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Cardinals trade S Isaiah Simmons, OL Josh Jones in separate trades Thursday
A 2024 seventh-round pick is headed back to the Cardinals in exchange for the Simmons, the team announced Thursday.

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Author: Gabe Trujillo, Cameron Cox

Published: 7:58 AM MST August 24, 2023

Updated: 1:13 PM MST August 24, 2023

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PHOENIX — Isaiah Simmons’ time in Arizona is over. The Arizona Cardinals are trading the former first-round pick to the New York Giants, the team said Thursday morning.
A 2024 seventh-round pick is reportedly headed back to the Cardinals in exchange for Simmons, the Cardinals announced.
This has been talked about for weeks behind the scenes. Those of us around the team daily knew this was coming. Simmons was not going to be apart of the team’s long term future and didn’t play well this preseason. Cardinals were obviously disappointed in Simmons’ performance and effort, especially against the Chiefs.

Head Coach Jonathan Gannon addressed the media in Minnesota Thursday morning.
"We're always going to make decisions predicated on what we think is best for the team," Gannon said. "We wish Isaiah well, but thought that was the best move for us as we sit here today.
Gannon went on to say he didn't believe the trade was about Isaiah, but rather the direction of the team.
"He did everything that we asked him to do," Gannon proclaimed. "Moving forward we think this is the best way how we wanna play football against other people."
Cardinals General Manager Monti Ossenfort also talked about the trade listen to what he had to say in the video below.

Simmons was drafted by the Cardinals with the eighth-overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft. He was one of the best athletes coming out of college, but he struggled to find a position in Arizona.


This new regime has ZERO issue moving on from the past regime’s failures. Keep that in mind.
Simmons switched positions multiple times during the past three seasons in the desert. Going into year four, the team declined his fifth-year contract option, making him a free agent after this season. They also switched him to play safety, something Simmons asked for in the offseason and said was more of his natural position.
The Cardinals used Simmons at linebacker, safety and corner at times but the former Clemson standout couldn't find a main role to play.
Before being traded, Simmons was preparing to start the season at safety after the new coaching staff in Arizona decided how to best utilize his abilities.

In 50 career games, Simmons has 181 tackles, 7.5 sacks and 7 forced fumbles, according to Pro Football Reference.
Get your popcorn ready! Simmons will get to see his former team in Week 2 when the Giants play the Cardinals in Arizona.

Lineman Josh Jones also on the move

In a separate move Thursday, the Cardinals announced they also traded offensive lineman Josh Jones and a 2024 seventh-round pick to the Houston Texas for the Texans fifth-round pick in 2024.

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Man arrested after allegedly letting his 10-year-old son drive truck on Loop 101 in Scottsdale


Man arrested after allegedly letting his 10-year-old son drive truck on Loop 101 in Scottsdale

DPS says the child is not facing any charges.

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Alleged carjacker dead after being shot by 3 Phoenix officers in Glendale


GLENDALE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - Phoenix police say a man is dead after an officer-involved shooting in Glendale on Saturday night.
Around 6:30 p.m., police say 26-year-old Robert Crockett got into a rideshare vehicle and was heading to a neighborhood near 85th Avenue and Indian School Road. However, he then held the driver at gunpoint and stole the car. Crockett took off and began driving to Glendale.


Phoenix Police tracked the stolen vehicle to a home near 91st and Glendale Avenues, just east of the Westgate Entertainment District. A woman came out of the home and told officers the suspect was inside by himself, investigators said. Crockett then reportedly walked out and pulled out a gun, pointing it at multiple officers. Three Phoenix officers shot him. Police say there was a strong smell of gas coming from the home, and emergency crews had to put on gas masks to get inside. Crockett was then pronounced dead at the scene.





Police say officers located the suspect in a neighborhood near 91st and Glendale Avenues(Arizona's Family)
No Glendale officers were involved in the shooting, and no officers from either agency were hurt. Investigators say Crockett didn’t appear to fire any shots at police, but the investigation is ongoing.
This is the 45th officer-involved shooting in Maricopa County and the 60th in the state this year.

D-backs hit 4 HRs in 1 inning, sweep Dodgers with 4-2 win in Game 3 to advance to NLCS

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PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5/AP) — The Arizona Diamondbacks had a historic inning with four solo home runs on Wednesday and they swept the 100-win Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL Division Series with a 4-2 win in Game 3. The D-backs return to the NL Championship Series for the first time since 2007, where they’ll face either the Phillies or Braves.
The D-backs rewrote history in the third inning. Geraldo Perdomo got it going with a homer to deep center. After Corbin Carroll grounded out, Ketel Marte crushed a pitch 433 feet for a homer. Following another out, Christian Walker blasted a home run to deep left. Gabriel Moreno thought he had the Snake’s fourth home run to right field but it was later ruled foul. On the very next pitch, he crushed it for a 438-foot home run, giving the D-backs a four-run lead. Veteran righty Lance Lynn gave up all four homers for the Dodgers.
The bats came alive for the NL West champion Dodgers in the seventh. After a couple of singles, Chris Taylor got his own single to left, and drove in Max Muncy with two outs, making it 4-1. Next up, Kiké Hernández got his own RBI single to cut it 4-2. Andrew Saalfrank relieved Ryan Thompson and got the final out of the inning. Thompson had pitched five scoreless innings before giving up those two runs in the seventh. But it wasn’t enough, as the offense went mostly silent in the final two innings.
Arizona — the No. 6 seed after squeezing into the NL playoff bracket with an 84-78 record — has won all five of its games during the postseason, sweeping aside both the Brewers in a best-of-three series and the Dodgers in a best-of-five.
Lynn cruised through the first two innings of a scoreless game — giving no indication what was about to come. Perdomo started the scoring with a leadoff homer, his first long ball since Aug. 13. One out later, Marte hit a 428-foot drive to right on a 1-0 cutter. With two outs, Walker pulled a 3-1 cutter to left for a 3-0 lead, drawing another roar from the Chase Field crowd.
Then came No. 4: Moreno sliced a 2-1 fastball down the line to the opposite field that right field umpire Gabe Morales called fair. But the umpires huddled and crew chief Todd Tichenor reversed the call to foul, a decision upheld by a video review. Moreno then drove Lynn’s very next pitch — a hanging slider — 420 feet over the left-field wall, flipping his bat high in the air as he started his trot.
A few moments later, a dejected Lynn handed the ball to manager Dave Roberts and trudged toward the dugout. Lynn gave up 44 homers in the regular season, the most in the majors. The previous mark of three homers in a postseason inning had been accomplished 12 times, most recently by the Dodgers against Atlanta in 2020.
D-backs rookie right-hander Brandon Pfaadt threw 4 1/3 scoreless innings, giving up two hits and striking out two.
While the D-backs thrived, the Dodgers had no answers for a third straight game. A stacked lineup with a pair of former MVPs — Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman — couldn’t make much of an impact throughout the series. Both All-Stars struck out in the eighth against Kevin Ginkel with a runner on first. Betts finished the series 0 for 11 while Freeman was 1 for 10.
EMOTIONAL FIRST PITCH
The four sons of Arizona Diamondbacks general manager Mike Hazen threw out the ceremonial first pitch in honor of their mom Nicole Hazen, who died from brain cancer in 2022. Hazen’s four sons are Charlie (17), John (16), Teddy (15) and Sam (13). Nicole Hazen was diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2020 and fought the disease for more than two years. She was 45 when she died.
ROOF OPEN
It was the first playoff game at Chase Field since 2017 and the stadium’s retractable roof was open. The temperature was in the high 80s at first pitch. It was a sellout crowd of 48,175.

Two teen girls dead after UTV crash in north Phoenix


Police say the teens died at the scene.(None)
By AZFamily Digital News Staff
Published: Oct. 12, 2023 at 9:37 PM MST|Updated: 9 hours ago

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - Two teenage girls died after a Utility Terrain Vehicle (UTV) crash in the north Phoenix desert area on Thursday afternoon.
Around 2 p.m., Phoenix Police were called to a serious crash involving a UTV that had rolled over near 64th Street and Pinnacle Peak Road. Officers arrived and found the UTV upside down, and the two teens died at the scene. An investigation into what led to the crash is underway.

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2 men pretend to be tech support, defraud Chandler man of $100K, police say


Chandler police say that Jeet Panchal (left) and Farhan Shaikh (right) defrauded an 88-year-old Chandler man of $100,000.(Maricopa County Sheriff's Office)
By Kit Silavong
Published: Oct. 16, 2023 at 2:48 PM MST
CHANDLER, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) — Two California men were arrested last week after allegedly tricking an 88-year-old Chandler man out of $100,000 by lying about being with a software giant.
Chandler Police said on social media that 24-year-old Jeet Panchal and 28-year-old Farhan Shaikh pretended to be tech support for Microsoft when they contacted the victim and scammed him out of the cash. After being told about the situation, Chandler police on Oct. 6 started investigating and learned that the Chandler man was to meet up with the two men to hand over a large sum of gold coins, according to police.
Eventually, on Oct. 9, Chandler police located, followed and arrested Panchal and Shaikh in Buckeye. The two have been booked on felony charges of theft, fraud and assisting a criminal syndicate.

D-backs beat Phillies 2-1 and close to 2-1 in NLCS championship series





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PHOENIX (AP) — Ketel Marte capped a three-hit afternoon with a walk-off single in the ninth inning, rookie Brandon Pfaadt pitched 5 2/3 scoreless innings and the Arizona Diamondbacks rallied to beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 on Thursday and close to 2-1 the NL Championship Series.

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PEORIA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) — The Arizona Department of Public Safety had blocked the northbound lanes of Loop 101 in Peoria starting at Thunderbird Road after a deadly wrong-way crash. As of 7:45 a.m., some of the lanes have opened up.
DPS troopers tell Arizona’s Family that officers received a report around 3:45 a.m. of a wrong-way driver headed southbound in the northbound lanes of the Loop 101 between Thunderbird Road and Bell Road. Within 2 minutes, a head-on crash was reported between a Chevy Silverado and a band tour bus hauling a trailer. Arizona’s Family has learned the bus carried members of the band Piano Men: Generations who perform in Billy Joel and Elton John tribute concerts.
Authorities say the wrong-way driver had serious injuries and was rushed to a nearby hospital where he later died. Meanwhile, two people on board the bus were rushed to the hospital with moderate and minor injuries while five others were treated on scene. Detectives are now working to learn more about what led up to the crash but say the impairment appears to be a factor in the wreck.
The freeway has since reopened after earlier northbound traffic was diverted off at Thunderbird Road. Click/tap here for First Alert Traffic map.

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4 year old child bitten by coyote today in Mesa!! I received a little push back a few months back when I posted that I felt there is an increasing coyote issue… there is really no population control within city limits, no natural predators… they are hungry and getting braver we are seeing this with our pets as well!
https://www.abc15.com/news/region-southeast-valley/mesa/four-year-old-child-bitten-coyote-killed-after-attack-outside-mesa-home

Four-year-old child bitten, coyote killed after attack outside Mesa home

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Man critically hurt after electrical box explodes at east Phoenix Home Depot











A man was burned and critically injured when an electrical box exploded in a Phoenix Home Depot.(Arizona's Family)
By AZFamily Digital News Staff
Published: Nov. 14, 2023 at 10:47 AM MST|Updated: 2 hours ago






PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) — A man is fighting for his life at a Phoenix hospital with severe burn injuries after an electrical box exploded at a Home Depot on Tuesday.
Phoenix firefighters responded to the store near 36th Street and Thomas Road around 10 a.m. Details are limited, but firefighters at the scene said that the victim suffered “significant burns to his face and hands.” Crews were then able to keep the fire from extending into the rest of the building. Video from the scene showed a number of workers standing outside of the store. At this time, a building systems specialist is now working to determine whether the store is safe enough to remain open. No other information has been released, and it’s unclear whether the victim was an electrical worker or an employee at the store.
Arizona’s Family is working on gathering more information. Check back for updates.

Valley Metro bus slams into a Mesa home while trying to avoid multi-car crash








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MESA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - Six people are in the hospital after a multi-vehicle accident resulted in a city bus crashing into a Mesa home on Monday evening.

The crash happened around 7 p.m. near Broadway Road and Stapley Drive. Police say the crash happened after a Dodge truck ran a stop sign and crashed into the left front of the bus at Broadway and Spencer street. The collision caused the bus to veer left, cross all eastbound lanes of traffic and ended with the bus crashing into several cars before coming to a rest after crashing into a home in the area. Aerials from Arizona’s Family’s news chopper showed the Valley Metro bus had crashed into a house and a pick-up truck that collided into a street pole and fire hydrant nearby.

Police said early Tuesday morning that a man and woman were in the truck when they ran off. Detectives are still working to identify and locate them as they could face charges for leaving the scene of an accident.


Police say the vehicles collided on the road which caused the bus to veer off and hit a home.(Mesa Police Department)
A total of nine people were injured in the crash. Three people that were on the bus, and two people in the house were taken to the hospital. Four other people were treated at the scene, including one person who was sitting in his car trying to leave the home when the wreck happened. He suffered a possible broken arm, police said.

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SAN TAN VALLEY, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - Sheriff’s deputies say a 17-year-old boy is dead, and a suspect is in custody after a shooting Tuesday evening in the San Tan Valley neighborhood of Cambria.
The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office says the shooting occurred just after 5 p.m. on Cambria Drive, near Ironwood and Ocotillo Roads. Details on what happened are limited. Deputies say the 17-year-old was taken to a nearby hospital, where he later died. Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb says the shooting took place after an argument between two teens, which lasted several minutes, and one of them took out a gun and shot the 17-year-old in the neck. The suspect then left the scene in a blue charger.



The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office says the shooting occurred just after 5 p.m. on Cambria Drive, near Ironwood and Ocotillo Roads.
Deputies then went around searching through surveillance video and ring cameras and reviewed video from an Amazon truck. They started narrowing down locations, found the suspect, and took them into custody within less than three hours. Investigators found the suspect’s vehicle sometime early Wednesday morning.
“There is no threat to the community. This is one victim, and we had one suspect and we were able to track that suspect down,” said Sheriff Lamb. Deputies say they are still looking for the blue car and are asking the public for help locating the charger.


Pinal County Sheriff's Deputies say they are still looking for the blue charger that the suspect drove away in after the shooting.(Pinal County Sheriff's Office)
“We have one juvenile who’s passed. Our hearts and prayers go out to the family,” said Lamb. “I would love to see parents get more involved to keep this stuff from happening. This is tragic when you have an altercation, a verbal altercation that results in somebody shooting somebody else. I think it’s cowardly. And clearly we have multiple families that have been, whose lives have been ruined, including one that has lost their child.”
The shooting marked the second of three deadly shootings involving teens in a three days. A 17-year-old girl died in Casa Grande at at a house party early Sunday, while a 17-year-old boy was also found shot and killed late Tuesday night in a south Phoenix neighborhood hours after this East Valley shooting