Month: August 2019

PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police say an officer fatally shot a man who fired first at the officer after earlier ramming an occupied unmarked police vehicle during a pursuit. According to police, 51-year-old Rene Enrique Ruiz was shot Friday as detectives tried to take him into custody in a homicide investigation. Police say Ruiz rammed

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico agency has rejected an Arizona-based organization’s application for a planned Albuquerque shelter for immigrant children in the country illegally. The Albuquerque Journal reports that a New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department official told Tucson-based VisionQuest in a letter Wednesday that it failed to accurately describe why Pennsylvania

PHOENIX (AP) — The executive director of the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools is resigning in the wake of his May 20 arrest on felony DUI charges. News outlets reported that Charles Tack resigned effective Oct. 4. The 32-year-old Tack previously pleaded not guilty to the DUI charges alleging he drove the wrong way

ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — An Arizona man has been charged with murder and tampering with evidence in the brutal 2017 killing of his wife, a longtime educator in Roswell, New Mexico. The Roswell Daily Record reported Friday that 58-year-old Castulo Michael Aragon now lives in Gilbert, Arizona, but was in Minnesota when charged in an

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s patchwork system for preventing and investigating abuse of vulnerable adults is being scrutinized following the discovery that an incapacitated patient at a health care facility gave birth last December after being raped. The Arizona Capitol Times reports that a legislative advisory group of lawmakers, representatives of state agencies and advocacy groups

PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. government on Friday took another major step to end a settlement agreement governing the length of time and conditions in which it can detain immigrant children. Government attorneys have filed a notice requesting that a federal judge dissolve what’s widely known as the Flores settlement agreement. First signed in 1997,

PHOENIX (AP) — The Latest on a longstanding settlement agreement that governs the detainment of immigrant children (all times local): 9 p.m. The U.S. government has taken a major step to end a decades-old agreement governing the conditions and length of time in which immigrant children can be held. Government attorneys filed a notice of

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Dior has produced a fragrance called Sauvage since the mid-1960s and used Johnny Depp in recent years to promote it. But a new advertising campaign that paired them with Native American imagery deepened wounds among a population whose ancestors were called savages and systematically killed. The French luxury goods company posted

PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials in central Arizona say they seized nearly 200 pills laced with the dangerous drug fentanyl in a month-long fraud investigation. The Yavapai County Sheriff’s office said Thursday the pills and other drugs were seized from a home in the Rimrock community following the Aug. 23 arrest of 26-year-old Lance

PHOENIX (AP) — Police say they’ve arrested a suspect who’s accused of fatally stabbing a Phoenix man more than 80 times. They say 36-year-old Vamba Mamadee Donzo was taken into custody in Tucson. He’s facing charges of second-degree homicide and theft plus aggravated assault on a police officer. Donzo is accused of killing 47-year-old Christopher

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A judge has ruled that New Mexico’s medical marijuana program is open to people from outside the state who qualify based on a medical condition. The final ruling Thursday by Judge Bryan Biedscheid responds to a petition by two Texas residents and the Arizona-based CEO of the largest chain of

PHOENIX (AP) — A Tonopah teenager who pleaded guilty to helping her boyfriend kill her father in 2017 has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Jocelyn Norton was sentenced Thursday after entering a plea agreement in the case earlier this month and pleading guilty to second-degree murder. The 17-year-old Norton was charged as an

PHOENIX (AP) — A husband and wife being transported across the country to face murder charges used a medical emergency ruse and then overpowered two security guards, tied them up and left them and a third uninvolved prisoner outside a rural Arizona town, authorities said Thursday. David Gonzales, the U.S. marshal for Arizona, told The