Despite distracted-driving law, Arizona still ranks low on highway safety
By Joshua Gerard Gargiulo | Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020
WASHINGTON - Arizona enacted a ban on texting while driving last year, after 10 years of trying, but it still wasn't enough to pull the state from the bottom of a national report card on traffic safety laws.
As state looks to redistricting after 2020, painful lessons from 2010
By Matt Vasilogambros | Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020
TUCSON - Arizona is one of 18 states where independent panels, instead of lawmakers, draw congressional and legislative lines, but the last redistricting devolved into fights, threats and legal battles that show how high the stakes can be and how hard it is to keep deeply divisive politics out of it.
Do uniforms play a role in college football recruiting?
By Evan Desai | Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020
LOS ANGELES – In the age of social media, an endless array of football uniform styles and combinations can dazzle during recruitment of top athletes.
As Dabo Swinney predicted, Clemson completes successful decade, wins Fiesta Bowl
By Nathan Hiatt | Monday, Dec. 30, 2019
GLENDALE – As Dabo Swinney predicted, Clemson has dominated college football or a decade and landed right where the coach believed: with another chance to play for the College Football National Championship game.
A sack, a review, a targeting call: Momentum shift helps Clemson move past Ohio State in Fiesta Bowl
By Brady Vernon | Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019
GLENDALE – Ohio State head coach Ryan Day shouted a thundering “no,” toward the referee. Restrained by another Ohio State staffer, Day soon saw his team’s strong start to the College Football Playoff semifinal evaporate after the game’s most monumental call.
NCAA ‘football factory’ is based on brotherhood
By Evan Desai | Monday, Dec. 23, 2019
BELLFLOWER, Calif. – St. John Bosco football head coach Jason Negro has turned the California program into a national powerhouse, where NCAA talent is produced consistently.
Groups say new federal law gives leg up in fight against animal cruelty
By Amy-Xiaoshi DePaola | Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019
WASHINGTON - Arizona ranks high on the list of "most humane states," but officials and animal advocates are still welcoming a new federal law they said will let them fight animal cruelty that crosses state lines.
What’s up with David Johnson? Cardinals’ running back seeing little action in ’19
By Jacob Rosenfarb | Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019
TEMPE - Inside the strange benching of Arizona Cardinals running back David Johnson and what could be next for the star player.
Falling foot traffic across border worries businesses, state officials
By Miranda Cyr | Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019
NOGALES, Ariz. - Business owners in Nogales worry that long wait times at the border are driving down the number of pedestrians who cross to shop in Arizona, a drop that state officials worry could be felt throughout Arizona's economy if crossing times don't improve.
He was a robber, she sold drugs; only one can get help with school
By Amy-Xiaoshi DePaola | Friday, Nov. 1, 2019
WASHINGTON - The American Opportunity Tax Credit lets people, including former inmates, claim a credit for college education expenses - unless they were convicted of a drug crime. Lawmakers are trying to lift that ban, saying someone jailed for drugs should not be denied benefits a murder can get.
‘I feel good’: Despite tough loss, Cardinals’ Kyler Murray says he feels better than ever
By Jacob Rosenfarb | Monday, Oct. 28, 2019
TEMPE – Despite a tough loss to New Orleans, Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray says he feels better than ever and is ready for Thursday's meeting with the San Francisco 49ers.
New Fry’s grocery store ends food desert for downtown Phoenix
By Madison LaBerge | Monday, Oct. 21, 2019
PHOENIX - A new Fry’s Food and Drug will open in downtown Phoenix on Wednesday, the first grocery store in an urban area dotted with new businesses and housing.