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Tucson plans to turn Knights Inn hotel into shelter for evicted families tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Tucson plans to buy the Knights Inn hotel on South Craycroft Road and convert it into a shelter for families who have been evicted, officials said. The city and Pima County are working together on the project.

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Greece-visiting chorus: Tucson women's singing group seeks participants for tour tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
The Arizona Women's Chorus is recruiting singers to participate in a musical tour of Greece next year.

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Greece-visting chorus: Tucson women's singing group seeks participants for tour tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
The Arizona Women's Chorus is recruiting singers to participate in a musical tour of Greece next year.

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Az Republicans say they’ll resume Gov. Hobbs’ director confirmations, but won’t say when tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Senate Republicans say they plan to continue confirming Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs’ state agency director nominations, just weeks after those confirmations were put on hold - but all have all remained silent about when the committee will resume hearings.

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Navajo president presses Congress for more time, money, for water project tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren asked senators for more funding, and time, for a pipeline project that would create a reliable water supply for 250,000 people across Arizona and New Mexico.

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9th Circuit skeptical over use of force claim in deadly Arizona police shooting tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A Ninth Circuit panel seemed unlikely to overturn summary judgment in favor of three Arizona sheriff’s deputies who shot and killed an armed man on his front lawn in Mesa.

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Anti-LGBTQ laws getting struck down for limiting free speech of drag queens & doctors tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Nearly 500 anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced in state legislatures in the U.S. in 2023, including bills seek to reduce or eliminate gender-affirming care or to ban drag performances, but many of those that have become law did not survive legal scrutiny when challenged in court.

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Former Arizona guard Bennedict Mathurin aims to become NBA’s premier two-way player tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Arizona Wildcats are well represented in the 2023 NBA Summer League with 11 former players competing, the most of any college during this year’s run - and among them, Bennedict Mathurin, former Pac-12 Player of the Year, stands out as the most high-profile player.

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Higher taxes on wealthy would bolster Social Security, Senate Dems argue tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. senators debated how best to resolve a funding cliff within Social Security that will lead to a quarter reduction in benefits in about a decade, absent action from Congress - including a tax increase on the county’s wealthiest individuals to ensure that the program stays solvent.

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Higher taxes on wealthy would bolster Social Security, Senate Dems argue tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. senators debated how best to resolve a funding cliff within Social Security that will lead to a quarter reduction in benefits in about a decade, absent action from Congress - including a tax increase on the county’s wealthiest individuals to ensure that the program stays solvent.

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Nearly 1,400 Arizona truckers owed back pay & damages tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The U.S. Department of Labor is looking for nearly 1,400 Arizona drivers who either are currently or were employed with an auto parts distributor who earlier this year was ordered to pay $5.6 million in back wages.

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Arizona dental board fails to protect public, hold dentists accountable tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Updated: Details about problem dentists in Arizona are hidden under layers of bureaucracy, a tangled complaint system and a public-facing website that is virtually unnavigable - and in rare instances when patients die or are seriously injured, the board does little to hold dentists accountable.

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Pima County, city of Tucson to host job fair July 20 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima County and the city of Tucson are hosting a job fair Thursday, July 20, at the Kino Event Center, with staff members on hand to answer questions and computers available for job seekers to apply.

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Agriculture 3.0: Preparing for a drier future in the Colorado River Basin tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Years of drought and climate change are causing water resources to dwindle in the Colorado River Basin - but farmers and scientists are collaborating to learn how to grow crops with less water.

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What is a flash flood? A civil engineer explains tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Flash flooding is a specific type of flooding that occurs in a short time frame after a precipitation event – generally less than six hours - and the best way to stay safe is to be aware of the danger and be ready to respond.

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What is a flash flood? A civil engineer explains tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Flash flooding is a specific type of flooding that occurs in a short time frame after a precipitation event – generally less than six hours - and the best way to stay safe is to be aware of the danger and be ready to respond.

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Feds decline to be Trump’s proxy in $10M defamation case tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Justice Department said that it will not seek to stand in as a defendant in writer E. Jean Carroll’s pending $10 million defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump, reversing the previous administration’s efforts and putting to rest years of unprecedented litigation.

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Overuse of antibiotics leading to dangerous 'superbugs' examined by U.S. Senate panel tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Experts on antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections urged Congress to pass legislation that would address the issues that lead to so-called superbugs - infections that translate to about 100 Americans dying daily from some form of infection that gets around the antibiotics available.

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Advocates: Family reunification policy helps some migrants, but not enough tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A new immigration policy intended to relieve stress at the border makes it easier for people from four Central and South American countries to join family in the U.S., by giving migrants an alternative to showing up at a border crossing or trying to cross the border illegally.

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Rothschild: Paul Cunningham builds consensus on Tucson City Council tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
"As Tucson’s former mayor, I like to think I understand the challenges Tucson faces. When I first took office in 2011, we faced a deficit, crumbling streets, and a Downtown revitalization project that needed to be completely retooled. One person I could count on in helping our city tackle those challenges was Paul Cunningham."

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