Tuscon news

• US approves Taiwan drone purchase as arms sales escalate

  03-11-2020 23:53
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has notified Congress that it has approved the sale of $600 million in armed drones to Taiwan, the latest in a series of arms transfers for the island. The State Department says it had OK’d Taiwan’s purchase of four “weapons ready” remotely piloted aircraft and related equipment. The move is likely to infuriate China, which regards Taiwan as a renegade province and has reacted angrily to previous weapons sales’ announ
  
  Read more

• 2 former eBay employees indicted in harassment campaign

  03-11-2020 23:53
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Two former eBay Inc. employees have been indicted by a grand jury on charges that they participated in a campaign to terrorize a Massachusetts couple that included threats and disturbing deliveries of things like live spiders sent to their home. James Baugh and David Harville are among several former employees who were arrested in June. Authorities have described it as a scheme to ruin the lives of the couple who ran a website that was critical of the company. An attorney for
  
  Read more

• 2020 Latest: Votes in SC county can’t be counted immediately

  03-11-2020 23:48
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  5:45 p.m.
  More than 13,000 votes in one South Carolina county will have to wait a while to be counted because of a printing error.
  Dorchester County Election Commissioner Todd Billman said at a news conference Tuesday that the mail-in ballots did not have the proper bars printed at the top so the scanner used to count the votes won’t register them. He says the error does not affect anyone’s vote.
  The v
  
  Read more

• Trump or Biden? Big turnout, few hiccups as voters choose

  03-11-2020 23:30
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Steady lines of voters on Tuesday flocked to the polls in key battleground states that will decide whether President Donald Trump or Democrat Joe Biden will serve the next four years in the White House. It’s a campaign that’s been shaped by the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 231,000 Americans, and by Trump’s handling of it. Almost 102 million Americans voted early and millions more waited in lines on Election Day. All eyes are on battle
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Just before the election, poll on climate change suggests Arizona voters want more federal action

  03-11-2020 23:30
  
  PHOENIX – Twenty-four hours after Tuesday’s election, the U.S. officially will exit the Paris Agreement, an effort by nearly 200 countries to reduce the threat of man-made climate change.…
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Vermont’s Republican governor votes for Biden

  03-11-2020 23:27
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  5:25 p.m.
  Vermont Gov. Phil Scott says he voted for Joe Biden for president, making him the first Republican governor in the nation to acknowledge voting for the Democratic presidential candidate.
  The Republican governor told reporters Tuesday after casting his ballot in his hometown of Berlin, Vermont, that he had never voted for a Democrat in his life.
  “As many of you knew, I didn’t support President
  
  Read more

• Senate Latest: Senate majority key for White House winner

  03-11-2020 23:19
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Senate races in the 2020 election (all times local):
  5:15 p.m.
  Securing a Senate majority will be crucial for whichever candidate wins the White House.
  Senators confirm administration nominees, including the Cabinet, and can propel or stall the White House agenda.
  With Republicans now controlling the chamber, 53-47, three or four seats will determine party control, depending on who wins the presidency because the vice president can break a tie.
  Republicans a
  
  Read more

• FBI investigates robocalls warning voters to ‘stay home’

  03-11-2020 23:17
  
  TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan (AP) — Voters across the U.S. received anonymous robocalls in the lead up to Election Day urging them to “stay safe and stay home” – an ominous warning that election officials say could be an effort to scare voters. The calls, which feature a computerized female voice, began over the summer and increased dramatically last month. Voters in Flint, Michigan, meanwhile, received a separate robocall telling them, falsely, that they could vote on Wednesd
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• USC QB Slovis adds muscle, maturity before sophomore season

  03-11-2020 23:14
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kedon Slovis produced the best season by a freshman quarterback in USC’s voluminous history last year. When the No. 20 Trojans finally begin his sophomore season at the Coliseum against Arizona State this weekend, Slovis carries both the weight of his responsibilities and the heavy expectations that gather on this program’s best players. Slovis projects a calm belying his 18 years, but he spent the extra-long offseason lifting weights, eating right, poring ov
  
  Read more

• AP VoteCast: Voters sour on state of nation

  03-11-2020 23:01
  
  Voters made their pick for president while holding negative views about the country’s direction, according to an expansive AP survey of the American electorate.
  The race between President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden concluded Tuesday as the nation remains in the throes of a global public health crisis and mired in the economic downturn it brought on. AP VoteCast found that 37% of voters said the U.S. is on the right track and 63% of voters said it is headed in the wrong dir
  
  Read more

• AP VoteCast: Voters say pandemic top issue in election

  03-11-2020 23:01
  
  The cornavirus pandemic is a top issue in the race between President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden. That’s according to AP VoteCast, a nationwide survey of more than 127,000 voters and nonvoters conducted for The Associated Press by NORC at the University of Chicago. Voters were most likely to call the public health crisis the nation’s most important issue, with the economy following close behind. Fewer named issues like health care, racism, law enforcement, immigration
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Biden not making predictions on election outcome

  03-11-2020 22:59
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  5 p.m.
  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden isn’t making any predictions about the outcome of the election as the final hours of voting tick down.
  Speaking to reporters Tuesday outside a Delaware community center, Biden said he’s “superstitious” about offering predictions for election night but remains “hopeful.” He says he’s heard from aides that there’s &ldquo
  
  Read more

• Marijuana laws at stake in Arizona, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota this election

  03-11-2020 22:55
  
  WASHINGTON DC (KVOA) - Voters in dozens of states are deciding ballot issues that could affect their future voting rights and determine whether the trend toward legalizing marijuana continues to grow.
  A total of 120 proposed state laws and constitutional amendments are on Tuesday's ballot. They include measures to legalize recreational marijuana for adults in Arizona, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota.
  Among various measures affecting future election procedures are ones in Missouri and Virgin
  
  Read more

• Parties fight for control of governors’ posts, legislatures

  03-11-2020 22:53
  
  Republicans are aiming for control of the governor’s office in Montana for the first time in 16 years, but they’re mostly on defense in state legislative races across the country. Democrats are seeking to oust the Republican governor of Missouri while gaining power in legislative chambers from Arizona to North Carolina. Heading into the next round of congressional and legislative redistricting, which party controls state government could go a long way in determining the nation’
  
  Read more

• Future voting rights, marijuana laws at stake in states

  03-11-2020 22:49
  
  Voters in dozens of states are deciding ballot issues that could affect their future voting rights and determine whether the trend toward legalizing marijuana continues to grow. A total of 120 proposed state laws and constitutional amendments are on Tuesday’s ballot. They include measures to legalize recreational marijuana for adults in Arizona, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota. Among various measures affecting future election procedures are ones in Missouri and Virginia that will dete
  
  Read more

• The Latest: No apparent signs of US malicious cyber activity

  03-11-2020 22:45
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  4:45 p.m.
  The cybersecurity agency at the Department of Homeland Security says the U.S. election so far has featured the usual technical glitches and routine issues but no apparent signs of any malicious cyber activity — at least not yet.
  The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency also says it’s too early to declare victory as polls near closing time around the nation Tuesday and with days of vote cou
  
  Read more

• EXPLAINER: What’s happening with Election Day ‘robocalls’?

  03-11-2020 22:45
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Election officials in a handful of states are warning voters to disregard robocalls urging them to stay home rather than go to the polls.It’s unclear whether the calls are part of any partisan agenda. They have hit Republican-leaning states as well as Democratic ones. One series of robocalls appears to have gone out around the country and doesn’t reference the election. Another appears targeted specifically to voters in Flint, Michigan, a Democratic stronghold
  
  Read more

• Stocks rally worldwide on Election Day; S&P 500 climbs 1.8%

  03-11-2020 22:37
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street posted solid gains on Election Day, sending the S&P 500 up 1.8%. More than anything, what investors hope for is a clear winner to emerge relatively soon from the election. Whether that’s President Donald Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden is secondary. But if Biden wins, as polls suggest, the thought is that could open the door to a big support package for the economy, particularly if the Democrats also take control of the Senate. Treasury yields
  
  Read more

• Hand sanitizer jams ballot scanner in Iowa

  03-11-2020 22:36
  
  DES MOINES (AP) - A spokesperson for the Iowa secretary of state says hand sanitizer on voters' hands caused a ballot scanner to jam at a polling place in Des Moines.Spokesperson Kevin Hall says some voters’ hands were moist when they handled the ballots and the buildup of sanitizer eventually caused the scanner to stop working.The machine was fixed in about an hour.To prevent another breakdown, poll workers moved the sanitizing station farther back in the line so voters’ hands would
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Kamala Harris heading to Delaware to join Biden

  03-11-2020 22:34
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  4:30 p.m.
  Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris is heading to Wilmington, Delaware, after spending the afternoon campaigning in battleground Michigan.
  She reminded voters at a Detroit church on Tuesday how slim Donald Trump’s margin of victory was in the state in 2016. She urged them to try to get two other people to vote as well.
  She also urged people to remember why they are voting if they are
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Hand sanitizer jams ballot scanner in Iowa

  03-11-2020 22:28
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  4:25 p.m.
  A spokesperson for the Iowa secretary of state says hand sanitizer on voters’ hands caused a ballot scanner to jam at a polling place in Des Moines.
  Spokesperson Kevin Hall says some voters’ hands were moist when they handled the ballots and the buildup of sanitizer eventually caused the scanner to stop working.
  The machine was fixed in about an hour.To prevent another breakdown, poll workers
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Wisconsin has record number of new virus cases

  03-11-2020 22:26
  
  MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin health officials reported a record 5,771 new coronavirus cases and 52 more deaths from COVID-19 on Tuesday, along with a testing positivity rate tracking ever higher.
  Hospitalizations rose by 247 in the state, which for weeks has ranked as one of the nation’s worst hot spots for the virus. The state’s daily average of new cases has risen by 44% over the past two weeks, making it fourth-worst in the country for new cases per capita, according to researc
  
  Read more

• Rival leaders back UN bid to relaunch Cyprus peace talks

  03-11-2020 22:09
  
  NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A United Nations spokesman says the rival leaders of ethnically divided Cyprus have agreed to back the U.N. chief’s latest attempt to revive dormant peace talks. The spokesman’s statement came after a two-hour meeting between the island nation’s Greek Cypriot president and the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots. It was the first time that President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar met face-to-face following Tatar&rsquo
  
  Read more

• Judge orders USPS to search centers for ballots

  03-11-2020 22:08
  
  (AP) – A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered U.S. Postal Service inspectors to sweep more than two dozen mail processing facilities for lingering mail-in ballots and for those ballots to be sent out immediately.
  The order, which includes centers in central Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, south Florida and parts of Wisconsin, comes after national delivery delays leading up to the election and concerns the agency wouldn’t be able to deliver ballots on time.
  Th
  
  Read more

• Puerto Rico keeps voting due to long lines at polls

  03-11-2020 22:07
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Ricans have forced voting centers to remain open past past official closing times as they stand in long lines to choose new leaders they hope can help heal a U.S. territory wracked by corruption, hurricanes, earthquakes and the coronavirus pandemic. Voters across the island waited under a harsh sun to participate in an election featuring six gubernatorial candidates. Some had waited up to three hours for centers to open. Also on Tuesday’s ballot wa
  
  Read more

• Suspect sought after 8-year-old fatally shot in Chicago

  03-11-2020 21:59
  
  EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (AP) — The reward for information leading to an arrest in the fatal shooting of an 8-year-old Indiana girl has climbed to $20,000.
  Police announced Tuesday that the Federal Protection Agency, LLC, a security service based in South Holland, Illinois, is offering an additional $10,000 in the death of Timiya Andrews in East Chicago.
  That's in addition to $10,000 put up by the the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and East Chicago Mayor Anthony Copeland. Ti
  
  Read more

• Voters keep Election Day tradition of placing stickers on Susan B. Anthony’s gravesite

  03-11-2020 21:48
  
  UnmutePlayRemaining Ad TimeAd - 00:00
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. (CNN) – It’s a tradition not even 2020 can take away.Visiting the gravesite of Susan B. Anthony on election day.The renowned suffragist is buried in Rochester, New York.Each election, people come out to honor her fight for women’s voting rights.This year is particularly special: it marks 200 years since she was born and the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment.
  The post Voters keep Election Day tradition of
  
  Read more

• Reward up to $20,000 in death of East Chicago 8-year-old

  03-11-2020 21:45
  
  EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (AP) — The reward for information leading to an arrest in the fatal shooting of an 8-year-old Indiana girl has climbed to $20,000. Police announced Tuesday that the Federal Protection Agency, LLC, a security service based in South Holland, Illinois, is offering an additional $10,000 in the death of Timiya Andrews in East Chicago. That’s in addition to $10,000 put up by the the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and East Chicago Mayor Anthony Copela
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Republican candidate for Indiana AG quarantined

  03-11-2020 21:42
  
  INDIANAPOLIS — Former U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita, the Republican candidate for Indiana attorney general, has tested positive for COVID-19 after developing “some symptoms,” his campaign announced Tuesday.
  Rokita faces Democratic candidate Jonathan Weinzapfel in Tuesday’s statewide election. He had been quarantining with his family after he was informed “by a person unconnected to any campaign activities that he was exposed to COVID-19,” Rokita’s campaign said
  
  Read more

• Crew chiefs feel the heat to be perfect in NASCAR finale

  03-11-2020 21:35
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The pressure will be intense in NASCAR’s championship race at Phoenix Raceway for both the drivers and their team leaders. There is no practice or qualifying under COVID-19 protocols, so the cars must be dialed-in when they are unloaded on race day. The field this year includes Paul Wolfe, the only crew chief with a championship. Wolfe, Chris Gabehart and Alan Gustafson have all raced in this format before while Jeremy Bullins is making his championship debut.
  
  Read more

• COVID-19 hospitalizations surge as pandemic shadows US election

  03-11-2020 21:31
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 is reaching record highs in several states, as Americans vote for their next president under the shadow of a resurging pandemic.
  While daily infections are rising in all but three states, the surge is most pronounced the Midwest and Southwest. Missouri, Oklahoma, Iowa, Indiana Nebraska, North Dakota, Colorado and New Mexico reported record high hospitalizations this week.
  Nebraska’s largest hospitals started limiting electiv
  
  Read more

• Halloween nightmare: Two Cardinals test positive for COVID-19

  03-11-2020 21:30
  
  PHOENIX – Amid an otherwise relaxing Halloween weekend, Kliff Kingsbury’s biggest scare proved to be breaking news on the virus front, not spooky costumes.…
  
  Read more

• EXPLAINER: When do Electoral College votes need to be in?

  03-11-2020 21:24
  
  Election Day is only one point in the process of the Electoral College, which decides who wins a U.S. presidential race. After the popular vote across America is tabulated, the Electoral College electors in each state vote Dec. 14. The tally of those electoral votes are to be in the hands of the president of the Senate and the archivist of the United States by Dec. 23. It all won’t be official until a joint session of the House and Senate Jan. 6, 2021, two weeks before Inauguration Day.&nb
  
  Read more

• Virus hospitalizations surge as pandemic shadows US election

  03-11-2020 21:21
  
  The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 is reaching record highs in several states, as Americans vote for their next president under the shadow of a resurging pandemic. While daily infections are rising in all but three states, the surge is most pronounced the Midwest and Southwest. Missouri, Oklahoma, Iowa, Indiana Nebraska, North Dakota, Colorado and New Mexico reported record high hospitalizations this week. Nebraska’s largest hospitals started limiting elective surgeries and lo
  
  Read more

• Tucson police: Officer shoots, wounds man wielding machete

  03-11-2020 21:17
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Tucson police say an officer on Tucson shot and wounded a machete-wielding man who earlier engaged in threatening behavior during encounters with other people. Police said the wounded man was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. According to police, the incident began at a convenience store where the man allegedly approached people in an “aggressive and confrontational manner,” prompting 911 calls to police. Police said officers searched for the man
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Judge orders USPS to search centers for ballots

  03-11-2020 21:16
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  2:30 p.m.
  A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered U.S. Postal Service inspectors to sweep more than two dozen mail processing facilities for lingering mail-in ballots and for those ballots to be sent out immediately.The order, which includes centers in central Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, south Florida and parts of Wisconsin, comes after national delivery delays leading up to the election
  
  Read more

• Fascinated and trepidatious, world braces for America’s vote

  03-11-2020 21:11
  
  SAINTE MARIE DU MONT, France (AP) — For multitudes of people across the globe, the U.S. election is not a far-away happening in a faraway land but an impossible-to-ignore big deal for the entire planet. That’s especially true this year, after the coronavirus scythed through lives and jobs and drove home the need for humanity to work together on solutions. As ballots were cast, fascinated and trepidatious onlookers elsewhere in the world braced for the repercussions of America’s
  
  Read more

• The Latest: France reports 36,330 new daily virus cases

  03-11-2020 21:05
  
  PARIS — France reported 854 deaths from the coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the death toll to 38,289, the world’s seventh-highest reported death toll.
  That includes 426 people who died in hospitals in the past 24 hours, and 428 deaths in nursing homes since Friday, health authorities say.
  France, facing a surge in cases, reported 36,330 new daily infections on Tuesday.
  The COVID-19 patients occupy more than 73% of France’s intensive care units, a rising number that prompted th
  
  Read more

• Election Day Update: Following the Turnout

  03-11-2020 21:02
  
  If you want to know who's voting out there today, follow the fascinating Twitter feed of Democratic strategist Sam Almy of Saguar Strategies, who is updating the returns and tracking the number of Democrats, Republicans and independents who are cast ballots. It's just the thing to soothe your election anxiety—or maybe increase it!
  
  Read more

• Man armed with machete shot, injured by TPD near Flowing Wells HS

  03-11-2020 20:52
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - The man who was allegedly shot by police near Flowing Wells High School Tuesday was reportedly armed with a machete, according to Tucson Police Department.Tuesday morning, TPD responded to a report about a man armed with a machete being aggressive to bystanders near the area of 3970 N. Flowing Wells Road near Roger Road.According to TPD, when the officers arrived at the scene, the man ran away.
  Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting that happened near Flowing Wells
  
  Read more

• Joe Biden starts Election Day by visiting son’s grave

  03-11-2020 20:41
  
  CNN Newsource
  GREENVILLE, Del. (CNN) - On Election Day, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden took a few minutes away from the campaign trail to visit his son's grave.Biden and his wife, Jill went to St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic church in Delaware for a Tuesday morning mass.While there, the couple stopped at Beau Biden's grave in the church's cemetery.The younger Biden died in 2015 after battling brain cancer.After leaving the church, Biden headed to Pennsylvania.
  The post Jo
  
  Read more

• The Latest: NC to keep 4 sites open longer, delaying results

  03-11-2020 20:40
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  2:25 p.m.
  The North Carolina State Board of Elections voted Tuesday to keep four polling places open longer because they opened late, which is expected to delay statewide reporting of results.The longest extension was 45 minutes for a site in Sampson County. That means the state can’t publicly report any statewide results until 8:15 p.m.
  The state’s more than 2,600 polling places are otherwise schedule
  
  Read more

• Europe tightens restrictions as virus hospitalizations rise

  03-11-2020 20:36
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Coronavirus have hit new daily highs this week in Russia, and Germany and the U.K. have announced plans to expand virus testing as European countries battle rapidly increasing infection and hospitalizations. Nations reintroduced restrictions to get ahead of a virus that has caused more than 270,000 deaths in Europe. New measures took effect Tuesday in Austria, Greece and Sweden, and the Dutch government announced the closing of theaters, swimming pools and other venue
  
  Read more

• Trump, Biden hand their fate to voters, with robust turnout

  03-11-2020 20:30
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Steady lines of voters on Tuesday flocked to the polls in key battleground states that will decide whether President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden will serve the next four years in the White House. The two candidates, meanwhile, continued to campaign down to the wire in what’s been a rancorous election fought in the shadow of the worst public health crisis in a century. Trump turned to a friendly interview to try to gin up voters and made a last-minute pitch i
  
  Read more

• Seeking inclusion, Grammys change name of a music category

  03-11-2020 20:28
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Grammys are changing the name of its best world music album category to the best global music album, an attempt to find “a more relevant, modern and inclusive term.” The Recording Academy said the new name “symbolizes a departure from the connotations of colonialism.” The step comes some five months after the Academy made changes to several Grammy Awards categories, including renaming the best urban contemporary album category as best progressive
  
  Read more

• Guatemala official resigns over Planned Parenthood row

  03-11-2020 20:25
  
  GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s interior minister has resigned after his decision to allow the group Planned Parenthood to operate in the country despite conservative President Alejandro Giammattei’s fierce opposition to abortion. The president said Tuesday he had accepted the resignation of Oliverio García Rodas and told a local radio station he would overturn García Rodas’ decision to approve the group, whose clinics sometimes provide abortion services.
  
  Read more

• High court could halt move toward leniency for kids who kill

  03-11-2020 20:22
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is suggesting it could halt what has been a gradual move toward more leniency for children who are convicted of murder. In cases over more than a decade, the court has concluded that children should be treated differently from adults, in part because of their lack of maturity. But the court, which has become more conservative over the last few years, could decide not to go any further. The justices on Tuesday were hearing a case about sentencing juvenile
  
  Read more

• Whitey Bulger’s family: Prison system did not protect him

  03-11-2020 20:05
  
  BRUCETON MILLS, W.Va. (AP) — Family members of Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger Jr. have filed a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons for failing to protect Bulger, who was beaten to death in a West Virginia prison. The family filed the lawsuit on Oct. 30, two years after Bulger was transferred to United States Penitentiary, Hazelton, and killed. They are also suing 30 unnamed employees of the prison system. Bulger was a crime boss in Boston and an informant for
  
  Read more

• The Latest: AP tally shows huge surge in early voting

  03-11-2020 19:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  1:45 p.m.
  The latest tally of early voting in the U.S. shows that almost 102 million Americans cast their votes before Election Day, an eye-popping total that represents 73% of the total turnout of the 2016 presidential election.The Associated Press tally reveals that the early vote in several states, including hotly-contested Texas and Arizona, has already exceeded the total vote of four years ago.
  Early voting &
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Arizona’s coronavirus death toll passes 6,000

  03-11-2020 19:48
  
  PHOENIX — Arizona’s confirmed coronavirus death toll exceeded 6,000 on Tuesday.
  The Department of Health Services reported 38 more deaths and 1,679 additional cases, increasing Arizona’s totals to 6,020 deaths and 249,818 confirmed cases.
  Hospitalizations for coronavirus patients reached 956 Monday, a level last reported in late August.
  The rolling average of new daily cases rose from 835 on Oct. 19 to 1,311 on Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University data analyzed by The
  
  Read more

Follow @Tucson_News_ on Twitter!