In a 3-1 vote, with Supervisors Andy Kunasek, Don Stapley and Fulton Brock approving and Mary Rose Wilcox voting no, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors approved the purchase by the county Sheriff's Office of a $456,000 bus to transport inmates.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio vowed Friday night to reduce crime in a troubled county island in east Mesa where a family of five was gunned down and a girl was abducted.

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Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's attorneys have filed another lawsuit against county officials, claiming administrators have conflicts of interest that prevent them from choosing lawyers for Arpaio.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is expanding an online database of Valley residents with outstanding warrants in hopes they will turn themselves in.

Deputy Abel Porras had just started to consider where he might eat dinner Thursday night when the urgent voice of a Pinal County Sheriff’s Office dispatcher barged onto the radio frequency: A 20-year-old man had been found in his garage hanging from a rope.

Deputy Abel Porras had just started to consider where he might eat dinner Thursday night when the urgent voice of a Pinal County Sheriff’s Office dispatcher barged onto the radio frequency: A 20-year-old man had been found in his garage hanging from a rope.

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu has been named 2011 Sheriff of the Year by the National Sheriffs' Association. The Ferris E. Lucas Award will be presented to him at the opening session of the association's annual conference in June.

A lawsuit over Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s webcams has resulted in a victory for 11 inmates, with each person receiving $500.

More than 200 armed sheriff’s posse members and deputies are patrolling an 80-acre Maricopa County island in north Tempe 24 hours a day, seven days per week, officials said.

SAN TAN VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu has announced the formation of an exploratory committee for Congressional District 4.

WASHINGTON - A Georgia Republican on Monday criticized Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik for linking Saturday's shooting in Arizona with hostile political rhetoric.

A Mesa attorney with ties to Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley has begun the legal process to recoup any money the county attorney's office and sheriff's office might have improperly spent for a custom bus and to hire special prosecutors.

Sheriff's deputies raided a Maricopa County office Wednesday and seized control of a county computer system.

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu placed two members of his command staff on paid administrative leave Wednesday pending the outcome of investigations for two separate incidents involving deception and criminal wrongdoing.