Lottery tickets from 2 Valley gas stations hit big wins, including $315,000 jackpot
PHOENIX – Lottery tickets purchased at two metro Phoenix gas stations delivered big wins in drawings on Tuesday, March 3. The biggest of the payouts was a $315,000 Triple Twist jackpot. That ticket came from the QuikTrip at Val Vista Drive and Main Street in Mesa and matched all six winning numbers: 11, 14, 17, 19,...
Feds Swarm North Phoenix Apartment, Find 23 Migrants In Smuggling Probe
Federal immigration agents executed search warrants at a north Phoenix apartment on March 2 and found 23 people inside as part of an ongoing human smuggling investigation, according to authorities. The operation brought a heavy law enforcement presence to the residential block and left neighbors on edge. According to...
Phoenix attorney says VA could still get their way on disability assessment
PHOENIX — The Department of Veterans Affairs quietly tried to change how it rates disabled veterans, basing benefits on how well their medications work instead of how bad their conditions really are. Public outrage forced the agency to rescind that rule, and many vets think the danger is over,...
Twin Luxury Towers Crash Scottsdale Fashion Square’s Quiet Corner
Anyone cruising past Scottsdale Fashion Square lately has seen it: cranes swinging, concrete pouring and a once‑empty corner of Old Town finally waking up. That long‑vacant lot at the north end of the district is turning into Hazel and Azure, a pair of luxury apartment buildings from national developer ZOM Living....
Suspect arrested in shooting death of Globe teen
A suspect was taken into custody at a Mesa home in connection to the New Year's shooting death of a Globe teen, officials announced on Wednesday.
One of Phoenix’s new speed cameras was vandalized
A newly deployed speed monitoring camera was battered and pushed over Tuesday, less than two weeks after it was installed. The vandalized camera was one of 17 placed throughout Phoenix in late February, as part of a city safety campaign that aims to alter driver behavior and supplement police traffic enforcement.
‘Impassible’ Loop 303 to get fast-tracked improvements because of TSMC
It wasn't so long ago that a driver on Loop 303 would see only desert as far as the eye could see and only occasionally pass another car. Just 10 years after the freeway opened in north Phoenix and Peoria, traffic engineers are predicting the road could be impassable by 2040 ― if not sooner ― thanks to an explosion...
Tempe’s long‑awaited 104‑unit affordable housing project finally opens
PHOENIX — La Victoria Commons, Tempe’s newest affordable housing apartment community, is now open. The project was 20 years in the making after the city purchased the land on the northeast corner of Apache Boulevard and Price Road in 2006. Mesa-based nonprofit Copa Health developed 104 affordable apartments...
Suspect arrested in deadly New Year’s Day shooting of Globe teen
GLOBE, AZ — A suspect in the shooting death of a Globe teenager on New Year's Day has been arrested. The Gila County Sheriff's Office announced DeShawn Tarango was taken into custody on Tuesday by the U.S. Marshals Task Force at a home in Mesa. Last month, an arrest...
Man used slingshot to target ex-wife at Scottsdale luxury condo complex, police say
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - A Valley man has been arrested after being accused of stalking his ex-wife and causing nearly $100,000 in property damage. Jaime Rodriguez, 44, is facing four counts of stalking and four counts of endangerment. Officers believe Rodriguez may have used a slingshot to break 20 windows at a...

















