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| Good morning, Arizona. Here’s what our reporters are working on and what you should know about what’s happening across the state before you start your day. |
| Changes are coming to the 2025 WM Phoenix Open at the TPC Scottsdale golf course. |
| Here’s what fans can expect to see, from a second entrance to axing third-party ticket vendors. |
| ➤ First look: See what the new Wren House Brewing at the former Paradise Valley Mall will look like. |
| ➤ Campaigning in Arizona for the Harris-Walz ticket, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz sought support from Navajo voters in Window Rock as well as voters in Phoenix. |
| ➤ Jeffrey Kelly shot at an empty campaign office and escalated to posting signs ringed with blades, police said. His arrest comes at the close of a heated election cycle. |
| ➤ Ongoing efforts to relieve congestion at a notorious bottleneck in Surprise will get a $4 million boost in Maricopa County transportation funding. |
| ➤ Today, you can expect it to be partly sunny and hot with a high near 95 degrees; there’s a possible danger of dehydration and heatstroke while doing strenuous activities. Expect it to be partly cloudy at night with a low near 64 degrees. Get the full forecast here. |
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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 1787: The first of the Federalist Papers, a series of 85 essays calling for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, was published in a New York newspaper. The essays were written by “Publius” ― a pen name for Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. |
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In 1904: New York City inaugurated its innovative new rapid transit system: the subway. The first train left City Hall station with New York Mayor George B. McClellan Jr. at the controls. The system was opened to the public at 7 p.m., and before the evening was out, more than 110,000 people had taken a ride. |
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In 1962: U.S. Air Force Maj. Rudolf Anderson became the only combatant fatality of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 airplane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile while he was flying over Cuba. |
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In 1968: Austrian-Swedish physicist Lise Meitner ― part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, which ultimately led to the development of nuclear power ― died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 89. Her tombstone reads: “Lise Meitner ― a physicist who never lost her humanity.” |
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In 1988: President Ronald Reagan decided to demolish a new U.S. Embassy in Moscow after discovering that the Soviet Union had listening devices built into the structure. |
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In 1988: The Shuttle Atlantis launched on a mission to deploy a spy satellite for the United States. |
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| Riders will need to have transferred their credit to the new Smart Fare system and will have until the end of the year to do so. |
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Phoenix recorded one more 100-degree temperature on Saturday before a cooldown hits the Valley next week, the National Weather Service says. |
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Three other children were also injured in the two-vehicle crash, but their injuries were not life-threatening. |
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Phoenix police said the suspect fled the scene of the crash and later admitted to being impaired. |
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Tempe detectives received a tip that skeletal remains were stashed in a freezer in Joseph Hill Jr.’s back yard. |
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