David Michael Cantor in the News

Maybe the story about the good Mesa cop never surfaced last week because his exemplary work got squished in the mud of bad-cop allegations. Or perhaps we didn’t learn earlier about the compassion that drove him to help a Mesa

On Jan. 30, Phoenix police arrested Barbara B. McCloone on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. Based on two breath tests, it was determined McCloone had a blood-alcohol content roughly three times the legal limit of 0.08 percent.

John Chester Stuart had one of the best defense attorneys in town and an argument for self-defense in a January road-rage shooting death in north Phoenix. Then, on March 26, someone filed a series of documents in Stuart’s name with

A 50-year-old Scottsdale man is battling traffic citations in City Court because he says he was ticketed twice by a police officer who doesn’t know the difference between a motorized bicycle and a moped. Steve Livingston says the officer, R.

An association of Hispanic attorneys and 12 civil rights groups demanded Monday that Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas press charges against Patrick Haab, the soldier who held seven undocumented immigrants at gunpoint at an interstate rest stop in April. “Our

No criminal charges will be filed against an Army reservist who held seven undocumented immigrants at gunpoint this month at an Arizona rest stop. Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas said Thursday that Sgt. Patrick Haab had the legal right to

The theft of funds from the Peoria Municipal Court was worse than initially feared, city officials said Wednesday. Peoria police initially estimated the loss at $320,000, but officials admitted that “at least” $355,000 was embezzled over about a four-year period,

An Ahwatukee Foothills woman facing the death penalty on a charge of murdering her husband takes the stand today for the ninth day in a trial that has stretched twice the length of many felony-case trials. Defense attorneys not involved

Since the horrible September morning when a drunken driver killed a Mesa firefighter’s wife, her daughter proves every day that she resembles her mother far more than in mere appearance. Brandy Johnson, 19, assumes many of Robin Johnson’s motherly duties,

If the White Mountain Apache tribe decides to press a legal case against the woman who started the “Chediski” fire last month, prosecutors will have to settle for civil complaints, much like traffic tickets, rather than criminal charges. Tribal attorneys

For more than a month, Heber residents raged against Valinda Jo Elliott for setting a wildfire that burned down their homes and forest. CAPTION: 1) Valinda Jo Elliott visited Heber and Overgaard last week. CAPTION: 2) The “Rodeo-Chediski” fire consumed

The federal government took two wallops Thursday for its handling of the “Rodeo-Chediski” fire. Controversy continued to swirl around decisions to forgo using some rural fire departments during the fire, and the White Mountain Apache Tribe announced it plans to

There is no forgiveness here. There is rage and anger and frustration and lots of lashing out. There are a thousand other emotions too, but none of them resemble turning the other cheek. In the Rim Cafe — motto: “A

The pastor at Mesa First Assembly of God Church will be passing the collection plate after deciding to return $70,000 contributed by a generous parishioner who had embezzled the money. Senior Pastor Craig Carter said he had no reason to

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge spared Michael Gherman’s life Monday, but sentenced him to spend the rest of his life in prison, with no possibility of parole, for the murder of two Wal-Mart employees. Judge Robert Oberbillig ruled that

A Chandler machinist was convicted Monday of first- and second-degree murder in the 1998 slayings of two Wal-Mart workers who had chased him from a store on suspicion of shoplifting a television. While jurors delivered a split verdict in the

Attorneys for a man who gunned down two Wal-Mart employees after they chased him as an alleged shoplifter claimed Wednesday that their client was defending himself from an overzealous security guard who took the law into his own hands. But

One of the seven Mesa police personnel implicated in a sex-on-duty scandal has been cleared of all charges and will return to work today. Officer Steven York, 29, learned of the news Thursday in a meeting with Mesa’s Assistant Police