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Chandler police detectives tracked Hollins down, and the Pinal County regional SWAT team made the arrest. Lamb says Benjamin Hollins, 50, has a history of dodging the law in Arizona.
May. 18, 2024
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Police said the child was seriously wounded and was airlifted to a hospital after being rescued by police. It was not clear whether the man had been taken into custody.
May. 17, 2024
A crane at the Taiwan Semiconductor facility in the Valley.
Phoenix police Sergeant Philip Krynsky said the incident, which left a 41-year-old truck driver dead, appears to be an accident when a tank holding waste material depressurized.
May. 17, 2024
Border Patrol agents fatally shot Raymond Mattia outside his home in the Tohono O’odham community of Menagers Dam the night of May 18, 2023.
May. 17, 2024
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Former University of Arizona grad student Murad Dervish is on trial for the 2022 on-campus shooting and murder of professor Thomas Meixner. Patricia Grace, Dervish’s mother, took the stand.
May. 16, 2024
Ieva Jusionyte, an anthropologist and associate professor of international security and anthropology at Brown University, talks about guns flowing from the U.S. to Mexico in her newest book, "Exit Wounds."
May. 16, 2024
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Prosecutors have a year to refile dozens of trespassing cases against pro-Palestine demonstrators arrested late last month at Arizona State University.
May. 15, 2024
San Diego became the busiest of the Border Patrol's nine sectors along the Mexican border in April for the first time since the 1990s, replacing Tucson. Overall, arrests fell more than 6% in April.
May. 15, 2024
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In a piece for the Marshall Project, independent journalist Rene Ebersole delves into some of the scientific problems with crime scene hair analysis — and how both victims’ rights groups and law enforcement are reacting.
May. 15, 2024
Arizona Capitol
HCR 2060 would make it a crime under state law to enter Arizona outside of a port of entry, and give local law enforcement the authority to carry out those arrests.
May. 14, 2024
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Dozens of trespassing cases against pro-Palestine demonstrators arrested late last month at Arizona State University were dismissed by a judge Tuesday. But prosecutors still have a year to revive them.
May. 14, 2024
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At a news conference Tuesday, police Capt. Doug Foster said there is no indication that 20-year-old sophomore Erin Jones — from Newport Beach, California — was targeted.
May. 14, 2024
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Susan Vespoli's son, Adam, was shot and killed by a former Phoenix police officer. That loss inspired a 2023 collection of poems titled, “One of Them Was Mine.”
May. 13, 2024
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Last year’s fatal shooting of a Tohono O’odham man in southern Arizona by U.S. Border Patrol agents is one example of what federal authorities call a critical incident. Congress’s watchdog wants more done by Customs and Border Protection to insure the independence of those sent to investigate these incidents.
May. 13, 2024
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Ellie Wolfe with the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson joined The Show to talk more about the pro-Palestinian protests at University of Arizona, where police shot what appeared to be rubber bullets as protesters threw rocks and water bottles at SWAT vehicles.
May. 13, 2024
A crowd listens to families and victims of sober living homes share their devastating stories at a town hall meeting organized by 'Stolen People, Stolen Benefits,' a grassroots watchdog group on Tuesday, March 26.
Arizona officials have called Medicaid fraud one of the biggest scandals in state history. Several families are suing the state for allowing fraud to continue.
May. 10, 2024
Chandler City Hall
Following the death of 16-year-old Preston Lord, the Chandler City Council this week introduced two ordinances in response to teen violence in the East Valley.
May. 10, 2024
David Rhodes
To analyze the new border security measure GOP lawmakers are looking to send to November’s ballot, a new poll on Arizona’s presidential and U.S. Senate races and more, The Show sat down with Matthew Benson of Veridus and Democratic strategist Tony Cani.
May. 10, 2024
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Witnesses have begun testifying in the trial of Murad Dervish, the former University of Arizona grad student accused of shooting a professor to death on campus. Dervish faces seven felony charges including first-degree murder.
May. 9, 2024
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County and city leaders voted unanimously this week to enact a 5-year intergovernmental agreement that will allow them to pool resources from Arizona's opioid settlement fund and work collaboratively on programming.
May. 8, 2024

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