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Six Feet Blunder

Deformed corpses, exhausted embalmers and swapped ashes -- as Arizona¹s funeral business goes corporate, the bottom line keeps sinking lower

By Jennifer Markley
Jan 17, 2002

For more than a year now, Kim Carroll has been wondering where her father is. The last time she saw him, he was dead, left in the care of a Valley funeral home. Now she's the one who can't rest in peace. It began in November 2000, when a blood...
Dry Noon

In Bumble Bee ghost town, two Wild West-style businesses square off over the old town well

By Jennifer Markley
Dec 6, 2001

It's high noon in Bumble Bee, or at least it would have been a century ago. In the sleepy ghost town between the encroaching suburbs of Phoenix and Prescott, a couple of Wild West-style enterprises have found themselves in an old-fashioned showdown over water.The skirmish is between two neighboring businesses...
Fuzzy Math

Mishandled money adds up to a loss for students at Roosevelt schools

By Jennifer Markley
Nov 1, 2001

One of the poorest elementary school districts in the state will have to shortchange its own students because its administration has so carelessly mishandled public money.The Arizona Department of Education is forcing Roosevelt Elementary School District No. 66 to give up $180,000 because district staffers couldn't explain how they spent...
Lost Eagle

Bird won't be returned to the man who saved it

By Jennifer Markley
Oct 18, 2001

Jerry Ostwinkle's battle to get his eagle back is over.In a decision that ends Ostwinkle's nearly three-year struggle with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to regain his raptor, a federal judge has ruled that the eagle, Rex, and Ostwinkle's falconry and eagle permits, will not be returned to him...
Serious Withdrawal

Late-night robberies. High-tech heists. Coercions, confessions and cover-ups. It's just business as usual at a Phoenix ATM company.

By Jennifer Markley
Oct 4, 2001

It was Kieran Doyle's 33rd birthday, and for once he was relaxed. Swigging beer and laughing it up with some friends at home, the burly Irishman allowed himself to forget for a while the stresses, strains and suspicions of his working life. He let his guard down. He should have...

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