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Buying a home in Phoenix actually cost less than monthly payments for renting, according to home-pricing website Trulia.com.

A woman was driving a Chevy Tracker in the area when a man wearing dark clothing reportedly stepped out into the roadway in front of her.

In this March 12, 2012, file photo, Arizona House Majority Whip Debbie Lesko is pinned by girl scouts during a ceremony in the old Senate Chambers in Phoenix.

A former Washington elementary school teacher who became one of the FBI's most-wanted criminals after taking hidden video of his students using the bathroom and then eluded law enforcement officials by assuming fake identities and escaping to Nicaragua has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

An ex-convict who engaged in a gunbattle with law enforcement on a Phoenix-area freeway was paroled from a Colorado prison in October after serving 4 1/2 years of a roughly six-year sentence on various assault charges.

Close to 123,000 more passengers flew in and out of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in January compared to the same month a year earlier, according to new numbers released today.

The release of Robert Fischer of Irvine on Monday night stemmed from a Feb. 28 decision by a judge who concluded the case's evidence didn't support a jury's guilty verdict against Fischer, threw out the conviction and granted a new trial.

An Arizona House committee has approved a Senate bill that would give a big property tax break to a private, for-profit Christian university in west Phoenix.

Growing up in a non-musical family in Phoenix, Arizona, country singer Dierks Bentley got his country music education on his own, listening to recordings.

This is the moment a police stand-off was interrupted by a tenacious little pug wanting to pick a fight with a police dog.

The casket of Phoenix police detective John Hobbs is escorted during funeral services at Phoenix Memorial Park on Monday, March 10, 2014.

A Hollywood film about farm labor leader Cesar Chavez will have a premiere in Phoenix.

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On Saturday, March 8, Phoenix galleries took First and Third Fridays one step further.

A Phoenix man has pleaded not guilty had being rearrested in a September fatal shooting of a neighbor.

Position: Senior News Reporter. Started with KTAR July 4, 1999. Favorite food: Steak and shrimp, and any food on campouts.

It's the most wonderful time of the year. Yes, we're aware that it's been in the low 80s lately and there is a greater chance of Aaron Carter and Hilary Duff getting back together than there is of Phoenix getting any snow.

But a new map is taking these unspoken identities a step further with an unfiltered, unapologetic, map of metro Phoenix.

Welcome to the Phoenix Bucket List. Robrt Pela and Amy Silverman -- two New Times contributors and longtime Phoenicians -- have put together a list of 100 things to do in this city before you die .

Pretty much nothing in the world sounds more appealing than smacking someone in the face with a pie.