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MESA, Ariz. — A woman was found dead in the backseat of her car in Mesa, the city's police department said. Officers found her with a gunshot wound. Mesa police officers responded to a welfare check at a house near Ellsworth and Baseline Roads in Mesa, where they found 82-year-old Linda Baran dead in the backseat of...

Phoenix police are on the hunt for a suspect following an April 20 armed robbery at a central Phoenix Walgreens, with law enforcement officials appealing to the public for assistance. The incident, which occurred near the intersection of 19th Avenue and Bethany Home Road, involved a man described as white, in his...

Phoenix police released body camera footage of a fist fight that turned into a shooting between an officer and a man who was later shot in the leg. On May 25, Officer Michael Ugalde-Flores pulled over Sam Perone during a traffic stop near Cactus Road and 25th Street. Ugalde-Flores witnessed Perone driving below the...

Light rail in the Valley entered a new era over the weekend when the first train traversed the system's south Phoenix expansion. The big picture: A 5.5-mile extension that runs south along Central Avenue from downtown Phoenix opened Saturday. The extension has eight stations, with Central and Baseline Road marking...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A group of neighbors in north central Phoenix has formed a coalition called the North Central Homeowners Coalition to try and stop a firearms business from operating inside a home. It’s near Central Avenue, just north of Glendale Avenue along the Murphy Bridle Path. “We...

PHOENIX — Valley Metro’s South Central Extension/Downtown Hub light rail expansion opened in Phoenix on Saturday. The South Central Extension added 5.5 miles of rail that connects south Phoenix to Valley Metro Rail’s new two-line system. The rail addition ends at Baseline Road and Central Avenue. Meanwhile,...

QUEEN CREEK, AZ (AZFamily) — A simple act of kindness that brightened a Queen Creek family’s day is being noticed by thousands of people after security video was shared on social media. On Friday, Holly Witherby was surprised when her 21-year-old son, Chase, walked into their home with...

PHOENIX — Court was a lot calmer on Monday as Lori Vallow Daybell's latest murder conspiracy case continued Monday morning on day three of testimony. This is the so-called "Doomsday Mom's" third trial in as many years. In this case, Vallow Daybell is facing a murder conspiracy charge out of Gilbert for allegedly...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Five people, including a child, were killed in a wrong-way crash on a freeway in northern Arizona over the weekend. Troopers say a suspected drunk driver hit another car head-on. That driver was headed north in the southbound lanes on U.S. 93 early Saturday morning. Ryan...

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