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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. |
| Wanda Dench, aka “Thanksgiving Grandma,” and her young friend, Jamal Hinton, have simple words of advice for Americans this year: Spend the holiday with family. |
| ➤ Today, you can expect sun and high clouds with a high near 74 degrees. Expect it to be partly cloudy at night with a low near 52 degrees. Get the full forecast here. |
These Arizona grocery stores are open on Thanksgiving
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| A person passes frozen turkeys displayed for sale inside a grocery store.
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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 1943: President Franklin Roosevelt joined British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the USSR’s leader, Joseph Stalin, at the Tehran Conference in Iran to develop strategies for winning World War II. |
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In 1961: Ernie Davis of Syracuse University was announced as winner of the Heisman Trophy, becoming the first African American player to win the top award in college football. He was later selected No. 1 in the NFL draft but never played an NFL game, as he was diagnosed with leukemia and died in March 1963. |
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In 1964: NASA’s Mariner 4 launched on its mission to Mars from Cape Kennedy, Florida, collecting data during a flyby of the third planet in July 1965. |
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In 1979: An Air New Zealand sightseeing flight crashed into Mount Erebus on Antarctica, killing all 257 people on board. |
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In 1994: Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was beaten to death in prison by a fellow inmate. |
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In 1999: Eleven people were injured by a nude swordsman at St. Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church in London during a Sunday Mass. Having said he thought the victims were demons, Eden Strang was found not guilty due to his mental health and was instead detained for nearly two years at a psychiatric hospital. |
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| Wednesday afternoon, the child was in extremely critical condition, hours after the incident in Phoenix. It is unknown what caused the statue to fall. |
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The late Arizona Sen. John McCain also criticized the F-35 as “a scandal and a tragedy with respect to cost, schedule and performance.” |
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Total Wine & More now sells beverages infused with the same chemical compound in marijuana that gets people high: delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol. |
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The Phoenix Suns’ starting center Jusuf Nurkic had 12 points and a team-high 12 rebounds in their 127-100 win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday. |
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This holiday season, check out a Christmas pop-up bar in metro Phoenix. Here’s a few to add to your list offering twinkling lights and egg nog shots. |
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