Tempe AZ

Christopher Scholtes was listed as 'deceased by the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office on Wednesday, the same day he was to report to prison.

Brandy Baker watched the familiar tableau as other homeless people like herself lined up outside the Phoenix Key Campus downtown. A group huddled around a speaker as rap music blared. People walking down the sidewalk stepped over others using the cracked pavement as a bed. Baker has been living on...

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...

In a probable cause document from police, it stated his BAC was .287, more than three times the legal limit. Records say officers also saw two open single-serve bottles of alcohol in the car.

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.

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...

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...