Pima County consisders $2M increase to jail health contract amid lawsuits & penalties https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/112924_naphcare_contract/pima-county-consisders-2m-increase-jail-health-contract-amid-lawsuits-penalties/
The Pima County Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday on whether to pay $2 million more to NaphCare, Inc., the provider responsible for medical services at the Pima County Jail and the subject of more than a dozen lawsuits in the last two years.
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Cities say they store property taken from homeless encampments. But people rarely get their things back https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/112924_homeless_belongings/cities-say-they-store-property-taken-from-homeless-encampments-but-people-rarely-get-their-things-back/
As homelessness has reached crisis levels, more cities are clearing tents and encampments a,d though some cities have programs to store what they take to protect people’s property rights and make it easy to get their possessions back, they rarely accomplish either objective.
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Sporttrade expands to Arizona with stock market-style betting https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/sports/report/112924_sporttrade_gambling/sporttrade-expands-arizona-with-stock-market-style-betting/
Sporttrade launched in Arizona via its smartphone app in September, a platform that is gaining interest because of its different take on the sports betting market.
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Woman indicted for helping to smuggle Colombian-nationals into U.S. via T-O Nation https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/112924_smuggling_coordinator_indicted/woman-indicted-helping-smuggle-colombian-nationals-into-us-via-t-o-nation/
A woman, originally from Colombia, was indicted earlier this month after multiple people taken into custody on the Tohono O'odham Nation told investigators she helped coordinate their trip through northern Mexico.
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Migrants headed north from Panama's Darién Gap can walk or catch a bus https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/112924_borderlands_uvita/migrants-headed-north-from-panamas-darien-gap-can-walk-or-catch-bus/
The Costa Rican and Panamanian governments created a plan to transport migrants by bus from the Darién region in southern Panama to Costa Rica’s border with Nicaragua, but for some, the $30 bus fare is out of reach.
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Enviros push state officials to end dog pack hunting in Arizona https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/112924_pack_hunting/enviros-push-state-officials-end-dog-pack-hunting-arizona/
Environmental groups urged Arizona to ban the use of dog packs to chase down animals—including mountain lions, bears, Mexican wolves, jaguars and ocelots—arguing the Game and Fish Commission has "the authority and responsibility to protect wildlife and public safety by banning recreational hounding."
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Kiley Sours-Miller's double-double average earns ACCAC Division II Player of the Week https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/sports/report/112724_pcc_womens_basketball/kiley-sours-millers-double-double-average-earns-accac-division-ii-player-week/
Pima Community College women’s basketball player Kiley Sours-Miller produced a strong opening week in ACCAC conference play for the week of Nov. 17-23.
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Quash your warrants at Tucson City Court next Friday https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/112724_warrant_quash_event/quash-your-warrants-tucson-city-court-next-friday/
If you’ve got a warrant — or you think you have a warrant — for failure to appear, unpaid tickets or other offenses in the city, you can go to Tucson City Court next week to get it quashed and make plans to straighten out your situation.
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Protect yourself from salmonella this Thanksgiving https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/112421_thanksgiving_salmonella/protect-yourself-from-salmonella-this-thanksgiving/
Thanksgiving is just a few days away, and I regret to inform you that there’s a multidrug-resistant salmonella outbreak running rampant in the nation’s poultry industry.
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What happened in Virginia 4 months after first Thanksgiving better reflects America's origins https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/112221_thanksgiving_origin_virginia_op/what-happened-virginia-4-months-after-first-thanksgiving-better-reflects-americas-origins/
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving in New England and that story has become an important part of how Americans view the founding of their country - but what happened four months later could be far more reflective of the country’s origins.
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Unthanksgiving Day: A yearly celebration of Indigenous resistance to colonialism held at Alcatraz https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/112323_native_unthanksgiving_op/unthanksgiving-day-yearly-celebration-indigenous-resistance-colonialism-held-alcatraz/
Each year on the fourth Thursday of November, Indigenous people from diverse tribes and nations gather in San Francisco Bay to mark the Indigenous People’s Thanksgiving Sunrise Ceremony, an annual celebration that spotlights 500 years of Native resistance to colonialism.
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Nelson flirts with triple-double as Aztecs use 21-9 quarter to top Central Arizona https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/sports/report/112624_pcc_womens_basketball/nelson-flirts-with-triple-double-as-aztecs-use-21-9-quarter-top-central-arizona/
The Pima Community College women’s basketball team (6-1) stepped away from ACCAC Division II play for a game at Central Arizona College (4-3) on Tuesday in Coolidge.
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Why is turkey the main dish on Thanksgiving? https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/112422_thanksgiving_turkey_op/why-turkey-main-dish-on160thanksgiving/
Almost 9 in 10 Americans eat turkey during Thanksgiving, and it has more to do with how Americans observed the holiday in the late 1800s than which poultry the Pilgrims ate while celebrating their bounty in 1621.
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Donald Trump’s plan to abolish the Dep't of Education raises concerns for Arizona schools https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/120324_doe_az_schools/donald-trumps-plan-abolish-dept-education-raises-concerns-arizona-schools/
Arizona educators worry that President-elect Donald Trump will follow through on a campaign promise to eliminate the Department of Education, with damaging effects on the state’s public schools.
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Dems: Trump vow to impose stiff tariffs at odds with anti-inflation campaign message https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/112724_trump_tariffs/dems-trump-vow-impose-stiff-tariffs-odds-with-anti-inflation-campaign-message/
President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that he would impose harsh tariffs on the United States’ closest trading partners will work against his pledge to bring down consumer prices, Democrats in Congress and economists are warning.
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Anti-lockdown researcher Trump’s pick to lead National Institutes of Health https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/112724_nih_bhattacharya/anti-lockdown-researcher-trumps-pick-lead-national-institutes-health/
President-elect Donald Trump said he has selected Stanford University professor of health policy and skeptic of COVID-19 precautions Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to run the National Institutes of Health, the federal agency tasked with solving many of the country’s biggest health challenges.
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Talking turkey! How the Thanksgiving bird got its name (and then lent it to film flops) https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/112724_talking_turkey_op/talking-turkey-how-thanksgiving-bird-got-its-name-and-then-lent-it-film-flops/
Just as turkey is a versatile meat, so too is the word “turkey,” which can refer to everything from the bird itself to a populous Eurasian country to movie flops.
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Texas offers Trump administration more land to stage mass deportations https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/112624_tx_deportation_land/texas-offers-trump-administration-more-land-stage-mass-deportations/
Texas officials sent a clear message during twin events in the Rio Grande Valley Tuesday that they would be a willing partner to the incoming Trump administration and its immigration crackdown and continue to offer up more land to them for mass deportation facilities.
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Biden administration unveils plan to cover weight loss meds under Medicare, Medicaid https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/112624_weight_loss_coverage/biden-administration-unveils-plan-cover-weight-loss-meds-under-medicare-medicaid/
The Biden administration announced it’s reinterpreting federal law to allow Medicare and Medicaid patients access to anti-obesity medications to reduce their weight over the long term.
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Rio Verde man sentenced to 15 months in prison for threatening elected, federal officials https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/112724_election_threats/rio-verde-man-sentenced-15-months-prison-threatening-elected-federal-officials/
An Arizona man will spend a year and three months in prison for publishing threatening social media posts last year against elected and federal officials.
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