Dunlap Avenue reopened this morning, after being closed for 12 hours following a serious accident involving a Phoenix fire truck. The truck was near I-17 and Dunlap, en route to a fire, with lights flashing and sirens blaring, when a car heading north on the frontage road plowed into it…
The Arizona Diamondbacks fell 2-9 to the Washington Nationals yesterday. The game marked the Nationals’ eighth consecutive victory and a three-game sweep against the Diamondbacks. The Diamondbacks open a three-game series at home against the New York Mets tonight…Arizona’s bald eagle population grew by record numbers this year, partly because…
The federal government has awarded a $54 million grant to Arizona for the expansion and creation of charter schools. The state plans to open up to 92 new campuses…The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints plans to build two temples in the Valley, one in Phoenix and one in…
Anybody willing to walk 97 miles through metro Phoenix in August has either a loose screw or a damn good reason.The walkers are members of Right to Marry: Arizona, an organization that seeks equal marriage rights for gays and lesbians. The plan is to walk about 15 miles a day for seven…
Fire crews battling a blaze at the Covenant of Grace Christian Fellowship Church at the corner of 9th Avenue and Peoria Avenue found the body of a 46-year-old man in a church trash can early this morning. The body was so badly burned that, at first, police couldn’t determine if the…
A north Phoenix church has reached an agreement with city officials that will allow the church to continue serving meals to the homeless, after neighbors in the area complained about homeless people littering. The city’s researching whether or not the church is violating a zone ordinance…Many Valley high schools are…
Border Patrol agents seized nearly 1200 pounds of marijuana from a truck near Yuma. Agents say they spotted the vehicle using night vision equipment, and used deflation devices to cripple the truck’s tires. The driver and passenger fled on foot, leaving behind their haul, which has an estimated street value…
Citing the recession and financial hardships, officials for the Heard Museum West location in Surprise announced today that the museum will close by the end of the year. Like the other Heard Museum locations in Phoenix and Scottsdale, the Heard Museum West housed Native American exhibits and artifacts. It opened…
Arizona’s three state universities will receive a boost next week, as the federal government begins dishing out $154 million in stimulus funds. The universities permanently reduced their budgets by 20 percent this year, but university officials say the funds will still help save hundreds of jobs…A bankruptcy judge has moved…
The hundreds of millions of dollars the cities of Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa fronted for the federal portion of the Light Rail Transit Project will soon be almost completely repaid, thanks to a $90 million reimbursement from the federal government. The $587.2 million bill paid by Valley taxpayers went toward…
Mama Java’s has the good fortune of being close to several other cool businesses. It’s across the street from Hazelwood’s, should patrons decide they’d like to sing karaoke and get drunk after coffee, and it’s in the same strip mall as the Book Gallery, should patrons decide they’d like to…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will celebrate the 16th anniversary of Tent City today. The planned fete includes a hot dog barbecue and an ice cream social for inmates. Arpaio says the 1,000 hot dogs and the ice cream were donated…Police arrested 48 people at a house party near 32nd…
The Arizona state government budget is once again up in the air, as legislators failed to approve a spending plan for 2010 over a late-night session last night. The Senate is scheduled to reconvene today at 1 p.m., but another vote isn’t expected to be taken…The city of Gilbert’s request…
The number of illegal immigrants in Arizona has dropped by a third in the past two years, according to a study by the Center for Immigration Studies. Arizona had the largest decline of any state, thanks in part to a tough job market and stricter immigration laws and policies…Dozens of…
Arizona legislators are considering selling the House and Senate buildings to offset financial woes. According to the plan, officials hope to sell the buildings and then lease them back over several years. Such a sale could quickly inject about $735 million into the state’s economy…Arizona’s schools have received high marks…
Agua Fria Union High School District superintendent Dudley Butts has resigned, just days after the district hired a public relations firm to handle media inquiries, and more than five months after a mercury spill at Agua Fria High that closed the school for three days…Chandler City Manager Mark Pentz’s proposal…
If you can drive just 20 feet past the Starbucks in the Basha’s Plaza on the northeast corner of Southern and McClintock in Tempe, you’ll find another gem of a coffee house in the same shopping center: Gold Bar Espresso. This cozy little corner shop touts itself as “simply the…
Police are investigating a home invasion in Peoria early this morning, in which as many as nine people were taken hostage. Police received a call about a burglary in progress just before 3 a.m., and arrived as four suspects were leaving in a truck. One suspect escaped on foot…Three employees of…
52 people will become new U.S. citizens today in a naturalization ceremony in Phoenix. The soon-to-be citizens range in age from 20 to 75, and come from countries including Lebanon, the Philipines, and Mexico. As part of the ceremony, which takes place this afternoon at Burton Barr Central Library, Valley…
To try to fill vacant homes and revitalize neighborhoods, the city of Phoenix is offering residents a $15,000 loan toward a down-payment on a foreclosed home. The stipulations are that loan recipients must live in the house and arrange their own mortgages…More than 150 Arizona soldiers from the 366th Support…
“Do you remember what you looked like before you were born?”One night, a mysterious man appears on the streets of Phoenix, asking this question and raising dozens more. Nobody knows who he is, where he comes from, why he’s here, or why he looks so peculiarly familiar. All they know…
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled that the city of Glendale must reveal records by Friday that show what incentives it’s offering to a new owner of the Phoenix Coyotes ice-hockey team. Among the potential team buyers are Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, and Daryl Jones of Research Edge…
