Email Author Paul Rubin

Awards

• 2012 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published January 20, 2011

  "Unbalanced"

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "Shadow Dwellers"

• 2011 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published November 25, 2010

  "Whitewash"

• 2011 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published September 23, 2010

  "Pinalcchio"

• 2011 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published July 22, 2010

  "Phantom Murder"

• 2011 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published April 1, 2010

  "Honor Thy Father"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "Are Your Papers in Order?"

• 2010 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published October 22, 2009

  "Friday Night Frights"

• 2010 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published January 15, 2009

  "Judging Juvies"

• 2010 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc.

  "Are Your Papers in Order?"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published August 21, 2008

  "Felonious Monk"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published February 14, 2008

  "Bombshell"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published February 7, 2008

  "If the Shoe Don't Fit"

• 2007 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  Murder City

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published July 27, 2006

  "Fear Factor"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published July 2, 2006

  "War and Peacenik"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published June 8, 2006

  "Tough Coach"

• 2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published September 23, 2010

  "Crying Shame"

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1993 Stories by Paul Rubin

• HOME WRECKERS

  published December 29, 1993

  The cavalry came to the rescue on the afternoon of June 12, 1992. State inspectors handed a restraining order to Corliss Ford, operator of the... More >>

• AN AGE-OLD PROBLEM

  published December 29, 1993

  Department of Health Services inspection supervisor Cathy Rodriguez says the truth of her own mortality often hits her when she's out in the... More >>

• HEIR OF OPTIMISM

  published December 15, 1993

  Cinthia Gannett says she's "still waiting for justice for my grandma." She may not have to wait much longer. Sources say the state Attorney... More >>

• BUY ME OUT FOR THE BALLPARK

  published December 8, 1993

  Jerry Colangelo's plan to build a glorious, open-air baseball stadium in downtown Phoenix has Norman King sitting somewhere in the... More >>

• SPINNING WHEELS EX-JOURNALISTS TURNED PR FLACKS REDEFINE THE TERM "COVERING THE STORY"

  published December 1, 1993

  Our jaws dropped when news of Linda Turley's new gig broke. She's leaving an anchor job at Channel 5 to become head information wonk for Maricopa... More >>

• CARL HAYDEN WINS! CARL HAYDEN WINS!

  published November 3, 1993

  Editor's note: Last Friday night, after this story was completed and laid out in New Times, the Carl Hayden football team finally won a game.... More >>

• TELLING IT LIKE IT WAS

  published November 3, 1993

  It is a key moment for the Phoenix Cardinals in last Sunday's game against the New Orleans Saints. Cards' quarterback Chris Chandler throws a... More >>

• LOSING ISN'T EVERYTHING THE FOOTBALL TEAM AT CARL HAYDEN HIGH SCHOOL MAY NOT WIN GAMES, BUT ITS PLAYERS ARE STILL CHAMPIONS

  published November 3, 1993

  Carl Hayden High School running back Roy Moody faces his teammates in the Falcons' silent dressing room. It's moments before the team's football... More >>

• NEW TRIALS IN CRANE CASE

  published October 27, 1993

  Maricopa County prosecutor Myrna Parker has been living with the Bob Crane murder case for more than three years now. She has spent untold hours... More >>

• ART OF DARKNESS

  published October 20, 1993

  Los Angeles street cop Dan Calderon sketches in the air with an imaginary brush. "If I wasn't a cop, I wouldn't have nothin' to draw about," he... More >>

• BREECH OF FAITH

  published October 13, 1993

  Like everyone else these days, Tammi and Chris Carmody have many questions about the Clintons' proposed health plan. But this young Phoenix couple... More >>

• RED-LIGHT SPECIALCHRONIC SHOPLIFTER ORDERED TO INFORM MERCHANTS OF HABIT

  published September 22, 1993

  If a part-time Maricopa County judge has his way, chronic shoplifter Rhonda Mecham will have a much harder time satisfying her confessed "habit"... More >>

• JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDESELDON-INVOKED LAW LEADS TO OVERTURNING OF MURDER CONVICTION

  published September 15, 1993

  Latricia Brown murdered her boyfriend, Melvin Wilson, in 1989 and was sentenced to 13 years in prison in a case barely noticed by the... More >>

• REQUIEM FOR A FIREBALLERARIZONA BIDS FAREWELL TO SOFTBALL PITCHING GREAT JERRY LEE WELLS

  published September 15, 1993

  It was perfect softball weather last Friday morning, when Jerry Lee Wells took the mound for the last time. Hundreds of Arizonans who had... More >>

• THE FORGOTTEN COURT

  published September 8, 1993

  Abuses by attorneys and private fiduciaries such as Wayne Legg, Webber Mackey and others have led to proposed changes in how the Maricopa County... More >>

• AS HELPLESS AS CHILDREN

  published September 8, 1993

  The Kings of Probate Dorothy Richards hadn't spoken to her Aunt Delores for years when she decided to look her relative up in early 1988. A... More >>

• MISCUE 911

  published August 11, 1993

  One of Sarah Dugan's last thoughts before her life changed forever was particularly sweet. It was the morning of November 2, 1990, and Sarah... More >>

• ANATOMY O

  published June 30, 1993

  The lead story in the June 9 Washington Times was a bombshell. Under a page-one banner headline boldly proclaiming, "Casinos Checked Out Babbitt,... More >>

• CASINOS CHECKED OUT BABBITTHIS DENIALS OF GAMBLING DON'T FIT RECORD

  published June 30, 1993

  Casinos Checked Out Babbitt @deck:His Denials of Gambling Don't Fit Record @body:Four Las Vegas casinos ran credit checks on Bruce Babbitt... More >>

• "THE AIDS GIRL"

  published June 9, 1993

  It was a gorgeous, autumn afternoon on Mount Vernon Street in Prescott, with only a hint of the mile-high winter to come. Located up a hill... More >>

• STAMP OF APPROVALWITH ELVIS ON HIS SIDE, UNKNOWN CARTOONIST BESTS PULTZER PRIZE WINNER

  published May 12, 1993

  It was time for Tempe cartoonist Tom "Snake" Robertson's big moment at the Arizona Press Club's annual awards banquet. Robertson was sitting with... More >>

• THE BOB CRANE MURDER CASE PART THREE

  published May 5, 1993

  The man in the Mazda RX-7 pulled over to the side of the road and waited. For almost 14 years, John Carpenter had prayed this day wouldn't... More >>

• THE BOB CRANE MURDER CASE PART TWO

  published April 28, 1993

  Victoria Berry had been touring for months with Bob Crane in Beginner's Luck when the play landed in Scottsdale in June 1978. The Australia-born... More >>

• THE BOB CRANE MURDER CASE PART ONE

  published April 21, 1993

  It is 1969, the year of Woodstock, a man on the moon, the miracle Mets and Chappaquiddick. Two middle-aged buddies turn on a tape recorder and... More >>

• POTTER'S FIELDWHERE THE POOR AND THE ABANDONED OF MARICOPA COUNTY ARE PUT TO REST

  published March 24, 1993

  Felix Solis steps down into the hole with a tiny pink box. Clutching it close to him, he closes his eyes and prays aloud. "Lord, I hope you... More >>