Search result for Cronkite News Staff

Versatility the key for newest Rising player, Liverpool import Corey Whelan

TEMPE - Liverpool product Corey Whelan’s versatility is the main driving force behind Phoenix Rising seeking his signature

Corey Whelan

Brandon Clarke lights up NBA Summer League, takes home MVP award

LAS VEGAS – Phoenix native Brandon Clarke is already showing he may be the steal of the NBA draft

Brandon Clarke

Serious distance runners can’t stay away from Flagstaff, lure of high altitude

FLAGSTAFF - Elite endurance runners are racing to be part of Flagstaff, Arizona community

Courtney Barnes at Flagstaff's Buffalo Park

Arizona quakes are mostly minor, but hundreds happen every year

PHOENIX – The aftershock of the Southern California earthquakes was the first quake Arizonans have felt since 2015, but the Grand Canyon State has hundreds of minor quakes each year.


From high school to NBA: Suns’ Jalen Lecque forges nontraditional path

LAS VEGAS – One year removed from high school, Jalen Lecque looks to make his mark on Summer League Suns.


Throwing a lifeline to poor patients ‘dumped’ by health care providers

PHOENIX - The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act of 1986 bars hospitals from refusing healthcare for those in need and makes it illegal to dump patients on the streets, but the practice persists. That's where groups like Circle the City come in.


Phoenix to look into new system to track, measure police conduct

PHOENIX – Phoenix will take steps to collect and analyze data on police performance, the City Council decided Tuesday. It also is considering a poll to measure community attitudes toward police and a civilian oversight board.


Making the transition: Ex-players Ramage, Gavin look for coaching success with Rising

TEMPE – Former Phoenix Rising FC players Peter Ramage and Blair Gavin are bringing their experience to the coaching staff.


Protesters gather across Arizona to demand officials close immigrant detention centers

EL PASO, Texas – A group including Arizona Congressman Greg Stanton, D-Phoenix, recently visited immigration detention facilities in Texas. Stanton said the facilities don’t meet American values.


Supreme Court rejects – for now – citizenship question on 2020 Census

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court handed a temporary victory to opponents of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, saying the government will have to go back and make a better case in court if it wants to include the question that critics say will suppress minority participation.


ASU basketball searching for answers as summer workouts begin

TEMPE – Sun Devil basketball looks to regroup after first NCAA tournament appearance under Hurley.


Maricopa County approves updates to vote-counting system to avoid snafus

PHOENIX – The Board of Supervisors will spend $6.1 million over three years to upgrade voting systems, and it hired an executive to oversee elections.