Suns match Pacers’ offer for Ayton, keeping nucleus intact
By MICHAEL MAROT and DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Deandre Ayton finally has his new deal from the Phoenix Suns, who simply…
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US solicits help as it defines old growth and mature forests
Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. officials on Thursday solicited outside help as they craft definitions of old growth and mature…
Continue Reading Stop yelling at tourists, say police in Arizona destination
JEROME, Ariz. (AP) — Police in a old Arizona mining town that gets 1 million tourists annually are warning residents to stop yelling at visitors or…
Continue Reading McClelland to become NCAA men’s basketball committee chair
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Southwestern Athletic Conference Commissioner Charles McClelland will become the first representative from a historically Black…
Continue Reading Wildfire threat becomes tool to fight home builders
By MICHAEL PHILLIS and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press Preston Brown knows the risk of wildfire that comes with living in the rural,…
Continue Reading Long lines are back at US food banks as inflation hits high
By ANITA SNOW and EUGENE GARCIA Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Long lines are back at food banks around the U.S. as working Americans overwhelmed…
Continue Reading WNBA’s Griner gets support at trial from character witnesses
By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press KHIMKI, Russia (AP) — Brittney Griner’s drug possession trial resumed Thursday with the head of the Russian…
Continue Reading Arizona attorney general asks court to unblock abortion ban
By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s Republican attorney general on Wednesday asked a court to lift an injunction…
Continue Reading Crawford’s RBI single completes Giants’ rally past D-backs
By BEN ROSS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Brandon Crawford hit a game-ending RBI single, and the San Francisco Giants rallied from an early…
Continue Reading Tennessee gov: School voucher program to start immediately
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced Wednesday that his…
Continue Reading Scientific Games’ lottery playbook succeeded, then spread
By JON MELTZER, LAUREN MOWRY, VICTORIA IFATUSIN and MICHAEL PURDIE / Howard Center for Investigative Journalism Howard Center for Investigative…
Continue Reading Some residents in Jerome yelling at tourists over parking
JEROME, Ariz. (AP) — More than 1 million people a year visit the small north-central Arizona town of Jerome, the former home to one of Arizona’s…
Continue Reading Federal prosecutor: Dentist confessed to wife’s safari death
By JAMES ANDERSON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A wealthy dentist killed his wife of 34 years with a shotgun blast at dawn on a remote African…
Continue Reading Rule for managing endangered Mexican wolves spurs lawsuit
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. wildlife managers are being sued over their new management rule for the…
Continue Reading Mother arrested in cold case death of young son 23 years ago
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A woman has been charged with murder in the death of her 6-year-old son outside Atlanta more than 23 years ago, her arrest…
Continue Reading Asylum wait lists at US border frustrate, confuse migrants
By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico (AP) — Opaque waiting lists at the Mexico border to gain a chance at obtaining asylum in…
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Big Arizona provider won’t resume abortions despite ruling
The leader of Arizona’s largest abortion provider said Tuesday her organization will not resume the procedures in one county even though a federal…
Continue Reading Giants slug 4 HRs, Webb fans 8 in 13-0 win over Diamondbacks
By MICHAEL WAGAMAN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Thairo Estrada hit two of San Francisco’s four home runs, Logan Webb struck out eight in…
Continue Reading Powers scores 35, Lynx top Mercury 118-107 in 2 overtimes
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Aerial Powers had career highs of 35 points and 12 rebounds, Rachel Banham added season highs of 25 points and seven assists,…
Continue Reading Crews battling a wildfire near Beaver Creek Wilderness area
SEDONA, Ariz. (AP) — Crews were battling a wildfire Tuesday afternoon that broken out north of the Beaver Creek Wilderness area in northern…
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