More officers are joining the hunt for two criminals in a series of rapes and shootings, and new billboards are urging residents to help. While Phoenix residents have known for months that two serial killers are striking their neighborhoods, Mesa residents now face the possibility that the crime spree has spilled into their streets.

The Arizona State basketball team is looking for a few good shooters. It’s coach Rob Evans’ job to find them, however limited his options may be.

The Arizona State basketball team is looking for a few good shooters. It’s coach Rob Evans’ job to find them, however limited his options may be.

The man who tipped off investigators to the identities of the suspected Serial Shooters has died.

BLACKSBURG, Va. - Virginia Tech shut down its campus Monday and ordered everyone to remain inside as authorities searched for an escaped inmate suspected of killing a hospital guard and a sheriff's deputy.

In “Shooter,” Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg (“The Departed”) fights fascism, murder and political corruption the way Arnold Schwarzenegger once did, by absolutely obliterating everything that moves. Sure, there’s some contextual stuff about greed and the exploitation of power, but mostly it’s just Wahlberg wasting people. For justice.

Neighbors heard a single gunshot Sunday night and rushed out to find a young woman dressed only in pajamas and blue fuzzy slippers dying on the street corner.

GENEVA, Ala. - In the days before he killed 10 people and himself in the worst massacre in Alabama history, Michael McLendon told a confidant he was unfulfilled and depressed by his failure to become a police officer or a Marine.

PHOENIX - As the city shuttered itself in fear of serial killers this summer, Ron Horton found himself having an odd conversation with an old drinking buddy.

Jurors are set to hear opening arguments on Monday in the trial against Dale Hausner, accused of being one of two Serial Shooters that roamed the Valley for more than a year, killing eight people and wounding at least 17 others.

Mesa police will beef up patrols now that investigators believe Sunday's shooting death of a 22-year-old woman was connected to one of two Valleywide crime sprees that have claimed the lives of 14 people. The death of Robin Blasnek marked the second Mesa shooting in nine days that police believe were carried out by the Serial Shooter.

Mesa police will beef up patrols now that investigators believe Sunday's shooting death of a 22-year-old woman was connected to one of two Valleywide crime sprees that have claimed the lives of 14 people.

He rolled his eyes. He flailed his arms. He yelled. He cursed. He did everything but spit. Defense attorney Ken Everett did his best Tuesday to try to discredit a key witness in the case against his client, Serial Shooter suspect Dale Hausner.

When a key witness in the Serial Shooters case died last week, police and prosecutors were tight-lipped about whether it would hurt their case against the two Mesa men accused of the killings.

Serial Shooter suspect Dale Hausner never seemed depressed to those who knew him. But on Monday, guards at Maricopa County’s Fourth Avenue Jail found Hausner unconscious in a pool of vomit from what authorities believe was a suicide attempt with over-the-counter antihistamine tablets.

It was a standard-sized piece of paper with a cryptic handwritten message: “He who asks about the $5 bill is a homicidal maniac, arsonist, thief, destroyer of property, drug using god among mortals.” Police found the inscription lying on the kitchen counter in the apartment of the men accused in the Serial Shooter case, court records show.

It was a standard-sized piece of paper with a cryptic handwritten message: “He who asks about the $5 bill is a homicidal maniac, arsonist, thief, destroyer of property, drug using god among mortals.” Police found the inscription lying on the kitchen counter in the apartment of the men accused in the Serial Shooter case, court records show.

November 30, 2004

An armored car guard was shot and killed Monday in an ambushstyle robbery at an Ahwatukee Foothills movie theater.