State Treasurer David Petersen will resign his office as part of a plea deal to end a criminal investigation into his activities.

State Treasurer David Petersen will resign his office as part of a plea deal to end a criminal investigation into his activities.

Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas took a bold step last week when he announced that accused repeat felons will have to go trial if they want to avoid prison time, because they won’t be getting more sweet deals from his office.

A 20-year-old Tempe woman pleaded guilty to manslaughter Monday in the death of her newborn girl two years ago.

A Mesa man agreed on Tuesday to go to prison for an accidental shooting in January that left his friend a quadriplegic.

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs rejected an offer to plead to a lesser charge Friday, setting the stage for a June 13 trial in Maricopa County Superior Court on two counts of aggravated assault stemming from a March 2003 brawl.

January 3, 2005

In one case, a Mesa mother is accused of looking the other way while her boyfriend molested her teenage daughter.

July 31, 2004

After pleading guilty Wednesday in Scottsdale Municipal Court to a pair of criminal charges, Arizona State defensive end Connor Banks will not play in the season opener against Texas-El Paso, coach Dirk Koetter announced Friday.

The memory of Mahatma Gandhi was invoked Thursday on a busy Tempe street corner in hopes of saving a killer.

A military pilot from the United Arab Emirates is expected on Friday to change his not-guilty plea related to a sexual assault on a 14-year-old Chandler girl.

A Tempe attorney accused of shooting and wounding his girlfriend’s former boyfriend has entered a plea of not guilty.

PHOENIX - DMX has pleaded not guilty to felony drug possession and misdemeanor animal cruelty charges. A judge entered the plea for the musician-actor (real name: Earl Simmons) at a brief court hearing Thursday. Simmons was late for court.

NEW YORK - A construction worker who admitted strangling actress Adrienne Shelly while robbing her apartment and then hanging her body to make it look like a suicide pleaded guilty Thursday to manslaughter.

RICHMOND, Va. - Michael Vick apologized to the NFL and his Atlanta Falcons teammates Monday for "using bad judgment and making bad decisions" and vowed to redeem himself of charges in a dogfighting case.

In a vehicular homicide case that initially sought the death penalty, a Fountain Hills man driving the wrong way on Loop 101 in Scottsdale pleaded guilty on Tuesday to second-degree murder in the death of a young man killed in the crash.

GLENDALE, Calif. - Nicole Richie's lawyer appeared in court Tuesday without her client and entered a not guilty plea on Richie's behalf to a driving under the influence charge.

An Ohio woman pleaded guilty Friday in federal district court to embezzling funds from the Gila River Indian Community.