By Gabrielle Wallace
Cronkite News
WASHINGTON – Despite grants and numerous programs to help mitigate the issue, cases of missing or murdered Indigenous women continue at relatively high rates.
The extent of the problem is almost certainly underestimated.
By Chase Beardsley
Cronkite News
PRESCOTT VALLEY – In 2014, the sports scene in the Valley was on fire. The Phoenix Suns recorded one of the best winning percentages of a team that missed the playoffs, the Arizona Cardinals went 11-5 and the Phoenix Coyotes officially changed its name to the Arizona Coyotes.
However, up north in Prescott Valley, a different kind of sports scene was making waves. The Arizona Sundogs, a minor league professional hockey team, slipped into the Central Hockey League playoffs as the eighth seed with a 32-27-7 record.
The Sundogs upset the top-seeded Missouri Mavericks in the first round, winning in six games. Despite losing in the second round to the Denver Cutthroats, it seemed like the Sundogs were on the precipice of having a breakout season in 2015 and could challenge for the franchise’s second Ray Miron President’s Cup, their first since 2008. Continue reading “Grand Canyon College Hockey Classic brings sport back to puck-craving fans in Prescott Valley”
By Saleh Awward
Cronkite News
PHOENIX – After securing its 500th victory in team history, Brophy Prep is all in to bring home a football state title.
The sixth-ranked Broncos (10-2), who last won an Arizona high school championship in 2007, toppled Perry High last Friday and have their eyes set on the 6A trophy, but a heavyweight semifinal matchup this Friday against No. 3 Mountain View Toros (11-1) stands in the way of ending the title drought.
“It’s been a long time since we’ve even been in the state championship game. We were one play away last year, now we’re one game away,” Brophy coach Jason Jewell said after his team beat Perry, 31-13. “(It’s) gonna take a tough week of preparation. It takes luck, it takes some grit. I think our kids got it though.” Continue reading “Brophy Prep football eyes state title, but first must top Mountain View in 6A semifinals”
By Fletcher Anderson
Cronkite News
PHOENIX— So nice, they did it twice.
Not only is that true of the Arizona State faithful’s field storming on Saturday, but it can also be said about the team’s past two weeks, as the Sun Devils beat consecutive ranked opponents and moved to 9-2 on the season, 6-2 in the conference, and most importantly, first place in the Big 12 with just one week to play in the regular season.
That resume was good enough to land the Sun Devils at No. 16 in the College Football Playoff rankings. However, they still sit five spots behind No. 11 Boise State (10-1), with a host of three-loss SEC teams in between them. Based on that, it feels like a far cry for the prospective Big 12 champion to leapfrog that high to grab the final first-round bye without a loss from the Broncos. Continue reading “Arizona State rises to No. 16 after back-to-back upsets as College Football Playoff hopes hang in balance”
By Caleb Campero
Cronkite News
LOS ANGELES – With just days left in the regular season, the Arizona Wildcats have accepted a difficult truth: Postseason football is not in their immediate future. That said, no matter what transpired during the season, one game on the calendar is always marked, and beating Arizona State Saturday could dramatically shift the Wildcats’ mood.
“Huge week for us,” Arizona coach Brent Brennan said. “Obviously the ASU game is such a special rivalry in college football and it means so much to everybody here, everybody at this university, everybody in Tucson and thousands in the state of Arizona.”
Arizona sits at 4-7 heading into the Territorial Cup matchup in Tucson and is in 13th place out of 16 teams in the Big 12. ASU, meanwhile, was initially picked to finish last in the conference but is first at 9-2. The Sun Devils are likely one win away from a Big 12 title game appearance in their inaugural season with the conference. Continue reading “Spoiler alert: Arizona sees Territorial Cup meeting with ASU as a potential culture builder”
By Aidan Hansen
Cronkite News
MESA – Early on a November morning, Kyle Quiroz, chemical operations specialist and crew leader for Salt River Project (SRP), led 14 employees into a cold canal holding a giant fence-like structure. Workers dragged the fence across the bottom of the canal to corral around 100 white amur fish, also known as grass carp.
“You’ve got a lot of guys in the canal moving the fish, and then you’ve got the crew up top, so it’s a real big team effort and requires a lot of communication between the groundwater group, the construction group and everyone else,” Quiroz said.
Continue reading “SRP employees band together to clean 10 miles of Salt River canal system”
By Hayden Larkin
Cronkite News
PHOENIX – Mesa Community Court is collaborating with Mesa Community College to refer some of the city’s unhoused people to enroll in the school, giving them access to a multitude of services to assist their reintegration.
In addition to education at MCC, they can access the Mesa Market to buy food and hygiene products and get counseling services, among others. The goal of the court, which began in 2018, is to prevent the cycle of homelessness within the justice system. Working with MCC is just one new service added.
By Emery Davis
Cronkite News
LOS ANGELES – With the holiday season rapidly approaching, many are preparing for feasts, gift giving, activities and festive decoration. But how do first responders on duty during this time celebrate, cope and give back?
Andrew Dowd, public information officer for Ventura County Fire Department, said because the firehouse is like a second home to many firefighters, the holiday season is a time for those on duty to celebrate like one big family.
Por Nicollette Valenzuela
Cronkite Noticias
PHOENIX – Para Beatriz Topete, de 58 años, el cáncer ha sido parte de su vida desde temprana edad. Cuando apenas era una niña, Topete perdió a su madre a causa de la leucemia. Catorce años después, su media hermana, de 3 años, fue diagnosticada con tumor de Wilms, un tipo de cáncer que afecta a los riñones. La niña sobrevivió.
Here is your Cronkite News lineup for Wednesday, Nov. 27.
If not linked below, stories promised for today, along with photos and links to multimedia elements, will post to our client site at cronkitenews.jmc.asu.edu/clients.
Continue reading “Cronkite News Digest for Wednesday, Nov. 27”
By Mia Osmonbekov
Cronkite News
WASHINGTON – Arizona is one of 25 states that offer in-state tuition to undocumented students.
Under a policy blueprint crafted by allies of President-elect Donald Trump, that in-state tuition policy could mean an end to federal student loans for 67,000 undergraduates just in Arizona – most of them American citizens.
By Doyal D’angelo
Cronkite News
PHOENIX – Sports gambling operators are using artificial intelligence to track and limit problem gambling exposure for their users, but the introduction of this technology and the use of personal data also raises questions about whether it could be used for the wrong reasons.
The sports gambling world is still largely unregulated, relying mostly on self-governance, which raises the possibility of a conflict of interest when it comes to responsible gambling.
Access to bettors’ data, behavior and habits opens the door to the potential for predatory behavior by sports-gambling operators. Continue reading “As sportsbooks implement AI to drive growth, identify problem gamblers, door opens to potential predatory behavior”
By Fletcher Anderson
Cronkite News
PHOENIX – Arizona State is fresh off one of the hottest weekends a school can have.
The football team continued its miraculous run in their opening year in the Big 12, beating No. 14 BYU 28-23 before a packed house at Mountain America Stadium, making good on coach Kenny Dillingham’s promise to “activate the Valley.”
He might have activated the rest of the athletic program in the process. Continue reading “ASU hockey’s stunning sweep of No. 1 Denver suggests ‘Activating the Valley’ extends beyond football”
By Aya Abdeen
Cronkite News
PHOENIX – The Big 12 Conference slapped Arizona State with a $25,000 fine Monday for failing to keep fans from storming the field Saturday at Mountain America Stadium with a second remaining in a chaotic 28-23 victory over BYU Saturday.
The Sun Devils might have gotten off cheap.
The SEC imposed a combined total of $300,000 on the Oklahoma Sooners and Auburn Tigers because of similar celebrations following their upset wins Saturday. Continue reading “Bill comes due: ASU football fined $25,000 for failing to keep fans from storming field during BYU victory”
By Macy Markham
Cronkite News
WASHINGTON – Sales of birth control and emergency contraception – morning-after pills like Plan B and Restart – have spiked since President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, despite his assurances he won’t try to roll back access.
Clinics have seen a jump in inquiries about long-acting birth control methods such as IUDs, or intrauterine devices, from women worried they wouldn’t be able to end an unplanned pregnancy in coming years.
By Aaron Stigile
Cronkite News
PHOENIX – Love letters are typically sent in February, and they’re usually sweet. But, for Pinal County Recorder Dana Lewis, what she called “love letters” were sent to her office ahead of this election cycle and did not have lovely intonations.
She said her office would receive them through responses to notices the recorder is required to send out by law.
By Samantha Bell
Cronkite News
WASHINGTON — Arizona educators worry that President-elect Donald Trump will follow through on a campaign promise to eliminate the Department of Education, with damaging effects on the state’s public schools.
“We will drain the government education swamp and stop the abuse of your taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s youth with all sorts of things that you don’t want to have our youth hearing,” Trump said at a Wisconsin rally in September.
By Patrick Holleron
Cronkite News
TEMPE – The lasting image of Arizona State’s exhilarating` victory over No.14 Brigham Young might be the thousands of fans streaming onto the field at Mountain America Stadium to celebrate one of the biggest wins in the school’s history.
However, it was ASU coach Kenny Dillingham’s late-game clock management that remained the hot topic in the wake of the victory. Dillingham tried to bleed the final seconds off the clock with quarterback Sam Leavitt running backward on a couple of plays, then sailing a pass high into the air and out of bounds as the clock appeared to expire.
That started a premature celebration. Continue reading “‘It worked horribly’: ASU’s Kenny Dillingham takes accountability on late-game chaos vs. BYU”
By Brenden Paul
Cronkite News
PHOENIX – Like many sports fans, Alex Kane struggled to understand the traditional moneyline odds system placed by sports bookmakers on events.
So he helped launch a new sportsbook modeled after a stock-trading platform that uses probability to simplify wagering.
“I never understood the odds,” said Kane, chief executive officer of Sporttrade, the Philadelphia-based sportsbook operation. “I built this whole thing because I wanted to create more of a Robinhood-type of experience, where you can just turn on the game, see the win probability, buy in at that win probability, and as the probability changes you can either make or lose money. And you can cash out at a fair market price at any point.” Continue reading “Sporttrade expands reach to Arizona with innovative stock market-style sportsbook”
By Lizeth Adriana Calderon
Cronkite News
PHOENIX – Practicing kickflips and boardslides on a skateboard can be about navigating difficult emotions and can be especially helpful for those coming from communities where mental health is stigmatized.
The activity builds a sense of belonging and reduces stress. Hispanics and Latinos face more barriers in access to and the quality of mental health care, National Alliance on Mental Illness reports.
People manage stress and anxiety in many non-medical ways, like getting fresh air or spending time with loved ones. One of the most effective stress relievers is exercise. As a physically demanding activity, skateboarding not only improves strength and coordination but mental health.
Continue reading “Landing new tricks and navigating difficult emotions on a skateboard”
