Month: June 2016

This June, a Glendale resident is facing possible criminal charges after his neighbors found a puppy near death on his balcony. Glendale Police detectives and the Maricopa County Attorney's Office have collected evidence to charge Adrian Gonzalez, 28, with animal cruelty. On the afternoon of Sunday, June 5, residents at an apartment complex called the police after hearing a distressed pup on a third-floor balcony. The one-and-a-half-year-old chocolate labrador mix was trapped on the balcony with no shade or water. It was 113 degrees. "You always hear the dog barking 'cause she's out there 24/7; they never let her in," neighbor Rocky Bouch told Glendale's KPHO. "You could tell her little paws were burnt." "That poor dog never knew love in her short life," Bouch added. By the tim...

Weeks after an inmate at a federal detention center for immigrants was diagnosed with measles, officials in Arizona have confirmed an additional 14 cases of the disease. According to CBS News, the outbreak began in the Federal Detention Center in Elroy. Of those that are infected, seven are reported to be inmates at the center and four are employees of the facility. Since the confirmation, the privately-run center has not accepted any new detainees, nor has it released any. Both state and county health officials are working to stop new transmissions. They are doing so by isolating patients and attempting to identify people who were at locations visited by the four infected workers. Cases like this are part of the reason that the United States will need almost 52,000 more primary c...

Google is offering an exciting opportunity to qualified Phoenix residents: the chance to test the company’s self-driving cars before they hit the market. The tech giant is calling for Arizona-based candidates to apply for the position of “vehicle safety specialist.” The job entails the operation of a driverless vehicle for six to eight hours per day, five days a week, while gathering data and providing feedback. Test drivers will analyze their experiences and give engineers feedback regarding how the car drives and interacts with other vehicles on the road. Though many people might jump at the chance to do this job for free, Google plans to pay its vehicle safety specialists $20 per hour. It’s not a bad deal when one considers the fact that actual driving is not really part of the jo...

Many people will go to great lengths for a healthy, beautiful smile. In a survey by the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, 99.7% of respondents agreed that a good smile is socially important. But would you go so far as to visit an unlicensed, cash-only dentist's office run out of a Phoenix apartment? Late last month, special agents from the Arizona Attorney General's Office and the Phoenix Police Department arrested a woman on charges of treating patients in an unlicensed dental office, which sources say had been operating for more than two years. The woman, 54-year-old Elda Graciela Margez de Zamora, or "Mama Elda," as she's known, reportedly drives in to Phoenix from her home in Mexico to perform dental and orthodontic procedures for cash payments. Zamora rented a normal re...