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the terrible on the field this season. and their battle with the county over renovations at chase field... isn't going so well either. again. team 12's bryan west is live from chase field.. with our top story.. bryan? feud on the field...crying foul...the city is saying you're out.. according to the arizona republic county officials have rejected the team's request for the 65 million dollars for upgrades to chase field.the money would go towards a new scoreboard, painting and renovations - the
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responsibility of the dbacks to pay for this. and it continues to get heated. in april, the county supervisor, andy kunasek, sent a letter to the president of the d-backs, derrick hall, saying there has been a false narrative told. kunasek writes in part, "i suggest you focus on your job, which should be the development of a successful product a winning team, which will improve the fan experience and in turn, will increase ticket sales and reignite a desire for people to attend and watch professional basebally in ar letter saying kunasek verbally assaulted him and tom harris - the executive vice president and cfo - in the dback offices. hall writes kunasek said quote if it were up to me, take it all and go to expletive west virginia or whatever... among other statements. the arizona republic also found out that kunasek will not run for re-election this year and he told them he probably shouldn't have said a
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news. disturbing new information in this morning's hot headlines. the maricopa county sheriff's office now says a three year old boy murderd in youngtown over the weekend... was killed by his 16 year old brother.the held as a juvenile. a nine-year-old was also hurt --but will survive. the university of arizona - and chandler high school - are mourning the loss of one of their own this morning. 22-year-old zach hemmila was an offensive lineman for the wildcats football team.he passed away in his sleep over the weekend.hemmila was also a football star at chandler high school. a killer is on the run after a deadly shooting at a seven-eleven in phoenix. police released surveillance pictures of the armed robber that held-up the store near
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it's a dream come true for some people -- free chicken wings for a year! team 12's nico santos is live in tempe.. with the details.. nico? the newest tilted kilt opens its doors today at 11 a-mut here's why you may see people in line ?way? before that free chicken wings for a year from the first 50 people in line this morning.check out footage from other locations in the valleypartic pretty popular for watch parties for soccer and such. the new location 16-17 west warner road.it's on the southwest corner of warner and priest.the new location is 11- thousand square-feet with about a dozen 70-to-80 inch flat screen t-v's! you've still got time to head on down.if you miss the free wingsthey're celebrating all week with specials every day.in tempe. nico santos12 today nico santosin tempe.specials every celebrating they're celebrating specials every in
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but the 'rocky horror picture show' is about to make a comeback.fox - is bringing back the cult classic and is about to be a made for t-v movie.laverne cox - will play the role of dr. fank - n- furter... made famous by tim curry.one of the original producers of the movie said plans for a remake drew a serious backlash from long time fans - but they have curry's blessing... and some fans have forgiven them for attempting the new movie. drake!he apparently really....really loves rihanna. the canadian loves rihanna.the canadian singer - recently told the crowd at madison square garden during his concert there over the weekned... that he's got love for rihanna. she and drake have been on again - off again for a while now... but only recently have they been... a thing.they're both busy with their own tours...but drake has managed to appear in rihanna's tour... and... she's made a return cameo in his
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now time for your juicy question of the morning... question of the morning... surveys show that out 30% of people choose to do this at home.... while 70% percent choose to do this somewhere else?those who do it at home... often say its about principle.those who do it somewhere else... often say it's about else... often it somewhere those who do principle.often say its it at home... those who do else? those who do it at home... often say it those who do it somewhere else... often say it's about convenience.what is this?final
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???adlib the second juicy question of the day.four out of ten people admit they have yelled or screamed out for help... after this happened.and it can happen almost anywhere.... home, work, the mall... you name it.what is this? next time your teenager wants more time on the video games... you probably should let them
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this is where the united states stands.. as far as medal count goes. we've got a total of 19 medals.. five of which are gold. china is in second place with 13 medals.. followed by japan with 10. the women's beach volleyball team of kerri walsh-jennings and april ross continue to dominate as well.they easily beach china yesterday in two straight sets.this was walsh- jennings 23rd straight olympic match win.the duo take on the swiss tomorrow. n-b- trautwig is apoligizing to her this morning.he's apologizing for suggesting that simone's parents through adoption are not really her parents. simone's biological grandparents adopted her when she was two, because her mom was dealing with drug problems. simone says she has called them her parents ever since. however, on sunday, trautwig tweeted quote "they may be mom and dad but they are not her parents."
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fired started trending online, he later deleted the tweet and says he regrets the error. ?? ad lib ?? events. first at noon -- the women's gymnastics final takes place.. and team u-s-a is favored to win. then in the evening.. katie ledecky and missy franklin will compete in the 200 meter freestyle final. and the most anticipated event of the day -- michael phelps and ryan lochte will jump in the pool for the 200 meter butterfly final. that's at 6 o'clock. and don't worry -- because if you miss an event.. we've got everything you need to know on 12-news-dot-com.
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?? ad lib ?? playing online video games could actually boost a teenager's grades. but using using social media may actually lower them. researchers in australia tested 15-year-olds in a variety of academic subjects. students who frequently play online games have above average scores in math and science. but teens who use facebook or stapchat every day than those who don't use social media. experts say while many video games help develop problem solving skills, social media tends to
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u-s stocks coming off a slightly down day. the s-and-p 500 slipping by a tenth of a percent to close at 2180, after hitting an all-time high during yesterday's trading. the dow closed down by about a tenth of percent to 18,529. the nasdaq fell by eight points to close at 5,213. meanwhile, crude oil jumped ny nearly three percent to close
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attorneys for former fox news chairman roger ailes agreeing to keep the sexual harrassment case brought against him in new jersey, instead of moving it to a federal court in new york. that tops our look at some of the hot headlines on this tuesday morning... the lawsuit, which as filed last month by former fox anchor gretchen carlson, accuses ailes of asking her for sex and says he terminated her contract after she refused his advances. ailes, who resigned last month, denies the allegations. cancelled or delayed yesterday, you can now receive a refund or travel voucher. the airline says a computer outage lead them to halt more than 3-thousand flights. delta's challenge this morning, will be to find enough seats on planes to accommodate the tens of thousands of passengers whose flights were scrubbed. the smithsonian is getting a huge check thanks to nba legend michael jordan. jordan is donating five- million dollars to the smithsonian's new african- american history museum.
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the museum will name a section of its sports gallery after jordan. the museum is set to open next month. tim tebow may have finally given up on being an ?nfl quarterback.but he hasn't given up on being a pro athlete.several reports out there this morning... say tebow is considering starting a career as a professional baseball player.as a junior in high school... tebo hit 494 ... had four homeruns... and got the attention of scouts. the angels were interested at the time.tebow didn't football. we're heading to rio...and 12 news' vanessa ruiz...live with this morning's olympic headlines...that's at six.... krystle - listen up...the nysnc boys are back together. and they're kicking it old school style in the morning
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delta. how many flights they cancelled today. the diamondbacks go head to head with the county over the contract. we have rain in the forecast. i'll let you know when storms are right now. just heartbreaking. u.s. men's gymnastics team tumbles in the wrong way in rio. we get reaction live from the city in . omg. the internet is popping over an n'sync reunion. you guys, it finally happened. if you could only see when that video played. it is priceless.
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