Casa Grande Dispatch

FLORENCE — The Pinal County Board of Supervisors approved a new job description for county attorney investigators that deletes “arrest and control techniques” from the list of skills and abilities required for the job. The action comes about three months after the board's outside legal counsel advised it to review the job description in light of a judge's ruling.

CASA GRANDE — Republican candidate for Arizona governor and 5th Congressional District U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs brought his campaign to Casa Grande Saturday afternoon, accompanied by his lieutenant governor running mate Sine Kerr.

CASA GRANDE — A Phoenix man was arrested earlier this month after allegedly assaulting a minor while robbing him, at one point brandishing a knife and goading the child into fighting him. kAms6C6< |4s@?2=5[ cf[ H2D 2CC6DE65 @? pF8] `` 27E6C 2 4@?7C@?E2E:@? H:E9 2 =@42= `d\J62C\@=5 3@J H9@ H2D H2:E:?8 @FED:56 2 7C:6?5VD 2A2CE>6?E :?

CASA GRANDE — To the thousands of Pinal County children who delight when a new book arrives in the mail each month, the memory of Dolly Parton will live on. The recent death of the music icon has put a spotlight on the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, which benefits kids age 5 and younger, sending them 12 new books each year.

CASA GRANDE — With the academic year underway, new Casa Grande Union High School Principal Frank Armenta told PinalCentral that stepping onto the Trekell Road campus felt a little like entering a “Candy Land” with the school’s strong culture, traditions and student involvement making an immediate impression during his first few weeks on the job. kAmpC>6?E2[ H9@ @77:4:2==J 3682? 9:D ?6H C@=6 :?

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CASA GRANDE — Casa Grande was battered by a powerful monsoon storm Sunday night that brought torrential rain and wild wind gusts approaching 60 mph and blowing dust. Gusts were so strong that parts of the roof of the old downtown high school auditorium were torn off. Pieces of the roof and other debris lined empty spaces around the Florence Boulevard building on Monday.

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CASA GRANDE — As debate continues nationally over the use of Flock cameras and privacy concerns surrounding the technology, Casa Grande Police Chief Mark McCrory has told PinalCentral his department remains solidly behind the city’s Safe City Initiative, saying the technology has well exceeded expectations in helping police solve crimes, locate suspects and improve emergency responses.