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• Georgia working to prevent spread of coronavirus to state

  25-01-2020 23:31
  
  ATLANTA (AP) - An outbreak of coronavirus occurring in China has the Georgia Department of Public Health on high alert.State health officials said Friday the department is closely monitoring the outbreak and regularly coordinating with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. DPH is advising healthcare providers statewide to be alert for patients who have traveled form Wuhan, China and present with fever and respiratory symptoms. Healthcare providers who suspect coronavirus infection in a
  
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• Cooler air will move in on Monday

  25-01-2020 23:31
  
  TUCSON - A weak low pressure center will move into Southern Arizona. This system will bring cool and dry air to our area.Sunshine and will be lasting through the end of this upcoming week and no chance of rain is expected until early February.High temperatures will fall from the lower 70's on Sunday down to the mid 60's by Thursday.Overnight lows will be chilly getting into the 30's midweek.
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• Navajo Nation purchases land that includes gravel pit

  25-01-2020 23:28
  
  WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) - The Navajo Nation has purchased 1250 acres (506 hectares) of land that includes a gravel pit that the tribe plans to use to obtain sand and gravel for road work and other projects.TheGallup Independent reported that gravel pit's operator that leased its site from the previous land owners will now have a lease with the tribe and that the tribe's planned use of the material from the newly purchased site near Indians Wells, Arizona, should save money for the tribe.Tribal o
  
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• Ruling upholds judge’s cremation order over mother’s wishes

  25-01-2020 23:22
  
  PHOENIX (AP) - An Arizona appellate court ruling upholds a probate judge's order for cremation of a man's remains over the wishes of his mother.
  The Arizona Court of AppealsrulingThursday in a Pima County case cited testimony by the man's girlfriend and father that the man wanted his remains to be cremated.
  The man's mother objected, saying that went against her religious preferences and that she thought he should be buried.
  The ruling said the conflict between the man's parents as decision-make
  
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• Police: Woman charged after Phoenix airport partly evacuated

  25-01-2020 22:37
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A woman angry about not being allowed to board a plane at Sky Harbor International Airport was arrested after allegedly mentioning an explosive device, resulting in hundreds of travelers having to evacuate part of one concourse, police said Saturday.A police bomb squad responded Friday but found no device and the airport soon returned to normal though three flights were delayed.Police said 53-year-old Hope L. Webber was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor false emergency re
  
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• Pedestrian struck at Grant and Stone dies from injuries

  25-01-2020 22:00
  
  The pedestrian struck by a vehicle earlier in the week has died from injuries sustained in the collision.Tucson Police Dept. has identified the pedestrian as 50-year-old Olivia R. Mena.The collision occurred just before 6:30 a.m. Tuesday at the intersection of North Stone and West Grant.Authorities say speed doesn't appear to have been a factor and the driver of the vehicle was not impaired at the time of the collision.There has been no citations or charges issued at this time. Tucson police are
  
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• Feds, Arizona agencies seize 170,000 fentanyl pills in bust

  25-01-2020 21:14
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Nearly 170,000 deadly fentanyl pills have been seized by a federal task force that also included members from Phoenix police and the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the federal agency says.The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration office for Arizona said in a statement Thursday the seizure was part of a drug trafficking investigation that resulted in the arrest of 24-year-old Marcelino Ontiveros Quintero and Norma Ibarra Justo, who was driving the car he was riding in.Bo
  
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• Woman charged after Phoenix airport partly evacuated

  25-01-2020 20:45
  
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  PHOENIX (AP) — A woman angry about not being allowed to board a plane at Sky Harbor International Airport was arrested after allegedly mentioning an explosive device, resulting in hundreds of travelers having to evacuate part of one concourse, police said Saturday.A police bomb squad responded Friday but found no device and the airport soon returned to normal though three flights were delayed.Police said 53-year-old Hope L. Webber was arrested on suspicion of m
  
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• French automaker PSA Group says it will evacuate employees from Wuhan, take them out of China after a quarantine period.

  25-01-2020 20:39
  
  PARIS (AP) — French automaker PSA Group says it will evacuate employees from Wuhan, take them out of China after a quarantine period.
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• Xi calls situation grave as China scrambles to contain virus

  25-01-2020 18:43
  
  BEIJING (AP) —  China's leader has called the accelerating spread of a new virus a grave situation, as cities from the outbreak's epicenter in central China to Hong Kong scrambled to stop the spread of an illness that has infected more than 1,200 people and killed 41. The city of Wuhan where the outbreak started is banning most vehicles from downtown to restrict people's movement, while Hong Kong is closing schools for two weeks.
  The vast majority of the infections and all the d
  
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• Death toll stands at 22 from Turkey earthquake; 1,200 hurt

  25-01-2020 18:39
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Officials say the death toll from a strong earthquake that rocked eastern Turkey is up to 22 as rescue teams continue searching the rubble of collapsed buildings for survivors.
  The country's health minister said Saturday that more than 1,200 people were injured in the Friday night quake centered near the town of Sivrice.
  Various earthquake monitoring centers gave magnitudes ranging from 6.5 to 6.8. for the earthquake. Turkey's emergency preparedness agency says it wa
  
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• 1 killed, 2 hospitalized after plane crash in east-central Arizona

  25-01-2020 18:07
  
  PAYSON, Ariz. (AP) — A Mesa man was killed but two others survived when their plane crashed Friday in mountains in east-central Arizona, the Gila County Sheriff's Office said.A statement release by the Sheriff's Office identified the man killed as Blaine Mathew, 59, and the survivors as 21-year-old Colten Egbert and 29-year-old Spencer Berns. The statement said the survivors were taken to hospitals but provided no information about possible injuries.It wasn't known which man was flying the
  
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• 1 killed, 1 injured in plane crash in east-central Arizona

  25-01-2020 18:07
  
  PAYSON, Ariz. (AP) — A Mesa man was killed but two others survived when their plane crashed Friday in mountains in east-central Arizona, the Gila County Sheriff's Office said.A statement release by the Sheriff's Office identified the man killed as Blaine Mathew, 59, and the survivors as 21-year-old Colten Egbert and 29-year-old Spencer Berns. The statement said the survivors were taken to hospitals but provided no information about possible injuries.It wasn't known which man was flying the
  
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• ‘This is huge’: Locust swarms in Africa are worst in decades

  25-01-2020 16:52
  
  KATITIKA, Kenya (AP) — The hum of millions of locusts on the move is broken by the screams of farmers and the clanging of pots and pans. But their noise-making does little to stop the voracious insects from feasting on their crops in this rural community.
  The worst outbreak of desert locusts in Kenya in 70 years has seen hundreds of millions of the bugs swarm into the East African nation from Somalia and Ethiopia. Those two countries have not had an infestation like this in a quarter-centu
  
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• Trump lawyer says Dems want to “overturn” last election

  25-01-2020 16:35
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's lawyers have opened their impeachment trial defense by asserting that he “did absolutely nothing wrong" when he asked Ukraine to investigate a political rival, Joe Biden.
  They accused Democratic prosecutors of omitting key evidence when they presented their case. The president's lawyers are pushing the Republican-led chamber for his impeachment acquittal on charges he abused his power and obstructed Congress. Trump's legal team plans an agg
  
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• Hong Kong declares virus emergency, closes schools for two more weeks after Lunar New Year holiday

  25-01-2020 10:46
  
  BEIJING (AP) — Hong Kong declares virus emergency, closes schools for two more weeks after Lunar New Year holiday.
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• Virus-hit city in China bans most vehicles from downtown to limit movement in bid to keep disease from spreading

  25-01-2020 09:57
  
  BEIJING (AP) — Virus-hit city in China bans most vehicles from downtown to limit movement in bid to keep disease from spreading.
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• ‘This is huge’: Locust swarms destroy crops in East Africa

  25-01-2020 09:49
  
  KATITIKA, Kenya (AP) — The hum of millions of locusts on the move is broken by the screams of farmers and the clanging of pots and pans. But their noise-making does little to stop the voracious insects from feasting on their crops in this rural community.
  The worst outbreak of desert locusts in Kenya in 70 years has seen hundreds of millions of the bugs swarm into the East African nation from Somalia and Ethiopia. Those two countries have not had an infestation like this in a quarter-centu
  
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• A Player’s Preview: ASU

  25-01-2020 09:14
  
  The good shot debateTEMPE, Ariz. - No. 22 Arizona travels north on I-10 to take on in-state rival Arizona State on Saturday night at Desert Financial Arena, looking to sweep the season series with the Sun Devils after collecting a 74-47 win in Tucson earlier this season.The Wildcats (13-5, 3-2) are 6-4 under Sean Miller in games played at Arizona State.UA is scoring 81.6 points per game this season, the eighth-most in the country this season and tops in the Pac-12.
  Graduate student Max Hazzard a
  
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• Sweep, sweep Baby!

  25-01-2020 07:46
  
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  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Aari McDonald had nine of her 24 points in the fourth quarter and finished with 11 rebounds to help No. 18 Arizona beat No. 16 Arizona State 59-53 on Friday night.Dominique McBryde's 3-pointer with 3:05 to go sparked a 7-0 run for the Wildcats (16-3, 5-3 Pac-12) that ended at 52-42 with 1:36 to go.
  ARIZONA POSTGAME PRESS CONFERENCERobbi Ryan led the Sun Devils with 25 points with four 3-pointers. She hit a pair of 3s in the final 1:15 th
  
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• Border Patrol seizes over 100 pounds of meth in Nogales tunnel

  25-01-2020 06:38
  
  NOGALES - Two Mexican nationals face federal drug smuggling charges Friday night.A Border Patrol operation reveals they tried to pull 165 pounds of drugs through a storm drain tunnel underneath Grand Ave. in Nogales.One agent tells News 4 Tucson this method is quite rare:"This find, this was a very bold move on the part of this smuggling organization," Border Patrol agent Joe Curran said. "They tried to pass this through an area they know is surveilled by Border Patrol and really went to an extr
  
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• Students welcome endangered species to Southern Arizona

  25-01-2020 06:30
  
  TUCSON - Local students and residents of a retirement community teamed up to welcome the endangered desert pupfish to Southern Arizona.The kids from Al Huda Islamic School and residents of the Hacienda at the River unveiled the new habitat for the desert pupfish.This is all part of Hacienda at the River's "In the Healing Garden" program which encourages residents to tend to plants for physical and memory therapy.
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• UArizona women’s basketball defeats rival ASU with the most fans to ever watch two teams play

  25-01-2020 06:13
  
  TUCSON - The lady Wildcats, ranked No. 18 on AP's Top 25 Women's Basketball Poll, earned their first sweep of rival Arizona State University Sun Devils, ranked No. 16, at McKale Center on Friday.
  Final score was 59-53.
  The teams played in front of 10,160 fans, the most to ever watch the two teams play.
  UArizona junior guard Aari McDonald led the Wildcats with 24 points, 11 rebounds, four assists and four steals, along with 10 free throws.
  McDonald was named player of the game.
  Sam Thomas, a juni
  
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• Fight involving over 100 inmates breaks out at Florence prison

  25-01-2020 06:05
  
  FLORENCE, Ariz. – It was reported by our sister station 12 News that one employee and six inmates are in the hospital after a fight at a private prison in Florence on Friday evening.
  The Department of Corrections said that 150 inmates were involved in the fight but they were able to stop it quickly.The prison was locked down in response to the violence and will likely stay that way all weekend.Stay with News 4 Tucson on air, online and on your mobile device for updates on this story as it
  
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• US House given tape of President Trump calling for Ukraine ambassador dismissal

  25-01-2020 05:24
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — An associate of Rudy Giuliani has provided congressional investigators with a recording of President Donald Trump saying he wanted to get rid of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, whose ouster emerged as an issue in the president’s impeachment, his attorney told The Associated Press on Friday.The Giuliani associate, Lev Parnas, attended a small dinner with Trump at his Washington hotel in April 2018. Joseph Bondy, Parnas’ lawyer, said he turned over to the House In
  
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• Earthquake hits eastern Turkey killing at least 18 people, hundreds injured

  25-01-2020 05:13
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A 6.8-magnitude earthquake rocked a sparsely-populated part of eastern Turkey on Friday, killing at least 18 people, injuring more than 500 and leaving some 30 trapped in the wreckage of toppled buildings, Turkish officials said.Rescue teams from neighboring provinces were dispatched to the affected areas, working in the dark with floodlights in the freezing cold, and Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said troops were on standby to help.Hundreds of residents were left home
  
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• Sections of Phoenix airport temporarily evacuated, flights delayed after passenger makes threat

  25-01-2020 04:51
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Hundreds of travelers were temporarily evacuated from parts of Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport on Friday after a woman angry that she wasn’t allowed to board a plane made a threat, prompting an investigation from the police bomb squad, Phoenix police said.American Airlines said in an email that employees requested help from police to deal with a passenger on Flight 648 to Salt Lake City shortly before it was supposed to take off.Parts of Terminal 4 were briefly evacuated. J
  
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• Local environmental organizations team up to prepare for wildfire season

  25-01-2020 03:55
  
  TUCSON - The Fort Apache Agency, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the U.S. Forest Service teamed up once again to prepare for wildfire season on Friday.For a second year, the groups joined together to clear out the dry fuels in the Coronado National Forrest.This reduces the intensity of wildfires, according to Jeremy Harlan of the Fort Apache Agency.
  "Our ancestors lived here once before...," said Harlan. "It's a blessing to come back here, walking where they once walked, where they once lived..
  
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• Several Arizona wildland firefighters will help battle wildfires in Australia

  25-01-2020 02:32
  
  PHOENIX - Nine Arizona fire personnel from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management are headed to Australia.The crew members are part of a 20-person team from Arizona and New Mexico, representing the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Forest Service, that will operate fire engines or help where needed.The firefighters expect to be deployed to Australia for 30 days to help with ongoing fire suppression efforts, according to BLM-Arizona's Facebook page.
  Two wildland firefighters from the BLM's
  
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• China reports number of cases of new virus has increased to 1,287 and the death toll has risen to 41

  25-01-2020 01:57
  
  BEIJING (AP) — China reports number of cases of new virus has increased to 1,287 and the death toll has risen to 41.
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• YCSO: Man arrested for exposing himself to 2 children

  25-01-2020 01:53
  
  YAVAPAI COUNTY, Ariz. - A man was taken into custody Jan. 14 for reportedly exposing himself to a 10-year-old and 11-year-old child, according to officials.On Jan. 10, Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office received a call from a
  mother, claiming that her daughter saw a man masturbating in a front yard while
  she was getting off a school bus. While responding to this, they received
  another call from a different mother reporting that her daughter saw the same
  thing.The suspect was identified as 29-
  
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• A snowbird’s dream for your weekend weather

  25-01-2020 01:36
  
  TUCSON - High clouds have moved into the region late Friday but will be quick to depart as we head into the overnight hours.
  The weekend weather is as advertised: a snowbird's dream. Mostly sunny skies coupled with warm temperatures will dominate on Saturday and Sunday.
  Here's your weekend forecast: Tonight: Clearing skies. Low 43Saturday: Sunny with a few high clouds. High 72Saturday night: Clear and cool. Low 43Sunday: Sunny and warm. High 73A couple of weather makers will pass mainly to our e
  
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• Minneapolis Parks Police reach settlement with teens who were handcuffed at gunpoint

  25-01-2020 01:34
  
  (KARE/NBC News)  The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board has reached a settlement with the families of four Somali-American teenagers detained in a controversial 2018 arrest.Park Police body camera footage of the incident was also released for the first time Wednesday."The families have gone through a lot. The young kids have also gone through a lot from this incident. We are happy today to report that this incident is behind them, but they're still traumatized," said CAIR-MN Executive Di
  
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• Releasing balloons could soon be illegal in Arizona

  25-01-2020 01:13
  
  TUCSON - The environment is a hot topic on everyone's mind these days including lawmakers. Now the Arizona House of Representatives has introduced a bill that would make it illegal to release balloons into the air.
  House Bill 2339 is a bill that was recently proposed by Representative Mitzi Epstein of Tempe.
  This bill would make it illegal to release five or more balloons into the atmosphere.
  "This idea started with children," Epstein said. "Children who said we care about animals. I think one l
  
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• Arizona honors firefighter killed Australia air tanker crash with half-staff flags

  25-01-2020 00:47
  
  PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is ordering that flags at all state buildings be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset Friday to honor a Buckeye man killed in a plane crash while fighting wildfires in Australia.A statement issued by Ducey's office quotes the governor as saying 42-year-old Paul Clyde Hudson was “a hero who represented Arizona's very best."Hudson was first officer on a C-130 Hercules tanker that crashed Wednesday during an unprecedented wildfire season in Austr
  
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• New Arizona bill looks to ban transgender girls, women from playing on female teams

  25-01-2020 00:35
  
  PHOENIX (AP) - Transgender girls and women in Arizona would be barred from participating in sports on the team that aligns with their gender identity under a proposed law.Republican Rep. Nancy Barto introduced the measure on Friday, saying it is intended to prevent female athletes from being forced to compete against biological males.It would apply to K-12 schools, community colleges and state universities but only to female teams.Several national women's rights and sports organizations are push
  
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• Lay’s searches for Arizonan to feature their smile on its potato chip bags

  25-01-2020 00:28
  
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  TUCSON - Did you ever dream that your face would be on the bag of potato chips? Well, luckily for you, Lay's is looking for local people in Arizona to have their smile displayed on millions of its bags.As part of their Operation Smile campaign, the potato chip brand is conducting a nationwide search for people who spread happiness in their communities.With Arizona's weather known to bring smiles from across the nation, Lay's decided that a great place to start looking for the best smiles
  
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