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PHOENIX — Federal authorities announced sentences on Wednesday for convictions in three Arizona drug cases. A 33-year-old Avondale man, Ramon Renteria, was sentenced on Jan. 15 to 64 months in prison after pleading guilty to possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, according to the United States...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Police have made an arrest more than six years after a shooting left an 18-year-old dead in west Phoenix. Phoenix police said Thursday that Kevin Ramirez, 21, was booked into jail in connection with the death of 18-year-old Ethan Derivera. Jail records revealed he faces one...

After a twelve-year run, institutional investor Heitman has cashed out of the Biltmore at Camelback in Phoenix, selling the 270-unit community to Principal Financial Group for $97.3 million. The four-story complex, finished in 2013 and picked up by Heitman in 2014, becomes the latest big-ticket multifamily trade in...

PHOENIX — Avondale police have released new photographs in an effort to find anyone in Gila County who may know something about the disappearance of Isabella Comas. A Turquoise Alert was issued last month after Comas, 21, failed to pick up a friend for work. Her 2011 Hyundai Sonata was found abandoned in Phoenix on...

A downtown Phoenix brunch spot has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It’s the latest curveball in the turbulent history of Breakfast Bitch, a restaurant that’s served eggs and French toast with an upbeat party vibe on Roosevelt Row since 2022. The bankruptcy filing for BB Restaurant Group,...

PHOENIX — A Mexican man was recently sentenced to over a year in prison for smuggling undocumented migrants and assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent in early 2025, authorities said. Efrain Pacheco-Ovalles, 30, worked as a scout for a transnational criminal organization in January and February of last year,...

After 15 months behind construction tape, U.S. Egg in Tempe is flipping pancakes again. The Mill Towne Center mainstay has reopened its dining room and patio after a rebuilding marathon that followed an October 2024 fire. Regulars will find the familiar breakfast-and-lunch lineup back in play, and many staffers who...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — One Department of Public Safety trooper was shot and two others were hurt following a shooting in central Phoenix Thursday evening, sources tell Arizona’s Family. It happened just after 7 p.m. at the A & F Trailer and RV park near 24th Avenue and Indian...

The man whose lifeless body was pulled from Tempe Town Lake has been identified by authorities. The body of James Carson, 24, was retrieved by divers from the lake Feb. 2, according to the Tempe Police Department, which identified him two days later. Police said they did not have a reason as to why Carson entered...

Jason Barry takes a look the Valley restaurants that did not make the grade for Feb. 4, 2026, in this week's Dirty Dining report.