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The Pendergast Elementary School District Governing Board voted unanimously on June 1 to authorize the district to conduct a bond election for $53.5 million that will not increase taxpayers’ tax
Finding solutions: School bus drivers deliver meals to students in Pendergast District
The Pendergast Elementary School District has been serving thousands of meals to students throughout the pandemic.
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PHOENIX â Itâs second nature now, but one year ago, Jimmy Anderson never imagined heâd be loading up his school bus with food.
âBut Iâm glad that we are,â Anderson said. âBecause the kids that we have they depend on that, they need that.â
Once the boxes are stored inside, itâs off to the neighborhoods where nearly every meal is hand-delivered.
âI have five stops,â Anderson said. âWe service 150 kids on this route.â
In two decades as a Maricopa County prosecuting attorney, Gina Godbehere has seen some grisly crime scenes. Though her main function is to prove guilt in court, she takes a boots-on-the-ground approach, arriving at murder scenes as police are still identifying witnesses and investigators taking photos of those who were living just minutes before.
Godbehere investigates dozens of homicides each year and has seen it all - shootings, stabbings, horrific car wrecks.
What she saw five years ago at Independence High School in Glendale buckled her knees: Two 15-year-olds were dead, after a murder-suicide.
When she arrived at the campus the morning of Feb. 12, 2016, police officers were putting up crime scene tape and helicopters flying overhead.