State slammed for delay of hazmat crash info; How Phoenix parishioners celebrated Ash Wednesday; Must-see music this weekend

A look at some of today’s top stories, the weather forecast and a peek back in history.

Last week, a truck carrying nitric acid crashed south of Tucson, killing the driver and releasing an orange-colored gas plume. Now, Pima County is slamming a state agency for delayed release of emergency information.

Phoenix parishioners observed Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, a season dedicated to ‘living for others’.

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Here’s your list of the must-see music in metro Phoenix this weekend. Green Day is at Innings Fest 2023 and more

Today, you can expect it to be cloudy, with a high near 59 degrees. Mostly cloudy at night, with a low near 45 degrees. Get the full forecast here.

On this date in 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt signed an agreement with Cuba to lease the area around Guantanamo Bay to the United States.

In 1942, the first shelling of the U.S. mainland during World War II occurred as a Japanese submarine fired on an oil refinery near Santa Barbara, California, causing little damage.

In 1954, the first mass inoculation of schoolchildren against polio using the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh as some 5,000 students were vaccinated.

In 2007, a Mississippi grand jury refused to bring any new charges in the 1955 slaying of Emmett Till, the Black teenager who was beaten and shot after being accused of whistling at a white woman, declining to indict the woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham, for manslaughter.

In 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was fatally shot on a residential Georgia street; a white father and son had armed themselves and pursued him after seeing him running through their neighborhood. (Greg and Travis McMichael and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan were convicted of murder, aggravated assault and other charges and were sentenced to life in prison.)

This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: State slammed for delay of hazmat crash info; How Phoenix parishioners celebrated Ash Wednesday; Must-see music this weekend

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State slammed for delay of hazmat crash info; How Phoenix parishioners celebrated Ash Wednesday; Must-see music this weekend

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