Anita Snow, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

“Cueball,” left, talks about his dog Lindsay with neighbor Terry Reed, right, at their tents May 20 in Phoenix.

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Hundreds of US homeless die in heat

by Anita Snow Associated PressJune 20, 2022

PHOENIX — Hundreds of blue, green and grey tents are pitched under the sun’s searing rays in downtown Phoenix, a jumble of flimsy canvas and plastic along dusty sidewalks. Here, in the hottest big city in America, thousands of homeless people swelter…

A water truck drives on a road, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, next to an Amtrak train that derailed Saturday, near Joplin, Mont., killing three people and injuring others. Federal investigators are seeking the cause of the derailment. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Answers sought in deadly Amtrak derailment

by Amy Beth Hanson Associated Press, Martha Bellisle Associated Press, and Anita Snow Associated PressSeptember 27, 2021

This aerial view taken Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021, shows part of an Amtrak train that derailed in north-central Montana Saturday that killed multiple people and left others hospitalized, officials said. The westbound Empire Builder was en route to Seattle from Chicago, with two locomotives and 10 cars, when it left the tracks about 4 p.m. Saturday. (Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette via AP)

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Feds probe deadly Amtrak derailment in Montana

by Amy Beth Hanson Associated Press, and Anita Snow Associated PressSeptember 26, 2021

Valarie Kaur, right, of the Revolutionary Love Project, hugs Harjinder Kaur Sodhi, the widow of Balbir Singh Sodhi, middle, as Balbir's brother Rana Singh Sodhi, left, looks on at a memorial service on the 20th anniversary of the murder of Balbir Singh Sodhi Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, in Mesa, Ariz. Sikh businessman Balbir Singh Sodhi was helping plant a flower bed at his Arizona gas station when he was shot dead by a man seeking to avenge 9/11. Mistaken for an Arab Muslim because of...

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Faith leaders recall Sikh’s bias killing post Sept. 11

by Anita Snow Associated PressSeptember 16, 2021

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2019, file photo, hundreds of people overflow onto the sidewalk in a line snaking around the block outside a U.S. immigration office with numerous courtrooms in San Francisco. As the new public charge rule taking effect Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, has approached, droves of immigrants including citizens and legal residents have dropped government social services they or their children may be entitled to out of fear they will be kicked out of the U.S. (AP Photo/Eric...

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Crackdown on immigrants who use public benefits takes effect

by Anita Snow Associated PressFebruary 24, 2020

FILE - In this May 13, 2019, file photo, a sign for Sonoita stands in the heart of southeastern Arizona where owners of wineries and other small tourism operations worry that the Rosemont Copper Mine proposed to be built in the nearby Santa Rita Mountains could harm their businesses with mining trucks rumbling down scenic state highway 83 that runs past the range. A federal judge on Wednesday, July 31, 2019, has overturned the U.S. Forest Service's approval of a Canadian company's planned new copper mine in southeastern Arizona. The judge ruled the agency improperly evaluated and considered water use issues associated with the Rosemont Mine planned in the Santa Rita Mountains on part of the Coronado National Forest. (AP Photo/Anita Snow, File)

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Judge blocks copper mine project in Arizona national forest

by Anita Snow Associated Press, and Paul Davenport Associated PressAugust 2, 2019

A display of the fentanyl and meth that was seized by Customs and Border Protection officers over the weekend at the Nogales Port of Entry is shown during a press conference on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, in Nogales, Ariz. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced Thursday their biggest fentanyl bust ever, saying they captured nearly 254 pounds (114 kilograms) of the deadly synthetic opioid from a secret compartment inside a load of Mexican produce heading into Arizona. (Mamta...

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Border agency touts record fentanyl bust

by Anita Snow Associated PressFebruary 1, 2019

This Oct. 17 photo provided by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office shows a rescue team lowering themselves into an old abandoned mine shaft to rescue a man who fell into the shaft on Monday, Oct. 15, near Aguila, Ariz.

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Man rescued from Arizona mine lucky to survive fall, snakes

by Anita Snow Associated PressOctober 19, 2018

In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a U.S. Border Patrol agent watches as people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, stand in line at a facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17, 2018. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP)

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Recording of crying children at border adds to outrage

by Nomaan Merchant Associated Press, and Anita Snow Associated PressJune 18, 2018

Nine-month-old Jesus Alberto Lopez stands with his mother, Perla Murillo, as they wait with other families to request political asylum in the United States, across the border in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday. The family, from the Mexican state of Michoacan, has waited for about a week in this Mexican border city, hoping for a chance to escape widespread drug violence at home.

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Immigrants fleeing gang violence ready to take a chance on US asylum

by Elliot Spagat Associated Press, and Anita Snow Associated PressJune 17, 2018