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PACC shut down through Friday to limit disease spread in animal shelter tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima Animal Care Center will be closed to the public through Friday as officials work to stem the contagious respiratory disease strep zoo. The shelter has experienced overcrowding nearly continuously for the past several years.

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U.S. House GOP would make it easier for feds to give public lands away to states tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
U.S. House Republicans included in the new rules for the chamber they passed this month a provision meant to make it easier for Congress to give away public lands - but advocates and critics disagree about the wisdom of such giveaways.

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Lawmakers grill heads of Az state boards after audits find investigations move too slowly tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona state legislators last week grilled the heads of the state boards tasked with overseeing complaints from citizens after reports by the state auditor general revealed some major deficiencies.

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Child vaccination rates, already down because of COVID, fall again tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The percentage of U.S. children entering kindergarten with their required immunizations fell to 93% in the 2021-22 school year, 2 percentage points below recommended herd immunity levels of 95% and lower than vaccination rates in 2020-21.

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Water managers across drought-stricken West agree on one thing: ‘This is going to be painful’ tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Water authorities in the Western U.S. don’t have a crystal ball, but two decades of drought and poor planning have caused the river’s biggest reservoirs to drop to their lowest collective volume since they were filled and give a clear view of the hard choices ahead.

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Lawsuit accusing Donald Trump of rape overcomes motion to dismiss tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit against former President Trump that stems from an allegedly nonconsensual sexual encounter in the 1990s and upheld a New York law that gives survivors a one-year window to file claims otherwise barred by the statute of limitations.

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How heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
As the world faces yet another reckoning over energy supplies, several recent innovations aim to make 200-year-old heat pump science even more efficient than it already is, potentially opening the door for much greater adoption of the technology worldwide.

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MLK's final sermon: 'I've Been to the Mountaintop' tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Monday, the nation remembers Martin Luther King Jr. Perhaps the greatest of his speeches, from a man renowned for his uplifting words, was one given extemporaneously on the last night of his life, April 3, 1968: "I've Been to the Mountaintop."

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Manslaughter case vs. ex-Tucson cop dismissed after new grand jury declines to indict tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Criminal charges against former Tucson police officer Ryan Remington — who who shot and killed a man in a motorized wheelchair during a confrontation over shoplifting in Nov. 2021 — were dismissed Tuesday after a new grand jury did not indict him.

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Oro Valley must decide how to spend $5.4 million in COVID money tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Oro Valley's Town Council has some decisions to make involving how to spend its remaining $5.4 million in coronavirus relief money. Marana's OKing a new contract for the town manager — salary unknown. Plus more in local government meetings this week.

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Arizona led nation for rise in homeless youth last year, HUD report says tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona saw the largest increase in the number of homeless youth in the nation last year, at a time when other large states were seeing those numbers decline

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Trump Org gets expected sentence, $1.6 million, for payroll and tax fraud tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Found criminally liable for a tax evasion scheme at trial, former President Donald Trump’s real estate companies were ordered to split a $1.6 million fine, the maximum possible penalty for a corporate entity.

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U.S. to hit debt limit much sooner than expected, thrusting Congress into showdown tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The U.S. government will hit its borrowing limit this week, forcing the new, divided Congress into negotiations over the debt limit much sooner than expected, though a potential date for the nation to default isn’t expected until this summer.

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Tucson MLK march to take place Monday tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Tucson's Martin Luther King, Jr. day will kick off with a march on the South Side and a celebration at Reid Park, but residents should remember city services will close for the holiday.

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Hellertoon: Keeping MLK's legacy alive and climbing tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. isn't just a giant of American history, on whom we can shine our most anodyne civic slogans. His true legacy is one of action, not rhetoric, and his words challenge anew each generation to climb toward the mountaintop, and to put their own shoulders to the lever to bend our society toward justice.

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Sika & Kay drop double-doubles off the bench as Pima men's basketball wins 8th straight tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College men’s basketball team (16-1, 8-1 in ACCAC) picked up an eighth straight win on Saturday after beating Glendale Community College (7-9, 2-7) at the West Campus Aztec Gymnasium.

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FactCheck: Hot air over gas stove risks tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Biden administration is not planning to ban gas stoves, but comments from a commissioner on the CPSC about gas stoves being a “hidden hazard” and that “products that can’t be made safe can be banned” provided just enough fuel to stoke fear and outrage.

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5 score in double figures as Aztec women's basketball corrals Glendale Gauchos tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College women’s basketball team (13-4, 6-3 in ACCAC) produced a run in the second quarter and maintained its advantage in the second half on Saturday against Glendale Community College (3-13, 1-8).

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How the distortion of Martin Luther King Jr.‘s words enables more, not less, racial division tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Uses of King’s words, especially by right-wing conservatives, are too often attempts to weaponize his memory against the multicultural democracy of which King could only dream.

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Watch Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Video: "I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together."

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