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Arizona Police Officers On Leave After Video Showed Them Punching Unarmed Man

The Mesa Police Department is investigating footage from May 23 that shows officers hitting a black man in the face as he stood against a wall.(Image credit: Mesa Police Department/azfamily/YouTube)

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Foreclosures

Have there been many foreclosures in your community?

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Don't Mess With A Cocktail Waitress

A cocktail waitress in Phoenix makes a list of gripes while on the grind -- nineteen reasons why she hates you. Yes, you.

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VIDEOS: Another Dust Storm Blankets Phoenix

Haboobs — huge dust storms — are hitting the city more often than they used to. Scorching temperatures, even by Arizona standards, and unusually dry conditions are combining to create more of the dirt...

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Floods Hit Phoenix In Area's Wettest Day Ever Recorded

The more than 3 inches of rainfall already recorded in the Phoenix region Monday represents more than a third of its normal annual total.(Image credit: Nick Blumberg/KJZZ)

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What If The Drought Doesn't End? 'The Water Knife' Is One Possibility

It's Chinatown meets Mad Max in writer Paolo Bacigalupi's new desert dystopia, filled with climate refugees, powerful state border patrols, and secret agents called water knives.(Image credit: Ariel...

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Phoenix Students Restore School To Reclaim Native American Identity

A century-long government assimilation program boarded children from their tribes. Now some former students are turning their old school into a Native American cultural center to play their own...

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Southwestern, Plains States Brace For Record High Temperatures This Weekend

Temperatures in Phoenix are forecast to go as high as 120 degrees. A massive high-pressure system has prompted excessive-heat warnings for parts of five states in the Southwest and the Plains.

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When The Going Gets Hot, Construction Workers Get Nocturnal

Arizona is getting so hot during the summer days, one construction site in Phoenix has had to redefine "nightlife" and pour concrete at 1 a.m.(Image credit: Sarah Ventre/KJZZ)

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It's Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In Phoenix

Temperatures were expected to climb as high as 120 degrees there on Tuesday — too high for some smaller planes to handle.(Image credit: Matt York/AP)

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Chris Bianco, 'Pizza Yoda,' Is Sharing His Wisdom In A New Cookbook, He Is

The Arizona chef, widely regarded as the father of the modern artisanal pizza movement, weaves threads of memory, tradition and family in a book that reflects his evolution as a chef and...

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Phoenix Mayor Asks Trump To Delay Visit, Hoping For 'More Sound Judgment'

President Trump says he's "seriously considering" a pardon for former Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Doing so would "enflame emotions and further divide our nation," says Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton.(Image credit:...

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10 Years After Housing Crisis: A Realtor, A Renter, Starting Over, Staying Put

In Phoenix, homes lost 56 percent of their value during the bust, plunging hundreds of thousands of homeowners underwater on their mortgages. The market may have rebounded, but many scars remain.(Image...

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Arizona Police Officers On Leave After Video Showed Them Punching Unarmed Man

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Phoenix Mayor Says The City Is In A 'Crisis Situation,' Needs Help

Arizona is now one of the worst COVID-19 hot spots in the Unites States. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego about how her city is managing the outbreak.(Image credit: Anita Snow/AP)

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An Arizona priest used one wrong word in baptisms for decades. They're all...

The Catholic Diocese of Phoenix found that Rev. Andres Arango had been incorrectly saying "we baptize" instead of "I baptize." The error made thousands of baptisms and subsequent sacraments...

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Your local park has a hidden talent: helping fight climate change

Millions of people rely on city parks to recharge, cool off and connect. But climate change is threatening the very spaces that help us cope with the stresses of living on a hotter planet.(Image...

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A Black 'Wall Street Journal' reporter was detained while working outside a bank

The Phoenix Police Department says that it has launched an internal investigation following the arrest of Journal finance reporter Dion Rabouin, who was conducting interviews outside a Chase...

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The Southwest's enduring heat wave is expected to intensify over the weekend

More than 111 million people across the U.S. remain under weather advisories or warnings as forecasters say an oppressive heat wave might get worse before it gets any better.(Image credit: Frederic J....

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Phoenix melts in a record streak of days over 110 degrees. And it's not over yet

Tuesday marked 26 consecutive days in Phoenix, Az. with a temperature over 110 degrees, and it doesn't look like it will let up any time soon.(Image credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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