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Murder trial set for woman accused of driving into Vegas Strip pedestrians
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge on Thursday scheduled a murder trial for next year for a woman who has spent more than seven years in state psychiatric care after she was accused of intentionally plowing a car into pedestrians, killing one, on the Las Vegas Strip. Paris Paradise...
NCAA made a 'big mistake' by not setting up framework for NIL compensation, new president says
WASHINGTON (AP) — NCAA President Charlie Baker said Thursday he wants a federal law to regulate the way college athletes can be compensated for endorsement deals that creates a registry of deals, agent certification and uniform contract standards. Baker hopes a bill can move...
23 freight cars, new vehicles heavily damaged in train derailment in northern Arizona
WILLIAMS, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine the cause of a freight train derailment in northern Arizona that heavily damaged 23 cars and a load of new vehicles. Coconino County Emergency Management officials said the derailment occurred around 11:20 p.m. Wednesday...
Arizona president says realignment talk premature until Pac-12 has hard numbers on TV deal
WASHINGTON (AP) — University of Arizona President Bobby Robbins says until Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff gives the conference's leaders hard numbers on a future media rights deal, any talk about schools leaving the league is premature. Robbins spoke to a small group of...
Six individual champions crowned at outdoor track and field championships
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Arkansas’ Carey McLeod completed an NCAA indoor/outdoor long jump sweep and Arizona's Jordan Geist accomplished the feat in the shot put Wednesday night at the outdoor track and field championships. Arkansas took the top two spots in the long jump behind...
Reds' De La Cruz hits 1st homer, Dodgers skid at 4 with 8-6 loss
CINCINNATI (AP) — Elly De La Cruz hit a 458-foot drive for his first major league homer and Will Benson hit a game-ending home run in the ninth that lifted the Cincinnati Reds over Los Angeles 8-6 on Wednesday night and extended the Dodgers’ losing streak to a season-high four. ...
DeSantis defends flying migrants to California as he meets with sheriffs near border
SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday defended his state's decision to fly migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to California, arguing that the state had essentially invited the migrants with its welcoming policies toward immigrants. DeSantis, a...
Supreme Court tossed out heart of Voting Rights Act a decade ago, prompting wave of new voting rules
ATLANTA (AP) — Within hours of a U.S. Supreme Court decision dismantling a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, Texas lawmakers announced plans to implement a strict voter ID law that had been blocked by a federal court. Lawmakers in Alabama said they would press forward with a similar law...
Ex-teacher sentenced to prison for making death threat against Arizona legislator
HOLBROOK, Ariz. (AP) — A former Tucson middle school teacher was sentenced Tuesday to 2 ½ years in prison after pleading guilty to making a death threat against Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers. Donald Glenn Brown pleaded guilty in April to a charge of attempting to make a...
Book Review: Isabel Allende's 'The Wind Knows My Name' explores lives of 2 children adrift alone
PHOENIX (AP) — "The Wind Knows My Name" by Isabel Allende (Ballantine Books) Prolific Latin American-born author Isabel Allende skillfully braids the traumatic stories of two young children separated from each other by decades and thousands of miles in her latest novel, “The...
