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Man linked to deadly gunflight on Tucson Amtrak train pleads guilty drug, gun crimes tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
One of the men involved in a 2021 drug-smuggling attempt that turned into a bloody gunfight at the Amtrak station in Downtown Tucson pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy and carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking crime.

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Advocacy groups call on Speaker Toma to stop 'bullying' by GOP critics in Legislature tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A group of advocacy organizations that say they want more respect for their members who speak in front of Arizona legislative committees have asked Republican House Speaker Ben Toma to “address the bullying, angry, and intimidating behavior” of some legislators.

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Arizona teachers rally against complaint hotline, call for its end tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Dozens of teachers took to the street on Wednesday afternoon to demand that Arizona Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne’s newly established parental complaint hotline be dismantled.

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The truth about St. Patrick’s Day tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
The Festival of St. Patrick began in the 17th century as a religious and cultural commemoration of the bishop who brought Christianity to Ireland. In Ireland, there’s still an important religious and cultural component to the holiday, even as it has simply become an excuse to wear green and heavily drink in the rest of the world.

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Bill to protect 'Big Lie' lawyers from punishment advances with GOP support tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A bill that would punish the State Bar of Arizona and the Arizona Supreme Court if they discipline attorneys for bringing baseless election fraud complaints in Arizona courts has continued to make its way towards becoming law.

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Teachers rally against complaint hotline, call for its end tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Dozens of teachers took to the street on Wednesday afternoon to demand that Arizona Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne’s newly established parental complaint hotline be dismantled.

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Arizona Republican legislators announce formal opposition to ranked choice voting tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Arizona Freedom Caucus wants to preemptively prohibit any use of ranked choice voting to decide city, state, county or federal elections, claiming "it disenfranchises voters and allows marginal candidates not supported by a majority of the voters to win elections.”

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Dementia’s dangerous rise leads legislators to ask up to $500,000 for Alzheimer’s tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
State legislators are pushing a bill to build a state dementia plan and put up to $500,000 toward new jobs focused on Alzheimer’s disease, a common type of dementia that is rising especially fast in Arizona.

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Arizona Republicans move to regulate drag shows tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Senate Republicans voted Wednesday to support two bills aimed at regulating drag shows and related performances, despite concerns that the bills are intended only to regulate and ostracize LGBTQ people and content.

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Rio Verde Foothills poised to sue Maricopa County over water woes tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Residents of Rio Verde Foothills will likely sue Maricopa County over its inaction in solving the community’s ongoing water crisis after the county Board of Supervisors rejected a proposal which would have seen Scottsdale sell water to the county for distribution to the subdivision.

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Lift a glass & sing along: St. Patrick's Day playlist tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Whether it's the lilting strains of a classic folk song or the pounding of three-chord punk rock — or the omnipresent U2 — the music of the small island of Ireland has influenced artists throughout the world. So raise a glass of Guinness, tap your toe or even get up and dance a bit as we celebrate St. Patrick's Day with song.

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States to receive $2.5B from feds for electric vehicle charging infrastructure tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The federal government will send $2.5 billion over the next five years to states, local governments and tribes to build electric vehicle charging infrastructure as part of the new Charging and Fueling Infrastructure grant program.

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Arizona agencies possibly exposed in LastPass data breach tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Multiple state agencies, including the Arizona Department of Homeland Security and state’s Medicaid provider, may have had their passwords and login credentials exposed in a breach of the popular password management software LastPass.

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Hobbs, Fontes, Maricopa County clap back at Lake’s appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Maricopa County, Adrian Fontes and Katie Hobbs filed biting responses to failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s petition asking the Arizona Supreme Court to take up her election case, and Hobbs and Fontes asked for sanction for bringing a suit based on frivolous claims.

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Sweeping bill to address Arizona’s housing crisis shot down tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
In a rare show of bipartisan agreement, the Arizona state Senate voted down a bill aimed at addressing the housing crisis on the grounds it doesn’t actually increase affordable housing and strips away powers from cities and towns to guide development to meet local needs.

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Biden boosts gun control with tougher background checks tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Tuesday expanding the number of background checks conducted before gun sales, imposing harsher penalties on violations of federal firearms law and directing a study of how firearm manufacturers market to minors.

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Arizona school advocates worry about keeping counselors as federal funding set to expire tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Some of the pandemic relief funding from the federal government will expire later this year, and Arizona school advocates worry extra counselors brought on by schools using the funding may be let go if a way isn't found to keep the positions.

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Facing drought, Western states seek to deny groundwater to foreigners tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As the American West battles its worst megadrought in over 1,200 years, lawmakers in Arizona, California, Texas, Utah and Washington state are rethinking how groundwater is used and who gets access to it — with some even targeting foreign-owned companies.

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EPA unveils first federal limits on 'forever chemicals' in drinking water tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. drinking water standards will for the first time include limits on the presence of cancer-causing substances known as PFAS, according to new regulations that will be overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Arizona GOP leaders win permission to defend abortion law in court tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Republican legislative leaders have been given the go-ahead by a federal judge to defend a 2021 abortion law in court after Attorney General Kris Mayes said she wouldn’t.

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