Las Vegas lawyer indicted in $460M 'slip-and-fall' scheme
A longtime Las Vegas attorney was indicted Wednesday on federal charges that he orchestrated a $460 million Ponzi scheme spanning multiple states, from Nevada and Utah to California and Arizona. The eight-count indictment accusing Matthew Wade Beasley of wire fraud and money laundering comes almost one year to the day after the personal injury attorney was shot and wounded by FBI agents at his $1.1 million home in Las Vegas, leading to a four-hour standoff that ended with his arrest. Beasley has been in federal custody since the standoff — during which prosecutors have said the lawyer, then 49, “repeatedly confessed” to his involvement in the investment scheme while on the phone with a negotiator.
news.yahoo.comDemocratic press secretary's tweet removed after she slams ‘transphobes’ in wake of Nashville shooting: report
Josselyn Berry, the press secretary for Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, was criticized online after she reportedly posted an image of an armed woman in a tweet about "transphobes."
foxnews.com3 people die in Arizona after being caught in floodwaters
At least three people were found dead this week after their vehicles were swept away by floodwaters in Arizona, authorities said. Gila County Sheriff’s officials said the bodies of a couple missing after their vehicle was stuck in floodwaters in the Payson area were located Thursday.
news.yahoo.comRising floodwaters lead to more evacuation orders in Arizona
Some evacuation orders were lifted while others remained Wednesday as heavy rains began to dissipate in northern Arizona, but flooding threats lingered. Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office officials said residents in Sedona could go home after determining that Oak Creek waters had gone down enough but said they should still be prepared to evacuate if needed. Meanwhile, residents in one area of Camp Verde were told to evacuate because of flooding in low-lying areas along the Verde River.
news.yahoo.comTourists hoping to see Arizona falls forced out by flooding
Shannon Castellano and Travis Methvin should have spent this weekend seeing world-famous waterfalls on the Havasupai Tribe Reservation in northern Arizona. “Yeah, so we didn’t really sleep,” Castellano said Saturday while driving to a hotel in Sedona. The official Havasupai Tribe Tourism Facebook page reported Friday that flooding had washed away a bridge to the campground.
news.yahoo.comFeds want justices to end Navajo fight for Colo. River water
States that rely on water from the over-tapped Colorado River want the U.S. Supreme Court to block a lawsuit from the Navajo Nation that could upend how water is shared in the Western U.S. The tribe doesn't have enough water and says that the federal government is at fault. Roughly a third of residents on the vast Navajo Nation don’t have running water in their homes.
news.yahoo.comScientists: Largest US reservoirs moving in right direction
Parts of California are under water, the Rocky Mountains are bracing for more snow, flood warnings are in place in Nevada, and water is being released from some Arizona reservoirs to make room for an expected bountiful spring runoff. All the moisture has helped alleviate dry conditions in many parts of the western U.S. Even major reservoirs on the Colorado River are trending in the right direction. It could be more than a year before the extra moisture has an effect on the shoreline at Lake Mead that straddles Arizona and Nevada.
news.yahoo.comArizona governor blasted for plans to defy execution order
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is being criticized by a victim’s sister and a powerful county prosecutor for her plans to defy a court order to execute a prisoner next month for his conviction in a 2002 killing. The newly elected Democratic governor vowed nearly two weeks ago that she wouldn’t carry out the Arizona Supreme Court’s order to execute Aaron Gunches on April 6, citing a review that she has ordered of death penalty protocols due to Arizona's history of mismanaging executions. Hobbs has said executions will not be carried out until Arizonans can be confident the state isn’t violating the law.
news.yahoo.comArizona interstate reopens after deadly crash, leak
Arizona officials say Wednesday that orders for evacuation and sheltering in place have been lifted and the Interstate 10 in Arizona southeast of downtown Tucson has been opened more than a full day after a deadly crash caused a hazardous material leak.