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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2005 Stories by Paul Rubin

• Judicial Blacklash

  published December 1, 2005

  Warren Granville is about the last judge anybody expected to become the target of attack dogs from the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.... More >>

• Meth Fatalities

  published November 3, 2005

  The six members of the Phoenix Police Department's C-32 homicide squad, plus their sergeant, gather at a midtown diner for their usual early... More >>

• Blood and Money

  published October 20, 2005

  One of Arizona's most enduring murder mysteries resurfaced recently when the convicted killer of Phoenix heiress Jeanne Tovrea returned to court... More >>

• Divorce With Indignity

  published October 13, 2005

  Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas stood before an eighth-floor conference room packed with reporters recently and invoked the disgraced name... More >>

• Crying Shame

  published October 6, 2005

  On July 18, a cruel day in Phoenix when the temperature reached a record-tying 113 degrees, fire paramedics responded to an emergency call from a... More >>

• A Family's Vindication

  published August 4, 2005

  Anita Watson was overwhelmed July 19, after a nine-person jury awarded her and her family $28 million, at the conclusion of... More >>

• The Dead Lawyer Made Him Do It

  published July 28, 2005

  Robert Shawn Owens stepped into the 4th Avenue Jail in downtown Phoenix about noon last Wednesday, July 20, crisply attired in khakis and a pink... More >>

• "Dr. Gary" Nailed

  published July 21, 2005

  Gina Niedzwiecki was thrilled to learn of the Maricopa County grand jury indictment and July 11 arrest of Valley "divorce mediator" Gary Karpin.... More >>

• Family Secrets

  published June 23, 2005

  An unfolding television crime story on the morning of last February 25 grabbed the attention of Estela Sanchez. Phoenix police were... More >>

• Assisted Suicide

  published June 2, 2005

  At 2:30 p.m. on May 14, 2002, Maricopa County jail psychiatrist Joe Franzetti scribbled a note into the medical chart of his patient, inmate Steve... More >>

• The Thing That Won't Leave

  published April 14, 2005

  In February 1997, self-styled businessman Emmanuel Agyeman boarded a bus in Carson City, Nevada. His destination was the central Arizona town... More >>

• California Schemin'

  published March 31, 2005

  Earlier this month, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association commandeered the National Press Club for a "media briefing." Reporters from... More >>

• Destiny's Child

  published March 10, 2005

  Sometime soon, a marked man named Ike Diogu will make a momentous decision -- whether to stick around Arizona State University for his senior... More >>

• Uncle Gonzo

  published March 3, 2005

  Trouble is, now I'll never be able to collect that $21,000 that Hunter S. Thompson's owed me for going on 20 years. Not that I ever had... More >>

• Dr. Buzzard

  published January 27, 2005

  Two women hug like long-lost sisters beneath a gazebo at north Phoenix's Roadrunner Park. Gina Niedzwiecki and Ruth Murray had been chatting... More >>

• Welcome to Thomasville!

  published January 13, 2005

  On the morning of January 6, veteran prosecutor Cindi Nannetti received two visitors in her fifth-floor offices at the Maricopa County Attorney's... More >>