Video shows moments before Maricopa County inmate death
PHOENIX — This is the video Ricci Delk didn’t want to see, but felt he needed. “I have no regrets. I need to know,” Derk said. On Tuesday morning she received two DVDs provided by the government. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office It shows the day her son, Adam Delk, died in prison at Phoenix’s 4th […]
Arizona boy hospitalized twice before death in state care
A 9-year-old boy who died last year While in the care of the Arizona Department of Child Welfare In the weeks leading up to his death, he was hospitalized twice for life-threatening diabetes complications, according to autopsy reports released this month. The state detained Jacob Blodgett on Dec. 9 after his father, Richard Blodgett, was […]
Court reinstates death penalty for man who killed University of Arizona professor
On Friday, the Arizona Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty for a man believed to have murdered University of Arizona music professor Roy Johnson in 1995. The judge said Beau Greene was sentenced to death under the law of the time that those who committed murder for money were entitled to ultimate punishment.(File photo) On […]
Iowa man pleads guilty to sending death threats to Arizona election official
Mail-in ballots will be counted at Maricopa County Elections Headquarters in Phoenix on October 20, 2020. An Iowa man pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to charges of threatening then-Arizona Attorney General Mark Brunovich and election officials for the Maricopa County Oversight Board in 2021. Age 64, according to the FBI Mark Rissi left a […]
Altercation ends in shooting death
Posted by: Staff April 6, 2023 April 5, 2023 at approximately 2:50 p.m. Graham County Communicationsreceived a domestic situation call at the 400 block of W. Rustler Road, Safford.The caller said a man was shot. Member of Safford Police Department and Graham County Sheriff’s OfficeUpon arriving at the scene, they found one man with a […]
Missouri tornado death toll up to 5 as crews search rubble
JIM SALTER and SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Pressst. LOUIS (AP) — At least five people were killed and another number is unknown when a large tornado tore through an area in southeastern Missouri before dawn on Wednesday, officials said.The Twister caused significant destruction in and around the small rural communities of Glen Allen and Grassy, Bollinger […]
Death and Justice on the Border: A Migrant Is Killed, a Rancher Is Charged
Kino Springs, Arizona — Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea was sliding down a rancher’s land near the Mexican border when the shootings began. “I was beaten,” he said, but his eyes went round and he fell face down in a mesquite tree. For the rural sheriff of Santa Cruz County, Arizona, this account, given by a witness, and […]
Phoenix man sentenced after drunken driving led to girlfriend’s death
A Phoenix man has been sentenced to death in October 2021 after driving under the influence of more than four times the legal limit of blood alcohol in his girlfriend. Maricopa County Senior Judge Chuck Whitehead has sentenced George E. Johnson, 39, to 10 years in prison for the manslaughter of Tamirah Washington, 38. In […]
Woman Is Arrested in Death of a Young Girl in Graham County
SAFORD, Arizona (AP) — A woman was arrested in connection with the death of a girl whose body was found in Graham County almost two years ago, officials said Wednesday. A county sheriff’s official said 38-year-old Amber Langley is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder in addition to theft and fraudulent schemes and schemes. […]
Four years pass since tragic death of Her’s Barrow musician
Her’s Stephen Joshua Fitzpatrick was just 24 when he died in a crash on March 27, 2019. The singer-guitarist was in the backseat when a 15-passenger tour bus collided with a pick-up truck traveling the wrong way on a road in La Paz County, Arizona. Joshua passed away along with another member of the band, […]
