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• Investigation underway after Texas police allegedly shoot 3-year-old, teenage brother

  23-01-2020 23:59
  
  MIDLAND, Texas (AP) - A state agency was investigating Thursday after a man said police officers in West Texas shot and injured his 3-year-old daughter and teenage son while searching a home.Luis Gomez told KOSA-TV that his daughter and son were shot around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday at the home in Midland. It wasn't immediately clear whether the family lived there.Gomez said his son was shot in the arm and his daughter was shot in the back. The girl was taken to a hospital in Lubbock and has internal
  
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• Alabama teen accused of fatally stabbing mom, twin brothers charged for murder

  23-01-2020 23:49
  
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  (WVTM/NBC News) An Alabama teen has been charged with murder after allegedly stabbing his mother and twin brothers to death.Investigators believe 16-year-old Landon Durham stabbed his family members to death in the Munford home before he went to school early Tuesday morning.He was arrested Wednesday morning.Read more: http://bit.ly/3aA3Lpn 
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• Alabama accused of fatally stabbing mom, twin brothers charged for murder

  23-01-2020 23:49
  
  (WVTM/NBC News) An Alabama teen has been charged with murder after allegedly stabbing his mother and twin brothers to death.Investigators believe 16-year-old Landon Durham stabbed his family members to death in the Munford home before he went to school early Tuesday morning.He was arrested Wednesday morning.Read more: http://bit.ly/3aA3Lpn 
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• Driver cited after caught using skeleton as passenger while driving in HOV lane

  23-01-2020 23:23
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. - Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers had a bone to pick with a driver after he was caught Thursday driving in the HOV lane alone with a plastic skeleton in his passenger seat.Thursday morning, a motor trooper noticed the Halloween decoration traveling in the passenger seat of a vehicle on State Route 101 near Apache Boulevard. The skeleton reportedly also equipped with a camouflage bucket hat.
  DPS said the 62-year-old driver was cited for HOV and window tint violations.
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• Dry air will last through next weekend

  23-01-2020 23:10
  
  TUCSON - An extended period of dry air is expected for Southern Arizona through the end of the month.There are no rain chances between Thursday evening and early next Thursday.
  The main focus will stay on the warm air and the sunshine.High temperatures will top out in the low to mid 70's for Tucson between Friday and Sunday.A weak cold front will head our way Monday.Again, no rain chance will pop up, but our temperatures will fall back down to average.Stick with us both on-air and online for the
  
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• Woman gets 11 to 28 years in prison for killing she blamed on spirits

  23-01-2020 23:04
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) -A Nevada woman who said she shot a gun at spirits who attacked her roommate has been sentenced to prison for the man's fatal shooting.
  KVVU-TV reported Wednesday that 30-year-old Kiahna Hawkins was sentenced to 11 to 28 years in a Nevada prison. Hawkins was found competent to stand trial before she pleaded guilty to a charge of murder and entered a plea agreement.Andre D. Smith was found dead May 3 in the North Las Vegas apartment he shared with Hawkins, who said spirits had kill
  
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• Police: Man shoots, kills firefighter who was leaving wife’s home

  23-01-2020 22:31
  
  GRANITE QUARRY-FAITH, NC (AP) - Authorities in North Carolina say a man shot and killed a firefighter who had just stepped outside his estranged wife's house, then fatally shot himself.News sources report the Granite Quarry-Faith Joint Police Department said a man parked a pickup truck in the driveway of the home and was lying in wait Wednesday.The department said the man shot the firefighter with a shotgun, then walked inside the home, confronted his wife before he shot and killed himself.The p
  
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• John Kapoor, founder of pharmaceutical company Insys, gets 5 1/2 years in prison for orchestrating opioid scheme

  23-01-2020 22:15
  
  BOSTON (AP) — John Kapoor, founder of pharmaceutical company Insys, gets 5 1/2 years in prison for orchestrating opioid scheme.
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• 4 the Weekend: Jurassic Quest

  23-01-2020 22:01
  
  There are a lot of fun events happening in southern Arizona the weekend of January 24- 26th:
  WILDCARD
  Stargazing Tucson Mountain Park
  Tucson Mountain ParkSaturday 6-8 PM FreeWILDCARD
  Morning at the Museum
  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Saturday  9 AM- NoonTicket prices range from $9.95- $32WILDCARD
  Tucson Chinese New Year Festival
  Tucson Chinese Cultural Center
  Saturday  11 AM - 3PM Adults $5, Kids under 12 are free
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  Jurassic Quest
  Pima County Fair Grounds Friday- Sunda
  
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• WWII vets named Tucson Rodeo Parade grand marshals

  23-01-2020 21:58
  
  TUCSON – World War II veterans have been named the grand marshals for this year’s Tucson Rodeo Parade.
  The announcement was made at 1:30 p.m. Thursday.
  The rodeo is set to being Feb.15 and ride through Feb. 23.
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• 4 Your Health: Study shows flu vaccine cuts risk of hospital stays for flu-related complications

  23-01-2020 21:50
  
  NBC News- Children who get the flu vaccine are much less likely to be hospitalized for flu-related complications, according to new research from the University of Michigan.The study looked at nearly 4,000 hospitalizations of children in Israel, which has similar vaccination guidelines as the U.S.It showed the flu vaccine cut the risk of hospital stays by more than half.Researchers also found giving two doses of the vaccine to children who have never been vaccinated was more effective than just o
  
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• Gold rises, Silver flat

  23-01-2020 21:33
  
  The January gold contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange closed today at $1564.60 an ounce — up $9.30.The current silver contract on the “NYMEX” closed at $17.77 an ounce.
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• Volunteers plant 87 trees in Tucson

  23-01-2020 21:22
  
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  TUCSON – Community members from the Poets Square Neighborhood
  and Trees for Tucson got together Saturday to plant trees in the Old Pueblo.
  Volunteers were up early to plant 87 trees to help improve
  and beautify the area.
  This project came together in the last four months after
  volunteers decided they wanted to do something for their community and the
  environment.
  The benefit of planting trees is that we're cooling and beautifying the neighborhood and m
  
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• Jim Lehrer, longtime PBS news anchor, dies at 85

  23-01-2020 21:00
  
  A host of the nightly PBS "NewsHour" that for decades offered a thoughtful take on current events has died.
  PBS says Jim Lehrer died Thursday. He was 85.
  Like longtime partner Robert MacNeil, Lehrer saw broadcast journalism as a service, its main goal to help the public understand events and issues.
  The two began the nightly reports on PBS in 1975, and the program was later expanded to an hour. The show featured detailed reports and discussions of politics, international relations and even the
  
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• ‘Days of Our Lives’ will air at 1:09 a.m. due to Senate Impeachment Trial

  23-01-2020 20:45
  
  TUCSON - Due to coverage of the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, the soap opera, Days of Our Lives will be rescheduled.The 86th episode of the 55th season was originally scheduled to air at 1 p.m.With the coverage of the trial overlapping with the showtime, Days of Our Lives was scheduled to air at 1:09 a.m.The trial is expected to conclude Friday. It has not yet been determined if Friday's Days of Our Lives episode will be affected by the trial.Stay with News 4 Tucson for lat
  
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• Top Arizona court: Divorced woman can’t use frozen embryos

  23-01-2020 20:44
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A woman can't use her frozen embryos to have a baby over opposition from her ex-husband under terms of the contract they signed with a fertility clinic, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Thursday.The high court ruling ends a case that drew support from social conservative groups for the woman, Ruby Torres, who had her eggs fertilized prior to treatment for an aggressive cancer in 2014 that rendered her infertile. After the couple divorced in 2017, her ex-husband didn't want to
  
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• Florida brewery puts shelter dogs on beer cans to help find their new families

  23-01-2020 20:21
  
  BRADENTON, Fla. - Many bar patrons would attest that a cold beer can forge some of the best friendships.But who would have thought that beer would help you find a best friend?To help get dogs adopted across the Tampa Bay area, Motorworks Brewing company is using can labels of one of their Cruiser Golden Lager to get the word out about some of the pups over at Shelter Manatee.On Jan. 17, the company released an exclusive adoptable dog Cruiser Kölsch four-pack. Each can has a picture of a dog
  
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• Trees Speak Release Ohms

  23-01-2020 20:02
  
  As depicted in many of the world's religions, a tree represents the link between the underworld, the Earth and the heavens. Led by acclaimed artist Daniel Martin Diaz, this Tucson experimental rock band’s architecture is a sentient ecology of the cosmos.…
  
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• Claytoon of the Day:An Idiot Hides Evidence

  23-01-2020 20:00
  
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• 2 dead dogs found frozen, hundreds of others rescued from illegal puppy farms in Madrid

  23-01-2020 19:47
  
  Spanish police via NBC News Channel
  MADRID (NBC News) - Spanish police rescued 270 small dogs, many crammed inside cages and in poor health, and arrested five people after raiding two illegal puppy farms in the outskirts of Madrid Thursday.Among the group, mostly Chihuahuas and Pomeranians,
  police found two dead animals whose frozen bodies had been wrapped in
  newspaper.Police
  said the breeders had cut some of the dogs' vocal chords, possibly to prevent
  them from barking and alerting neighbors.T
  
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• Nine parents who were deported, separated from families reunited with children in US

  23-01-2020 19:32
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) - As his long-lost son walked toward him in an airport terminal, a sobbing David Xol stretched out his arms, fell to one knee and embraced the boy for about three minutes, crying into his shoulder.He had not held the child since May 2018, when border agents pulled then-7-year-old Byron away inside a detention facility. They were separated under President Donald Trump's zero-tolerance policy - the father deported to Guatemala, the son placed in a series of government facilities b
  
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• Pence: White House invites Israel’s Netanyahu and chief rival to White House next week to discuss ‘prospect of peace’

  23-01-2020 19:28
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Pence: White House invites Israel’s Netanyahu and chief rival to White House next week to discuss ‘prospect of peace’.
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• ‘They were babies, they were innocent’: Aunt of 3 kids allegedly killed by mom in Phoenix home speaks out

  23-01-2020 19:27
  
  Editor's note: The following article and attached court documents contains details that readers may find disturbing.
  The aunt of the three children who were allegedly murdered by their mother in a Phoenix home this week said she regretted not doing more at the time that she was in the house when the kids were allegedly smothered to death.
  Pearl Rebolledo, the kids' great-aunt on their father's side, told reporters at a vigil on Wednesday that she had no reason to believe that Rachel Henry was pu
  
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• The Latest: WHO says China virus not global health emergency

  23-01-2020 19:27
  
  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the outbreak of the new coronavirus in China (all times local):6:20 p.m.The World Health Organization says a viral illness in China that has sickened hundreds of people is not yet a global health emergency.The decision came after Chinese authorities moved to lock down three cities on Thursday and canceled major events in the capital, Beijing, during the Lunar New Year holiday period to try to contain the new virus.
  The United Nations health agency announced the
  
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• PBS says journalist Jim Lehrer of the ‘MacNeil-Lehrer Report’ has died at 85

  23-01-2020 19:25
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — PBS says journalist Jim Lehrer of the ‘MacNeil-Lehrer Report’ has died at 85.
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• Arizona bill would make building private border wall easier

  23-01-2020 16:59
  
  PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona Legislature would let property owners along the U.S.-Mexico border build a wall without seeking a city or county construction permit under a measure that advanced Wednesday.
  Republicans on the House Federal
  Relations Committee approved the measure in a 4-3 party-line vote, saying state
  and local officials shouldn't be able to throw up barriers if they're
  philosophically opposed to building a border wall, a signature promise of
  President Donald Trump."We all know Presid
  
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• Dense Fog Advisory issued January 23 at 8:58AM MST until January 23 at 10:00AM MST by NWS Tucson AZ

  23-01-2020 16:58
  
  * WHAT…Visibility reduced to one quarter mile or less in densefog.* WHERE…Upper Santa Cruz River Valley/Altar Valley; Upper SanPedro River Valley; and Eastern Cochise County below 5000 feet.* WHEN…Until 10 AM MST this morning.* IMPACTS…Hazardous driving conditions due to low visibility.If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty ofdistance ahead of you. The post Dense Fog Advisory issued January 23 at 8:58AM MST until January 23 at 10:00AM MST by NWS
  
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• Michelle Carter, of texting suicide case, freed from jail

  23-01-2020 16:54
  
  BOSTON (AP) - A woman convicted of manslaughter for urging her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself has been released from jail. Michelle Carter was freed Thursday morning after serving most of a 15-month sentence at the Bristol County jail in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The 23-year-old Plainville native got out more than three months early for good behavior.
  She will now serve five years of probation.
  The U.S. Supreme Court last week declined to hear Carter's conviction appeal.
  Prosecutors say Cart
  
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• Arizona Supreme Court to decide fate of frozen embryos in breakup

  23-01-2020 16:08
  
  PHOENIX - The Arizona Supreme Court is set to release a decision Thursday in a case that will determine if a woman can use her frozen embryos to have a baby even if her ex-husband disagrees.A trial court had ruled against
  Ruby Torres, saying the contract she and her then-boyfriend had signed in 2014
  clearly said both parties must agree to implantation in the event of a
  separation or divorce. Torres had an aggressive cancer and wanted to preserve
  her ability to have children after treatment.
  The
  
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• Vietnam sees 1st coronavirus cases from Wuhan

  23-01-2020 16:03
  
  2:45 p.m.Vietnam's Health Ministry says a Chinese father and son, who were hospitalized on Wednesday with fevers, have tested positive with the new coronavirus. It said this marks the first such cases in Vietnam.
  The ministry on Thursday said Li Ding, 66, from Wuhan, China arrived in Hanoi on Jan. 13 then traveled south to meet up with his 28-year-old son Li Zichao, who works in Vietnam. The two then went to Ho Chi Minh city.The father got a fever on Jan. 17 and the son got the same symptoms thr
  
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• The Latest: Vietnam sees 1st coronavirus cases from Wuhan

  23-01-2020 15:54
  
  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the outbreak of the new coronavirus in China (all times local):__2:45 p.m.Vietnam’s Health Ministry says a Chinese father and son, who were hospitalized on Wednesday with fevers, have tested positive with the new coronavirus. It said this marks the first such cases in Vietnam.
  The ministry on Thursday said Li Ding, 66, from Wuhan, China arrived in Hanoi on Jan. 13 then traveled south to meet up with his 28-year-old son Li Zichao, who works in Vietnam. The
  
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• Bill laying out terms of UK’s departure from the European Union on Jan. 31 becomes law after receiving royal assent

  23-01-2020 15:43
  
  LONDON (AP) — Bill laying out terms of UK’s departure from the European Union on Jan. 31 becomes law after receiving royal assent.
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• Woman convicted of manslaughter for texting her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself has been released from jail

  23-01-2020 15:31
  
  DARTMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Woman convicted of manslaughter for texting her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself has been released from jail.
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• Trump to attend anti-abortion rally in Washington

  23-01-2020 15:25
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) -The White House says President Donald Trump will become the first president to attend the annual anti-abortion gathering in Washington called the March for Life.
  Trump has made it a priority to embrace social conservatives, particularly on the issue of abortion.
  He has sent members of his administration to speak at the march and has spoken via a video link.
  He's going in-person to this week's event.
  “See you on Friday ... Big Crowd!” Trump tweeted Wednesday as he ret
  
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• WATCH LIVE: President Trump’s impeachment trial continues

  23-01-2020 15:17
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats prosecuting President Donald Trump's impeachment trial are preparing for a second day of arguments.
  Democrats alleging a “corrupt scheme” by Trump involving Ukraine are trying to win over not just fidgety senators but an American public deeply divided by the Republican president's actions.
  Prosecutors are relying on the same loops of videotaped testimony after Trump's allies in the Republican-controlled Senate blocked new witnesses.
  The repetition an
  
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• Democrats face risks and limits in Trump’s impeachment trial

  23-01-2020 15:17
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats prosecuting President Donald Trump's impeachment trial are preparing for a second day of arguments.
  Democrats alleging a “corrupt scheme” by Trump involving Ukraine are trying to win over not just fidgety senators but an American public deeply divided by the Republican president's actions.
  Prosecutors are relying on the same loops of videotaped testimony after Trump's allies in the Republican-controlled Senate blocked new witnesses.
  The repetition an
  
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• The Latest: Singapore’s 1st coronavirus case is a Wuhan man

  23-01-2020 15:08
  
  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the outbreak of the new coronavirus in China (all times local):—-2 p.m.Singapore’s Ministry of Health says the country has confirmed its first case of the new coronavirus, a 66-year-old Chinese national from Wuhan.The ministry said late Thursday the man arrived in Singapore with his family on Jan. 20. It said the man is now in isolation in a hospital in the Southeast Asian city-state.The statement said health officials are also investigating another
  
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• Portuguese police say a local banker named in a major Angolan corruption scandal dies in apparent suicide at home

  23-01-2020 14:50
  
  LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portuguese police say a local banker named in a major Angolan corruption scandal dies in apparent suicide at home.
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• Accident on Ina, Wade causes traffic delays

  23-01-2020 13:26
  
  TUCSON – Pima County Sheriff’s Department is directing
  traffic at a northwest side intersection Thursday morning.
  Police say telephone lines are "hanging low" at eastbound Ina Road near Wade Road.
  Traffic on northbound Wade Road heading to Ina Road from
  Picture Rocks Road will be directed around the intersection, according to PCSD.
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• Pope accepts Charles Chaput’s resignation as Philadelphia archbishop; Bishop Nelson Pérez of Cleveland to succeed him.

  23-01-2020 13:25
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pope accepts Charles Chaput’s resignation as Philadelphia archbishop; Bishop Nelson Pérez of Cleveland to succeed him.
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• Beautiful Friday Eve!

  23-01-2020 12:44
  
  TUCSON - Cold start this morning with some patchy fog possible, once again.  Nice afternoon ahead with tons of sunshine and highs in the mid to upper 60s. Warming into the low 70s this weekend!Today: Tons of sunshine and slightly above normal. High: 69°Tonight: Clear and cold. Low: 41°Tomorrow: Mostly sunny and warmer than average. High: 71°Beautiful day with highs in the upper 60s in Tucson and in the low to mid 60s to the south and east! We'll gradually war
  
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• Dense Fog Advisory issued January 23 at 5:00AM MST until January 23 at 9:00AM MST by NWS Tucson AZ

  23-01-2020 12:00
  
  * WHAT…Visibility reduced to one quarter mile or less in densefog.* WHERE…Upper Santa Cruz River Valley/Altar Valley, Upper SanPedro River Valley and Eastern Cochise County below 5000 feet.* WHEN…Until 9 AM MST this morning.* IMPACTS…Hazardous driving conditions due to low visibility.If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty ofdistance ahead of you. The post Dense Fog Advisory issued January 23 at 5:00AM MST until January 23 at 9:00AM MST by NWS Tuc
  
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• Top UN court orders Myanmar to take all measures in its power to prevent genocide against Rohingya

  23-01-2020 11:00
  
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Top UN court orders Myanmar to take all measures in its power to prevent genocide against Rohingya.
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• Where to Rock, Thursday, Jan. 23

  23-01-2020 09:00
  
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• What is HFAC, anyhow?

  23-01-2020 09:00
  
  Members of the Historic Fourth Avenue Coalition— a group of business owners, artists and neighborhood residents with a common goal of preserving the “unique identity of Historic Fourth Avenue and the surrounding areas”—remain optimistic about preserving, and even growing, the culture of the area.It's been two years of big changes on Fourth Avenue. The Flycatcher, a longtime music club, was demolished to make way for an apartment building.…
  
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• Things to Do, Thursday, Jan. 23

  23-01-2020 09:00
  
  1912 Pie Pairing. 1912 Brewing Co. is celebrating national pie day, and that turns out to be even more fun than the 3.14 kind.…
  
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• Reaping the Harvest

  23-01-2020 09:00
  
  The fourth annual Dinner with Chefs at Casino Del Sol’s PY Steakhouse is spotlighting Southern Arizona farmers and letting the farmers make the menu as well as cook their creations for the guests. There are a good number of Tucson restaurants that source their food from local farms and ranches, but only one restaurant offers the chance to have the farmer share their culinary creativity directly with the dining guest.  The fourth annual Dinner with Chefs at Casino Del Sol's PY Ste
  
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• Reaching for Recovery

  23-01-2020 09:00
  
  Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick announced last week she was taking an indefinite leave of absence from the office to enter treatment for alcohol addiction. Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick announced last week she was taking a leave of absence from the office to enter treatment for alcohol addiction.…
  
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• Rage record

  23-01-2020 09:00
  
  Orange County metalcore band Bleed the Sky had been working their asses into the ground for seven years when they called it quits in 2009.Orange County metalcore band Bleed the Sky had been working their asses into the ground for seven years when they called it quits in 2009. That's seven years of unglamorous touring, of the studio-van-studio-repeat cycle, leaving loved ones behind while they hit every dive in the country, maybe jumping into a high profile support slot and hoping to shift a few
  
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• Operation Blue

  23-01-2020 09:00
  
  Arizona was identified last Thursday as one of seven states where Democrats plan to “fight like hell” to turn the state government from red to blue in 2020.Arizona was identified last Thursday as one of seven states where Democrats plan to "fight like hell" to turn the state government from red to blue in 2020. Democrats still are in the minority in the Arizona Senate and House of Representatives.…
  
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