, but it is not clear where the $60 million a year it generates will go.
Meanwhile the proposed city budget calls for the closure of five city senior centers, including the one at... Full story
- Christmas Eve murder trial begins
- Driver going wrong way on Pecos killed 1, hurt 3
- By Doug Murphy Ahwatukee Foothills News
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Was it drunk driving or sleep driving? That is the question a 14-member jury panel will have to decide in the second-degree murder trial of Christopher Smith.
Smith is accused of the 2007 Christmas Eve death of Trang Vo, 34, when he drove the... Full story
- City makes room for more commuters
- By Robert Oppermann
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- Commuters crowding the aisles of the Park-N-Ride transit center at the corner of Pecos Road and 40th Street will find ample room for their cars this summer when an expansion adding 350 covered parking spaces is completed.
The lot, with a present... Full story
- Council OKs tax on food, could start April 1
- By Doug Murphy Ahwatukee Foothills News
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- The City Council, on a 6-3 vote, approved extending the city’s current 2 percent sales tax to food for the next five years, in the hopes of raising $60 million a year and reducing layoffs and budget cuts.
Councilman Sal DiCiccio voted against... Full story
- Accidents cause rush-hour delays
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Two rush-hour rollover accidents this morning on westbound I-10 backed up traffic for miles in several directions.
The accidents occurred west of University Drive at the Salt River Bridge.
Drivers have been encouraged to take the SR 143 to the... Full story
- Police need help finding oxycodone robber
- By Doug Murphy Ahwatukee Foothills News
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- Police need your help to find a man who robbed a Walgreens pharmacy of several large bottles of oxycodone Sunday afternoon.
According to Sgt. Bryant Rockwood, the man walked into the Walgreens at 4647 E. Elliot Road around 2:30 p.m.
“He said... Full story
- Christmas Eve drunk driving murder trial begins
- By Doug Murphy
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- Was it drunk driving or sleep driving? That is the question a 14 member jury panel will have to decide in the second-degree murder trial of Christopher Smith.
Smith is accused of the 2007 Christmas Eve death of Trang Vo when he drove the... Full story
- Rain expected tonight, tomorrow
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A system with the potential to spawn thunderstorms and nearly half an inch of rain could be in the Valley by tonight, according to the National Weather Service’s office in Phoenix.
Forecasters call for a 70 percent chance of rain today,... Full story
- GRIC gives reluctant OK to look at freeway routes on tribal land
- By Doug Murphy Ahwatukee Foothills News
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- Last Thursday the South Mountain Loop 202 was charging forward in high gear with construction possible by 2013.
By Monday the process was back in neutral after the Gila River Indian Community sent the Arizona Department of Transportation a letter... Full story
