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YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP

Sun Jul 7 2024

Good morning, Arizona. Here’s what our reporters are working on and what you should know before you start your day.

Mikelle Biggs disappeared off her street in Mesa while riding her bike in January 1999.

Her family, including her younger sister, Kimber Biggs, is hoping a documentary will dispel rumors.

More about the Mikelle Biggs case.

This Arizona city has most affordable movie tickets

Joy (Amy Poehler) and Anxiety (Maya Hawke) in “Inside Out 2.”

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If you like to beat the summer heat by going to the movies, this Valley city has the cheapest movie tickets in the U.S. this year.

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Today in history

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

•	On this day in 1898: The Hawaiian Islands were annexed by the U.S. via the Newlands Resolution, which was signed by President William McKinley.
•	In 1930: Construction of the Hoover Dam began. One of the U.S.’s largest human-made project, the building of Hoover Dam took five years and had a labor force of 20,000.
•	In 1942: Heinrich Himmler began to perform horrific medical experiments on Auschwitz prisoners as a way to procure a faster method of sterilization, “not only to defeat the (Jewish) enemy but also to exterminate him.”
•	In 1958: Alaska became the 49th state after President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Alaska Statehood Act into law. It became official on Jan. 3, 1959.
•	In 1976: 119 women made history and enrolled at West Point, becoming the first women to join the Corps of Cadets.
•	In 1981: President Ronald Reagan announced he would nominate Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court, making her the first woman to serve as a justice on the nation’s highest court.

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