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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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....
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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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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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"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...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
