El Mirage News

Crews found no sign of a missing 5-year-old Glendale girl on Tuesday, their second day searching a landfill south of the Valley.

A 37-year-old El Mirage woman died after being struck by a vehicle Friday in a hit-and-run, police said.

EL MIRAGE, Ariz. - A woman who was hit by a car Saturday has passed away and her identity is being released.

Police say a woman suffered critical injuries when she was hit by a vehicle while crossing a street in El Mirage Friday night.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's top aide said Tuesday that the sheriff accepts responsibility for hundreds of sex-crimes investigations that were inadequately investigated and Arpaio started working to clear up the backlog once the problem was reported.

Fire crews from all over the west valley rushed to battle a house fire in Avondale Monday night, near Camelback and El Mirage.

The city is offering a free course to help educate residents about its workings.

The former medic at Luke Air Force Base this week stood in the parking lot of a tiny, somewhat rundown strip mall, inspecting a U-Haul he had rented outside the base near Litchfield Road and Glendale Avenue.

In this file photo from Dec. 5, 2011, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio discusses the latest in the document release on his office's handling of many sexual assault cases over the years in El Mirage, Ariz., during a news conference in Phoenix.

In December, El Mirage Mayor Lana Mook opened negotiations with the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.

A retired Phoenix police sergeant formally announced Tuesday that he will challenge Joe Arpaio in this year's race for Maricopa County sheriff.

The Dysart Unified School District has been slapped with a lawsuit by a local evangelical group over a policy that bans the distribution of flyers with a religious message.

El Mirage Police Department spokesman Robert Peoples said detectives began an investigation in November when 34-year-old Sarah Bruno was suspected of passing off forged prescriptions to various pharmacies in the Phoenix area.

According to a police report, the elementary students, ages 10, 11, and 12, were arrested for burglary and criminal damage.

EL MIRAGE, Ariz. - Three elementary students have been arrested, accused of vandalizing and burglarizing their school while it was closed for Christmas break.

As some Valley cities fight efforts to limit what development fees they can collect from builders, El Mirage is doing the opposite.