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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Prison closure leaves Florence residents uncertain about town’s future

February 26, 2020

By Priya Jandu/Arizona Sonora News Florence, Arizona, is known for a few things: the annual County Thunder music festival, a few  triathlons, an annual motorcycle run and, most notably, the prison...

Copper Queen mine in Bisbee, Ariz. on Monday Sept. 11, 2017. The Copper Queen mine served as a foundation to the town of Bisbee in the early 1900s. (Photographed by Leah Gilchrist/ Arizona Sonora News)

Arizona looks to make a penny on copper industry

Leah Gilchrist September 27, 2017

Copper's value is on the rise, and equipped with new mining technology, Arizona has a promising future in producing the nation’s copper. The value of copper hit $3.20 in mid 2014, before taking...

Photo taken from True West Magazine

Top 10 Western Towns: Not Tombstone

Cassidy Blumenthal April 6, 2017

Yet again, Tombstone failed to make the list of  Top 10 of True Western Towns. True West Magazine released the 11th annual ranking of Western towns for 2016 for how each town preserves its Old...

El grupo operativo de TPD encargado de capturar a la pandilla de Dillinger. Frank Eyman está en medio de la foto. (Foto obtenida a través de la investigación de Mike Anderson)

Arizona’s toughest captured Dillinger from right field

Sergio Calderon March 10, 2017

Let us remember Frank Eyman, considered to be one of the toughest individuals to ever put on a badge. The former Bisbee baseball player and long-time Arizona lawman is most known for his capturing...

John Philip Clum.

“This newest Mecca of the hopeful”: The fingerprints of John P. Clum’s legacy

Carson Suggs April 28, 2016

He was the only man to put Geronimo in chains. He gave witness to the most famous gunfight in the West. He was one of the most prominent publishers in Arizona. To some of his contemporaries,...

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