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Scottsdale native brings AI to dentistry

Ever been lying in bed worrying about the day’s medical appointment? What did the doctor say about the diagnosis? How much was the bill? You’ll call first thing in the morning …

Visa fees for international artists to tour in the US shot up 250% in April. It could be devastating

NEW YORK (AP) — Performing in the U.S. for international artists just got a lot more complicated. On April 1, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services instituted a 250% visa fee …

United Airlines reports $124 million loss in a quarter marred by grounding of some Boeing planes

United Airlines said Tuesday that it lost $124 million in the first quarter, which it blamed on a three-week grounding of all Boeing 737 Max 9s after a panel blew off an Alaska Airlines Max jetliner …
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ON TOUR

Marley Brothers’ Legacy Tour to appear in Phoenix

The Marley Brothers – Ziggy, Stephen, Julian, Ky-Mani and Damian – will include Phoenix on their upcoming 22-date The Marley Brothers: The Legacy Tour.
SCOTTSDALE

Loop 101 on-ramp at Shea Boulevard closes for 60 days

The northbound Loop 101 on-ramp at Shea Boulevard in Scottsdale closed this week and will remain shut down for about 60 days, state transportation officials said. The closure is necessary for …
ON TOUR

With new album, Shakira bringing tour to Phoenix

Grammy and Latin Grammy Award-winning artist Shakira’s first string dates of her anticipated world tour, “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour,” will include a show in downtown Phoenix.

Photos: Rally showed Valley support for peace in Gaza

Chandler resident and photographer Carl Massad sent Independent Newsmedia images from a March 30 rally at Civic Space Park in Downtown Phoenix. The Arizona Branch for the Party of …
EDUCATION

Deer Valley Unified to host job fair in Phoenix

Deer Valley Unified School District is hosting a job fair this weekend.
COMEDY

Kevin Hart bringing comedy tour to Phoenix

Emmy and Grammy-nominated comedian and Mark Twain award recipient Kevin Hart will bring his Acting My Age stand-up comedy tour to Phoenix this fall.
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Peoria Police arrest homicide suspect

Peoria Police have arrested a Glendale man suspected of murdering a Phoenix man in downtown Peoria, according to a news release.
TRAVEL

Arizona roads open this week to White Mountains

Several high-elevation roads are reopening this week after being closed for the winter. The Arizona Department of Transportation announced the following will open Wednesday, April 17: …
Election 2024

Arizona Republicans considering putting multiple abortion measures on November ballot

PHOENIX — House Republicans are weighing putting one or more of their own abortion measures on the ballot in a bid to undermine an initiative to enshrine the right to terminate a pregnancy in …

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Hispanic workers, from entrepreneurs to farmworkers, are a unique strength of the American economy.
It was a picture-perfect day out at Grayhawk Golf Club for Hospice of the Valley’s 2024 Pro-Am Golf Tournament, presented by Cigna Healthcare.
Former Republican senator and physician Tom Patterson makes some good points in his letter. However, his true colors are revealed when he declares that going green will drive us into poverty based on …
A nine-year journey, starting with the three-year effort to get Fountain Hills designated as an International Dark Sky Community, has finally led to the April 8 groundbreaking ceremony for the …
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How did the Arizona Coyotes end up facing a move to Salt Lake City?

The Arizona Coyotes are expected to be sold and moved to Salt Lake City after the team's final home game of the season. Coyotes owner Alex Meruelo will sell the franchise to Utah Jazz owner Ryan …

The Coyotes' troubled tenure in Arizona has come down to 1 last game before an expected move to Utah

The Arizona Coyotes dubbed Mullett Arena “The Party Barn” for its raucous, closed-quarters atmosphere. The NHL’s smallest arena ended up being one of the franchise’s biggest problems and will …

Oilers visit the Coyotes after Foegele's 2-goal game

The Edmonton Oilers visit the Arizona Coyotes after Warren Foegele scored two goals in the Oilers' 9-2 win against the San Jose Sharks.

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National sports
Kylian Mbappé has scored twice as Paris Saint-Germain reversed its first-leg loss at home to return to the Champions League semifinals with a 4-1 win over Barcelona. PSG took advantage of a …
Marcel Sabitzer scored late to send Borussia Dortmund into the Champions League semifinals with a helter-skelter 4-2 win over Atlético Madrid. Dortmund had to come from behind twice over two legs to …
The Dallas Stars are heading into the NHL playoffs as the league's deepest and most balanced scoring team. The Central Division champions have a franchise-record and NHL-high eight 20-goal scorers, …

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Waste Not and Birdcall are teaming up to fight hunger

Local nonprofit Waste Not and restaurant Birdcall are teaming up April 24 to raise funds to fight hunger in Arizona.

April 24 is Stop Food Waste Day and local nonprofit, Waste Not, is teaming up with Valley restaurant, Birdcall, to help raise awareness. Arizona is known as the worst offender for food waste in …

Forbes names Scottsdale’s Trevor Wilde among top advisors in Arizona

Trever Wilde, CEO and investment advisor for Scottsdale’s Wilde Wealth Management Group, was named the No. 2 overall advisor in Arizona.

Trever Wilde, CEO and investment advisor for Scottsdale’s Wilde Wealth Management Group, was named the No. 2 overall advisor in Arizona. (Wilde Wealth Management Group) Forbes names …

Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers presents a $5,100 check to cops

As part of it’s Cold Beers Cares initiative, Cold Beers and Cheeseburgers present a $5,100 check to the Arizona Law Enforcement Canine Association April 16.

Scottsdale-based Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers presented April 16 a $5,100 check to nonprofit Arizona Law Enforcement Canine Association as part of its Cold Beers Cares initiative. More than 10,000 …

Chandler Indian cuisine eatery is chain's first in Arizona

The Chandler Honest store, located on the northwest corner of Alma School and Ray in Chandler, next to Cafe Rio, is the chain's first place in Arizona.  

An international chain, Honest, has set up a location in Chandler. Honest specializes in vegetarian Indian street food, made from scratch daily and dishes are cooked to order. It brags on using …

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Cycle the Arts event planned as part of Bike Month celebration

Scottsdale’s Cycle the Arts is scheduled for Sunday, April 21.

Scottsdale’s Transportation and Streets department and Scottsdale Arts will host the 2024 Cycle the Arts event on Sunday, April 21. This year’s bike tour of the city’s public art …

Honoring a local hero: Pat’s Run co-founder reflects on 20th anniversary

Pat's Run marks two decades of honoring the life of Pat Tillman in Tempe.

Pat’s Run marks its 20th anniversary April 13, celebrating two decades of honoring the life of Pat Tillman.

Meet Christopher – Artsy teen looks to create with adoptive family

Christopher

Christopher is an artsy teen who dreams of one day selling his paintings and drawings at art shows. His walls are covered in his work and he enjoys sharing his creations with others.

Over Easy announces fourth annual Dollars for a Dozen fundraiser

Throughout the month of April, guests of Over Easy restaurants can donate $1 to Phoenix Children’s and the restaurant will match it with another $1.

Local breakfast restaurant Over Easy is teaming up with Shamrock Farms and Hickman’s Family Farms in April to raise funds (and eggs) for Phoenix’s Children’s and United Food Bank …

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Classic car event set for Saturday in Chandler

The Park at Copper Creek is hosting a car show in celebration of its fifth birthday as a care facility. The public is invited to attend this free event, Saturday, April 20, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the care facility, 901 S. 94th Street in Chandler.

The Park at Copper Creek is hosting a car show in celebration of its fifth birthday as a care facility. The public is invited to attend this free event, Saturday, April 20, from 10 a.m. to 1 …

Valleypalooza to bring music, good cause together in Phoenix

Phoenix-based Latin punk trio Fayuca will perform at Valleypalooza on Saturday, April 13, at Paradise Valley Community College.

The Valleypalooza festival arrives this weekend.

Downtown Phoenix gallery to unveil new art exhibition

Karolina Adams’ “I no longer want to be invisible” will be part of a new exhibition in downtown Phoenix.

Karolina Adams and Sarah Simmerman will present “Exploring Emotion,” an art exhibition that conveys universal life experiences.

Rock icons Aerosmith announce new ‘farewell tour’ Phoenix date

From left, Rich Robinson, Joe Perry, Steven Tyler and Chris Robinson will be hitting the road again on their Peace Out tour, which will arrive in downtown Phoenix on Halloween night.

Rock legends Aerosmith are returning to the road with their farewell Peace Out tour, along with special guests the Black Crowes, and the trek will visit Phoenix.

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Obituaries & Memorials

James Morton Akason

James Morton Akason passed away peacefully on April 10, 2024, in Sun City West, AZ, with his wife Carol by his side. The last year of his life, cancer impacted his physical health and mobility, but …
Cliff Webb

Cliff Webb

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved brother, Clifford Preston Webb, on March 19, 2024.  He was 87 years old and died peacefully of natural causes. …

Phyllis Still Brescia

Phyllis Still Brescia, 88, passed away on March, 21, 2024. She was born in Nevada, Missouri, to George Farold Hill and Alice Valentine Hosfield Hill. The family soon moved to Chillicothe, Missouri, …

Jeanne Sulley

On Friday, April 5, 2024, Jeanne Ellis McDaniel Sulley who was born in Joplin, Missouri passed away at the age of 94. She is preceded in death by her parents, Harold and Dorothy McDaniel and son, …

Carol Jean DeAmbra

Carol, 77, of Sun City West, AZ, passed away peacefully on Friday, April 5, 2024, after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. She was surrounded by her devoted family including her husband, children …

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Georgia prosecutors renew challenge of a law they say undermines their authority

Three district attorneys in Georgia have renewed their challenge of a commission created to discipline and remove state prosecutors, arguing it violates the U.S. and Georgia constitutions. Their …

Participant, studio behind 'Spotlight,’ ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ shutters after 20 years

Participant, the activist film and television studio that has financed Oscar winners and socially conscious documentaries, is closing its doors after 20 years. Billionaire Jeff Skoll told his staff …

Company believes it found sunken barge in Ohio River near Pittsburgh, one of 26 that got loose

A barge operator believes it has found a sunken barge in the Ohio River near Pittsburgh, one of 26 that broke loose and floated away during weekend flooding. Crews used sonar to locate an object in a …

Texas inmate Melissa Lucio's death sentence should be overturned, judge says

HOUSTON (AP) — A judge has recommended that the conviction and death sentence of Melissa Lucio, a Texas woman whose execution was delayed in 2022 amid growing doubts she fatally beat her 2-year-old …

Southern governors tell autoworkers that voting for a union will put their jobs in jeopardy

DETROIT (AP) — On the eve of a vote on union representation at Volkswagen's Tennessee factory, Gov. Bill Lee and some other southern governors are telling workers that voting for a union will put …

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World

Venezuela closes embassy in Ecuador to protest raid on Mexican embassy there

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ordered the closure of his country’s embassy and consulates in Ecuador on Tuesday in solidarity with Mexico in its protest over a raid by …

Belgian police shut down a far-right conference as it rallies ahead of Europe's June elections

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian police shut down a gathering of far-right politicians and supporters on Tuesday, citing concerns about public order, while attendees protested curbs on free speech and vowed …

House panel says China subsidizes fentanyl production to fuel crisis in the United States

WASHINGTON (AP) — China is fueling the fentanyl crisis in the U.S. by directly subsidizing the manufacturing of materials that are used by traffickers to make the drug outside the country, …

Facing a Republican revolt, House Speaker Johnson pushes ahead on US aid for Ukraine, allies

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defiant and determined, House Speaker Mike Johnson pushed back Tuesday against mounting Republican anger over his proposed U.S. aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other allies, …

Ukrainian president signs controversial law to boost conscription to fend off Russia's aggression

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a controversial law Tuesday, days after it was passed by parliament, potentially helping Kyiv to boost conscription to replenish …

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Entertainment
FILE - Notorious B.I.G., who won rap artist and rap single of the year, clutches his awards at the podium during the Billboard Music Awards in New York, on evening, Dec. 6, 1995. Albums from ABBA, Blondie and the Notorious B.I.G. are entering the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress. They're among the 25 titles announced Tuesday, April 16, 2024, that have been selected for preservation as “defining sounds of the nation’s history and culture." (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

ABBA, Blondie, and the Notorious B.I.G. enter the National Recording Registry

LOS ANGELES (AP) — ABBA, Biggie, Blondie and Rudolph are entering America's audio canon. New inductees into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress include ABBA 's 1976 …
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed makes a statement to the court during her sentencing hearing in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Monday April 15, 2024. Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on the set of the Western film "Rust," was sentenced to 18 months in prison. She was convicted in March of involuntary manslaughter in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was fatally shot by Alec Baldwin in 2021. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal via AP, Pool)

What to know about the prison sentence for a movie armorer in a fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin

A movie weapons armorer has received the maximum sentence of 18 months in jail for involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film …
FILE - Author Salman Rushdie receives the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation's first ever lifetime achievement disturbing the peace award at the Vaclav Havel Center on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, in New York. Rushdie's first book since the 2022 stabbing he thought might end his life is both explicit in the violence Rushdie sustains and heroic in the will to live that Rushdie retains. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Salman Rushdie's 'Knife' is unflinching about his brutal stabbing and uncanny in its vital spirit

Salman Rushdie's first book since the 2022 stabbing he thought might end his life is both explicit in the violence Rushdie sustains and heroic in the will to live that Rushdie retains. Just over 200 …
This image released by Warner Bros. Discovery shows Phanxine in a scene from the HBO television mini series "The Sympathizer." (Hopper Stone/Warner Bros. Discovery via AP

In war saga 'The Sympathizer,' Vietnamese voices are no longer stuck in the background

For decades, Vietnamese people often been relegated to the background in popular cinematic depictions of the Vietnam War. Films like “Full Metal Jacket” and “Apocalypse Now” typically only …
File - Cardi B arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. Cardi B, Queen Latifah and The Roots will headline concerts in the return of the BET Experience in Los Angeles just days before the 2024 BET Awards. The BET Experience makes a return after a five-year hiatus. The BET Awards will take place June 30. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Cardi B, Queen Latifah and The Roots to headline the BET Experience concerts in Los Angeles

Cardi B, Queen Latifah and The Roots will headline concerts celebrating the return of the BET Experience in Los Angeles just days before the 2024 BET Awards. BET announced Monday the star-studded …

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