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Investigation

These companies then enlist one of their employees to purchase that physical ticket from a...

Lottery apps thrive with few regulations in Arizona, while under scrutiny in other states

Updated: 5 hours ago
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By Amy Cutler and Cody Lillich
Lottery apps thrive with few regulations in Arizona and are raising questions about regulation, access, and fairness.

Investigation

The program uses a barcode that allows sexual assault survivors to monitor the status of their...

Phoenix Police says it will implement state rape kit tracking program

Updated: May. 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM MST
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By Amy Cutler and Cody Lillich
The Phoenix Police Department is changing course and said it will adopt the state's system to track rape kits.

Podcasts

Arizona’s Family Investigates Podcast: Is recycling worth it?

Arizona’s Family Investigates Podcast: Is recycling worth it?

Updated: May. 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM MST
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By Morgan Loew and Amy Cutler
Does what you put in your blue bin actually get recycled?

Investigation

Court documents say that four federal attorneys on the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office...

Shakeup in DOJ team involved in case of Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office

Updated: May. 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM MST
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By Amy Cutler and Cody Lillich
New court documents several DOJ members were removed from the federal oversight case involving the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.

Investigation

The company’s research shows Waymo vehicles are involved in 81% fewer injury crashes than...

What happens when a Waymo is at fault in a crash?

Updated: May. 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM MST
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By Derek Staahl
It doesn't happen often but when Waymo is responsible for causing a crash, can the car get a ticket?

East Valley

Tempe city officials plan to turn on photo-enforcement cameras in the coming days at several...

Here’s where Tempe is turning on red-light, speed cameras in May

Updated: Apr. 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM MST
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By Peter Valencia, Amy Cutler and Cody Lillich
The city of Tempe has designated 14 locations for the new photo-enforcement cameras.

Investigation

Pedro Quintana-Lujan didn't have much to say outside of court.

Suspect in deadly Goodyear bike crash tries to get charges dismissed

Updated: Apr. 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM MST
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By Amy Cutler and Cody Lillich
The man charged in the crash that killed two cyclists and injured 17 others in Goodyear in 2023 tried to have some counts dismissed but didn't have much to say outside of court.

Investigation

Some wonder if the items in the recycling bin actually go to a recycling facility.

Beyond the blue bin: Where recycling around Phoenix is REALLY going

Updated: Apr. 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM MST
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By Amy Cutler and Cody Lillich
Arizona's Family Investigates looks into where the items go after we put them in the blue recycling bins.

Investigation

The trial of Donald Day, Jr. has been delayed following a ransomware attack against the...

Trial delayed after ransomware attack on public defender’s office in Phoenix

Updated: Apr. 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM MST
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By Cody Lillich and Alexis Dominguez
At least one trial has been delayed after a ransomware attack hit the federal public defender’s office in Phoenix, which provides counsel to defendants in federal court.

Podcasts

Arizona’s Family Investigates Podcast: Caught by a traffic camera? Here are your options

Arizona’s Family Investigates Podcast: Caught by a traffic camera? Here are your options

Updated: Apr. 21, 2025 at 6:00 AM MST
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By Morgan Loew and Amy Cutler
But if you get caught on camera, what are your options?
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Phoenix - 7 Day Forecast

Investigation

Arizona’s Family Investigates found that with the existing network of cameras, more than...

Got a photo enforcement ticket in Arizona? Here are your options

Updated: Apr. 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM MST
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By Amy Cutler and Cody Lillich
Arizona’s Family Investigates found that with the existing network of cameras, more than 100,000 drivers receive tickets for running red lights and speeding every year.

Podcasts

Arizona’s Family Investigates Podcast: Gaming and preying on children

Arizona’s Family Investigates Podcast: Gaming and preying on children

Updated: Apr. 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM MST
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By Morgan Loew and Amy Cutler
A family says their 11-year-old son was sent graphic content by a pedophile while gaming.

True Crime Arizona

Lori Vallow Daybell is sitting for an interview inside the Maricopa County, Arizona jail.

‘Fighting for my life:’ Lori Vallow Daybell gives final interview before trial

Updated: Apr. 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM MST
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By Briana Whitney, Serjio Hernanadez, Shane Egan and Ben Bradley
Lori Vallow Daybell, known to some as the "Doomsday mom," gave one last interview days before her trial began, speaking to True Crime Arizona correspondent Briana Whitney.

Politics

Nearly 40% of Arizona land is owned by the federal government.

Arizona activists rally to protect public land from new mining, drilling policies

Updated: Mar. 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM MST
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By Morgan Loew
Arizona's federal lands face increased mining and drilling under new orders, sparking rallies at the State Capitol to protect natural and cultural sites.

Arizona Housing and Real Estate

Rent prices across the Phoenix area are dropping, sparked by a construction boom in...

Phoenix-area rent prices dropping due to construction boom

Updated: Mar. 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM MST
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By Morgan Loew
Rent prices in the Phoenix market have dropped 2.2% this year.

Investigation

Jacob Lozano was sentenced to 32 years in prison and lifetime probation as a Level III sex...

Valley parents help police catch pedophile who lured at least six boys through Fortnite

Updated: Mar. 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM MST
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By Nicole Crites
An Arizona family helped police catch a pedophile who targeted their son through Fortnite. Jacob Lozano was sentenced to 32 years for child sexual exploitation.

Investigation

Arizona’s Family Investigates Podcast: Is there a radioactive contamination risk to Valley...

Arizona’s Family Investigates Podcast: Is there a radioactive contamination risk to Valley water sources?

Updated: Mar. 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM MST
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By Morgan Loew and Amy Cutler
Could rising nuclear power interest threatens Phoenix’s strained water supply?

Investigation

The mountains east of Roosevelt Lake, known as the Sierra Anchas, are home to more than one...

How rising nuclear power interest threatens Phoenix’s strained water supply

Updated: Mar. 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM MST
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By Morgan Loew and Cody Lillich
At some point in the not so distant future, miners may return to pits and caves or drill new ones.

Investigation

Lack of regulation in growing IV therapy, hydration industry potentially puts patients at risk

Lack of regulation in growing IV therapy, hydration industry potentially puts patients at risk

Updated: Mar. 17, 2025 at 3:27 AM MST
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By Joce Sterman, Daniela Molina and Jamie Grey
InvestigateTV discovered this industry is operating in a medical gray area, with numerous questions being raised about treatments, sanitation and oversight.

Investigation

The former Apache County Attorney Michael Whiting and his wife, Joy, the School Superintendent...

Former Apache County Attorney, wife ask judge to dismiss some felony charges

Updated: Mar. 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM MST
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By Amy Cutler and Cody Lillich
The pair are facing allegations of misusing taxpayer money and threatening a political opponent. Their legal team is trying to get the case dismissed.

Investigation

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Arizona grand jury indicts man for pointing laser at FBI aircraft

Updated: Mar. 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM MST
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By AZFamily Digital News Staff
William Wilson faces two counts of aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft.

Investigation

Supporters say the proposal is necessary because Phoenix Police is the only law enforcement...

Bill requiring Phoenix PD to use rape kit tracking program passes Senate panel

Updated: Mar. 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM MST
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By Amy Cutler and Cody Lillich
A bill that would force the Phoenix Police Department to use the state's real-time rape kit tracking system is heading to the full Senate.

Podcasts

Arizona’s Family Investigates Podcast: ‘Full body scan’ clinic owner under federal investigation

Arizona’s Family Investigates Podcast: ‘Full body scan’ clinic owner under federal investigation

Updated: Mar. 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM MST
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By Morgan Loew and Amy Cutler
The case of Mary Blakley, a medical provider accused of conducting fraudulent medical practices over two decades.

Investigation

Mary Blakley  and her husband, Fred, are charged with mail and wire fraud along with conspiracy

Feds: Arizona couple charged in fake ‘full body scans’ were arming for ‘civil war’

Updated: Mar. 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM MST
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By Amy Cutler and Cody Lillich
Prosecutors detailed how federal agents had been undercover investigating the Blakleys and said Fred was stockpiling guns in an effort to prepare for possible "civil war."

Investigation

A Lake Havasu City woman allegedly posed as a doctor and defrauded patients for two decades....

Feds believe woman allegedly posed as doctor, claiming to cure various illnesses like cancer

Updated: Mar. 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM MST
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By Amy Cutler and Cody Lillich
According to federal investigators, the Blakley’s operated clinics across the Southwestern United States, including in Arizona.

Investigation

Arizona's Family file photo of a Bitcoin ATM

Why Arizona lawmakers, police agencies are pushing to regulate Bitcoin ATMs

Updated: Feb. 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM MST
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By Amy Cutler and Cody Lillich
As cryptocurrency gains popularity, so too have Bitcoin ATMs with hundreds across Arizona. Here's how House Bill 2387 could impact crypto buyers in the state.

Investigation

Arizona’s Family Investigates asked group about the child on their poster, but the people did...

Funeral panhandlers spit, expose themselves and drive away when asked about signs

Updated: Feb. 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM MST
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By Cody Lillich and Derek Staahl
Arizona’s Family Investigates asked group about the child on their poster, but the people did not act like a grieving family.

Investigation

Two people are dead after the investigators say two planes collided in mid-air near the Marana...

Pilots previously reported near-misses, concerns about air traffic at Marana Airport

Updated: Feb. 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM MST
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By Cody Lillich
The southern Arizona airport where two planes collided has been the site of numerous close calls, according to records reviewed by Arizona’s Family Investigates.

Podcasts

Arizona’s Family Investigates Podcast: How scammers are using Bitcoin ATMs to get your money

Arizona’s Family Investigates Podcast: How scammers are using Bitcoin ATMs to get your money

Updated: Feb. 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM MST
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By Morgan Loew and Amy Cutler
Bitcoin ATMs are popping up in grocery stores, gas stations, and vape stores.

Investigation

Arizona’s Family Investigates found providers high on the job, two of them prescribing...

Diverted: How some Arizona doctors and nurses misuse drugs

Updated: Feb. 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM MST
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By Amy Cutler and Cody Lillich
Arizona’s Family Investigates found providers high on the job, two of them prescribing hundreds of opioids. Most of them are still working in health care.

Arizona

File photo of a BNSF train alongside the "Eddie's Truck" observed by law enforcement near...

11 indicted in Arizona train heist; $200K+ of stolen Nike shoes seized

Updated: Feb. 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM MST
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By Peter Valencia and Cody Lillich
Eleven people have been indicted for stealing hundreds of unreleased Nike shoes near Flagstaff, Arizona.

Investigation

Under Track-Kit, each rape kit would get a barcode.

Bill could require Phoenix PD to use state system to track rape kits

Updated: Feb. 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM MST
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By Amy Cutler and Cody Lillich
A bill that word force Phoenix police to use a state rape kit tracking system is making its way through the state House.

Investigation

Marvin Aneer Jalo, 17, of Peoria, was arrested on October 18.

Pride terror suspect’s case to stay in adult court, judge rules

Updated: Feb. 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM MST
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By Cody Lillich
A Maricopa County judge has ruled the case against a teen charged in a terror plot to attack the 2024 Phoenix Pride Parade will stay in adult court.

Investigation

Some lawmakers want more regulation on Bitcoin ATMs.

New warning after Arizonans lose millions in Bitcoin ATM scams

Updated: Feb. 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM MST
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By Amy Cutler and Cody Lillich
Experts are describing what to watch for after Arizonans lost hundreds of millions of dollars to scams involving Bitcoin ATMs.

Investigation

The Guadalupe community came together Wednesday to make their voices heard in a meeting with...

New Maricopa County Sheriff says he’s focused on crime, not targeting legal immigrants

Updated: Feb. 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM MST
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By Amy Cutler
“Don’t be concerned unless you’re a criminal. Because that’s the sheriff’s job.”

Investigation

Some advocates feel people with limitations despite their setbacks, deserve at least minimum...

Push for fair pay may hurt Scottsdale program for people with disabilities

Updated: Jan. 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM MST
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By Vanessa Araiza
The feds proposed giving people with disabilities a fair wage but advocates say it's not so cut and dry and may end programs for them.

Education

Schools will still get the money but it'll come out of the general fund.

Prop 123 set to expire after June with no renewal on the ballot

Updated: Jan. 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM MST
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By Zach Prelutsky
Both top Democrats and Republicans in Arizona have expressed a desire to renew Prop 123, but they haven’t been able to bring it to the voters yet.

Podcasts

Arizona’s Family Investigates Podcast: Arizonans among January 6 pardons

Arizona’s Family Investigates Podcast: Arizonans among January 6 pardons

Updated: Jan. 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM MST
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By Morgan Loew and Amy Cutler
A look at those Arizonans pardoned for by the new president.

Investigation

The City of Phoenix adds fluoride to its drinking water at a cost of $582,000 annually.

RFK opens the floodgates on fluoride debate in Arizona drinking water

Updated: Jan. 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM MST
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By Derek Staahl
Trump's pick to be the nation's top health official wants to take fluoride out of the tap water consumed by 4 million Arizonans. Is it worth it?

Investigation

File photo of Jan. 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.

Arizona’s 20+ US Capitol riot defendants are pardoned; what’s next?

Updated: Jan. 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM MST
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By Amy Cutler and Cody Lillich
Defendants including David Crosby, Edward Vallejo, Jacob Chansley, have now been pardoned by President Trump

Investigation

More home evictions are turning violent, some even deadly

More home evictions are turning violent, some even deadly

Updated: Jan. 10, 2025 at 6:25 AM MST
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By Kristin Crowley, Jason Crow and Rebecca Knier
Eviction is a possibility millions of Americans face. Our investigators examine how some evictions have even turned deadly.

Investigation

“Overlanders” use their vehicles to travel to and camp in wild spaces that are often difficult...

Arizona’s backcountry faces rising threat from growing outdoor tourism trends

Updated: Jan. 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM MST
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By Morgan Loew and Gilbert Zermeño
Amid a continued post-pandemic visitor surge, environmentalists are raising concerns over Arizona's efforts to balance tourism with the preservation of remote destinations.

Podcasts

Arizona’s Family Investigates Podcast: Arizona’s Lost Wild Spaces

Arizona’s Family Investigates Podcast: Arizona’s Lost Wild Spaces

Updated: Jan. 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM MST
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By Morgan Loew and Amy Cutler
Are we loving our public lands to death?

Investigation

Jerry Sheridan spoke with Arizona's Family Investigates' Amy Cutler to discuss his top...

New Maricopa County sheriff says he’s ready to make changes, end federal oversight

Updated: Jan. 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM MST
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By Amy Cutler and Cody Lillich
Jerry Sheridan comes at a time when the department is under a federal monitor, staffing challenges persist, and jail deaths are up, but he says he’s ready.

Investigation

The lawsuit alleges the state knew about the sober living scandal as early as 2019 but didn’t...

State faces class action lawsuit in connection with sober living home scandal

Updated: Dec. 17, 2024 at 9:50 PM MST
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By Amy Cutler and Cody Lillich
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Arizona government agencies, demanding they be held responsible for the sober living scandal.

Investigation

Photo inside of a car driving on Indian School road in Phoenix, AZ and a man outside holding...

Funeral or Fake? People asking for money in Arizona, possibly part of a larger network

Updated: Dec. 12, 2024 at 10:01 PM MST
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By Derek Staahl and Cody Lillich
Their message tugs at the heart. A child, reportedly the one on the sign, dead from cancer – and asking for money for a funeral. But we found that may not be the case.

Investigation

File image of a red-light camera in Phoenix.

Red-light cameras returning to Phoenix, Tempe; will they keep us safe?

Updated: Dec. 5, 2024 at 6:36 PM MST
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By Amy Cutler and Cody Lillich
Two major cities in the Valley are bringing back the enforcement of red light cameras by the end of next year. But, will they make driving in Phoenix and Tempe safer?

Investigation

The Apache County Board of Supervisors will have to decide who the next county attorney is,...

Want to be county attorney? This rural Arizona county has an opening

Updated: Dec. 4, 2024 at 6:40 PM MST
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By Amy Cutler and Cody Lillich
The Apache County Board of Supervisors will have to decide who the next county attorney is, becoming one step closer Wednesday by approving the job application

East Valley

Public records obtained by Arizona’s Family Investigates show the men involved in assaulting...

Public records link suspects in Paul Bissonnette attack to Irish Traveller community

Updated: Dec. 2, 2024 at 10:43 PM MST
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By Derek Staahl
Public records obtained by Arizona’s Family Investigates show the six men charged with attacking former NHL player Paul Bissonnette in Scottsdale have deep ties to the Irish Traveler community.

Investigation

FILE -- A F-16 collided with drone in restricted airspace over Goldwater Range near Dateland,...

Security concerns raised as fighter pilots spot drones above Arizona desert

Updated: Nov. 29, 2024 at 7:17 PM MST
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By Morgan Loew and Cody Lillich
U.S. Air Force Fighter pilots spotted unmanned drones at least four times above the Arizona desert.
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