AZ Briefing: Housing study seeks Spanish speakers with disabilities; Alice Cooper talent show needs dancers; D-Backs pitcher pursues history

Arizona Republic
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A resident gets his mail at Spectrum Courtyard Apartments in Phoenix. The property was developed by the Foundation for Senior Living, which sets aside 25% of its units for individuals with autism.

A look at some of today's top stories, the weather forecast and a peek back in history.

A Valley nonprofit invites Spanish speakers with autism and those with intellectual or developmental disabilities and their families to participate in a study on housing needs.

Dancers can now compete alongside bands and solo acts for up to $1,000 in Alice Cooper's annual talent search for youths throughout the Phoenix area.

Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Zac Gallen can set a franchise record for consecutive scoreless innings in his start today vs. the Colorado Rockies.

Today, you can expect it to be partly sunny with a high near 100 degrees. At night, expect it to be cloudy with a couple of thunderstorms and a low near 80 degrees. Get the full forecast here.

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Today in history

  • On this date in 1941, groundbreaking took place for the Pentagon. In a speech that drew accusations of anti-Semitism, Charles A. Lindbergh told an America First rally in Des Moines, Iowa, that “the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration” were pushing the United States toward war.

  • In 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed as 19 al-Qaida hijackers seized control of four jetliners, sending two of the planes into New York’s World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and the fourth into a field in western Pennsylvania.

  • In 2008, presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama put aside politics as they visited ground zero together on the anniversary of 9/11 to honor its victims.

  • In 2012, a mob armed with guns and grenades launched a fiery nightlong attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost and a CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, killing U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney toned down the campaign rhetoric and pulled negative ads amid commemorations of the 9/11 attacks, saying it was not a day for politics.

  • In 2017, authorities sent an aircraft carrier and other Navy ships to help with search-and-rescue operations in Florida, where a flyover of the Keys revealed what Gov. Rick Scott described as scenes of devastation from Hurricane Irma. Irma weakened to a tropical storm, and then a tropical depression, and finally left Florida after a run up the entire 400-mile length of the state. An estimated 13 million people in Florida remained without power.

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