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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1996 Stories by Paul Rubin

• Finances With Wolves

  published December 26, 1996

  A few months ago, a telemarketer working out of a west Phoenix office made her pitch to an elderly Pennsylvania woman. "I'm calling from... More >>

• ComCare Didn't Care

  published December 19, 1996

  A state agency has concluded that ComCare failed dismally in its treatment of a mentally ill Vietnam veteran who died after collapsing on a... More >>

• Top Legal Official Investigated

  published December 12, 1996

  The State Bar of Arizona has asked a retired judge to investigate allegations of sexual harassment against Bruce Hamilton, the agency's longtime... More >>

• Sins of Commission

  published November 21, 1996

  A few Sunday mornings ago, Mary and Ernie Howard found a sitter for their three children and drove to American Legion Post 75 in north... More >>

• A System Gone Mad

  published October 24, 1996

  Late on the sizzling afternoon of July 25, two police officers saw a disheveled black man pushing a shopping cart along a south Phoenix... More >>

• Poison Penance

  published October 10, 1996

  Phoenix resident Donald Campbell was fed up with neighborhood dogs using his front lawn as their personal rest room. First, he posted a... More >>

• On His Feet, On The Street

  published October 3, 1996

  The Gang Squad team members of Dauer and Puskar introduce themselves to the driver of an illegally parked car. It's almost midnight on a... More >>

• Poverty, Phoenician-Style

  published September 26, 1996

  Wayne Legg and his wife live inside the gated community known as the Phoenician II at 65th Street and Camelback. Ordinarily, someone with... More >>

• Serial Talker

  published September 19, 1996

  The cottage industry that is Dr. Park Elliott Dietz swept into Phoenix September 12 to discuss stalkers, famed serial murderers and other assorted... More >>

• Porn Free

  published September 5, 1996

  Scott Virzi's legal odyssey started in October 1992, after undercover police arrested him for buying child pornography at a Phoenix hotel. ... More >>

• A Phallacy

  published August 1, 1996

  The 1992 case of the little boy and the big, bad hospital captivated the community and Arizona legislators. Readers who lived in the Valley at... More >>

• Copping an Attitude

  published July 18, 1996

  In a better world, June 6 would have been a fine day for Glendale police officer Janis Whitson. That day, Whitson's immediate supervisor completed... More >>

• Back to the Temple of Doom

  published July 18, 1996

  Victoria Painter's story is an all-but-forgotten footnote in the infamous Temple murders case. But its final chapter has yet to be written. ... More >>

• Educator Reprimanded

  published June 27, 1996

  School administrator Judith DeWalt joked with a friend and her attorney Monday as she arrived for a hearing before the Arizona Board of Education.... More >>

• Once More With Feeling

  published June 20, 1996

  Wade Hutchins' day of reckoning has arrived. The former teacher was to be sentenced June 19 for molesting more than two dozen boys at north... More >>

• Waiting to Inhale

  published June 6, 1996

  Luis Sharpe contacted New Times staff writer Paul Rubin several weeks ago from the Maricopa County Jail. The ex-Arizona Cardinals star said he... More >>

• Fire Within

  published May 23, 1996

  For almost 20 years, fire captain Gary Pykare had looked death in the eye, chuckled, and gone fishing. But on May 12, the longtime business... More >>

• One Relieved Judge

  published May 16, 1996

  A judge who was roundly criticized for releasing a shooting suspect has lost his job. Maricopa County Presiding Judge Robert Myers says he... More >>

• Who Sprung Alleged Shooter?

  published May 9, 1996

  On April 25, Glendale police arrested Dennis Earl Bryley on charges of shooting a security guard during a burglary last July. The arrest... More >>

• Bad Blood

  published May 2, 1996

  Glendale Police Sergeant Frank Balkcom steers his cruiser into a narrow alley. It's past midnight on a Monday in April. He's only a... More >>

• True Detective Story

  published April 25, 1996

  Mariano Albano entered this life 44 years ago on a pool table in downtown Phoenix, a few yards from where America West Arena now stands. Two... More >>

• Can Arizona Throw Away the Key?

  published April 11, 1996

  The mission of the "sexual predators" part of Arizona's year-old Community Protection Act sounds compelling: keeping the vilest, most aberrant and... More >>

• Grave Misgivings

  published April 4, 1996

  A woman in a long dress sat quietly on a living-room couch as the clergymen debated how to cope with Sheriff Joe Arpaio's media machine. ... More >>

• Crime Victims Who Kill?

  published March 28, 1996

  The aggravated-assault case against 17-year-old Lynn Ivory was full of holes, not the least of which was that the Phoenix youth's alleged victims... More >>

• The Pro Con Man

  published March 21, 1996

  The name Stephen Charles Peterson Jr. is but a blip in the annals of Arizona white-collar crime. But the 54-year-old Peterson has earned a special... More >>