Phoenix AZ

PHOENIX - Brandy Baker watched the familiar tableau as  homeless people like herself lined up outside the Phoenix Key Campus downtown. A group huddled around a speaker as rap music

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...

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...

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...

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...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — An Arizona man at the center of a high-profile case for his young daughter’s death in a hot car last summer died in Phoenix on Wednesday morning, authorities confirmed. Christopher Ryan Scholtes, 38, was found dead around 5 a.m. in a home near 7th Street...

Violent crime in the Valley is trending down for the first half of the year, according to Arizona's Department of Public Safety's reporting site.

Oftentimes, Native American communities lack re-entry support after incarceration. Some Arizona organizations are aiming to fill this gap. The Scottsdale Recovery Center offers a program to help Native Americans suffering from substance abuse disorders. A Place For Hannah is a nonprofit that serves women during their...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A man is facing multiple felony charges after police say he unknowingly kidnapped a toddler while stealing a truck in Phoenix on Sunday. Around 11 a.m., police responded to the area of 67th Avenue and Roosevelt Street after a caller told 911 someone stole a truck with a 3-year-old child inside.

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Valley celebrity chef Anthony Milan Ross has been found guilty of killing his wife and children on Christmas Day in 2017. On Monday, a Maricopa County jury found Ross guilty on all three counts of first-degree murder in the murder of his estranged wife, Iris, and his two children, 11-year-old...