Stephanie Duprey

1 week ago | azfamily.com | Stephanie Duprey

TUCSON, AZ (AZFamily) — A new study by the University of Arizona shows human life in North America may have developed much earlier than we thought. Researchers first found a set of human footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico six years ago. After years of studying them, researchers are confident that humans existed as long ago as 23,000 years ago. A discovery of a lifetime. Literally. “They’re found by accident or people looking.

2 weeks ago | azfamily.com | Stephanie Duprey

NEW RIVER, AZ (AZFamily) — Straight out of a horror movie is how Randy Schonemann describes the grim images he has in his head as more details surface surrounding the brutal murder of his father, William Schonemann. “When they use words as ‘bizarre’ and things like that it, does build a theatrical positioning and stuff like that. It does come back to something out of a crime drama or something like that,” Randy Schonemann said. Randy and his family currently live in Montana.

3 weeks ago | azfamily.com | Stephanie Duprey

PEORIA, AZ (AZFamily) — The brother of a man shot and killed by a Peoria Police officer Thursday night is remembering his loved one and talking about his fight with mental health issues. Andrew Cardon, the older brother of 43-year-old Matthew Cardon, said his brother lived with him in the neighborhood where the attack happened, near 87th Avenue and Happy Valley Road, and he’s tried repeatedly to get him into mental health treatment.

3 weeks ago | azfamily.com | David Baker |Stephanie Duprey

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Friends, family and a community came together on Wednesday night for a vigil in honor of a mother who was killed in a head-on crash during the weekend. Dozens of people lit candles in memory of 34-year-old Hayley Kramer at Cactus Park, near 39th Avenue and Cactus Road. “It hurts so bad to know that this is how the story ends for her,” said Chelsy Machado, Kramer’s friend.

3 weeks ago | azfamily.com | Stephanie Duprey

GLENDALE, AZ (AZFamily) — A Glendale family whose food truck burned to the ground, injuring two siblings, is being given a fresh start. Sun Health, a Phoenix nonprofit, is helping make that happen. The organization said that after seeing last month’s story about the devastating fire, they decided to act. Members from Sun Health and Discount Tire pulled up in a brand-new food truck equipped with six new tires and a new generator at the Jalal family home in Glendale on Wednesday afternoon.