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Travis Bagent is a professional arm wrestler from West Virginia who came to AZ Arm Wrestling Championship to showcase his sport.

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Travis Bagent is a professional arm wrestler from West Virginia who came to AZ Arm Wrestling Championship to showcase his sport.

State and Flagstaff officials are battling over who should bear the cost of the city’s higher minimum wage.
When politics and sports collide.
Officials called a $20M grant for suicide prevention programs in state schools an important first step to deal with a growing problem.
A new report examining conditions and cost-effectiveness of state highway systems ranked Arizona 29th overall.
The Phoenix Police Department has faced criticism over officer-involved shootings and allegations of overzealous policing in recent years.
Three extensions of the Valley Metro light rail will move forward after voters rejected Prop 105, which would have halted the expansion.
Arizona’s Senate race got tougher this week when a Phoenix businessman announced a Republican primary challenge to incumbent Sen. McSally.
Bobbi Lancaster is a skilled golfer, author and family doctor. And until 2010, she had lived her life as a man.
The International Federation of Muaythai Associations wants Thai boxing to be the gang for disenfranchised youth.
A cart clattered down one of the many concrete walkways in Kiwanis Park, Tempe, in early July, laden with scientific equipment.
Time is running out for Navajo landowners who want to take part in the second round of a $1.9B federal program to buy back land.
Adults and children as young as 4 huddled around a painted-over canvas on the grass of Tempe’s Svob Park on a cloudy afternoon.
During last week’s monsoon storm, several underpasses along Interstate 17 in north Phoenix flooded, causing traffic delays.
Outside the Burton Barr Central Library on a sweltering summer afternoon, Yahshua McDuffie offers free water and soda from his ice chest.
Xavier Delgado was 10 in May 2013 when an EF5 tornado hit Moore, OK. He nearly was one of the town’s 24 fatalities.
Like many Americans, only about 40% of people living along the Chesapeake Bay believe global warming will harm them personally.
After consecutive major floods, residents in Charleston, South Carolina, are calling for the city to prevent a man-made disaster.
The communities of Elfin Forest and Harmony Grove, near Escondido, are suing San Diego County.
At Bartlett Lake and other reservoirs around the state, AZ Game & Fish Dept. volunteers are building plastic cubes to serve as fish habitat.