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AZ Briefing

YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP

Fri Jun 6 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.

The former Fountain Hills town attorney quit abruptly after what he called a “witch hunt” by a councilmember in a ploy to replace him with a political ally, he wrote in his resignation letter.

More on Aaron Arnson’s resignation, what the audit found and why Arnson calls the audit ‘disingenuous’.

5 legendary Phoenix news anchors who made history

Longtime Phoenix TV anchor Kent Dana. He died April 19, 2022.

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Of all the well-known Phoenix news anchors over the years, these TV personalities have become legends. How many do you remember watching?

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Today in history

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

•	On this day in 1844: George Williams founded the Young Men’s Christian Association, or YMCA, in London. The farmer-turned-department store worker and friends organized the first YMCA as a safe space during the Industrial Revolution. Retired sea captain Thomas Valentine Sullivan spearheaded the first YMCA in the U.S. in 1851 in collaboration with a group of Boston churches. YMCA has since spread to more than 10,000 U.S. communities.
•	In 1889: Fire sparked in a workshop spread across Seattle, burned for 18 hours and destroyed 100 acres of its downtown. Within a year, the city had rallied to rebuild with the aid from neighboring cities and others around the United States.
•	In 1944: D-Day arrived in World War II as an armada of Allied troops crossed the English Channel and stormed five beaches of Normandy, France, marking the largest amphibious invasion in military history. A long-planned operation with code name Overlord, Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Dwight Eisenhower ordered more than 150,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen from the United States, Britain and their allies to land on the shores that day. That number climbed to over 850,000 by the end of the month. More than 4,400 Allied troops died on D-Day alone with estimates of about 218,000 killed, wounded or missing by Aug. 31, 1944. Another 12,200 French civilians were killed or missing. Germany reported 30,000 troops killed, 80,000 wounded and 210,000 missing by Aug. 31.
•	In 1966: Aboard Gemini 9A, NASA astronauts Gene Cernan and Tom Stafford successfully splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean after a three-day mission that included 44 orbits and Cernan spacewalking for nearly 2 hours. The original crew, Charles Bassett and Elliot See, died in a training jet crash a few months prior.
•	In 1966: Civil rights activist James Meredith, an Air Force veteran denied admission to the University of Mississippi, was wounded in a sniper shooting on the second day of the March Against Fear he had planned from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Stokely Carmichael finished Meredith’s march on June 26.
•	In 1982: Israeli Defense Forces began the invasion of southern Lebanon three days after a cease-fire ended when Palestinians shot Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom Shlomo Argov. The United States joined a multinational force later in 1982 that went to Lebanon to stop fighting between Syria, the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel. But fighting escalated, leading U.S. President Ronald Reagan to order the withdrawal of Marines in 1984. The terrorist organization Hezbollah also formed during the invasion with the help of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.