AZ Briefing: Yuma County being linked to '2000 mules'; Will hemp become legal on Navajo Nation? oldest restaurants in Phoenix
A look at some of today's top stories, the weather forecast and a peek back in history.
Yuma County is at the center of election conspiracies linked to '2000 mules.' Here's what to know.
Legalizing hemp on the Navajo Nation could be good for business, but would marijuana follow?
These historic restaurants in Phoenix, Chandler, Buckeye and Scottsdale are going strong after more than half a century. Here's what's on the menu.
Today, you can expect it to be sunny, with a high near 98 degrees. Clear at night, with a low near 72 degrees. Get the full forecast here.
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Today in history
On this date in 1910, the Maricopa Reservation was quarantined because of an outbreak of whooping cough and measles.
In 1923, Pipe Spring, a Mormon settlement, fort and site of the first telegraph station in Arizona territory, was made a National Monument.
In 1929, Lady Mary Heath, British aviatrix, stopped in Yuma during her aerial tour of the United States.
In 1970, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake in Peru claimed an estimated 67,000 lives.
In 2014, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan, was freed by the Taliban in exchange for five Afghan detainees from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Bergdahl, who’d gone missing in June 2009, later pleaded guilty to endangering his comrades by walking away from his post in Afghanistan; his sentence included a dishonorable discharge, a reduction in rank and a fine, but no prison time.)
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