Stephanie Innes

1 week ago | azcentral.com | Stephanie Innes

Two Nevada men are facing a year in prison and fines of up to $100,000 each for pushing ancient rock formations off a cliff at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Following a two-day trial, a federal jury, on April 9, convicted Wyatt Clifford Fain and Payden David Guy Cosper from Henderson, Nevada, of "injury and depredation of government property" related to an April 7, 2024, incident at the recreation area, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Nevada.

2 weeks ago | azcentral.com | Stephanie Innes

Days after professional fighter Henry Cejudo appeared to have apprehended an accused impaired driver near his Phoenix home, he was reportedly the victim of a burglar who stole one of his championship belts. On his weekly Pound 4 Pound with Kamaru & Henry show, which he hosts along with fellow mixed martial artist Kamaru Usman, Cejudo said that on April 8, intruders broke into his family's Biltmore-area home and stole a championship UFC belt and more than $10,000 in podcast equipment.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Stephanie Innes

With temperatures in Phoenix set to hit triple digits, volunteers and first responders are working to help Valley residents find relief from heat illness. In Maricopa County in 2024, there were 602 confirmed heat-related deaths, which was a decline from the previous year, yet a number that could still be significantly reduced, health experts and first responders said.

2 weeks ago | azcentral.com | Stephanie Innes

Fluoride is added to public tap water in Phoenix and other localities to prevent tooth decay, but the new U.S. health secretary could change that. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is on a three-state tour of the Southwest. He visited Phoenix on April 8, after visiting Utah on April 7, where he celebrated that state's recent ban on adding fluoride to the public water supply.

2 weeks ago | azcentral.com | Stephanie Innes

The East Valley in 2026 is expected to get a new, $24 million inpatient medical center to serve the area's growing number of unsheltered adults. The nonprofit Circle the City said it will break ground on the 84-bed medical respite center in May in Mesa, nearly doubling the capacity of each of the group's two existing medical respite centers. Medical respite, Circle the City said, is a bridge between hospital discharge and stable health.