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May 11, 2008
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…
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April 15, 2008
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,…
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September 19, 2007
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…
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July 12, 2005
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…
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April 22, 2005
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…
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December 9, 2004
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…
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November 8, 2004
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…
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March 7, 2003
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.…
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August 3, 2002
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…
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August 2, 2002
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,…
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July 20, 2002
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,…
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July 20, 2002
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…
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July 18, 2002
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.…
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December 5, 2000
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…
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August 1, 2000
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…
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July 26, 2000
A murder suspect tearfully testified Tuesday that he was terrified when he fatally shot two Wal-Mart employees.
Michael Gherman, 44, described the tense confrontation at a lonely Gilbert intersection Oct.…
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July 13, 2000
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…
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September 10, 1999
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…
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August 24, 1999
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…
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