Goodyear

The Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board, or AZ-POST, has authority to decertify police officers. Officials in two cities say officers who resigned over use of license plate readers have been referred to the agency.

In consecutive weekdays, four metro Phoenix police departments have announced internal investigations into misuse of controversial license plate readers, also known as LPRs.

Investigations over Flock cameras in Arizona police departments are stacking up, and more cities and counties are pausing or changing their contracts. Sheriff Ross Teeple of Pinal County is one of them.

Police departments in the East and West Valley this week have unveiled internal investigations into officer misuse of AI surveillance technology used to track license plates.

The four-mile extension is expected to help relieve traffic on I-10 and set up an eventual connection with a new planned freeway — State Route 30 — which is scheduled for construction from 2027 through 2046.

Ass Kickin’ products was founded in downtown Glendale in 1986 by the owner, Jeff Jacobs, manufacturing a few barbeque and hot sauces. He met his wife, Linda, who took on the business with him.

Buc-ee’s is a gas station and convenience store — but for many people, it’s more than that — as evidenced by the lines of fans who camped out just to be among the first to get in on Monday’s opening day.

Shortly after midnight on Monday, traffic barricades were moved and the cars poured into the parking lots, with people rushing out once parked toward the doors to get in line.

The long-awaited opening is expected to bring big crowds and lots of traffic to the location just south of Interstate 10 and Bullard Avenue.

Goodyear police identified 77-year-old Penny Orloff as the victim of a fatal collision earlier this month. She was an actor, dancer, singer and author, with a career that spanned more than 50 years.