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Suspect's dislike for drugs, homelessness may have led to shootings that killed 4 in metro Phoenix
PHOENIX (AP) — A man's anger over drug abuse drove him to fatally shoot four men and wound a woman in a 12-hour crime spree in metro Phoenix, authorities said. Iren Byers, 20, was taken into custody Sunday on suspicion of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of...
Phoenix becomes largest US city to successfully challenge 2020 census numbers
Phoenix has become the largest U.S. city to successfully challenge its population count from the 2020 census after claiming that dozens of group homes, jails and drug and alcohol treatment centers were overlooked during the nation’s head count. The U.S. Census Bureau told Phoenix...
Phoenix area counts 4 heat-related deaths so far this year, 425 last year
PHOENIX (AP) — As summer starts, Maricopa County officials say there have already been four heat-related deaths this year. Maricopa County Department of Public Health issued a heat report this week, which the agency will compile every week between now and October while...
Members of polygamous group arraigned in court on child sex abuse charges
PHOENIX (AP) — Members of a small polygamous group accused of child sex abuse of underage girls whom the group’s leader claimed as brides were arraigned in federal court on Friday. Sam Bateman and the three women followers, who are each represented by different attorneys, entered...
Arizona Department of Public Safety trooper shot, wounded
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona Department of Public Safety trooper was shot Thursday in north Phoenix and has been hospitalized, authorities said. The trooper was struck by gunfire north of the Loop 101 freeway around 12:45 p.m. Thursday, according to the Department of Public Safety. He...
Former Arizona television journalist announces bid for Schweikert’s US House seat
PHOENIX (AP) — A former Phoenix television journalist announced her candidacy Wednesday for the congressional seat currently held by seven-term Republican Rep. David Schweikert. Marlene Galen Woods joins at least four other candidates in the Democratic primary race in Arizona’s...
Do not call: States sue telecom company over billions of robocalls
PHOENIX (AP) — Attorneys general across the U.S. joined in a lawsuit against a telecommunications company accused of making more than 7.5 billion robocalls to people on the national Do Not Call Registry. The 141-page lawsuit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Phoenix...
US Border Patrol says agents who killed man in Arizona were answering report of gunfire
PHOENIX (AP) — U.S. Border Patrol agents answering reports of gunfire fatally shot a man on a tribal reservation in southern Arizona after he abruptly threw something and raised his arm, the agency said in its first detailed accounting of last week's shooting near the U.S.-Mexico boundary. ...
Not guilty plea entered for ex-convict accused of killing woman on Phoenix trail
PHOENIX (AP) — An ex-convict accused of killing a woman who was attacked from behind and stabbed 15 times on a Phoenix desert trail could be facing a trial in January, authorities said Tuesday. An attorney for Zion William Teasley, 22, entered a not guilty plea on his client’s...
Taxpayers will wind up paying over quarter billion dollars in Joe Arpaio's racial profiling case
PHOENIX (AP) — Taxpayers in metro Phoenix are approaching a milestone in their financial pain from a 2013 racial profiling verdict over former Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration crackdowns: In roughly a year, those ongoing costs will exceed a quarter of a billion dollars. The bill...
