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Authorities say a woman has died in a Scottsdale home fire
SCOTTSDALE — Authorities say a woman has died in a fire at a Scottsdale home.
Scottsdale police and Fire Department units responded to a residential fire on Tuesday on Thomas Road.
Firefighters extricated a female resident from the home, but she was died at a hospital.
The woman has been identified as 64-year-old Debbie McCombs.
Authorities say the cause of the fire is under investigation.
Authorities: 1 dead, 4 injured in 2-vehicle crash in Phoenix
PHOENIX — A woman has died and four other people, including three children, have been injured after two vehicles crashed in Phoenix.
Phoenix police are investigating whether speed or impairment were factors in the crash that occurred about 2 p.m. Thursday near 32nd Street and Roeser Road.
The injured were taken to trauma centers and the female driver was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Police say the driver had three children as passengers and veered onto a dirt shoulder.
She attempted to regain control of the vehicle and over-corrected onto the roadway.
That caused her car to collide with a vehicle driven by a man with an adult female passenger who suffered critical injuries.
Police say a 6-year-old girl was critically injured while two boys ages 4 and 1 suffered minor injuries.
School suspends students after walkout over gun violence
PHOENIX — Dozens of students at a Phoenix-area middle school were suspended for leaving campus during a walkout to protest gun violence and to support victims of the Florida school shooting.
More than 100 students from Ingleside Middle School participated in the Tuesday protest, which lasted 17 minutes — a minute for each person killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last month.
“We have rights and we feel like we need to express those rights to make sure that the president and all these political figures hear our voices because they haven’t done anything yet, and we really think they need to make a change,” eighth-grader Madeline McRoberts told KTVK-TV.
Leaving campus during school hours without permission from parents is a violation of the district’s code of conduct, said officials with the Scottsdale Unified School District.
The students who left school property and did not return were given one-day suspensions, district communication specialist Nancy Norman told The Arizona Republic. The students who left campus but then returned were suspended for the rest of the day. The participating students who stayed on campus were not disciplined.
2 men arrested in fatal shooting of young woman
FLAGSTAFF — Two men have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a Flagstaff woman.
Flagstaff police say 22-year-old Abraham Puentes Ortiz and 20-year-old Adonis Encinas Velarde are accused in the death of 19-year-old Kinsey Beebe after an argument.
They say the woman was found critically wounded Wednesday night when officers responded to a call about shots fired in east Flagstaff. Beebe was transported to a hospital, where authorities say she died of her injuries.