Month: May 2019

A 66-year-old Phoenix man is accused of shooting and critically wounding his 29-year-old son in the chest during an argument after the son allegedly kicked the father’s dogs. Carl Myrick was arrested Monday on suspicion of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and discharging a firearm within city limits. A probable-cause statement says a witness

A corrections officer at a prison west of Phoenix with ongoing cell door lock issues has been stabbed in the chest by an inmate. Department of Corrections spokesman Andrew Wilder says the officer attacked Wednesday was conscious and his injuries apparently weren’t life-threatening. The attack appears unrelated to the door lock issues. The attack happened

The Yuma Police Department responded to shots fired around 10:15 p.m. Monday night. Officers were on scene investigating in a neighborhood located near 11th Avenue and 21st Street. Witnesses who live nearby claimed they heard about five gunshots. “[I] feel a little insecure. I know a lady who lives here in the building that has

The nation’s most productive agricultural state moved Wednesday to ban a controversial pesticide widely used to control a range of insects but blamed for harming brain development in babies. The move cheered by environmentalists would outlaw chlorpyrifos after scientists deemed it a toxic air contaminant and discovered it to be more dangerous than previously thought.

A man was sentenced by The U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins on Monday, May 6, to 90 years in prison for production and distribution of child pornography. According to U.S. Attorney’s Office, Phillip Daniel Love, a 34-year-old man from Tucson, was arrested in July 2017 after an investigation revealed that he used a file-sharing

Senator McSally gives her thoughts on the opioid crisis wreaking havoc in Arizona. The opioid crisis hits close to home for too many Arizonans. Since 2017, 20,432 Arizonans suffered from an opioid overdose and countless are suffering from destructive addiction today. During my 15-county listening tour I took in my first 90 days as a

Budget talks continued at Tuesday night’s Yuma city council special worksession, including the annexation of Mesa Del Sol and a potential property tax increase. Jay Simonton, the interim city administrator, led the discussion about the annexations the former city administrator expressed in previous budget meetings could have been added into the budget once the fiscal

A stepfather’s account of how a 4-year-old Houston girl was abducted “changed multiple times,” and detectives with one of the investigating police departments believe the story “did not add up,” a police spokesman says. Texas police have been looking for Maleah Davis since the weekend, after her stepfather, Darion Vence reported that strangers knocked him

A judge who ordered a default judgment against R. Kelly after the singer failed to respond to a lawsuit filed by one of his alleged victims now says the suit can proceed. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Cook County Judge Moira Johnson on Wednesday reinstated the lawsuit after Kelly’s attorneys said the singer never responded

Officials in southern Arizona have accepted a $1.8 million grant supporting cooperation between local law enforcement and federal agents on security efforts along the U.S.-Mexico border. Pima County supervisors voted 3-2 Tuesday to accept the Operation Stonegarden funding after rejecting it last year. The supervisors added conditions to the federal dollars, stipulating that $200,000 must

Walmart said Wednesday that it will raise the minimum age for tobacco products and e-cigarettes to 21 in an effort to combat tobacco sales to minors. The world’s largest retailer says the new rules will take effect in July, and will also include its Sam’s Club warehouse stores. Previously, its minimum purchase age was 18,

The Pentagon says it has suspended its efforts to arrange negotiations with North Korea on recovering additional remains of U.S. service members killed during the Korean War. In a statement on Wednesday, the Pentagon’s Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency said it has had no communication with North Korean authorities since the Hanoi summit between President Donald

Meghan and Harry have named their first child Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor. The name is believed to have little precedent within the modern British royal family. The couple shared the news on Instagram with an image of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh meeting their newest great-grandchild.

Lawmakers in Arizona have become the latest to declare pornography a public health crisis. A resolution that gained final approval from the state Legislature this week states that pornography “perpetuates a sexually toxic environment that damages all areas of our society.” The measure, which carries no legal weight, was introduced by Republican Rep. Michelle Udall

A new poll released early Tuesday shows former Vice President Joe Biden leading President Trump by 5 points in Arizona. The poll comes from the OH Predictive Insights. The poll found 49 percent support Biden compared to 44 percent for Trump. Seven percent remain undecided. If this becomes a reality, Trump could be the first

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, unveiled Tuesday what they call a “parents’ agenda,” including proposals to end the sales tax on tampons and diapers and to use revenue from legal marijuana sales to expand child care programs. “The governor and I are proud parents of four young children and these

The world “selfie” has been officially added to the Oxford Online Dictionary and selfies and selfie-takers are popping up everywhere. Influencers, Instagram models, and celebrities flood social media feeds with their selfies. This prompted All Home Connections to see which states are most selfie-obsessed. All Home Connections tracked Twitter data by using the #selfie in

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has unveiled a new version of her plan to combat America’s opioid epidemic, proposing to spend $100 billion over 10 years on battling the public health consequences of addiction. Warren’s new opioids measure is modeled on a 1990 law passed to help fight the spread of AIDS and would be

The California Highway Patrol responded to an accident at Forrester Road at the intersection of Ross Road on Tuesday, May 7, where a vehicle crashed with a Peterbilt tractor leaving a woman with serious injuries. The 46-year-old woman, Heather Noonan from Oceanside was transported to the hospital in Palm Springs and The Peterbilt driver, 66-year-old,

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #454545} Women aren’t the only ones who like to gab, turns out, there are just as many drama kings as there are drama queens. A new study found men engage in negative gossip just as much as women do. The study comes from the University