Speaking passionately about crime trends in the Valley, police detective Kevin Koliboski drove his compact car into a field of retirement homes being built along a plush golf course lined with palm trees in east Mesa. The houses with Spanish-tile roofs and covered patios sit on land that once was just desert that ran for miles to the foothills of the Superstition Mountains.

February 7, 2005

Junkyards and scrap collectors. Recycling centers and environmentalists. These two phrases may trigger different images, depending on your age and other factors but they’re basically the same thing.

Scottsdale police said two men arrested on suspicion of stealing copper piping earlier this week are part of a larger ring that has been stealing the valuable metal from construction sites and businesses all over the Valley.

Speaking passionately about crime trends in the Valley, police detective Kevin Koliboski drove his compact car into a field of retirement homes being built along a plush golf course lined with palm trees in east Mesa.

A Phoenix-based construction company has received two citations and fines of $105,000 after a Mesa worker died in May when he was buried alive at a Queen Creek construction site.

Phoenix police have released the identity of a woman's body found in a canal Wednesday.

Despite more than a decade of educational efforts and nearly $1 billion in repairs in the United States, many East Valley homeowners are still unaware they had faulty water pipelines put in their homes between 1978 and 1995.

A 25-year-old construction worker helping lay large drainage pipes in a hole died after a wall of dirt crushed him inside a pipe Thursday morning near downtown Queen Creek.

The son of an Apache Junction City Councilman accused of hitting a Mesa man in the back with a metal pipe during a road rage incident last year entered a not-guilty plea at his arraignment Friday in Pinal County Superior Court.

Homeowners who survived the initial onslaught of harsh weather late last week might still want to take a number of precautions, as late-night temperatures are expected to stay in the low- to mid-30s through at least Tuesday.

Mesa police said a suspicious looking device in a student’s backpack forced Thursday morning’s two-hour lockdown at Red Mountain High School.

Van's Warped Tour, the annual touring music and extreme sports festival, comes to Cricket Wireless Pavilion in west Phoenix on Tuesday.

A Scottsdale police officer shot and killed a man who was reportedly wielding a metal pipe early today on Hayden Road.

Mesa police said they applaud an 8-year-old girl after she fought off an attempted kidnapper about 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the 1300 block of west Vine Avenue, near Broadway and Alma School roads.

An unemployed cook will be spending life in prison for bludgeoning a Phoenix manicurist to death with a metal pipe in a south Scottsdale parking lot nearly 4 1/2 years ago, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled.

Police have arrested a man they say was involved in a string of copper thefts that have spread throughout south Scottsdale for the last several months.

Police have arrested a man they say was involved in a string of copper thefts that have spread throughout south Scottsdale for the last several months.

A man who Scottsdale police shot and killed Wednesday night had driven his vehicle into the wall of a former friend’s home and attacked him with a pipe before fleeing to his residence in Mesa, according to police and a 911 call released Friday.

A man who Scottsdale police shot and killed Wednesday night had driven his vehicle into the wall of a former friend’s home and attacked him with a pipe before fleeing to his residence in Mesa, according to police and a 911 call released Friday.

Resign to run

The son of former Apache Junction Vice Mayor Robert Eck Jr. also is facing aggravated assault-related charges in connection with an alleged road rage incident involving his father more than a year ago.

Thefts of copper piping from air-conditioning units on the roofs of commercial buildings throughout Scottsdale are heating up and spreading like an epidemic.