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The Valley has lost one of its culinary luminaries. This past weekend, legendary Italian chef/restaurateur Tomaso Maggiore died after a long battle with lung cancer. He was 73 years old.  Maggiore immigrated to the United States from Sicily as a young man and worked his way up the restaurant ranks in New York City before moving west. He and his wife, Patricia, opened Tomaso’s Italian Restaurant in the Camelback Corridor in September 1977. Their children, Joey and Melissa, grew up in the industry and joined their parents in running a...

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On Wednesday, January 6 – the same day extremist supporters of President Donald Trump rioted and overtook the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. as lawmakers attempted to count the electoral college votes from the 2020 presidential election – a group of several hundred Trump loyalists watched a live stream of the action on a jumbo screen outside the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix. Following a peaceful morning in which the mild 60-degree weather lent an...