There were four notable incidents concerning drinking and driving Friday.

Auditors warned the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office about a dysfunctional payroll system six months before an overtime spending crisis erupted this week.

Sheriff's deputies and immigrant advocates are on a collision course that will send them to two busy intersections in Phoenix where day laborers gather.

With little more than two weeks left until the primary election, Sheriff Joe Arpaio is holding a commanding lead in the latest poll over Republican challenger Dan Saban.

At least three K-9 handlers from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s office will likely be interviewed in the coming weeks by the defense team for a Chandler officer accused of a crime in the death of his own police dog.

A Chandler police officer announced this week he would like to become Pinal County’s top cop.

Queen Creek’s Fire Department recently celebrated its first birthday, but another decade will likely pass before the town assembles its own police force. Last week, town officials began negotiating a contract with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. That pact would keep deputies patrolling Queen Creek through 2013.

Officials in Carefree may have nettled Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for the last time.

Officials in Carefree may have nettled Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for the last time.

Several groups who oppose Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio staged protests and rallies during last week’s court proceedings into allegations of racial profiling by his agency during immigration sweeps. So now, those who support the sheriff are planning a rally in support of him.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio decided Monday to keep his deputies in Cave Creek. Last week, Arpaio threatened to discontinue a contract providing police protection and enforcement to the town of 3,700 people — a threat he said he made because he didn’t like how town officials in neighboring Carefree have been talking about his deputies. The towns share a station.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio decided Monday to keep his deputies in Cave Creek. Last week, Arpaio threatened to discontinue a contract providing police protection and enforcement to the town of 3,700 people — a threat he said he made because he didn’t like how town officials in neighboring Carefree have been talking about his deputies. The towns share a station.

The Lucas County Sheriff’s office in Toledo, Ohio, has suspended the use of Taser stun guns following the death of a suspect who had been shocked nine times.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is on a quest to arm more volunteers to compensate for budget cuts that will leave fewer deputies on the street, officials said.

Joe Arpaio has quietly filed thousands of signatures to qualify for the November ballot as he seeks to win a fifth term as Maricopa County sheriff. Since last week, Arpaio has turned in more than 12,000 signatures from registered voters with the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office.

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office will end out-of-state extraditions for other Valley police departments, leaving the task in the hands of the agencies who arrested the fugitives before they went on the lam.

Maricopa County leaders on Wednesday backed Sheriff Joe Arpaio's decision to pull out of the tiny town of Guadalupe, essentially sending residents there further down the path to being left without a police force.

The criminal case against Phoenix New Times may be over, but the ongoing feud between the alternative newsweekly and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office continues.

Maricopa County Sheriff's officers arrested in a man and a woman Wednesday morning in connection with a shooting in an MCSO jurisdiction in Mesa early last week.

How do we get so lucky to have not one but two Sheriffs that somehow get into the National Media for all the wrong reasons. Yes folks we have Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has news conferences about the “birther issue,” his posse and his racist raids.

The Pinal County Sheriff's Office is switching to a four-day workweek for all of its employees to offset the high cost of gasoline.