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  • Judge finds Arizona sheriff’s office racially profiles Latinos

    Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio hold up a loaf of bread as he describes how the threat of a "bread and water diet," keeps inmates at the Estrella Jail in line during a news conference Thursday, May 16, 2013, in Phoenix. A judge in Phoenix found Friday that Arpaio has been racially profiling Latinos during immigration enforcement patrols. (Ross D. ...

  • Court Rules That Arizona Sheriff Engages In Racial Profiling

    Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio (right) attends a rally for the Tea Party Express in 2010. A U.S. District court has ruled that Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio's department has violated the rights of Latino drivers by racially profiling them as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration and issued an injunction to halt the ...

  • UNLV to face Arizona at home after deal falls apart to move football game

    moving the game to Glendale, Ariz., the Rebels football team will open its home slate on Sept. 7 against Arizona in Las Vegas as originally scheduled, UNLV Athletic Director Jim Livengood announced in a statement Friday. "We were approached by a promoter to move our September 7 home football game against Arizona to Glendale's University of Phoenix Stadium but we've decided to ...

  • PD Ex-city worker tried to molest girl

    PHOENIX - A former City of Phoenix recreation leader who recently resigned his position was arrested Thursday on suspicion of the attempted molestation of a 13-year-old. Michael Hudson, 21, reportedly climbed into the victim's window on May 17 in order to avoid her parents, police said. He brought alcohol and began drinking with the girl and up to two of her friends. At some point, Hudson ...

  • Arizona jury fails to decide if Jodi Arias should be executed

    1 of 8. Jodi Arias listens as the verdict for sentencing is read for her first degree murder conviction at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona, May 23, 2013. An Arizona jury weighing whether Jodi Arias should be put to death for the brutal murder of her ex-boyfriend deadlocked on Thursday and the judge ordered a retrial of the penalty phase of the ...


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  • Judge Arpaios Office Profiles Latinos

    A federal judge ruled Friday that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people. The 142-page decision by U.S. District Judge Murray Snow in Phoenix backs up allegations that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's critics ...

  • Chandler tables chicken ordinance

    keep chickens in their backyards has been tabled until July. The city's Planning and Zoning Commission had approved the plan May 1. But the Arizona Republic reports that the City Council voted 4-3 Thursday to delay a decision on the issue until its July 11 meeting. The proposed ordinance would allow as many as five hens in residential neighborhoods. The city prohibits chickens or any animal ...

  • Tempe City Council to consider State Farm development May 30

    The development agreement for State Farm Insurances massive 2 million-square-foot regional headquarters along Tempe Town Lake which was confirmed after months of rumors today and is reportedly the largest office development in state history will go before Tempe City Council for consideration at its next meeting on May 30, city spokeswoman Nikki Ripley told me Friday afternoon. The city has ...

  • Arias foreman Sentencing decision unfair to jury

    As jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial filed one by one from the courtroom after a dramatic five months of gut-wrenching testimony and gruesome photographs, three women on the panel cried and one looked to the victim's family, mouthing the word, ...

  • GOP wants to revive pro-religion bill

    PHOENIX - GOP leaders want to revive a bill that would allow people to sue over infringements on religious freedom after it was vetoed by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer. Cathi Herrod, president of the Center for Arizona Policy, sent an email to supporters Friday vowing to bring back Senate Bill 1178. Civil liberties groups say the bill would legalize anti-gay discrimination. Brewer vetoed the bill ...

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