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Retired Phoenix police officer catches rare albino rattlesnake in Gold Canyon

Phil Roberts has relocated more than 85 rattlesnakes in the past year. Experts say a white snake he recently caught may be a tyrosinase-positive albino — and she's pregnant.
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Brush fire near Fountain Hills temporarily closes SR 87

A new brush fire led to a partial closure of a state highway east of the Valley. It’s estimated at approximately two acres, and crews from the U.S. Forest Service and the Fort McDowell Fire Department responded.
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Inmate gets stuck trying to escape Phoenix hospital

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A female inmate tried to escape Wednesday at a Phoenix hospital with a traditional ruse, but it didn’t go the way she planned. It happened at the Valleywise Health Medical Center at 24th and Roosevelt streets. The woman asked to use the restroom and tried...
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85-year-old Phoenix man gets 9 years for killing son-in-law ‘to protect his wife’

PHOENIX - An 85-year-old Phoenix man was sentenced Wednesday to nine years in prison for the fatal shooting of his son-in-law during a domestic dispute last summer. Robert Angelo Feola received a shorter prison sentence than typical on July 1 after pleading guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter and domestic violen
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Couple aims to open a bar for women’s sports

As women's sports continue to attract larger audiences, a Scottsdale couple hopes to bring a new kind of sports bar to Old Town Scottsdale – one where women's athletics aren't competing for airtime. Kristen and Anthony Carli have launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund Her Court, a planned...
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Phoenix asks federal judge to toss fired officer Dusten Mullen’s lawsuit

PHOENIX - The City of Phoenix is asking for a federal judge to toss a lawsuit filed by ex-officer Dusten Mullen, who showed up to an anti-ICE student protest armed and masked, while off-duty. The backstory:. We have reported on the controversy surrounding Mullen in recent months. The controversy stems...
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Scottsdale pool company Sun State Pools has license revoked, leaving customers with unfinished projects

SCOTTSDALE, AZ — Sun State Pools, a Scottsdale-based pool company, has had its contractor's license revoked, leaving customers with unfinished projects after paying thousands of dollars. The Arizona Registrar of Contractors says it has received 85 complaints from homeowners and subcontractors against Sun State Pools si
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Ingram Micro Pulls Plug On Chandler Plant, 75 Local Jobs Axed

Ingram Micro Services is shutting down its Chandler manufacturing facility by the end of the year, a move that will wipe out roughly 75 local jobs and thin out the city’s industrial corridor a bit more. The company disclosed the closure in a WARN notice filed last Wednesday, describing it as part of a broader effort to
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Afghan man living in Phoenix sentenced for illegal firearm possession

A man from Afghanistan who has unlawfully lived in Phoenix for years was sentenced to almost two years in prison, authorities announced Monday. A judge sentenced 30-year-old Syed Haider Najib to 22 months in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona. Prosecutors said the...
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Scottsdale man gets 24 years in prison, ordered to pay $93M in fraud case

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (AZFamily) — A Scottsdale man was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison after a jury found he helped run a years-long investment fraud scheme that cost investors tens of millions of dollars. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado said Michael Shawn Stewart, 63,...

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