KJZZ News
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio now says he plans
to expand his volunteer, armed school posse, as well as the controversial
paintball training he is conducting at an abandoned Phoenix-area school.
Sept. 20, 2013
Italian
architect Paolo Soleri has died at the age of 93.
Paolo Soleri was a famed architect, most well-known around Phoenix for his design of Arcosanti, the experimental community.(Photo courtesy of Arcosanti)
A student of
Frank Lloyd Wright, Soleri was born in Turin, Italy, in 1919, but was most
well-known in Arizona as the designer of the experimental community Arcosanti.
Sept. 20, 2013
Public school employees in Flagstaff are set to see pay increases. The Flagstaff Unified School District approved the raises earlier this week. The Arizona Daily Sun reports, it is the first significant pay increase for the district's 1,300 employees in five years.
Sept. 20, 2013
For more than 40 years, the Bureau of Land
Management has been in the adoption business – of wild horses and burros in the
West, that is. And it’s been controversial for about as long. The next adoption
event is coming up Friday through Sunday at the Mohave County Fairgrounds in
Kingman.
Sept. 20, 2013
American Airlines has experienced major delays today due to a computer glitch. Over
Twitter, the airline announced it was grounded nationwide until 2 p.m. Mountain time. The issues have created plenty of trouble
at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport.
Sept. 20, 2013
Arizona supporters of gun reform laws are not happy with the U.S. Senate's defeat of expanded background checks and other gun control laws. Arizona House Minority Leader, Representative Chad Campbell says though the issue of extending background checks to gun shows and Internet gun sales, is not dead.
Sept. 20, 2013
Grand Canyon Railway is celebrating Earth Day today by reducing its carbon footprint. The 90-year-old locomotive will take tourists on a trip from Williams to the canyon using vegetable oil to fire the steam engine.
Sept. 20, 2013
The Phoenix Suns are looking for a new
general manager. The team has let its GM go
after the second-worst season in the club’s history.
Lance
Blanks has served as Suns GM since August 2010, coming to the team after
stints with the Cleveland Cavaliers and San Antonio Spurs.
Sept. 20, 2013
Air traffic controllers at Phoenix Sky Harbor have begun their mandated
furloughs. The cutbacks are required under sequestration, which is
forcing across-the-board budget cuts at federal agencies. The FAA says 10 percent of air traffic controllers will be off on any given day.
Sept. 20, 2013
A homeless shelter in Flagstaff will suspend overnight services at the end of May. Flagstaff Shelter Services will stop offering the homeless a place to stay about a month later than usual thanks to a grant that allows them to operate longer.
Sept. 20, 2013
The proposed
South Mountain Freeway moved one step closer to construction on Friday – nearly 30
years after it was originally proposed. After the decades-long wait, the state
transportation department has released the first draft of an impact study for the
final phase of Loop 202.
Sept. 20, 2013
For two weeks in 1865, President
Lincoln’s body was carried across the Northeast by train.
Just ahead of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s death, a team of Arizona researchers has cracked a mystery surrounding the funeral.
Sept. 20, 2013
The Phoenix Police Department
will launch what it is calling the largest gun buyback program in Arizona history this
Saturday – and the department is doing it with a looming deadline.
On Monday, Governor Jan Brewer
signed a law that prevents cities from melting down guns collected during buyback events.
Sept. 20, 2013
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge is expected to issue a ruling today on a request from Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne and an aideto throw out a campaign finance case against him. Horne's attorney Michael Kimerer argued in court Wednesday that Secretary of State Ken Bennett erred in forwarding the complaint to Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, and that the $840 limit on how much Horne could take from a single source is unconstitutionally low.
Sept. 20, 2013
After more
than four months, the Jodi Arias Trial has finally gone to the jury. It’s been
a long haul – and not just for the lawyers and media. Since Jan. 2, spectators
have been lining up inside the Maricopa County Superior Court to watch the
drama unfold.
Sept. 20, 2013
If US Airways merges with American Airlines, the name of this center could change. (Photo by Julie Levin-KJZZ)
In 1992, America West Airlines signed a 30 year, $26 million naming rights deal for the city-owned arena that is home to the Phoenix Suns.
Sept. 20, 2013
The Federal Aviation Administration said some airport traffic control towers it wanted to close late at night to save money will now be allowed to stay open. But, Wednesday’s announcement does not save some towers at Arizona airports the FAA plans to close this summer.
Sept. 20, 2013
Help is on the way for drivers — and vendors — displaced by
the closure of a section of Highway 89 in northern Arizona. Monday, work crews will
begin improving an unpaved road that will serve temporarily as the new 89.
Sept. 20, 2013
Former
Arizona Congressman Jim Kolbe will marry his partner of eight years in Washington, D.C.
this weekend.Kolbe, who
served southern Arizona
in Congress for 22 years, says it’s unfortunate the state doesn’t recognize
same sex marriage.
Sept. 20, 2013
