Supersize me: ASU’s new video board looks to enhance fan experience
TEMPE— Watching replays used to be a struggle for students seated in the south end zone of Sun Devil Stadium.
Drowned: The road to recovery
PHOENIX — Firefighters have experienced it all. Blazing house fires. Fatal heart attacks. Toxic gas leaks. Crews are dispatched to a scene, follow the basic protocols and return home to the station for dinner, relatively unscathed. But in Arizona, there’s one call that makes even the toughest first-responders anxious: Drowning involving a child.
Surge of community events aims to quell undocumented immigrants’ fears, teach legal rights
PHOENIX - Children kept themselves busy with coloring books and chased each other with masks in the corner of the cafeteria at Isaac Middle School, but school had long since ended and adults soon came over to keep them quiet.
Teachers, families rally at state Capitol to ask for more education funding
PHOENIX – Students, teachers and parents were among those that crowded around the Arizona state Capitol building Monday to ask the state Legislature to give public education more funding.
Navajo hope to digitally preserve thousands of hours of oral history
WASHINGTON - Jolyana Begay-Kroupa still remembers waiting for the seasons to change when she was a child so she could hear the winter stories her Navajo grandparents would tell.
Phoenix schools combat truancy
PHOENIX – The building next to Starlight Park Elementary School looks like it belongs there. The fence in front boasts a colorful sign declaring it's proud to be a drug-free school, the water fountains are inviting low enough for the children running around the playground.
Officials: Grand Canyon University businesses may revitalize Phoenix neighborhood
PHOENIX – Grand Canyon University has launched a new program to provide students with business experience outside of the classroom.
Nearly 12,000 child abuse and maltreatment cases in Arizona have languished for 60 days or more without action or resolution
The Arizona Department of Child Safety has failed to resolve nearly 12,000 cases of alleged abuse or neglect that have been open for at least 60 days without an investigation or services being provided to a potential victim, according to a Cronkite News review of the state’s most recent numbers.
Bill would allow concealed weapons on Arizona’s public universities
TEMPE — House Bill 2072 would allow people with permits to carry concealed weapons on Arizona public universities college campuses.
Making the robo-call: Panel asks how ‘human’ we want robots to be
WASHINGTON - Arizona State University Professor Lance Gharavi says his work with robots in the School of Earth and Space Exploration is aimed at moving toward "robot autonomy."
Advocates: Expanding prisoner program would reduce recidivism
Michelle Lacy, who served 7.5 years in a state prison for drug charges, has managed to do what she says many of her friends from her time in prison weren’t able to do: start over.
