Story of Botched Mountain Search By PCSO Aired By ABC 15 Investigators

ABC 15 Investigator Dave Biscobing aired a story this week featuring the Superstition Search and Rescue, an all-volunteer team of wildness heroes that has successfully brought closure to families when the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office’s search-and-rescue team could not. “Lost,” a New Times feature in December 2012 delved into why…

Injustice for All: The Florence PD Compromised Public Safety

SPECIAL REPORT: FLORENCE EXPOSED | Part one of three Richard McAnally was annoyed. His face, framed by a shock of gray hair and a pair of dark-rimmed glasses, puckered with disdain. Florence had hired McAnally, paying him more than $7,000, to preside as a hearing officer in cases involving two…

Four Election Night Victory Parties in Phoenix

Wanna celebrate with the winners, commiserate with the losers of Election Day? The polls closed about 40 minutes ago and candidates should be basking in the well wishes of optimistic supporters at various locations throughout Phoenix…

Election Day for Phoenix Council Districts 4, 8

It’s Election Day. The truth is that most voters have cast their ballots early in the District 4 and District 8 elections. The voters will decide who is going to represent residents throughout central and south Phoenix on the City Council. But the polls close at 7 p.m. tonight, and…

Fewer Line-of-Duty Deaths Among U.S. Cops in 2012, FBI Reports

Though 95 law enforcement officers who died during a cop-related accidents or while chasing down some criminal activity during 2012, there were 125 deaths in 2011. And there were 128 intentional or accidental deaths in 2010. Arizona made the unfortunate list in 2012 with the death of William “Bill” Coleman,…

Phoenix Council Subcommittee Recommends Ways to Eliminate Pension Spiking

Phoenix officials this week wrapped up the last in a series of four public meetings to gather input on how to fairly eliminate the bank-breaking practice of pension spiking. The City Council Pension Fairness and Spiking Elimination Ad Hoc Subcommittee unanimously recommended preventing employees from using the following streams of…