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Arizona-Stanford marks beginning of end for 'Conference of Champions' tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Arizona Wildcats were able to squeak out a road win over the Stanford Cardinal on Saturday, but the dramatic finish was mostly a subplot to a much bigger story - the game served as the first of many lasts for the 108-year-old Pac-12, leaving behind decades of memories.

Media network paid by GOP groups is behind deluge of election records requests tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Local election offices across the country are struggling to manage a sharp rise in the number of public records requests, and extensive requests coming from Local Labs - part of a media network paid by GOP groups - have stymied election officials in Arizona and other states.

Mexico agrees to deport migrants after border cities reach 'breaking point' tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Mexico will deport certain migrants from some of its northern border cities as part of an agreement with U.S. immigration officials who have reported a sharp increase of migrants attempting to cross the border in recent weeks, according to Mexico’s immigration enforcement authority.

Kari Lake wraps up push to make Arizona voter signatures public info tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The former TV news anchor who lost Arizona’s gubernatorial election wants to get her hands on 1.3 million signatures from 2022 voters, seeking to prove Maricopa County failed to conduct signature verification and therefore anointed the wrong person governor of Arizona.

Pima County officials urge residents to get new COVID boosters tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima County health officials are urging residents to get one of the new COVID-19 vaccine booster shots, which were approved earlier this month.

Why is the Arizona GOP paying a company tied to a QAnon singer? tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Arizona Republican Party has paid at least $13,000 to a company connected to a legislative district chairwoman who is a full-throated QAnon evangelist, even as the party is struggling so badly to raise money that it can’t pay its bills.

Baby girl dies at Border Patrol station in Nogales tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
An infant girl died Saturday at the Border Patrol station in Nogales after she was found with her mother in the desert near the Mariposa border crossing, said U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Biden admin to ban medical debt from Americans’ credit scores tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Biden administration announced a major initiative to protect Americans from medical debt, outlining plans to develop federal rules barring unpaid medical bills from affecting patients’ credit scores.

Justice Kagan says it’s time for a Supreme Court ethics code tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Justice Elena Kagan endorsed creating a code of ethics for the Supreme Court, citing benefits for justices and the public, comments that came just hours after news broke about Justice Clarence Thomas’ apparent failure to comply with federal disclosure laws.

Immigrants urge 4th Circuit to gut law on illegal reentry into U.S. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A Fourth Circuit panel will decide whether the federal law that criminalizes illegal reentries into the United States violates the Fifth Amendment, after a lower court ruled the law has been reenacted multiple times, and the intent of racial animus had since been weakened or dissolved.

Some 1,900 Arizona homeowners have fallen for a predatory title scheme tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A predatory title scheme known as Non-Title Recorded Agreements for Personal Services, that keeps homeowners stuck in a contract while enticing them with a quick $500 to $1000, has come under the scrutiny of attorneys general in several states, including Arizona.

Rural Americans may be on their own during Medicaid unwinding tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
72% of people who lost Medicaid coverage since states began the unwinding process this year were disenrolled for procedural reasons - not because officials determined they are no longer eligible - and those procedural disenrollments could disproportionately affect rural people.

Fairness isn’t the bottom line in city courts when traffic tickets can be profitable tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
One increasingly common source of money for city governments is traffic tickets, and research shows police officers issue more traffic tickets when cities are financially in a deficit - but judges and their courts also use traffic citations to generate money for the cities that employ them.

Tucson broadcast legend John C. Scott dead at 80 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Local radio legend John C. Scott died on Friday. He was 80. He spent more than three decades as the host of the John C. Scott Show, which bounced from AM station to AM station and sometimes stretched as long as four hours a day, five days a week.

Kyleigh Oliver nets 2 goals as Pima women win 3rd straight match tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College women’s soccer team (4-4-1, 3-2-1 in ACCAC) continued their upward trajectory with an ACCAC conference road win on Saturday.

Ruiz's 1st-half hat trick helps Pima men's soccer cruise past Paradise Valley tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College men’s soccer team (8-1, 5-1 in ACCAC) won a fifth straight game on Saturday as they took control at Paradise Valley Community College (3-6-1, 1-4-1).

Pima volleyball suffers setback in loss at No. 2 Scottsdale tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College volleyball team (7-9, 3-3 in ACCAC)dropped its ACCAC conference match up at Scottsdale Community College (11-0, 7-0) on Friday.

Rural Americans may be own their own during Medicaid unwinding tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
72% of people who lost Medicaid coverage since states began the unwinding process this year were disenrolled for procedural reasons - not because officials determined they are no longer eligible - and those procedural disenrollments could disproportionately affect rural people.

Just Ducky: Confident Arizona soccer squad scores 3 on Oregon tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
In front of a boisterous crowd filling Mulcahy Stadium on Friday night, Arizona’s women’s soccer team opened up their final PAC-12 schedule with a decisive 3-0 win over the visiting Oregon Ducks.

9th Circuit rejects attempt to stall mining projects near Patagonia tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The 9th Circuit rejected an attempt to block two exploratory mining projects in Southern Arizona’s Patagonia Mountains, ruling against a coalition of environmental groups who sought to hold up federal permits for potential copper mines in the Coronado National Forest.

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