Dec. 20, 2008
Yavapai County Sheriff Steve Waugh said that he was going to ask the Board of Supervisors to close the county jail on Gurley Street in order to save the jail district $2.4 million.
Dec. 20, 2004
Time magazine chose George Bush as Person of the Year "for sharpening the debate until the choices bled, for reframing reality to match his design, for gambling his fortunes - and ours - on his faith in the power of leadership."
Dec. 20, 1999
NATO soldiers arrested Stanislav Galic, 56, a Bosnian Serb army commander who led the siege of Sarajevo during the 1992-1995 war, and charged him with "crimes of war and crimes against humanity."
Dec. 20, 1984
Columbia Pictures Television announced it was suspending "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer" television series after a London court sentenced him to prison on cocaine charges.
Dec. 20, 1959
"The body of an 84-year-old Wickenburg man, missing since Sunday, was found late yesterday afternoon in an old mine shaft. The Sheriff's office reported the body of James Tripplet was found near Morristown, just across the line in Yavapai County, by Pat Sayer of Skull Valley."
Dec. 20, 1934
"Colonel Richard G. Shaw, mining engineer, frontiersman and editor of the historic Tombstone Epitaph during the two-gun days of the '80s, died today. He would have been 81 Christmas Eve."
Dec. 20, 1909
"Official notice reached Prescott Mayor Goldwater yesterday from the War Department at Washington, in approval of the purity of the water that comes from the Thorbecke springs on Banning creek, and authorized the city to supply Fort Whipple on the contract."
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