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TweetPinShareATF, DPS, Mesa and Phoenix Police evacuated several Mesa homes during ordinance disposal Contributed Article MESA – On August 28, an Arizona Department of Public Safety (AZDPS) task force including …
Mesa man in possession of numerous explosive devices arrested by authorities Read More
TweetPinShareJon Johnson Photo/Gila Herald: Safford Vice Mayor Richard Ortega holds the door for volunteers bringing election ballots to the Graham County Election department at the General Services Building to be …
Election results are in! Read More
TweetPinShareContributed Photo/Courtesy DPS: The DPS Ranger 1 helicopter performed its highest altitude hoist to date when it rescued a SAR member in the Chiricahua Mountain Range on Aug. 6. Staff …
Sometimes the rescuers need rescued too: DPS performs high-altitude rescue of SAR member in Chiricahua Mountain Range Read More
TweetPinShareContributed Photo/Courtesy DPS: A DPS trooper located 47 pounds of heroin during a traffic stop on an SUV that was eastbound on Interstate 40 on its way to Oklahoma. Staff …
DPS seizes 47 pounds of heroin from traffic stop Read More
TweetPinShareContributed Photo/Courtesy ICE: Border Patrol agents line up a group of 128 illegal immigrants located Friday. Contributed Article AJO – Ajo Station Border Patrol agents encountered a group of 128 …
Agents encounter 128 illegal immigrants abandoned by smugglers Read More TweetPinShareCrash allegedly occurred after a night of drinking Staff Reports PHOENIX – Detectives with the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) arrested a Maricopa man on charges of two counts …
Man charged with manslaughter after allegedly hiding victims after deadly crash Read More TweetPinShareContributed Article PHOENIX – On Sunday, Aug. 19, at about 6:54 a.m., Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers received a call regarding an unknown problem on southbound SR 101 …
DPS detectives investigate woman’s death along SR 101 near Bell Road Read More
TweetPinSharePhoto By Ellen O’Brien/Cronkite News: Thomas Suggs is one of about two dozen clients of the I-HELP program run by nonprofit AZCEND in Chandler. The program is an alternative to …
Church ‘campout’: Faith community provides food, shelter for homeless in Chandler Read More
TweetPinShareContributed Photo/Courtesy Navajo Tribal Authority: The Kayenta Solar project created as many as 284 construction jobs as it was being built, in an area with chronically high unemployment. It opened …
Tribally owned solar power plant beats skeptics, odds on Navajo Nation Read More TweetPinShareState detective equipped with opioid overdose emergency treatment Narcan revived unconscious man Contributed Article Douglas – An Arizona Department of Public Safety (AZDPS) detective used Narcan to revive a man that …
AZDPS detective saves life of drug overdose victim Read More