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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1999 Stories by Paul Rubin

• Suspended Animation

  published December 23, 1999

  On September 30, 1998, Perry Mitchell's supervisors at Maricopa County Superior Court evaluated him: "Perry is well positioned to lead the further... More >>

• Hypercomback

  published December 9, 1999

  A judge has sided with the Phoenix-based Hypercom Corporation against an ex-employee who claimed the company bought her silence after a top... More >>

• Several Dog Night

  published December 2, 1999

  New Mexico record producer and piano player Norman Petty jotted some advice for his pals Buddy Holly and the Crickets in the summer of 1957. The... More >>

• Commander Eddie Turns 100

  published December 2, 1999

  Lorraine DeJongh Gamble wheels her husband of almost one year into the Lakes Club in Sun City. "Good evening, Commander," the maitre d' greets... More >>

• Hypercom Confidential

  published November 18, 1999

  Colleen Ryan Smith claims she was raped three times by a top executive of Phoenix's Hypercom Corporation. The Scottsdale resident was one of... More >>

• Welcome to the Club

  published October 28, 1999

  We do not have gangs here," a Latino leader said on October 20 during a contentious meeting of about 100 people at a south Phoenix community... More >>

• Pitt and the Pendulum

  published October 21, 1999

  Boulder, Colorado Alex Hunter retreats to his office after one of the biggest press conferences of his life. It's October 14, 1999,... More >>

• The Strong Arm of the Law

  published October 14, 1999

  It is almost 10 p.m. in south Phoenix, and a police gang squad unit spots three black teenagers standing on a street corner. The officers... More >>

• Reporter's Notebook

  published October 14, 1999

  A few years ago, U-Haul founder L.S. Shoen finally stopped sending me copies of his interminable missives to his dozen children. I'd gotten on his... More >>

• The Gang's All Fear

  published September 30, 1999

  On my belly they lay the blue strings You know what that means Here comes my family On their faces I see pain Thinkin' in... More >>

• Vanity Press

  published September 23, 1999

  Dapper in his suit and freshly shined shoes, Marcus Giavanni strides into the New Times offices with his wife Celina and 6-month-old son,... More >>

• Silent Witness

  published July 8, 1999

  The Sleepwalker Murder Case may be over, but one question continues to captivate the public: Is it true that Scott Falater talked about a... More >>

• Wake-Up Call

  published July 1, 1999

  They're not with us," Scott Falater whispered moments before the prosecutor began his closing argument in the Sleepwalker Murder Case. ... More >>

• The Once and Future Mom

  published May 27, 1999

  Mary C.'s husband bought her a computer for Mother's Day. She's interested in the Internet, but for now she'll get her feet wet by playing... More >>

• Reporter's Notebook

  published May 13, 1999

  Of the many scenes I'll take with me from the Phoenix Coyotes' 1998-99 hockey season, this one first comes to mind: It happened on Easter... More >>

• A Season on the Rink

  published April 22, 1999

  [Derian Hatcher] played only two minutes, 57 seconds, but his hit on Jeremy Roenick was an important action for the captain to take, and it set... More >>

• Scammer to Slammer

  published April 22, 1999

  Disbarred attorney and ex-con Dick Berry stood before federal judge Robert Broomfield on Monday afternoon, trying to talk his way out of... More >>

• Scammer in Slammer

  published April 1, 1999

  Career con man Stephen Charles Peterson sat in a Maricopa County courtroom last Friday afternoon shackled to several other jail inmates. If... More >>

• The Wizard of Austria

  published March 25, 1999

  Joe Zawinul is discussing the kinship between musicians and boxers. "When I see a fighter, like when I hear someone play music, I know... More >>

• That Would Be You, Mr. Chief Justice

  published March 18, 1999

  It's rare for an appellate judge to speak publicly about any pending case, much less one that may end up in his court someday. So it made... More >>

• One Way Out

  published March 11, 1999

  Jan Solomon made two huge mistakes in early 1997. First, the Scottsdale man--then 57--resumed a romance with a woman he had dated when both... More >>

• Olden Opportunity

  published March 4, 1999

  "Talk plain!" 99-year-old Edward Beeler Gamble demands of a visitor to his Sun City home. The subject is Viagra. "Is that for a man... More >>

• Slipping Through the Net

  published February 18, 1999

  It's small consolation to Debbie Knight that Pietr Hitzig, the self-proclaimed "father of Fen-Phen," surrendered his license to practice medicine... More >>

• Crime Reporter's Notebook

  published February 11, 1999

  A few years ago, a pal of mine pointed out a tall, pale man leaning on his walker in front of the Luhrs Building in downtown Phoenix. ... More >>

• Pride and Prejudice

  published February 4, 1999

  When you are young, you need your father. When you are old, you need your sons. --Vietnamese proverb This much about Loi Nguyen's last... More >>