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4+ min ago (79+ words) Experience the Christmas pop-up at Porters Western Saloon on Brown Avenue in Old Town Scottsdale through the end of December! Enjoy the North Pole at Porters Western Saloon in Scottsdale Tempe still awaits funding to help recover from microburst Scottsdale Jewish community celebrates first night on Hanukkah 1 killed in semi-truck rollover crash on Loop 303 near Peoria Over 12,000 students to graduate at ASU fall 2025 commencement Arizona cotton producers frustrated with proposed aid package...

6+ min ago (799+ words) Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching" than to say My heart is broken." " C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain. Elizabeth Chuck and Mike Hixenborough posted. Dozens of boys say they were abused in a Christian scouting program that vowed to raise godly men. Dozens." So much heartbreak with lives destroyed or changed forever by pedophiles or those with related paraphilias. Here is the video introducing the topic. Royal Rangers welcomes kids as young as kindergarten. The pedophiles sure love that dynamic. It's pretty easy to snow a little kid. Pedophiles go where there are kids. If you have kids in your church, there will be pedophiles. That means you,…...

9+ min ago (602+ words) Goodyear cops in Phoenix, US, are using the generative OpenAI tool ChatGPT to create images of suspects in place of pen-and-paper police sketches. [US police officers are using ChatGPT to create ?sketches? of suspects] It seems AI is creeping into every corner of our daily lives " and now it may be reshaping police work as well. ChatGPT appears to be the latest recruit of the Goodyear Police Department, located on the outskirts of Phoenix, which is using the generative AI tool to create images of suspects in place of pen-and-paper police sketches. (Picture: Goodyear Police Dept) Goodyear PD wrote on its social media account when it debuted its first profile: "We are hopeful that these new techniques and AI technology will assist in solving more complex cases in the future, here in Arizona and around the country." And on the…...

17+ min ago (66+ words) JACKSON, Miss. (WTVA) " Two Mississippi Lottery players won big during the weekend. A Mississippi Match 5 player won $251,036 during Saturday's drawing. The winner purchased the ticket at Sun Express in Tupelo. Another player won $50,000 during Sunday's drawing with a ticket sold in Moss Point, which is on the Gulf Coast. Open this link to learn more about Mississippi Match 5....

24+ min ago (372+ words) MACON, Ga. " Keith Tidwell and Debbie Rhoden met at a Kroger in Macon, Georgia, where Tidwell works the night shift in the produce section. They say they didn't speak much, or even know each others' names, until a year and a half ago. Rhoden says she was driving and saw Tidwell making his nearly five-mile walk to work, which he says takes him roughly an hour and 45 minutes from his home in Jones County. One day Rhoden decided to stop after recognizing him from the store. "I said that looked like the young guy that works at Kroger, so I turned around, went back and got him," Rhoden said. Tidwell says walking or biking is the only way he can get to or from work, and it's often a dark and dangerous trip coming home. That all changed when Rhoden…...

25+ min ago (503+ words) Left inset: Jesus Varela (Harris County Sheriff's Office). Right inset: Christelrose Angel Ramirez (GoFundMe). Background: The Texas home where Jesus Varela allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend Christelrose Angel Ramirez while she was sleeping (KTRK). A Texas man allegedly gunned down his girlfriend while she slept and then scooped her body up into trash bags, which he then placed inside a plastic barrel before dumping it with help from his nephew. Jesus Varela, 48, is accused of "forcing" his nephew to "help him hide the girlfriend's corpse" after killing victim Christelrose Angel Ramirez earlier this month, according to Harris County prosecutors and local ABC affiliate KTRK. A judge noted during a probable cause hearing last week that Varela allegedly threatened his relative and told him he "had already killed one person and wanted to kill another, with a grip on [the…...

32+ min ago (368+ words) A Tesla robotaxi was spotted driving on public roads in Austin without anyone in the driver's seat or a safety monitor in the passenger seat. Elon Musk has confirmed that robotaxi testing has officially commenced in a step forward for the company's autonomy ambitions. Tesla CEO Musk confirmed this via X. "Testing is underway with no occupant in the car," he said. Musk said in a video call at an xAI "hackathon" event last week that Tesla would remove human safety monitors from its robotaxi cars by the end of the year, according to Teslarati, a news site focused on Musk-run companies. "There will be Tesla robotaxis operating in Austin with no one in them, not even anyone in the passenger seat, in about three weeks," Musk said, the outlet reported. READ: Elon Musk's Tesla enters India with $70,000 model; Set to…...

1+ hour ago (554+ words) Dec 15, 2025, 1:30 PM The Wildcats had 42 of 61 first-place votes to hold the top spot while the Wolverines received 15 to keep the teams at 1-2 for a second consecutive week. The Wildcats (9-0) rallied from a halftime deficit Saturday to claim a 21-point win against then-No. 12 Alabama in the Crimson Tide's home state, adding to a list of victories against ranked opponents that includes reigning national champion Florida, at UConn and Auburn. Rival Arizona State earned five votes after a rally to beat Santa Clara moved the Sun Devils' record to 9-2. The No. 2 Wolverines (10-0) have won their last seven games by at least 18 points, a run that includes romps against Auburn (102-72) and Gonzaga (101-61). And Michigan sits atop analytics rankings by KenPom, Evan Miyakawa and Bart Torvik. The top 10 was largely unchanged, with No. 7 Gonzaga and No. 8 Houston swapping spots from last week the only…...

1+ hour, 2+ min ago (221+ words) Ward, who died recently at age 86, was an anchor on ABC13 for more than a half-century. Dave Ward, a longtime former television news anchor for ABC13, died over the weekend, the Houston station announced. His funeral services are planned for later this week. Ward reportedly died of pneumonia-related complications, according to the Houston Chronicle. He was 86. Born in 1938, Ward first worked in Houston as a news reporter and news director at KNUZ Radio. In 1966, he joined ABC13 as an on-the-street reporter. Two years later, he became a primetime anchor at the station. Ward covered major events in Houston and Texas for more than 50 years, which got him into the Guinness Book of World Records in 2016 for being the longest-running anchor at the same station in the same market. He interviewed five U.S. presidents, including a one-on-one with President Barack Obama. He signed off from…...

1+ hour, 12+ min ago (184+ words) The U.S. Department of Education has formally recognized Grand Canyon University in Phoenix as a nonprofit institution of higher learning. Here's what that means for the nation's largest Christian university: The latest decision aligns with determinations by the IRS, the Higher Learning Commission, the State of Arizona and the NCAA. It follows a four-year IRS audit completed in May, and a unanimous U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision last year that concluded an incorrect legal standard was applied in 2019 when the department denied GCU's nonprofit designation. Earlier this year, the department rescinded a more than $37 million fine against the private university on allegations it misled students about the cost of its graduate programs. GCU President Brian Mueller said in a statement Monday morning that he appreciates the Department of Education's "objective and thorough review of GCU's operations." "We look forward to working…...