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PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Valley students showed out to support community members in need — and that’s Something Good. Students at Xavier College Preparatory, a Phoenix school that usually has a dress code, can wear more comfortable clothing for a small donation to benefit St. Vincent de Paul.

Sometimes the universe doesn’t waste time teaching lessons. What started as a sunny Arizona drive turned into a horrifying mess of screeching tires, flying metal, and instant regret. This was all thanks to one woman’s explosive temper behind the wheel. In a split second, her rage literally flipped her world upside...

An airplane used for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation efforts was hit by a stray bullet last week during a shootout between Mesa police officers and a suspect at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. ICE officials said the stray bullet didn’t impact the aircraft’s ability to fly, and it isn’t clear who...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — An active crime scene is unfolding after a teen boy was shot in south Phoenix late Wednesday morning. Police officers were called to the shooting around 11 a.m. in a neighborhood near 12th Street and Southern Avenue. Officers say a teen boy shot was shot at least once, and he was rushed to the...

PEORIA, AZ (AZFamily) — A wrong-way driver was stopped overnight Wednesday in Peoria by a trooper who used his vehicle to make the stop. Details are still limited. Just after midnight, the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) said it received several calls about a wrong-way vehicle on the Loop 303.

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...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A teenage girl was hospitalized after a shooting at an apartment complex in north Phoenix on Tuesday morning. Just after 8:15 a.m., first responders were dispatched to the Saratoga Ridge Apartments near 16th Street and Bell Road for reports of a shooting. When officers arrived, they...

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.