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3 hrs ago | The Kansas City Star

Judge: Ariz. sheriff's office profiles Latinos

Sseven girls from Heartland Elementary School in the Blue Valley School District, now mostly middle-schoolers at Harmony or Aubry Bend, for a few years had been competing in an international problem-solving educational program, Odyssey of the Mind.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Immigration Reform

7 hrs ago | National Public Radio

Tough Arizona Sheriff Gets Judicial Reprimand

In Arizona, a federal judge ruled against the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department, saying it used racial profiling to enforce the state's tough immigration laws.

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11 hrs ago | News Times

Jury foreman says life or death decision unfair

Jodi Arias stands as the jury is excused after the verdict for sentencing was declared a hung jury for her first degree murder conviction at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Ariz., on Thursday, May 23, 2013.

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Related Topix: Phoenix, AZ, Death Penalty

Fri May 24, 2013

Windsor Beacon

Arias jury mentally, emotionally exhausted, foreman says

The Jodi Arias jurors were mentally and emotionally exhausted at the end of the nearly five-month murder trial and felt like they failed by not reaching a decision on her sentence, the jury's foreman said Friday.

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Related Topix: Death Penalty, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Scottsdale, AZ

Seattle Times

Judge: Ariz. sheriff's office profiles Latinos

A federal judge ruled Friday that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, ACLU

Phoenix New Times

David Talkington, Accused Sex Maniac, Aspiring Rapper and -- Possibly -- a Local Hospital Employee

Accused pervert David Talkington lives with his parents and raps about wearing nice clothes and -- it shouldn't surprise you -- grabbing girls.

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Related Topix: Scottsdale, AZ

Sonoran News

CPFER asks court to order Respect Arizona to refund illegal donations ...

However, as the brief points out, A.R.S. 19-202 was not passed consistent with the methods for amending the Arizona Constitution SCOTTSDALE Attorney Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, held a press conference this week to announce the progress in the case of Citizens to Protect Fair Election Results against Respect Arizona, ... (more)

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Related Topix: Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ

KOLD-TV Tucson

Group seeks to continue suit opposing recall bid

A group supporting Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is asking a judge to let its lawsuit seeking to end a recall effort against the sheriff move forward in court.

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KTVK Phoenix

Four schools placed on lockdown while police search for gang member

Four West Valley schools were placed on lockdown Thursday afternoon while authorities searched for a documented gang member on the run from the law.

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Related Topix: Goodyear, AZ

Thu May 23, 2013

ABC15.com

MCSO: 15 entered country illegally

Maricopa County sheriff's detectives arrested 15 people Wednesday suspected of entering the country illegally and attempting to travel to Tennessee and North Carolina.

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Lansing State Journal

Jodi Arias jurors can't decide on death penalty; retrial set

Jurors who spent five months determining the fate of convicted murderer Jodi Arias couldn't decide whether she should get life in prison or die for killing her boyfriend, sending prosecutors back to the drawing board to rehash the shocking case of sex, lies and violence to another 12 people.

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Related Topix: Death Penalty, Mesa, AZ

KURB-FM Little Rock

Jodi Arias Jury Cannot Decide on Death Penalty, Mistrial Declared

Jodi Arias will not be put to death -- at least not yet. A judge declared a mistrial in the sentencing phase of her murder trial Thursday, after the jury could not agree on whether to sentence Arias to death or to life in prison for murdering her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in 2008.

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Related Topix: Death Penalty

Boston Herald

Jurors deadlock on Jodi Arias penalty; retrial set

Jurors who spent five months determining Jodi Arias' fate couldn't decide whether she should get life in prison or die for murdering her boyfriend, sending prosecutors back to the drawing board to rehash the shocking case of sex, lies and violence to another 12 people.

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Related Topix: Death Penalty, Mesa, AZ, Opinion

KTVK Phoenix

Mesa police substations offering MedReturn boxes

MESA, Ariz. Valley residents looking to get rid of their unwanted prescription drugs can now do so with a quick visit to a Mesa police substation.

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Related Topix: Mesa, AZ

KOLD-TV Tucson

Scottsdale police make arrest in abduction attempt

Police identify the man arrested Wednesday evening in the attempted kidnapping as 22-year-old David Vincent Talkington.

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Related Topix: Scottsdale, AZ

Sonoran News

You are invited to the FAR Open House on May 30

PHOENIX Arizona Musicfest is proud to announce the 2013/2014 Arizona Musicfest Scholarship Recipients.

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Related Topix: Phoenix, AZ, Arizona, Tempe, AZ, Scottsdale, AZ

Business Journal

Magellan still fighting loss of $1B contract with new appeal

The saga continues in the fight for the $1 billion behavioral health services contract for Maricopa County.

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Wed May 22, 2013

Sonoran News

Volunteers sought for Maricopa Trail maintenance

MARICOPA COUNTY The Maricopa County Parks and Recreation Department is currently seeking individuals, organizations and agencies to assist with maintenance efforts for Maricopa Trail.

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Christian Science Monitor

Arias jury deadlocked over death penalty

Judge Sherry Stephens looks at a question from the jury with prosecutor Juan Martinez, left, and defense attorneys Jennifer Wilmott and Kirk Nurmi, right, on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 during the penalty phase of the Jodi Arias murder trial at in Phoenix.

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Related Topix: Death Penalty

Canada.com

US jury can't agree on sentence in boyfriend killing case; judge says to keep deliberating

Convicted killer Jodi Arias speaks during an interview at the Maricopa County Estrella Jail on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Phoenix.

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Related Topix: Prison, Death Penalty