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Is Inflation Easing? See How Arizona Is Affected
Prices for food, gas and rent continued to increase in Arizona during April, even as inflation looked like it was beginning to drop off.

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Prices for food, gas and rent continued to increase in Arizona during April, even as inflation looked like it was beginning to drop off.

Prices for some foods, rent, fuel and utilities have risen significantly in the past two months in the Valley of the Sun.
The possible settling cracks were in bridge column supports where there had been standing water after a transmission line burst Saturday.
An appeals court declined to overturn an earlier ruling Tuesday evening, agreeing that Clarence Dixon was competent to be executed.
Sign ups for June swim lessons began Tuesday morning. The free lessons will be offered at three Tucson pools.
The person who found the body came across a disturbing scene while walking on the sidewalk near 14th and Jefferson streets, police said.
Convicted murderer Clarence Dixon is scheduled to receive a lethal injection this week, but an appeal hearing is set for Tuesday afternoon.
In Arizona, 10 hospitals received an "A" grade and no hospitals got an "F." Most hospitals ranked somewhere in the middle.
The highway has been closed since Saturday, when a city of Tempe water transmission line burst, flooding and damaging the roadway.
The Phoenix metro area is expected to reach temperatures in excess of 100 degrees this weekend, possibly setting a record.
The moon is promised to be a deep blood red on Sunday evening during a total eclipse of the full flower moon.
Police are asking for the public's help in find Joshua Bagley, the man that they claim killed the woman on a bus in Phoenix last week.
The man pointed an airsoft gun at a man during an argument at a Phoenix gas station. The other man shot him with a real gun, police said.
The Bissell Pet Foundation is sponsoring the free adoptions as part of its annual "Empty the Shelters" initiative.
The fire, which left total of six people displaced, happened at an apartment complex in Phoenix early Friday morning.
A man was killed, one woman is in stable condition and a second woman was treated at the scene, according to police.
The man was found on the same property where Christy Kaplowitch's car was discovered, according to police. Kaplowitch was found dead Monday.
The 32-year-old mother was shot in the chest while waiting in line with her adolescent son, police said.
The next 30 days are a good time to look to the skies over Arizona with a total lunar eclipse and the Tau Herculids meteor shower.
More than 2,000 stores across the U.S. will celebrate Free Comic Book Day on Saturday. Which stores in the Tucson area are participating?