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SpaceX launches rocket Thursday night
PHOENIX — SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket, which will carry 20 Starlink satellites to space, on Thursday night, according to the company's website. Liftoff was from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The launch was barely visible in Arizona due to the sunlight. The Falcon 9 launch mission...
Polynesian culture significant topic of discussion with Arizona at Big 12 Media Days
LAS VEGAS — The leaf leis worn by Arizona coach Brent Brennan and his players Tetairoa McMillan, Noah Fifita, Jacob Manu and Gunner Maldonado at Wednesday’s Big 12 Media Days were a bold statement of the Polynesian family bond that exists within the program. McMillan’s mother Shawny made...
Looking for your new 'fur-ever' friend? The Arizona Animal Welfare League has you covered
PHOENIX — Looking for a new "fur-ever" friend? The Arizona Animal Welfare League is making adopting that cute furry friend even easier. From now until July 21, pets over 1-year-old are available for adoption with no fees at the AAWL's main campus in Phoenix as well as the Chandler location.
CarbonCapture to open world’s first direct air capture facility in Arizona
CarbonCapture Inc. has announced plans to open the world's first direct air capture facility in Mesa, Arizona. The site was selected due to its central location, availability of clean energy, and workforce readiness. The direct air capture (DAC) company, which builds modular systems that can be mass-produced, will lease an 83,000 square-foot facility, which will employ 400 workers. The facility will be operational in 2025, and is expected to produce 4,000 modules per year, which equates to two megatons of carbon dioxide removal capacity.
You can get a dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts for 87 cents on Friday. Here's how
Celebrate Krispy Kreme's 87th birthday on Friday with an extra sweet doughnut deal. Customers who purchase any dozen doughnuts at regular price can receive an Original Glazed dozen for 87 cents on July 12, the company announced Tuesday, with a limit of two dozen when purchased in-shop and via drive-thru and one dozen when purchased online for pickup or delivery.
Arizona Ranked 4th in U.S. for Child Deaths in Hot Cars, Marana Toddler's Tragic Death a Solemn Reminder
In a distressing tally of tragedy, Arizona has been ranked as the state with the fourth highest number of child deaths in hot cars across the nation. Recent events have once again catapulted this issue into the public consciousness, following the death of a 2-year-old girl in Marana, Arizona, on an unforgivingly hot day where temperatures soared to 111 degrees. The Marana Police Department reported that they attempted resuscitation efforts on the girl, however, upon her arrival at a local hospital, she was pronounced dead, as detailed in a report by MSN.
UArizona center helping native tribes preserve their language
TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - For Sheilah Nicholas, revitalizing language hits close to home. “I believe it was a calling,” she said. Growing up, Nicholas disconnected from her Hopi language and culture, but as a student with the American Indian Language Development Institute, and now as a professor, she built that connection back.
2024 Arizona football season countdown: 50 days to kickoff
A LOOK BACK — NO. 50 JULIUS HOLT. With it being the 50th day until kickoff between the Lobos and Wildcats, the most inspirational player to wear No. 50 for Arizona is defensive tackle Julius Holt, who played with the Wildcats in 1981 and 1982 after transferring from Ellsworth Junior College in Iowa Falls, Iowa. Holt became the president of the Tucson Youth Football and Spirit Federation in 2013, an organization he viewed as being much like the Boys and Girls Club back where he is from in Washington, D.C. Julius also worked as a high school counselor and program coordinator for middle school sports at Tucson Unified School District and was an academic counsler for athletes at Arizona. He was inducted in the American Youth Football Hall of Fame in 2020. He earned junior college All-American honors at Ellsworth his sophomore season in 1980. That’s when Arizona entered the picture as well as Michigan State, Minnesota, Louisville, Iowa and Nebraska. Tulane, coached by Smith at the time, started recruiting Holt when he was a freshman at Ellsworth. When Smith became Arizona’s coach in 1980, he assigned offensive line coach Mike Barry to recruit him. Why was an offensive line coach recruiting a defensive lineman/linebacker? “Coach Smith sweared up and down that if I would have redshirted my first year (in 1981) and moved to guard on the offensive line, I would have played 10 years in the NFL,” said Holt, who was 6-3 and 263 pounds during his Arizona career. He purposely asked for a linebacker uniform number of 50 with a strong desire to play outside linebacker for the Wildcats. Within the first two weeks of practice, Smith shifted him to defensive tackle. Holt tried to leave Tucson because the coaches did not place him at linebacker. Barry rushed to the airport to prevent him from leaving. Tucson and Arizona grew on him. In his two seasons on the D-line, Holt compiled 135 total tackles. He was in the iconic Tucson Citizen photo of him celebrating on the sidelines in the waning seconds of Arizona’s upset of No. 1 USC and Marcus Allen in 1981. He became the first in his family to earn a college degree in 1983 — a bachelors in Business and Public Administration. He met his wife Lisa at Arizona. He became a positive influence for many athletes in different sports. Holt was stricken with pneumonia and passed away at 60 years old in April 2022 after being hospitalized. Two other top players to wear No. 50 for Arizona: Centers Paul Hatcher (1954-56) and Bill Nemeth (1966-67). Hatcher was a two-time All-Border Conference and is a member Arizona’s Hall of Fame. Nemeth was All-WAC in 1966, All-Academic in 1967 and graduated from Arizona’s medical school.
NHL Sweaters: Best and Worst of the Arizona Coyotes
Sweaters and hockey have been synonymous with each other since the infancy of the sport. Teams have been identified by their iconic colors and patterns. Some of them are classic while others are classically awful. This summer our annual series focuses on the best and the worst sweaters in each team’s history. Today we have the best and the worse Arizona Coyotes sweaters in team history.
Bighorn Fire filled Oro Valley’s primary watershed with sediment. Now it's being cleared out
When the Bighorn Fire burned nearly 120,000 acres of the Coronado National Forest, it became the eighth-largest wildfire in Arizona history. Roughly four years later, Pima County officials are addressing an abundance of sediment and debris in Oro Valley’s primary watershed. Camille Hall with Pima County said removing the...
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