http://verdenews.com en-us Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:16:01 GMT Daily feed of articles. No commercial use of these feed links is permitted without the written permission of the publisher. http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46127 "It's clearly a really good day,' said Nicholas Ray, executive director of Equality Arizona. Latest News Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:11:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46123 COTTONWOOD -- In Cottonwood, the celebration of the Arizona's 100th birthday kicked off early with a visit by Marshall Trimble last weekend, but there is more to come. Latest News Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:36:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46122 Boysen has served as the MUHS athletic director for 12 years Latest News Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:33:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46121 Do you remember New Year's Day 2011? In case you forgot, it was cold. Cottonwood set an all-time record low temperature for the date when the temperature dropped to -3 degrees Fahrenheit. Latest News Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:32:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46119 COTTONWOOD -- Cottonwood police were called to investigate a reported burglary at Ace Shuttle service on the 500 block of Airpark Road in Cottonwood Saturday. Latest News Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:30:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46120 COTTONWOOD - The Verde Historical Society and the Clemenceau Heritage Museum will present the 15th annual Arts and Crafts American Style Fair from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11. Latest News Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:30:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46117 CAMP VERDE -- Just after 2 a.m. Sunday, 53-year-old Isidro Valdez-Pizano was arrested and transported to the Yavapai County Detention Facility. He is charged with aggravated DUI, DUI w/ BAC over .15 percent  (.249 percent), driving on a revoked license, taking the identity of another. Latest News Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:29:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46118 COTTONWOOD -- Tavasci Elementary School on Del Rio Drive in Verde Village was vandalized this weekend. Latest News Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:29:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46116 SEDONA -- A woman from the Colorado Springs area was killed Friday afternoon on Interstate-17. She was driving south at MP 301, near the Interstate-17 runaway truck ramp, when she drove off the roadway and the vehicle rolled multiple times. Latest News Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:28:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46115 COTTONWOOD -- A kitchen fire burned in a unit of the Earl Apartments on 16th Street Thursday afternoon. Latest News Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:26:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46085 In spite of having a cash cow in the form of a gambling casino, the county's economic woes are being felt on the Yavapai-Apache Reservation. Latest News Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:56:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46108 PHOENIX -- A judge has slapped down efforts by lawmakers to help balance the budget by forcing more than 200,000 state, university and school employees to pay a larger share of pension contributions. Latest News Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:42:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46109 PHOENIX -- The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Monday to allow guns onto college campuses. That 5-3 vote came after Sen. Steve Yarbrough, R-Chandler, sided with Democrats in opposition. Yarbrough said he was not convinced that limiting the right to those with a state-issued permit to carry a concealed weapon provides sufficient safeguards. But the other Republicans on the GOP-dominated panel said all they were doing is affirming the constitutional right of individuals to protect themselves. Latest News Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:42:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46107 PHOENIX -- State lawmakers are moving once again to try to repeal public funds for candidates. Latest News Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:41:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46106 PHOENIX -- Doctors and hospitals do not have the same limits on expert testimony on their behalf as do those who are suing them for malpractice, the Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled. Latest News Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:40:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46104 PHOENIX -- Arizona voters could get to decide this year if they want to throw a roadblock in their own path. Latest News Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:39:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46105 PHOENIX -- The state House unanimously approved legislation Monday to require parents to report their missing children despite bipartisan concerns that all it will do is cause problems for unwary adults. Latest News Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:39:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46086 A Prescott Valley man, who involved three police agencies in a chase and shooting incident Jan. 27, is now in the Yavapai County jail held on 14 charges. Latest News Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:08:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46087 "This is the best turnout of a ribbon-cutting that I have ever seen," remarked Mayor Diane Joens Friday in the comments for the Grand Opening of the Paw Boutique, the thrift store for the Adopt For Life Center for Animals. Joens continued, "The turnout shows the large support for Cottonwood's shelter." Paw Boutique store manager, Linda Nuss managed the giant scissors to cut the ribbon and open the thrift store, now located in the bottom of the old Cottonwood Recreation Center at 791 N. Main St. in Old Town. Latest News Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:12:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46084 U.S. Geological Survey scientists responded Thursday to a list of Prescott-area complaints about the USGS computer model of the Big Chino groundwater system. Latest News Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:01:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46083 Utilities Director Wayne Debrosky gave the Town Council an update Tuesday afternoon on the status of the decommissioned Desert Oasis wastewater treatment plant in Surprise being refurbished and reconstructed in Clarkdale. Latest News Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:37:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46082 Jerry Pfingston, a student at Yavapai College 's Agribusiness & Science Technology Center, said 80 percent of what he's learning at the Chino Valley campus is hands-on work with plants and fish in the greenhouse and aquaculture area. Latest News Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46081 The Yavapai Superior Court welcomes public comment on four finalists for the Judge Pro Tem position. The vacancy is created by the resignation of Judge Pro Tem Warren R. Darrow on Feb. 10. Latest News Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:28:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46080 Yavapai County Recorder, Leslie M. Hoffman, would like to inform the public that the Voter Registration Department began mailing out early ballot packets on Feb. 2 to Permanent Early Voters. Latest News Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:27:00 GMT http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=46079 Arizona will get its last legal shot this spring to finally enforce all of its 2-year-old immigration law. Latest News Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:49:00 GMT