Arizona

TL/DR - Chloe McKendry, a 9th grader at Horizon High School in Phoenix, Arizona, has become the first girl to play on the freshman baseball team. McKendry, who has been playing baseball since she was seven, said she earned her spot on the team through hard work and is treated like any other player. Despite some teasing from players on other…

TL/DR - Phoenix police are investigating a shooting that resulted from an argument, leaving one man, 39-year-old Prince Lackey, dead and another man, 29-year-old Pedro Vazquez, in custody. Security video footage verified accounts of Vazquez arguing with Lackey and pulling a weapon from his waistband; Lackey was subsequently shot and Vazquez was…

TL/DR - The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that the state should follow an extremely restrictive abortion law dating back to the 1860s, which outlaws abortions except in cases where the pregnant person's life is at risk. The law, which makes no exceptions for cases of rape or incest, carries a prison sentence of two to five years for those who…

TL/DR - Amina Tollin, a patient with a chronic nerve condition, polyneuropathy, had her life-saving blood infusion therapy stopped by Medicaid after it stopped covering the $18,000 monthly costs. This was due to an increasingly common process among insurers known as prior authorization, which requires doctors to get approval before insurers pay…