‘Your dad should beat you’: Cops told 16-year-old boy he had ‘no rights’ and...
The family of an Arizona teenager has filed a lawsuit against the Phoenix Police Department after its officers allegedly broke his wrist and busted open his chin while telling him his dad should beat him. Attorneys representing Sergio Nino III filed a lawsuit against the agency and three of its...
Arizona Dad Who Left Toddler, 2, to Die In Boiling Hot Car Found Dead...
Christopher Scholtes was listed as 'deceased by the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office on Wednesday, the same day he was to report to prison.
3 suspects in brutal ASU attack plead not guilty
TEMPE, AZ (AZFamily) — Three suspects, including a prosecutor’s son, accused of brutally attacking a teen at Arizona State University’s Tempe campus made their first court appearance on Wednesday morning. Justin Otis, 18, Jayden Smith, 19, and Donnell Young, 18, all pleaded not guilty during their initial...
A New Roost: A Luke Air Force Base F-16’s permanent home
Irbase Arizona Flying Museum recently received an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft from Luke Air Force Base. It is now a permanent part of the museum’s impressive collection of historic war birds. It took the efforts of nearly 20 people including 4th Congressional District Representative Greg Stanton to acquire, secure...
Teen boy shot in south Phoenix neighborhood
PHOENIX (AZFamily) — An active crime scene is unfolding after a teen boy was shot in south Phoenix late Wednesday morning. Police officers were called to the shooting around 11 a.m. in a neighborhood near 12th Street and Southern Avenue. Officers say a teen boy shot was shot at least once, and he was rushed to the...
Trooper uses vehicle to stop wrong-way driver in Peoria
PEORIA, AZ (AZFamily) — A wrong-way driver was stopped overnight Wednesday in Peoria by a trooper who used his vehicle to make the stop. Details are still limited. Just after midnight, the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) said it received several calls about a wrong-way vehicle on the Loop 303.
SAFE Alert canceled after missing 70-year-old man found dead in Phoenix
PHOENIX – Authorities canceled a SAFE Alert on Monday after finding the body of a West Valley man who went missing last week. Robert Jones, 70, was last seen at a Chevron fuel center near Buckeye Road and 51st Avenue around 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 28. He had left his home near Buckeye Road and Avondale Boulevard in...
Ex-Phoenix budtender sues Story Cannabis for stealing worker tips
For about nine months in 2024, Samantha Cooley worked as a budtender at the Story Cannabis dispensary on McDowell Road near Interstate 17. In that time, she claims, the dispensary wrongfully withheld tips that customers left when making purchases. Cooley is making those claims in a federal lawsuit filed on...
Phoenix SNAP recipients can find free meals locally with new site
As the nation’s food stamps crisis continues this month, the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office is partnering with a local business organization to make sure families that rely on the program don’t go hungry. In Arizona, one in four children and one in ten adults rely on...
‘You were going too slow’: Man who felt ‘disrespected’ shot female driver who refused...
A grand jury in Arizona indicted a 20-year-old man accused of shooting a female driver in a road rage incident last month, claiming that he felt "disrespected" when she cut him off and failed to apologize. Grand jurors returned a true bill formally indicting Rudy R. Sanchez Jr. on a...

















