Convicted murderer Richard Kenneth Djerf is set to be executed on October 17, after the Arizona Supreme Court granted a motion for a warrant of execution.

The Arizona Supreme Court granted a warrant of execution for convicted killer Richard Djerf, officials announced on Tuesday.

First Solar and Avnet recently announced plans to move their headquarters - the latest musical-chair shifts among larger corporations based in Arizona.

A federal land swap will have to wait as another legal challenge to a controversial Arizona copper mine makes its way through the courts.

Phoenix police said a man ignored repeated commands and came at them with a hatchet before they shot and killed him on Tuesday morning outside an IHOP. This marks the Phoenix Police Department’s sixth officer-involved shooting this year,

A teen living in the home told the man to leave, police said. Then, the man fired the gun, according to the police department. Later, the teen got into his own car to leave when he saw the man’s truck, police said. The teen said the man got out of his truck and pointed a gun at him, so the teen ran him over, police said.

The 2025-26 rankings, released Aug. 19, evaluated 24,000 public schools across the country and ranked nearly 18,000.

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — State prison officials announced on Tuesday the execution date for the man who raped and murdered a west Phoenix family more than three decades ago.