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TweetPinShareWalt Mares File Photo/Gila Herald: A monument honoring first responders is flanked by, from left, Clifton Police Chief Omar Negrete, Greenlee County Sheriff’s Sgt. John Mennen, Clifton police officer Clayton …
Editorial: Abolishing police is absolutely wrong way to go Read More
TweetPinShareJon Johnson File Photo/Gila Herald: An intoxicated man who brought his own whiskey into C&C’s Hideaway was hospitalized after receiving the losing end of a bar fight he reportedly started …
Man starts a fight at a bar, gets knocked out cold Read More
TweetPinShareEleven new positive tests put county at 442 total By Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com SAFFORD – Graham County has been the second-lowest of Arizona’s counties for COVID-19 transmission for most of …
Graham County positive COVID-19 tests rising faster than other counties’ results Read More
TweetPinShareRaymundo Frasquillo Photo/Gila Herald: Eighth-grader Samantha Dillman picks up a personal computer for the 2020-21 school year. Her mother, Kelley, accompanied and was on hand for registration on July 21. …
Morenci Schools have two new principals for July 29 opening Read More
TweetPinShareFollowing is a listing of bookings from the Graham County Adult Detention Facility from July 22, 2020, through July 27, 2020. All information is gathered from the jail’s booking roster. …
Jail Booking Report for July 22 – 27 Read More
TweetPinShareBy Zachary Spiecker/Cronkite News PHOENIX – A research center in east Tucson is one of the 87 clinics in the country chosen to participate in phase 3 of a COVID-19 …
Volunteers wanted for COVID-19 vaccine trials held in Tucson Read More
TweetPinShareContributed Photo/Courtesy GCSO: Kristina Sandoval was sentenced to four years in prison on Tuesday for attempted transfer of a narcotic drug. Failure on pretrial services results in prison sentence By …
Sandoval sentenced to four years in prison in heroin case Read More
TweetPinShareStella Hinojos Ortiz, of Safford, passed away on July 17, 2020, in Oro Valley, Arizona. Stella was born on Nov. 1, 1941, in Safford, to parents Jose Palma Hinojos and Josephine …
Obituary for Stella Hinojos Ortiz Read More TweetPinShareBy Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com SAFFORD – After spending months with very little cases, Graham County has added more COVID-19 positive tests in the last two days than it did during …
Graham County records another 35 cases of COVID-19 Read More
TweetPinShareWalt Mares Photo/Gila Herald: More signs such as this one are appearing in Clifton/Morenci area and other parts of Greenlee County urging people to wear protective face masks to help …
Editorial: What, real men don’t wear masks? Read More