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PRESTON LORD: Witnesses recant as six men still face murder charges. Trials face delays and a request to change location. All as today marks the day Lord, 16, was fatally beaten in 2023. With @PerryVandell @robertanglen @azcentral
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The Arizona Daily Star’s journalists are proud to be unionizing with @CWAUnion @newsguild 📰✊ Today, we delivered our mission statement and request for voluntary recognition to newsroom leadership and our parent company, USA Today Co.
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This remind reminds me of the time I played fantasy baseball for the first time and one guy drafted only starting pitchers for the first nine rounds.
He ultimately placed last.
just a quick update on this — apparently my team "ALL QBs" has managed to enormously fuck up my friend group's fantasty football league
now i am incredibly powerful holding all da cards.....
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'Gilbert Goon' arrested for 3rd time while awaiting trial in the fatal gang attack of Preston Lord. Talyn Vigil has twice avoided being sent to prison while out on bail. Story with @PerryVandell via @azcentral
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Despite 'tremendous sadness,' Tucson area moves on as Guthrie search stalls w/ @perryvandell azcentral.com/story/news/loc…
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You go to the only piece of writing that is universally agreed to be more impactful and legendary than The Odyssey, of course: Metal Gear Solid
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Adam Sheafe, the man who murdered and mutilated a New River pastor last year, is on track to avoid the the death penalty after prosecutors agreed to offer a plea deal that would have him serve natural life in prison. Sheafe accepted the deal this morning. azcentral.com/story/news/loc…
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I'm at the prison facility in Florence where death row inmate Leroy McGill is scheduled to be executed at 10 a.m. McGill was convicted of murder after he poured a sticky, napalm-like substance on a couple who accused him of stealing a shotgun in 2002.
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oh for real?
the person with no tv experience you put in charge of all your most important tv properties is somehow not working out?
SCOOP from @DylanByers: Paramount leadership is quietly discussing pulling back Bari Weiss's mandate—sources say she'd cede day-to-day control of Evening News, CBS Mornings, and 60 Minutes to a more experienced executive.
More: puck.news/cbs-news-restructu…
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I’ll take recency bias for $1,000, Alex.
After tens of thousands of votes, these are the 10 best video games of all time, according to GameRant's readers. You can influence the rankings by letting us know which is game is better at the link! gamerant.com/top-10-best-vid…
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wondering if this is so dramatically overwritten because of the rather embarrassing video clip of this exchange where she cant articulate what her question specifically means
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Maricopa County Fair nixes petting zoo. Move comes months after an E. coli outbreak tied to a pig at the Arizona State Fair put several kids in the hospital with life threatening illnesses. Story with @PerryVandell via @azcentral
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Nachos you can wear on your head!
Check out the 9th Inning Rally sombrero at @GlobeLifeField this season.
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April fools doesn’t hit the same living in a misinformation epidemic
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I wholeheartedly endorse this piece. It annoys the hell out of me that there's an entire cottage industry of business "journalism" that consists of taking some outlandish claim made by a tech CEO -- often in a tweet or offhand comment -- and then crafting
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Senior editor of major media property: “I asked Claude”
I asked Claude AI to compare the Hasan Piker audience to the cringe wine moms at MSNOW.
"[O]n a normal night, MS NOW's primetime audience of roughly 900,000 is about 25 times larger than Piker's typical concurrent stream of 36,000."
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