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Crackdown
After years of neglect, a Maryvale neighborhood and the Phoenix police evict the West Side City Crips
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: June 24, 1999
Officer Scott Masino began CPR even though he knew his friend was dead. Masino tried in vain to push breath into the chest of fellow cop Marc Atkinson, to get his heart to beat...
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Relapse in Judgment
Reorganizing the BOMEX
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: June 3, 1999
The troubled Arizona Board of Medical Examiners has again shut the public out of information about the state's MDs, this time blaming a change in the law meant to provide more...
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Music
Recordings
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me / The Clash Tribute: Burning London / Jon Dee Graham
By Salvatore Caputo, Chris Farnsworth and Gilbert Garcia
Published: May 27, 1999
Various artists Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (Maverick Records) The world inhabited by Austin Powers is more an evocation of the way the '60s were documented...
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Doctoring the Bills?
FBI investigates possible Medicare fraud in county health-care system
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: May 13, 1999
A federal grand jury is investigating possible billing fraud at Maricopa Medical Center, the county hospital. It's unclear how much money may be involved, but a former...
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Feature
Twisted System
A Phoenix family stumbles through the tangled bureaucracy of modern medical care
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: May 6, 1999
Sitting on the couch, Shawndra Lee stretches, bored, as her mom talks about their HMO coverage. Her back cracks with a sound like a rifle shot. The loud snap is one of the...
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News
Smoke Screening
ASARCO says it will pay for health tests in Hayden, but residents' lawyers fear a cover-up
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: April 29, 1999
The Arizona Department of Health Services plans to study the possible health problems caused by the ASARCO smelter in Hayden, despite officials' earlier dismissals of any...
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Block Botch
Neighborhood group prints a cop's racist comment, then the city clams up
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: March 25, 1999
Rudy Mendoza says he believes in working through the system. So when he found a racially charged statement by a Phoenix cop in his neighborhood's Block Watch newsletter, he...
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Feature
Fare Game
Why did Phoenix police let an armed and dangerous suspect climb into an unwitting cabdriver's back seat before they opened fire?
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: March 11, 1999
Frank Leyvas had barely asked his passenger, "Where to?" when the cops, like a black cloud in their raid gear, stormed his cab. An officer aimed a rifle at his head. Leyvas...
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Paying the Price
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: February 18, 1999
The New Mexican Mafia put a price on Steve Benitez's head, but it's the taxpayers who will have to pay for the Arizona Department of Corrections' failure to protect him....
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Doc Tales
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: February 11, 1999
While the state board that regulates medical doctors is still going easy on its own, the board that oversees osteopaths continues to crack down on its doctors. The Arizona...
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Feature
Rose Peddles
People are talking about a young political consultant named Jason Rose. But it's probably not the message he'd like to get across.
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: January 28, 1999
"I am getting more and more impressed by your publicity machine," a diner tells Jason Rose as he sits down at Nixon's. Rose grins and makes the slightest bow of his head, as if...
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News
Rx for Arson?
A doctor suspected of torching his own house is arrested at license hearing
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: January 28, 1999
Dr. Craig Hiller sighed heavily, then picked up his cell phone to tell his wife he was about to be taken to jail. The physician, who is fighting to keep his medical license...
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News
Losing Patients
Legislators want closer scrutiny of BOMEX, but the medical board will seek more secrecy
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: December 24, 1998
The Arizona Board of Medical Examiners (BOMEX) plans to ask legislators for more power and more secrecy, despite harsh criticism at a joint legislative hearing last week. ...
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Feature
Unpleasantville
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: December 3, 1998
Mary Corona and Nora Arbizo sit on the porch and play a morbid board game. With a cardboard box lid between them, they tally up the sick and the dead. Drawn on the lid is a...
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News
This Just In
What's up with BOMEX?
By Patti Epler and Chris Farnsworth
Published: October 22, 1998
The Secret Files of BOMEX The Arizona State Board of Medical Examiners (BOMEX) voted last month to cut off public access to thousands of complaints filed against doctors. ...
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Feature
Commission Impossible
An underfunded Democrat takes on a powerful Republican in a quest for the state's least-sexy elected office
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: October 15, 1998
The luncheon appears to be nothing special, just another stop on the rubber-chicken circuit for some of the state's true power brokers--the heads of Arizona's utility...
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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: October 15, 1998
The Arizona Boys Ranch is back in business despite concerns over the death of a 16-year-old in March at the campus near Oracle. The state Department of Economic Security...
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Dead Man Balking
Death row inmate wants to finish a 100-year robbery sentence before he's executed
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: October 1, 1998
Michael Poland is in the rare situation of asking to be sent back to federal prison. But almost anything would be an improvement over where he is now. Poland is on death...
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News
The Doctor Is In; the Verdict Is Out
Will a Gilbert physician lose his license to practice for threatening his wife?
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: September 24, 1998
A doctor thumbcuffs his wife to the steering wheel of the family car during a domestic dispute, holds a gun loaded with hollow-point bullets to her head and threatens to kill...
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Rx for BOMEX: Toughen Up
A new audit proposes changes at state medical board
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: September 17, 1998
A new state audit confirms the same old ills at the Arizona Board of Medical Examiners. BOMEX, created to protect the public from dangerous doctors, suffers from a weak spine...
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