AZ Briefing: Arizona residents fear cars crashing into homes

June 2, 2025
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AZ Briefing

YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP

Mon Jun 2 2025

Lorenzino Estrada | Digital Producer

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.

A Surprise family begged the city to make changes to a road where 18 crashes occurred near their backyard.

After about 20 years of accidents, Surprise unveiled a new plan to prevent vehicles from ending up in residents’ backyards. Here’s what’s changing.

3 metro Phoenix restaurants with killer sandwiches

Honey club on an everything bagel.

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Of all the new openings, these restaurants in Phoenix and Gilbert left the biggest impression with their killer sandwiches. Here’s what to order.

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Today in history

Here are just some of the events on this date in the past.

•	On this day in 1865: After four years of domestic bloodshed, the Civil War was widely regarded to have officially ended when the commander of the final viable Confederate army in the nation, Lt. Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, signed terms of surrender for the Trans-Mississippi division aboard the USS Fort Jackson in Galveston Bay, Texas. Brig. Gen. Stand Watie, commander of the First Indian Brigade, kept his fighting force together for nearly a month after Smith surrendered. Facing insurmountable odds, Watie was the last Confederate general to surrender. Smith, a former West Point graduate and U.S. Army officer, fled to Mexico and eventually Cuba. He returned to Virginia five months later after learning President Andrew Johnson would pardon him and grant him amnesty.
•	In 1924: President Calvin Coolidge signed an act into law that granted citizenship to all Indigenous people born within U.S. borders.
•	In 1935: Baseball legend Babe Ruth announced his retirement from the sport after hitting what would become a longstanding record 714 home runs during his 22-year Hall of Fame career. Ruth, whose teams won seven World Series titles, also pitched for teams in Boston and New York over portions of 10 seasons. Hank Aaron later eclipsed Ruth in homers.
•	In 1953: London’s Westminster Abbey was the site of British Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation. It was the first British coronation to be televised. Born Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, she was queen of the United Kingdom and its realms for 70 years – longer than any of its other monarchs. She died in 2022.
•	In 1954: About a month into the televised U.S. Army-Sen. Joseph McCarthy hearings, the Wisconsin Republican made the accusation that communists were in the Central Intelligence Agency and the nation’s atomic weapons manufacturing plants. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, his brother, CIA Director Allen Dulles, and Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower all shrugged off McCarthy’s claims as unfounded. The Senate censured McCarthy six months later.
•	In 1997: Terrorist Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy and sentenced to death for his role in the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people, including 19 children. McVeigh was executed by lethal injection in 2001.

— Charlie White, USA TODAY Network

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AZ Briefing: Arizona residents fear cars crashing into homes

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Other big stories

3 metro Phoenix restaurants with killer sandwiches

Today in history

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Indigenous students protest UA changes to Native program

Rainfall, thunder and power outages hit the Valley

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