2 Dead In Officer Involved Shooting ID'd + Home Prices Up 32%

Happy Friday, people of Phoenix! Let's get this day started. Here's everything you need to know around the city today.

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First, today's weather:

Partly cloudy throughout the day. High: 100 Low: 81.

Here are the top stories in Phoenix today:

1. The names of the 28-year-old man and 30-year-old woman who died in an officer involved shooting Wednesday in Phoenix were released. The Phoenix Police Department is heading the investigation into the shooting that happened on the grounds of a hotel. Officers involved in the shooting were from the Arizona Department of Public Safety and Maricopa County Adult Probation. (Phoenix Patch)
2. News21 fellows, headquartered at ASU's Cronkite School of Journalism, released a report on how COVID-19 impacted people from various socioeconomic backgrounds. The fellows traveled to rural and urban communities across the country to investigate the pandemic’s impact on immigrant workers, the difficulties of virtual learning, food insecurity, unemployment, federal relief and child care. (ASU Now)
3. Increases in Phoenix home values finally leveled off a bit in August, even though there was still a significant 1.75 percent increase. Typical home values in Phoenix went up 32 percent over the past year. (AZ Big Media)
4. The state is offering funding to understaffed Arizona hospitals, but the money is only for a select group of hospitals that administer monoclonal antibody treatments and offer COVID-19 vaccines to patients upon their release. The effort is aimed at providing much-needed relief to hospital staff stressed by a rising number of severe cases of COVID-19. (Your Valley)

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Today in Phoenix:

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Phoenix Patch Notebook

• Arizona Humane Society: "🐈 Working Cats for Hire! 🐈 Are you looking for environmentally-safe alternative to poisonous pest controls for your property? Simba is happily employed by AHS' Warehouse along with his buddy Nala, but we might have just the pair of working cats for you! Working cats like Simba are not your typical house cats and are not suited for indoor living... they prefer to hunt for their meals on large properties where they have space to explore. This lifesaving program gives jobs to cats who are experts at controlling pest populations in warehouses, ranches, mills, and barns, and the cats are provided with shelter, food, water, and veterinary care by their 'employers.'" (Facebook)
• City of Phoenix: "In 1915 Arizona voters approved Prohibition in a statewide referendum and on January 1, 1916 it went into effect. A water tank for disposing of illegal alcohol moved through downtown Phoenix, as shown here by the Gooding Building at Central Avenue and Adams Street. The banner says, “Arizona knows what to do with booze."" (Facebook)
• City of Phoenix: "Celebrating #HispanicHeritageMonth Learn about the Jones-Montoya house ... an adobe farmhouse built back in 1879 in #PHX. It's just one example of our city's rich history to the Hispanic community." (Facebook)

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