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

  "Judging Juvies"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "Are Your Papers in Order?"

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

  "Are Your Papers in Order?"

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

  "Friday Night Frights"

• 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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1995 Stories by Paul Rubin

• Mrs. Phelps' Kids

  published December 28, 1995

  In December 1990, New Times profiled Glenna Phelps' fourth-grade class at Hamilton School in a story headlined "The Real War on Drugs." Staff... More >>

• Dial's Dirty Laundry

  published December 14, 1995

  Last March, Eve Edwards took advantage of what she sensed was a grand opportunity. She knew her ex-boyfriend, Jerry Ingalls, was immersed... More >>

• Mental Health MASQUERADE

  published November 23, 1995

  State Senator Mark Spitzer strode to the podium at a Prescott hotel and got to the point. The subject of the State Bar seminar in late September... More >>

• Dubious Practices

  published November 23, 1995

  An investigative audit of the Office of the Court Monitor--an agency created in 1991 to assure that court orders handed down in the Arnold v. Sarn... More >>

• The Hard Hat Cafe

  published November 2, 1995

  It's easy to see why Andrea Zuhri-Adams' new restaurant east of America West Arena is dying. The answer is right outside the door of her... More >>

• A Heartbreaking Ruling

  published October 26, 1995

  Joe Dugan's rarely one to complain, but his life has taken on a crushing monotony. For almost five years, the retired steelworker has spent most... More >>

• THE MISSING PIECE

  published October 19, 1995

  Ed Posada Sr. kneels in the desert a mile from the Mexican border. He knows every inch of this landscape off Geronimo Trail Road, a few minutes... More >>

• Death of a Defendant

  published October 12, 1995

  On January 11, 1994, Attorney General Grant Woods announced the dramatic culmination of an intense criminal investigation. "We allege that... More >>

• SINS OF COMMISSIONERSTHREE COUNTY COURT COMMISSIONERS ARE FIRED, BUT NOBODY IS SURE WHY

  published September 21, 1995

  The hot talk around the Maricopa County Courthouse in recent weeks hasn't been about juicy murder cases or Sheriff Joe. What people really want to... More >>

• TO LIVE AND DIE IN SCOTTSDALE

  published September 14, 1995

  Lying in her bed last April, frail and small, Yvonne Camenos knew she had only weeks to live. Yet she was not embittered. She seemed content in... More >>

• THE DOWNBEAT GENERATION

  published August 31, 1995

  One steamy morning in the summer of 1958--no one knows the exact date--a young man named Art Kane took on a daunting task. Weeks earlier, the... More >>

• THE UNTOUCHABLE

  published August 24, 1995

  In August 1987, the Secret Service arrested a Phoenix man in Southern California on charges of threatening to kill then-President Ronald... More >>

• DEATH OF A WHIZ KID

  published July 27, 1995

  In early June, Sheldon Weiner met with his employees at Family Archive Press, a Phoenix firm that published and telemarketed genealogy books. He... More >>

• THE RULE 11 REVOLVING DOOR

  published July 13, 1995

  The Rule Dave Alt faced the prisoner at Madison Street Jail. "You made a mistake, dude, a big, big mistake," Alt told Jimmy Lee... More >>

• MEETING ON THE MIND

  published July 13, 1995

  A committee of criminal justice and mental health experts met regularly last year as the debate over Ardrey McFarland's legal fate raged. The... More >>

• REQUIEM FOR A FIGHTERYOUNG MAN WHO BATTLED MENTAL-HEALTH SYSTEM TAKES HIS OWN LIFE

  published June 22, 1995

  They played one song at Phil Girardin's memorial service last week. "Everybody hurts," the R.E.M. vocalist droned over and over in the small... More >>

• MENTAL HEALTH MASQUERADE

  published June 8, 1995

  For thousands of Arizonans, the court case known as Arnold v. Sarn was a godsend. The landmark lawsuit grew from a sensitive subject that... More >>

• MENTAL HEALTH MASQUERADE

  published June 1, 1995

  Jerry Millison was overcome with anguish on the afternoon of May 12. "He wondered for a second just how screwed up he had to be before... More >>

• NO NEW TRIALJUDGE REJECTS KILLER'S ATTEMPT TO UNDO QUESTIONABLE LEGAL ADVICE GIVEN IN 1982

  published May 4, 1995

  The 1982 Cochise murder trial and conviction of Art Amarillas drew little attention outside of Bisbee, and with good reason: That Amarillas shot... More >>

• WHERE'S PAPAGO?PHOTOGRAPHER'S EXHIBIT FOCUSES ON PHOENIX'S DWINDLING JEWEL OF A PARK

  published April 27, 1995

  Dick George stuck his television set in a storage room a few years ago and started taking his own pictures. As a longtime employee of the... More >>

• GOLF'S MISSING LINK

  published April 6, 1995

  It's the final round at the Doral-Ryder Open, and Gary McCord is scatting. His solo begins as Peter Jacobsen, the hottest player on the PGA Tour,... More >>

• IN DEFENSE OF ARTRARE HEARING CASTS DOUBT ON QUALITY OF CONVICTED MURDERER'S DEFENSE

  published March 16, 1995

  Art Amarillas peered into the spectators' gallery of a Cochise County courtroom earlier this month. "I've been very sad about... More >>

• THE LYIN' KING

  published March 9, 1995

  The handwritten birthday card seemed so sincere. "My music is an expression of my inner self," it started. "It was a true honor... More >>

• OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD

  published March 2, 1995

  On October 6, 1992, Peoria ironworker Sabino Jayo Jr. blew out his knee while playing hacky sack in the white sand dunes of New... More >>

• THE LIBEL CASE THAT WOULDN'T DIE AFTER A DECADE, TWO ATTORNEYS PRESS A CLAIM AGAINST THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC

  published February 23, 1995

  Few Arizona Republic readers will remember an August 1, 1984, story headlined "U.S. Crime Strike Force in L.A. Accused of Corruption." ... More >>