BY: Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder - December 30, 2024
President Jimmy Carter died Sunday Dec. 29, 2024, after spending over a year in hospice care. Carter, who turned 100 on Oct. 1 and is the longest-lived president in American history, died at his home in Plains, Georgia on Sunday surrounded by family, according to the Carter Center. “My father was a hero, not only […]
BY: Paige Gross - July 19, 2024
Air travel, banking, media and hospital systems were just some of the industries affected by a bug in a software update that scrambled business operations for many globally on Friday. Many of those who use Microsoft Windows are likely experiencing a “blue screen of death” or an error page. The issue is due to a […]
BY: Ashley Murray - December 1, 2023
WASHINGTON — The first woman to serve on the nation’s highest court is dead at 93. Sandra Day O’Connor, a groundbreaking justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, died Friday in Phoenix, of complications related to advanced dementia, probably Alzheimer’s, and a respiratory illness, according to an announcement from the court. President Ronald Reagan nominated O’Connor […]
BY: Jerod MacDonald-Evoy - December 1, 2023
As the holiday rush to send packages approaches, letter carriers in Arizona and across the nation are trying to bring awareness to the growing number of attacks against them. “Enough is enough” was the rallying cry of members of the National Association of Letter Carriers who gathered at the Wesley Bolin plaza Thursday afternoon in […]
BY: Caitlin Sievers - July 21, 2023
Jacob Angeli Chansley, better known as the “QAnon Shaman” will not see his guilty plea or his sentence vacated for his part in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection, a federal judge decided Thursday. Chansley, who grew up in the Valley and now lives in North Phoenix, was sentenced in November 2021 to 41 months […]
BY: Jerod MacDonald-Evoy - March 24, 2023
Note: This story contains descriptions of racism, as do some of the links. The United States saw a rise in antisemitism in 2022 and Arizona continued to see more antisemitic vandalism and more incidents of racism than in some previous years, according to researchers. The Anti-Defamation League released its annual audit of antisemitic incidents that […]
BY: Arizona Mirror Staff - October 7, 2022
Coverage of the partisan “audit” of the 2020 election was the driving force behind the Arizona Mirror winning a dozen awards in the Arizona Newspaper Association’s annual Better Newspapers Contest. The Mirror regularly broke news about the state Senate’s conspiracy-fueled review of the 2020 presidential race in Maricopa County, beginning with the revelation that Senate […]
BY: Jerod MacDonald-Evoy - September 9, 2022
Newly released documents in the Arizona Attorney General’s lawsuit against tech behemoth Google reveal more details about the company’s response to reporting on its privacy policies and how Google users’ IP addresses are used to obtain exact location information. Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s case, filed in 2020, is part of a larger investigation that has […]
BY: Jacob Fischler - June 12, 2022
The opening U.S. House hearing in a series on the Jan. 6 attack included some eye-opening new details about the events of the day and the broader plot to halt the peaceful transfer of presidential power. The nine-member investigative committee put former President Donald Trump atthe center of the plot, while accusing leaders of two […]
BY: Jerod MacDonald-Evoy - December 21, 2021
Flagstaff Republican Wendy Rogers’ former assistant is suing the senator, her husband and the state, alleging wrongful termination, assault and emotional distress.
BY: Jeremy Duda - August 30, 2021
Business groups publicly called on Democratic U.S. Sens. Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema to oppose a sweeping piece of pro-organized labor legislation that would wipe out Arizona’s “right-to-work” law that prohibits mandatory union membership. At a press conference at the office of the Arizona chapter of the Associated General Contractors near the state Capitol on […]
BY: Jeremy Duda - December 31, 2020
Looking to get an earlier start on his retirement and on a proposed recall effort against his rivals on the Board of Supervisors, Maricopa County Treasurer Royce Flora will resign at the end of the day. Flora’s retirement is set to begin Jan. 1, when the new terms for elected county officials begins, and staying […]
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