Phoenix AZ

After announcing arrests and convictions for years, a former TV news anchor is headed to prison. On Nov. 21, a federal judge sentenced Stephanie Hockridge to a decade in prison and $63 million in restitution for defrauding a federal program and intended recipients. According to a Scottsdale company’s website,...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Phoenix, AZ – The National Weather Service in Phoenix has issued a Freeze Warning for higher-elevation communities east of the metro area, in effect from 12 AM to 9 AM Thursday. The warning includes...

PHOENIX - A series of armed carjackings involved seven victims, including children, shots fired, and armed robberies all within one hour, according to Phoenix Police and court records. First Reported Incident:. At around 1:30 p.m. on Dec. 1, Gila River Police responded to a kidnapping where shots were fired....

PHOENIX — It seems like more coyote sightings have been reported on neighborhood social media apps over the past few weeks. So, it’s a good time for a reminder about the dangers they can pose to people and their pets. “You see them all the time,” Robert Clement,...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — The Phoenix police officer accused of speeding at over double the speed limit, causing a crash that left two people hurt has entered his plea. Joshua Allen Woodcock appeared before Judge Ashley Rahaman during Wednesday’s court hearing. Woodcock pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated assault...

PHOENIX — A Valley man has been arrested after allegedly killing his girlfriend in late November, authorities announced. On Monday, 64-year-old Virgil Lee Lindsey was booked into the Fourth Avenue Jail on charges including second-degree murder related to the death of 66-year-old Lilly Jean Fields, according to the...

Firefighters extinguished a blaze at a commercial building overnight near I-17 and Van Buren Street. Gibby Parra has a look at their efforts at 4:30 a.m.

PHOENIX — A tentative list released by the Phoenix Union High School District shows which jobs may be cut in the next school year to account for declining enrollment. The district's governing board will hold a meeting on Dec. 4 and review a list of job positions to eliminate due to budget constraints. The list...

Just halfway through his first school year there, former South Bend schools superintendent Todd Cummings is in the process of being fired by a school district in Phoenix. The Paradise Valley Unified School District board had placed Cummings on paid leave Sept. 30 to investigate matters around his hiring in March and...

PHOENIX -- As the sun began to peak over the horizon, the roosters tested out their newly developed crows, signaling the new day to come to everyone on the Key Campus.  But inside the