A tripped alarm alerted an employee, who called police. Responding officers discovered a car in the alley behind the American Fine Art gallery, with a ladder leading to the roof.

A judge has denied a Chandler woman’s appeal of the decision to terminate her rights to more than a dozen dogs seized by police. In October, the court ruled that the dogs had experienced cruel mistreatment, cruel neglect or abandonment.

The Lukeville Port of Entry is re-opening Thursday after being closed in early December. Arizona politicians called for more federal government support, and aids groups say they continue to be overwhelmed with the number of asylum seekers.

A Phoenix man has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison for a string of bank robberies in 2019. The man robbed five Valley banks over a five-month span.

Firing celebratory gunfire into the air on New Year’s Eve is against the law and could result in a felony charge. And police in at least one city have ways of tracking down where that gunfire came from.

The Queen Creek Police Department submitted charges against seven individuals in the death of an Preston Lord to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, officially announced Thursday.

Members of a special panel appointed by Gov. Katie Hobbs to look at the state prison system say they can’t do the job she asked them to do: provide and meaningful oversight of the $1.1 billion operation where about 35,000 people are locked up.

Two years after Phoenix police launched a pilot program focusing on less lethal weapons, the department has deployed them nearly 12,000 times, but used them far less.
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The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office rescued a zoo of exotic animals discovered in a home in Sierra Vista earlier this month.