Tempe police recovered a body from Tempe Town Lake and closed the surrounding area for investigation Friday morning. This was the second body found in the lake this week. Police received a call about a body found in the lake around 5 a.m. near Rio Salado Parkway and Mill Avenue. Officers and first responders removed […]
Authorities have identified the body of a man who drowned in Tempe Town Lake on Monday night, according to spokespeople for the Tempe Police Department. The man was identified by authorities as 47-year-old Michael Reyes. Witnesses called emergency services on Monday evening after they saw Reyes swimming about two-thirds of the way across the lake […]
Authorities found the body of a man who drowned in Tempe Town Lake on Monday night, according to spokespeople for the city’s public safety departments. The unidentified man’s body floated up to the surface around 7 a.m. on Tuesday, just before a Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department team was about to conduct “a recovery operation.” […]
Two years after the death of Sean Bickings, his family planned a vigil Saturday night at Tempe Town Lake, where he drowned as police looked on. The vigil was expected to commemorate his life and continue the fight to raise awareness of the dangers people living on the street face, according to an announcement by […]
All in-person classes on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus will be held remotely until further notice after a campus waterline failed and flooded the basement of a crucial facility Saturday morning. According to an ASU spokesperson, the flooding damaged the basement of the Central Plant Facility which operates “essential pumps that distribute cool water, crucial […]
Tempe soon could get a new seven-story apartment complex covered with trees and other green plants, a project that would bring 275 new housing units if city officials give it the go-ahead next week. The complex would be located on a two-acre lot at 1734 E. Apache Blvd. at McClintock Drive near the Valley Metro […]
Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell announced on Friday that a serial offender was sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2020 murder of his girlfriend at a Tempe motel. Gary Lenall Cox, aged 60, received a sentence for first-degree murder in the “violent” killing of his girlfriend at the Super 8 motel near Rural Road and […]
The eastbound lanes of Loop 202 Red Mountain Freeway at Priest Drive in Tempe were closed early Monday after a fatal crash. There was no estimated time for reopening, Arizona Department of Transportation posted at 5:30 a.m. on X, formerly known as Twitter. Phoenix firefighters were on scene of the collision and said early information […]
A man convicted of a 1979 murder was found and taken back into custody on Saturday afternoon after escaping earlier in the week, according to officials. Daniel Cahill had been on the run since Wednesday after escaping from community supervision in Maricopa County, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry. He was […]
Tempe Mayor Corey Woods gave his last state of the city address as a first-term mayor in front of a packed hotel ballroom where he spoke about the city’s significant successes over the past year, reflected on its shortcomings and promised to deliver on some massive initiatives in a second term. The Friday morning event […]