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PHOENIX — A man who tried to murder a caseworker with the Department of Child Safety in Mesa last year has been sentenced to 17.5 years in prison, authorities announced Friday. Deandre Johnson strangled the victim in November in the lobby of a Mesa building where DCS has offices,...

A Valley woman died over the Labor Day Weekend after falling off a cliff along the Mogollon Rim. The Coconino County Sheriff's Office says the 29-year-old was camping with friends close to the edge of the rim near Forest Lakes east of Payson Saturday. Deputies learned that she walked away...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Police say a motorcyclist is dead after a crash in north Phoenix on Friday morning. Phoenix police were called out around 11:30 a.m. to the area of 64th Street and Thunderbird Road on reports of a motorcycle crash. When officers arrived, they found the motorcyclist, identified...

PHOENIX — Phoenix police need help identifying the person who violently assaulted a woman, sending her to a hospital in critical condition. The sexual assault took place in the early morning hours of Aug. 14 near 44th and Oak streets and resulted in a woman sustaining severe injuries. She was taken to the hospital...

The teenage boy accused of fatally stabbing a classmate in a Maryvale High School classroom last month will remain in a jail facility managed by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office for at least the rest of September. Chris Aguilar, 16, stood next to his attorney, Vernon Lorenz, on the morning of Sept. 4, wearing an...

A crash involving four vehicles on north I-17 near Daisy Mountain Drive left one person dead on Friday morning.

PHOENIX – Traffic on Interstate 17 in north Phoenix was backed up Friday morning due to a law enforcement investigation, authorities said. Northbound I-17 was closed at Daisy Mountain Drive in Anthem as of around 11 a.m., according to the Arizona Department of Transportation. The southbound lanes remained open.

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A hiker was flown to safety after she became overheated on a popular mountain trail in east Phoenix. Around 10:15 a.m., technical rescue teams from the Phoenix Fire Department responded to the Echo Canyon Trailhead at Camelback Mountain for reports of a hiker in distress. Crews made their way up...

A Christmas getaway to the desert started out with food and fun for a Texas family last year but took a sharp turn when one of their children nearly died in their vacation home’s backyard pool. “I can’t think of anything more scary or more traumatic,” the mother told...

PHOENIX - Phoenix police are looking for additional information in a sexual assault investigation involving a woman who was found with significant injuries. A woman, only described as being in her mid-30s, was found seriously injured in an alley in the early morning hours of Aug. 14. Around 4 a.m.,...