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Sun Apr 7 2024

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Connecticut beat Alabama, 86-72, in the second NCAA men’s basketball national semifinal Saturday night at State Farm Stadium. The No. 1 overall-seeded Huskies will face Purdue in a heavyweight battle for the national championship Monday night.

More on the game, including photos and some of the best Final Four social media reaction to UConn’s win

Veteran wounded in Iraq gifted home

Surprise Mayor Skip Hall speaks to Adam Sampson and his family in front of their new home on April 4 in Waddell.

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Adam Sampson retired from the Army in 2008 and was made a single father after his wife Megan died in 2021. Now, he’s been gifted a new house by Surprise.

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Today in history

•	On this day in 1933,The Cullen-Harrison Act took effect, legalizing the sale of beer with an alcohol content of 3.2%. The passage of this act is celebrated as National Beer Day. Upon signing the law, President Franklin Roosevelt was quoted to have said, “I think this would be a good time for a beer.” The act was a part of a series of policies that ended the Prohibition era.
•	In 1933,Nazi Germany issued the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, banning people of Jewish heritage and political dissidents from civil service positions. It was one of the earliest antisemitic legislation in Germany.
•	In 1948,The United Nations established the World Health Organization as an international coordinating authority designed to promote health and safety across the globe.
•	In 1954,U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower voiced fear of a “domino-effect” of communism in Indo-China (Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia) if France were to fail in regaining control of the region.
•	In 2001,the Mars Odyssey was launched on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Its mission was to study the geology and environment of Mars.
•	In 2012, Prominent American television journalist Mike Wallace died at the age of 93. Wallace was renowned for his investigative journalistic work on the long-running program “60 Minutes.”

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NCAA Final Four fans, take that game program out of your checked bag

Fans at the NCAA men’s basketball Final Four in Glendale, Arizona, have been advised to not fly home with game programs placed in their checked bags.

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AZ Briefing: Social reaction as UConn rolls past Alabama in Final Four

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NCAA Final Four fans, take that game program out of your checked bag

Suns control the pace to beat Timberwolves with defense

Gilbert residents raise money to save 106-year-old home

Home in ritzy Phoenix area listed for $7.5M. Look inside

These retirees are fighting a gas plant amid a rural ban on solar projects

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