| YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP |
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Lorenzino Estrada | Digital Producer
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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. |
| Interstate 17 is a heavily congested stretch of northern Arizona highway. State officials say its improvement project will make traveling easier and safer. |
| ➤ Neighbors in a culturally diverse part of east Phoenix woke up on Juneteenth to find swastikas and racial slurs painted on their cars. |
| ➤ Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Phoenix on Monday for the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. |
| ➤ Prosecutors want probation revoked for a 20-year-old, who admitted being part of the “Gilbert Goons,” because he was arrested on suspicion of underage drinking the same day he was sentenced for an assault, according to court records and police. |
| ➤ Today, you can expect it to be sunny and hot with a high near 114 degrees; an excessive heat warning has been issued for today. Expect it to be breezy in the evening; otherwise, clear to partly cloudy and very warm at night with a low near 91 degrees. Get the full forecast here. |
This is what rent costs in Valley cities
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| How much does rent cost in Arizona cities?
Statesman Journal file |
| Tucson and Gilbert were ranked two of the best U.S. cities for renters. But how much will an apartment or home cost in those and neighboring cities? |
| Here are just some of the events on this date in the past. |
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On this day in 1911: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, shortened to NAACP, was incorporated in New York with part of its mission being “to promote equality of rights and to eradicate caste or race prejudice among the citizens of the United States.” It was founded in 1909 by activists who included W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells and several others. |
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In 1926: More than 250,000 people converged on Soldier Field in Chicago for the opening of the Catholic Church’s 28th International Eucharistic Congress. More than 1 million people participated in Mass four days later at the closing. |
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In 1941: With World War II raging in Europe for nearly two years, all 33 U.S. Navy sailors died aboard the submarine USS O-9 from crushing water pressure during a test dive down more than 400 feet in the Atlantic off Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The sub, built during World War I, was recommissioned a couple months before it was tested for action at a deeper depth. |
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In 1963: The U.S. and USSR established the Washington-Moscow hotline, a “red telephone” that linked the Pentagon with the Kremlin in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
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In 1966: Columbia Records released Bob Dylan’s seventh studio album, “Blonde on Blonde,” which climbed to No. 9 on the Billboard U.S. album chart. It included classic songs like “Rainy Day Women #12 and 35” and “Just Like a Woman.” |
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In 1975: The U.S. release of “Jaws” was a smash hit at the box office. |
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| University of Arizona student Erin Jones was shot dead on April 28. Tucson police announced they have arrested four teenagers in the case. |
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Phoenix police arrested a woman on Tuesday after they accused her of kidnapping and abusing three kids with zip ties and weapons. |
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42-year-old Lavonne Mandeville died following a shooting at a Tempe apartment complex on Tuesday night, police said. |
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The Tempe Police Department have named the man who drowned in Tempe Town Lake on Monday. His body was recovered the next morning. |
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Former local Arizona swim coach and publisher of Swimming World Magazine Brent Rutemiller died Monday morning after a 3-year battle with cancer. |
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