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TweetPinShareJon Johnson File Photo/Gila Herald: Tom O’Halleran listens to constituents during a visit to Pima in August, 2018. Contributed Article WASHINGTON D.C. – Congressman Tom O’Halleran (AZ-01) and Congresswoman Jahana …
Reps. O’Halleran, Hayes Introduce Resolution Supporting Higher Teacher Pay Read More
TweetPinShareBy Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com PHOENIX – Nathan Sutherland, 36, was arrested and booked into the Maricopa County Jail on Wednesday on charges of sexual assault and vulnerable adult abuse. He is …
Male nurse arrested for sexual assault in Hacienda HealthCare rape case Read More
TweetPinShareFile Photo By Nathan O’Neal/Cronkite News: The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review an Arizona Supreme Court ruling that struck down a voter-approved law prohibiting bail for defendants charged with …
Supreme Court won’t hear Arizona law denying bail in sex-assault cases Read More
TweetPinSharePhoto By John Sonderman/Creative Commons: Arizona Reps. Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs were two of just seven House members who opposed a bill to give back pay to federal workers …
Biggs, Gosar among handful to oppose back pay for furloughed feds Read More
TweetPinShareContributed Article PHOENIX, Ariz – Due to the current federal government shutdown, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for February will be available as early as Jan. 17 to nearly …
February SNAP benefits available early to mitigate impact of government shutdown Read More
TweetPinSharePhoto By Intellectual Reserve, Inc.: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Russell M. Nelson and his wife, Wendy Watson Nelson, will be in Arizona on Feb. 10 …
Russell M. Nelson to visit Arizona in February Read More
TweetPinShareCochise County Courthouse By Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com SIERRA VISTA – Cochise County Sheriff’s Office Chaplain Douglas Robert Packer, 63, of Sierra Vista, was out on bond on sexual assault charges …
Cochise County Sheriff’s Office chaplain arrested on additional sexual abuse charges Read More
TweetPinShareBy Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com SAN SIMON – A fatal collision between two westbound semi-trucks on Interstate-10 closed a section of freeway near the New Mexico border for four miles early …
Fatal semi-truck collision closes westbound I-10 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
TweetPinSharePhoto Courtesy U.S. House of Representatives: Sen.-elect Kyrsten Sinema will be the first female senator from Arizona, and the first Democrat in more than two decades when she is sworn …
First in Congress? Get in line, as more women, minorities head to the Hill Read More