Banks and other financial institutions will have a powerful new tool starting later this month to combat identity theft across Arizona.

We are inviting everyone to the free "Help Stop Senior Financial Exploitation" presentation on Oct. 22 from 1-3 p.m. at PORA Adult Learning Center in Sun City West (RSVP (623) 584-4288 ext. 415). We are abused and exploited seniors who have been fighting for our rights and for other seniors’ rights for over three years. Our efforts have been recently rewarded by the discovery that our former slumlord is a Medicare fraud felon. His termination has stopped him from continuing to abuse and exploit more seniors. Unfortunately, he was allowed to harm seniors for nearly eight years at a local senior living facility.

Banks and other financial institutions will have a powerful new tool starting later this month to combat identity theft across Arizona.

A Scottsdale man who swindled millions from investors was handcuffed in court Friday and led off for his first day of an 18-month sentence.

August 21, 2004

Some characters are so despicable and manipulative that the audience should desire to see them receive the most dreadful comeuppance. Despite all of their shameful wrongdoings though, we can’t help but hope that these characters will triumph over the alleged good guys. Who isn’t gunning to see Walter White come out on top in the final season of “Breaking Bad?”

SARASOTA, Fla. - In this quaint seaside community, Arthur G. Nadel was looked upon as a trusted and generous philanthropist.

Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard is slated to host an "anti-crime university" for seniors in Sun Lakes on March 24.

WASHINGTON — Before her Supreme Court nomination, Sonia Sotomayor put some crooks in prison and cut others some slack.

The legislative testimony, the press conference and the boycotts over SB 1070 are pretty much all history. And its architect is gone, the victim of a recall.

BEIJING - U.S. and North Korean financial experts met Tuesday over Washington's campaign to isolate the communist country from the international banking system, the key stumbling block in negotiations over Pyongyang's nuclear program.

Facing complaints of financial harm from cities and counties, the state Department of Public Safety has agreed to cut what it will charge for work performed by the agency's crime lab.

A central Mesa neighborhood coping with crime — but with two active residential groups on its side — has been named the city’s second "opportunity zone."

September 24, 2004

Mesa hotels are cooperating with a push to clean up the industry, police say, after the city proposed new regulations to reduce high crime levels at the most problematic establishments.

FLAGSTAFF — Attorneys for self-help expert James Arthur Ray say the deaths of three people in a sweat lodge ceremony he led were not the result of criminal negligence.

Bill Richardson: This year marked the 10th anniversary of the abduction of 11-year-old Mikelle Biggs from her Mesa neighborhood. One minute she was there, the next minute she was gone. In the 1980s, there were two other noncustodial child kidnappings in the East Valley. Those children were found alive. None of the abductors were identified. 

Bill Richardson: Arizona Revised Statutes 11-441 says the "powers and duties" of the sheriff are to arrest all persons who commit a public offense and serve process and notices in the manner prescribed by law.

A program in the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office allowed deputies to cash in for years on a nearly unlimited bank of overtime to patrol the politically influential Saddlebrooke community in the southern part of the county.

The thick glossy crime prevention guide that dropped from tens of thousands of Valley newspapers Friday morning caught many by surprise, including the people who supposedly paid for it -- the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.

Job creation, good economics and low crime rates have landed Chandler on a list of America's best cities, according to 24/7 Wall St., a Delaware corporation that delivers financial news and opinion. Chandler was named the ninth best-run city in America at 247wallst.com. Citing that the most important function of local government is to encourage businesses to prosper and create jobs, writers found a lot of positives to say about Chandler.

Mesa’s most problematic convenience stores will face new regulations as police look to crack down on stores where beer runs and other crime are common.

Analyzing the DNA samples of youngsters who have not been found guilty of any crime is an unconstitutional warrantless search, the Arizona Supreme Court has ruled.

Whenever people are struck with some sort of moral outrage, often their all-too-automatic reaction is to seek more government. More often than not, however, additional regulation provides temporary security for some, no change in the status quo for most and a loss of precious liberty for others.