Feb. 19, 2021
Lupe and Saul Solis, who were recently inoculated, relax in their Chandler home on Feb. 17. Seniors make up more than half of the people in the state who have received at least the first vaccine dose. (Photo by Kiersten Moss/Cronkite News)
Lupe Solis, left, and her sisters hope that once they receive the COVID-19 vaccine, they’ll be able to reunite for the first time in a year, like in this photo from before the pandemic. (Photo courtesy of Lupe Solis)
Lupe Solis’ prayers were answered when she received her second dose of COVID-19 vaccine recently at the State Farm Stadium mass vaccination site in Glendale. Now the 77-year-old is being cautious and patient, waiting to worship in person again at St. Timothy Catholic Church in Mesa.
Never pay debts with gift cards, new Arizona consumer program warns
Feb. 10, 2021
Bashas’, near Hayden and Indian School roads in Scottsdale, is one of nearly 1,000 grocery and convenience stores across the state that will display these signs warning of gift card fraud. (Photo by Kiersten Moss/Cronkite News)
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich says the government will never ask you to send a gift card or wire cash to pay a debt. (Photo by Kiersten Moss/Cronkite News)
Since January 2019, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office has received more than 230 complaints about gift card scams. It has teamed with the Arizona Food Marketing Alliance to get out the word. (Photo by Kiersten Moss/Cronkite News)