Tempe announces changes following controversial drowning; Navajo Nation grapples with flooding; Valley chef to be on Netflix show

Arizona Republic
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Tempe residents pay tribute to Sean Bickings, 34, who drowned in Tempe Town Lake, as the protest outside Tempe City Hall on June 9, 2022.
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A look at some of today's top stories, the weather forecast and a peek back in history.

The city's announcement details a training and equipment plan created in response to Sean Bickings' death in May.

Monsoon storms send torrents of water through Navajo communities, forcing some people from their homes and leaving others in need of help.

'Chef's Table: Pizza' on Netflix will feature Phoenix's most famous pizza maker. Here's what we know about the episode and the other chefs.

Today, you can expect heavy rain, with a high near 94 degrees. Heavy rain also expected at night, with a low near 79 degrees. Get the full forecast here.

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Today in history

  • On this day in 1910, a series of forest fires swept through parts of Idaho, Montana and Washington, killing at least 85 people and burning some 3 million acres.

  • In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act, a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure.

  • In 1986, postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill went on a deadly rampage at a post office in Edmond, Oklahoma, shooting 14 fellow workers to death before killing himself.

  • In 2012, in a historic change at one of the world’s most exclusive golf clubs, Georgia's Augusta National invited former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Carolina financier Darla Moore to become the first female members; both accepted. Comedian Phyllis Diller, 95, died at her Los Angeles home.

  • In 2020, accepting the Democratic presidential nomination, Joe Biden vowed to move the nation past the chaos of Donald Trump’s tenure and return it to its leadership role in the world; capping a virtual convention amid the pandemic, Biden spoke to a largely empty arena in Delaware. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny became ill on a flight to Moscow from Siberia and was hospitalized in a coma. (Navalny would spend five months in Germany recovering from a nerve agent poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin; he was arrested after his return to Russia.)

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