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TweetPinShareContributed Photo/Courtesy SPD: This picture shows the damage to a truck after it struck a utility pole and knocked out electricity to a Safford neighborhood on Christmas. By Jon Johnson …
Hit-and-run collision knocks out power to Safford on Christmas Read More
TweetPinShareJon Johnson Photo/Gila Herald: More winter weather is on the way with a hard freeze warning to welcome the new year. Possibility for snow throughout Graham and Greenlee counties By …
New year to start with below freezing weather Read More
TweetPinShareAgnes Margaret Ross was born in Mogollon, New Mexico, on Jan. 8, 1923, to Pete B. and Rafaela Stella. She had five siblings; Natalia, Clara, Lucy, Pete Jr., and Tina. …
Obituary for Agnes Ross Read More
TweetPinShareJon Johnson Photo/Gila Herald: The city of Safford will be performing water infrastructure work in the area of the “Y” intersection of 8th Avenue, Safford/Bryce Road, and Airport Road in …
Utility work in preparation for the construction of a roundabout to cause traffic delays on 8th Avenue Read More
TweetPinShareBy Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com WASHINGTON D.C. – George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew it on their plantations. It was grown for the war effort in 1943 at the behest of …
Trump signs 2018 Farm Bill legalizing hemp cultivation on a federal level Read More
TweetPinShareJon Johnson Photo/Gila Herald: The Gila Mountain Range is snowcapped by a winter storm Thursday night and early Friday morning. Below freezing temperatures are expected for Graham and Greenlee counties …
Winter storm tops Gila Mountain Range with snow Read More
TweetPinShareRaymundo Frasquillo Photo/Gila Herald: Dawson Andrews (152) pinned Morenci’s Cody Torres in the third period. Andrews was one of five Bulldogs who earned a win by pin during a meet …
Morenci wrestlers slip past Bulldogs to end December Read More
TweetPinShareJon Johnson Photo/Gila Herald: Workers from Ward Brothers Enterprise LLC install a fire-engine red metal roof on top of the Pima Fire Department. Roof paid for by $49,000 grant from …
Pima Fire Department gets new roof Read More
TweetPinShareShoots bullet through adjacent hotel room By Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com SAFFORD – An intoxicated man was arrested Tuesday, Dec. 18, after accidentally firing a shot through his hotel room and …
Intoxicated man goes off half-cocked at Best Western Desert Inn, sends shot through wall Read More
TweetPinSharePhoto By Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo Pool By John Young This certainly gives a new definition to “red state.” A Senate report on Russia’s pro-Donald Trump disinformation campaign reveals something so …
Editorial: How Russian trolls toiled for Trump Read More