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2024 Arizona football season countdown: 41 days to kickoff
A LOOK BACK — NO. 41 MARK JACOBS. With it being the 41st day until kickoff between the Lobos and Wildcats, the best player to wear No. 41 for Arizona is linebacker Mark Jacobs, a Flowing Wells graduate who played with the Wildcats from 1974-76. Jacobs unofficially holds the Arizona record with 200 tackles in 1974. The Arizona record book does not officially list the category for most tackles in a season. It does list the annual tackling leaders since 1975 and notes that until 1987 the tackles listed were from observation of “coaches film.” The NCAA did not officially begin to collect defensive statistics until 2000, believe it or not. So a way to look at it: Jacobs unofficially holds the Arizona record with 200 tackles, achieved as a sophomore, while Scooby Wright III has the most in the eyes of the NCAA with 163 in 2014, Wright’s junior season. Jacobs supposedly had more tackles than what the NCAA lists as the record-holder today: Texas Tech’s Lawrence Flugence with 193 in 2002. Jacobs went on to coach at Flowing Wells and was a pillar in the community, with the Sports Park naming itself the Mark Jacobs Sports Park. He earned his secondary education degree at NAU in the early 1980s and coached and taught in Flagstaff before returning to Tucson in 1987 to coach at Flowing Wells. Jacobs, now 69, returned to Flagstaff in 2002 to be with his family and to pursue a career in public-school administration. He is retired in Flagstaff.
Latino voters want more action on climate and clean energy in Arizona, new poll finds
In Arizona, the 2020 Latino vote was decisive. And this November, Arizona's Latinos may be more motivated than ever by climate and clean energy issues, a new poll by the environmental justice organization Chispa AZ suggests. More than 70% of the poll's 520 registered voter respondents expressed concern about climate change and 60% support Arizona increasing clean energy requirements for electric utilities.
Strong storms move through Phoenix area, knock out power for thousands overnight
PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Thousands were without power around the Valley as severe thunderstorms moved across Arizona on Sunday. Around 8:30 p.m., approximately 3,789 SRP customers and 3,017 APS customers were without electricity in the Phoenix area from Mesa to Wickenburg. But as of 4:30 a.m. Monday morning, SRP’s outage...
Here's how Arizona's Family reporter Dennis Welch felt covering the RNC
Dennis Welch, the longtime political reporter and host of “Politics Unplugged” on Arizona’s Family stations in Phoenix, had never covered a national political convention in person. He picked a good one to start with. Welch was at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, covering the Arizona delegation....
FIRST ALERT FORECAST - Tracking severe activity through this evening
TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) – Tracking widespread storms & severe activity, with the main threat for these storms through this evening being strong & potentially damaging winds. Storms will continue to push south over the next few hours. Most of the storms will fizzle out/move south of the international border by around 9-11 pm. A little bit less activity is expected tomorrow, but we’ll still have scattered afternoon/evening storms present Monday through the rest of the workweek.
LIVE UPDATES: Flights delayed, weather warnings issued as monsoon storms move through the Valley
A wall of storms moved across the state Sunday, prompting a severe thunderstorm watch for multiple counties, including Maricopa. An air stop was issued at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport due to thunderstorms, but it has since been lifted. More than 450 flights have been delayed and 42 have been canceled.
Migrant children were put in abusive shelters for years, suit says. Critics blame lack of oversight
As allegations of sexual abuse built up at the largest housing provider for unaccompanied migrant children in the U.S., officials continued placing children in their care in a system that advocates
Tempe man, clinic linked to $85.6M in fraud schemes
A local man and an unrelated Tempe clinic are the focus of separate state and federal cases alleging over $85.6 million in Medicaid and Medicare fraud. A federal indictment accuses Adam Mutwol, 45, of Tempe, of conspiring with Gilbert Nurse practitioner Daud Koloesho, 44, to illegally bill the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) and American Indian Health Program (AIHP) for substance abuse treatments that earned them over $51.6 million in illicit payments.
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