1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (141+ words) A 23-year-old Phoenix man, Adonijah Josiah Ortega, has been sentenced to 171 months in prison for a 2022 carjacking during which Ortega shot and assaulted a man with a firearm. Ortega previously pleaded guilty to Carjacking and Discharge of a Firearm During…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (520+ words) A coalition of election integrity groups filed an amicus brief in support of plaintiffs in RNC v. Mi Familia Vota, with the groups urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the state of Arizona’s voter citizenship verification and overturn a Ninth Circuit…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (149+ words) PHOENIX – A 32-year-old man, Trey Waters, has been sentenced to 65 years in prison for a string of violent armed robberies in Phoenix in which two people were shot. Both victims survived. According to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, on April…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (214+ words) PHOENIX – Two jaywalkers were killed on Phoenix roadways two days in a row. According to the Phoenix Police Department, on September 5th, 2026, at approximately 4:00 a.m., Phoenix Police and Phoenix Fire responded to reports of a vehicle-pedestrian collision near 33rd Drive and Deer…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (126+ words) On Tuesday, attorneys for Arizona State Treasurer Kimberly Yee, who is currently a candidate for Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction, filed a formal complaint with Attorney General Kris Mayes, requesting an investigation into Teresa Leyba Ruiz for allegedly using public…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (174+ words) The Phoenix Police Department is asking for the public’s help in an investigation of two early‑morning burglaries that occurred on August 12 and August 26, 2026. According to the Phoenix Police Department, on August 12th, unknown suspects entered a cemetery near 2000 North 48th Street…...

2+ week, 22+ hour ago   (268+ words) PHOENIX – The leader of a group of sicarios (cartel hitmen), Jorge Adan Garcia Martinez, was sentenced on in August to 130 months in prison after pleading guilty to Aiding and Abetting the Receipt of Firearms for Use in a Drug Trafficking…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (593+ words) On the day of Congressman Raul Grijalva’s passing last March, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes sent $8,704 to a now-terminated political action committee run by one of Arizona’s biggest dark-money handlers. Fontes sent the funds through Strong Democracy Foundation, his nonprofit,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (719+ words) City Journal ran a recent story about the Sixth Street Bridge in Los Angeles being covered in graffiti, having its copper wiring stolen, and generally falling into disrepair. Why should you care? Because you paid for part of it, even…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (174+ words) A 24-year-old woman, Grace Marie Vicente, was arrested Thursday night for allegedly stealing an ambulance and driving it while impaired and crashing. According to the Phoenix Police Department, on August 27, 2026, at approximately 11:00 p.m., Vicente entered the driver’s seat of a Phoenix…...