Phoenix AZ

PHOENIX — A man died after his motorcycle struck a large wooden utility pole in Phoenix on Monday night, authorities said. The Phoenix Police Department identified the motorcycle rider as 36-year-old Marvin Roy Logons III. Police responded to the crash near Orangewood and 23rd avenues around 10:30 p.m. Preliminary...

Police Seen in Wild Arrest Video Cuffing Two Suspects in Arizona

PHOENIX — Twenty people were arrested on immigration violations as part of an ongoing human smuggling investigation in the Valley, authorities say. Special agents with ICE Homeland Security Investigations and US Border Patrol executed two federal criminal search warrants on two "locations" in north Phoenix on March 2...

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 — 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,...

Arizona is hiding sandwich greatness in plain sight — and it’s about time you tasted it. Forget sad desk lunches and soggy bread. Across the state, from sunbaked desert cities to cool mountain towns, delis are stacking meats high, slathering on house-made spreads, and pressing perfection between slices of crusty bread.

PHOENIX (CN) — Former Grand Canyon University students who claim they were deceived into completing “useless” degree programs lack standing to request compensation for already-forgiven federal student loans, but may be entitled to other forms of relief, a federal judge ruled. Representing an undefined number of...

PHOENIX, Arizona — Sunland STEAM Academy, an elementary school in south Phoenix, was on lockdown on Wednesday after a student reported a weapon on campus, according to a representative from the Roosevelt School District. Wednesday morning, staff contacted Phoenix police after a student reported that another student...

A Haitian man in ICE custody at the Florence Correctional Complex died in a hospital in Scottsdale on Monday. The family of 56-year-old Emmanuel Damas said federal agents neglected his care. Damas’ younger brother, Presly Nelson, says he was picked up by ICE after Boston police arrested him on domestic...

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...