5 more Trump attorneys, aides publicly named in Az fake elector indictment tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Attorney General Kris Mayes has released the names of five more people who were indicted by a grand jury for the part they played in Arizona’s 2020 fake elector scheme to keep former President Donald Trump in the White House.

Extension of Hobbs’ tribal relations office stalled by Az GOP senators tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The fate of the Governor’s Office of Tribal Relations is unclear after Arizona Senate Republicans refused to take up a bill allowing the office to continue operating after June that had received bipartisan backing in the House of Representatives.

13 allegations of candidate petition signature forgery forwarded for possible criminal charges tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Az Secretary of State’s Office has referred 13 cases of potential candidate petition signature fraud to the attorney general, including allegations that Republican Rep. Austin Smith personally forged voter signatures and forgeries allegedly by a petition circulator for Rep. Michele Peña.

Who are the 5 unindicted co-conspirators in Az’s fake elector criminal case? tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A grand jury indicted 18 people in a fake Arizona elector scheme to install Donald Trump as president after he lost the 2020 election, but the indictment also detailed the actions of five unnamed, unindicted co-conspirators, and context clues make it relatively easy to identify who they are.

Valley fever disproportionately affects minority populations tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Valley fever is an infection caused by fungus spores that live in the soil and dust in some areas of the southwestern U.S., and in Arizona, Hispanic, Native American and Black people are more likely to have severe Valley fever than white people.

Arizona’s pushes space sector’s growth through education, collaboration, economy tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona is the fifth-largest employer in aerospace and defense manufacturing, home to over 1,250 supply chain contributors, and the state has become the “global hot spot for emerging technologies and advanced manufacturing.”

Last days: Shod with 84 years of Western tradition, Tucson's Stewart Boot Co. closing tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
After 53 years of bootmaking, Stewart Boot Company's owner Victor Borg prepares to close the doors. The Tucson business shod Hollywood stars and Southern Arizona cowboys alike, but will come to an end in the next few weeks.

Over faculty dissent, UA taps ex-University of Florida administrator to be new provost tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Despite outspoken faculty opposition, Joseph Glover — a longtime mathematics professor and former high-level administrator for the University of Florida — was announced Friday as the new provost of the University of Arizona.

Over faculty dissent, UA taps ex-University of Florida administrator to be new provost tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Despite outspoken faculty opposition, Joseph Glover — a longtime mathematics professor and former high-level administrator for the University of Florida — was announced Friday as the new provost of the University of Arizona.

Hobbs & Mayes launch website to answer Arizona abortion questions tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Weeks after the Arizona Supreme Court upheld a near-total ban on abortion, upending the legal landscape around the medical procedure, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes unveiled a new website to answer questions and provide information.

Hobbs launches website to answer questions about abortion laws tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Weeks after the Arizona Supreme Court upheld a near-total ban on abortion, upending the legal landscape around the medical procedure, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes unveiled a new website to answer questions and provide information.

Shod with 84 years of Western tradition, Tucson's Stewart Boot Co. closes shop tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
After 53 years of bootmaking, Stewart Boot Company's owner Victor Borg prepares to close the doors. The Tucson business shod Hollywood stars and Southern Arizona cowboys alike, but will come to an end in the next few weeks.

Pima County attorney candidates meet in Dem primary forum this weekend tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima County County Attorney Laura Conover will face prosecutor Mike Jette, her challenger in the July 30 Democratic primary, in a forum this weekend.

One of Eli Crane’s fundraising consultants was busted for a meth lab in 2016 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Republican Rep. Eli Crane has paid nearly $150,000 to a fundraising consultant who was a rising star in GOP campaign circles until 2016, when she was arrested after police found an active meth lab at her home.

FactCheck: Trump’s partisan spin on TikTok tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Former President Donald Trump said he wants young voters to know that “Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok,” but a TikTok ban enjoys broad bipartisan support in Congress, and Trump himself tried to ban TikTok as president through an executive order.

Arizona’s 1864 abortion law was made in a women’s rights desert – here’s what life was like then tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
In the late 1800s, women in Arizona had no direct say in laws governing their bodies, and a 2024 ruling by the Arizona Supreme Court that a 160-year-old territorial law that bans abortion will go into effect has the legislature grappling with how to handle the ban.

Rex Scott: RTA Next transportation plan inextricably linked to economic development tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
"We are inextricably linked in terms of where we live, work, shop and play. It makes no sense to fail to continue a regional approach to improving infrastructure that benefits all of us." — County Sup. Rex Scott

Backpage executives acquitted of previous prostitution, money laundering convictions tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Five months after a jury convicted them on dozens of prostitution and money laundering charges, a federal judge acquitted former executives of the controversial classified advertising website Backpage.com on most of the counts lodged against them.

In blow to green groups, 9th Circuit upholds federal plan for Colorado River dam tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Conservationists lost an appeal to the Ninth Circuit as they attempted to force the federal government to reconsider climate change studies in managing the Glen Canyon Dam and Colorado River.

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