Shootings involving Phoenix police higher than all of 2021; Downtown tower to incorporate 75-year-old building; New stores in metro Phoenix

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Phoenix police had 16 shootings so far in 2022, exceeding its 13 shootings in all of 2021, according to data tracked by The Arizona Republic.

A luxury apartment complex beginning construction in downtown Phoenix will incorporate a 75-year-old former medical office building on the site.

Here are 10 new stores to shop for clothes, shoes, furniture and pet food in metro Phoenix, including at Scottsdale Fashion Square, Kierland Commons.

Today, you can expect it to be partly sunny with thunderstorms, with a high near 97 degrees. Partly cloudy with a couple thunderstorms at night, and a low near 78 degrees. Get the full forecast here.

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Today in history

  • On this date in 1914, during World War I, the First Battle of the Marne ended in an Allied victory against Germany.

  • In 1962, in a speech at Rice University in Houston, President John F. Kennedy reaffirmed his support for the manned space program, declaring: “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

  • In 2001, stunned rescue workers continued to search for bodies in the World Trade Center’s smoking rubble a day after a terrorist attack that shut down the financial capital, badly damaged the Pentagon and left thousands dead. President George W. Bush, branding the attacks in New York and Washington “acts of war,” spoke of “a monumental struggle of good versus evil” and said that “good will prevail.”

  • In 2008, a Metrolink commuter train struck a freight train head-on in Los Angeles, killing 25 people. (Federal investigators said the Metrolink engineer, Robert Sanchez, who was among those who died, had been text-messaging on his cell phone and ran a red light shortly before the crash.)

  • In 2012, The U.S. dispatched an elite group of Marines to Tripoli, Libya, after the mob attack in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. President Barack Obama strongly condemned the violence, and vowed to bring the killers to justice; Republican challenger Mitt Romney accused the administration of showing weakness in the face of tumultuous events in the Middle East.

This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: AZ Briefing: Shootings involving Phoenix police higher than all of 2021