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| Good morning, Arizona. Here’s what our reporters are working on and what you should know before you start your day. |
| Gilbert police had evidence the “Gilbert Goons” assaulted “30+” people nearly a year before 16-year-old Preston Lord was beaten to death by a gang of teenagers at a Halloween party in Queen Creek. |
| ➤ Thirty seats are up for grabs in the Arizona Senate in 2024. Here’s what to know about the incumbents and who’s running ahead of the July 30 primary. |
| ➤ Today, you can expect it to be sunny and very warm with a high near 107 degrees. Expect it to be clear at night with a low near 81 degrees. Get the full forecast here. |
Bravo star launches site helping Valley home sellers
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| “Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles” TV stars Matt and Josh Altman are partnering with Valley real estate agent Scott Grigg to open a new brokerage called Grigg’s Group Powered By The Altman Brothers. From left to right, Matthew Altman, Scott Grigg and Josh Altman.
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| Here are just some of the events on this date in the past. |
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On this day in 1910: In Spokane, Washington, Sonora Smart Dodd organized the first Father’s Day in the U.S., one that recognized her Civil War veteran dad who raised her, as well as other father figures. Her work as founder of the Father’s Day Association led to celebrations in several countries and U.S. President Richard Nixon’s 1972 proclamation that made Father’s Day an American holiday observed each year in June. |
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In 1934: President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law the Federal Communications Act, which launched the FCC, an agency now charged with regulating industries that do business in interstate and international communications via broadband internet, satellite, cable, wire, television and radio. |
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In 1944: The Battle of the Philippine Sea began as Japan responded to the American invasion of Saipan. The U.S. Navy’s Task Force 58, an armada of aircraft carriers that could launch over 1,000 aircraft in an hour, destroyed over 300 enemy aircraft during waves of Japanese air raids in the heaviest aircraft carrier action of World War II. U.S. submarine torpedoes sank three Japanese carriers, which decimated its fleet and set the stage for the U.S. to liberate Guam and occupy as the Mariana Islands. |
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In 1964: At Detroit’s Hitsville USA studios, Martha and the Vandellas recorded the Motown classic “Dancing in the Street,” which climbed to No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and later was covered by the Grateful Dead, Van Halen, and David Bowie and Mick Jagger. The hit was written by Marvin Gaye, William Stevenson and Ivy Jo Hunter. |
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In 1997: “Cats” became the longest-running show on Broadway in New York as it wrapped its 6,138th performance of the musical and surpassed the previous record set by “A Chorus Line.” The Broadway run of “Cats” lasted a total of 18 years and 7,485 shows. The current Broadway record-holder, “The Phantom of the Opera,” was performed 13,981 times over 35 years when it closed in 2023. |
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In 2012: Julian Assange, a hacker charged with conspiring to commit computer intrusion, sought asylum at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he stayed for seven years until Ecuador revoked his asylum. He filed legal challenges to avoid extradition to the U.S. while serving time in a London prison since 2019. The Wikileaks founder’s role allegedly involved working with Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to crack a password to a classified U.S. Department of Defense computer, one of the largest compromises of classified information in U.S. history. |
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| The bipartisan Arizona budget for the coming year contains hundreds of thousands of dollars in cuts but shields public safety, schools. |
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The MLB community gives amazing tributes to perhaps the game’s greatest-ever in Willie Mays after his death on Tuesday. Mays was 93 years old. |
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In 2017, Andrew Ward was sentenced to two life sentences with no chance of parole for the murders of his brother and a cellmate. Here’s what to know. |
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The VIVA PHX music festival is coming back to downtown Phoenix with 70 concerts on more than 10 stages. Here’s the lineup and how to get tickets. |
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The 2027 class in Arizona high school football might be the deepest ever, which is why this has gone from the Fab 50 to the Fab 100 prospects list. |
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