MEXICO CITY — Police have arrested five men accused of dozens of murders, including two mass killings at drug treatment centers in this northern Mexico border city.

MEXICO CITY - Videos showing Leon police practicing torture techniques on a fellow officer and dragging another through vomit at the instruction of a U.S. adviser created an uproar Tuesday in Mexico, which has struggled to eliminate torture in law enforcement.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Intense house-to-house fighting between insurgents and Iraqi police north of Baghdad killed 43 people, including 24 officers, the U.S. military said Friday. U.S. troops later joined the fight, aiding in a counterattack that left 18 insurgents dead, the military said.

The windows looking into the now-closed Mini Mart convenience store at the Peaks at Papago Park apartment complex are dark.

The windows looking into the now-closed Mini Mart convenience store at the Peaks at Papago Park apartment complex are dark.

The windows looking into the now-closed Mini Mart convenience store at the Peaks at Papago Park apartment complex are dark.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Drug cartels are sending a brutal message to police and soldiers in cities across Mexico: Join us or die.

February 2, 2005

More than two years after the statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled, former Scottsdale Police Chief Michael Heidingsfield, speaking from the center of the desert storm, is not the voice of sunny optimism.

September 20, 2004

Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress, distinguished guests and fellow citizens:

Authorities say a Maricopa man is in custody for allegedly firing at a car that carried his 1-year-old son.

PHOENIX — The family of a prisoner who died in one of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's jails filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging officers beat the mentally ill man and shot him with a stun gun in an unprovoked attack that marked another example of the "culture of cruelty" in the lockups.

As Haiti dissolves deeper into chaos, the White House will come under growing pressure to dispatch U.S. troops, but it is rightly reluctant to do so.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Flowers and candles piled up Sunday outside the home where a TV anchorwoman was found brutally beaten, as tributes poured into the Web site of the Little Rock station where her colleagues mourned her death.

It's not just the United States and its allies that have something big to lose if violence derails hopes for an Iraqi democracy, but the Iraqi people.

“To one who vents: ‘Why do law abiding citizens need assault rifles?’ As long as police forces and governments worldwide use tools like this to impose laws and policies, I will support a citizen’s right to carry those same tools to protect themselves. The 2nd Amendment has been protecting citizens from criminals and tyrants since Dec. 15, 1791. The 2nd Amendment is not for hunting …”

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, MX - More than 130 inmates escaped from a prison in northern Mexico through a tunnel on Monday, setting off a search by police and soldiers in an area close to the U.S. border.

PARIS - Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy won the French presidency by a comfortable margin Sunday and immediately signaled his victory would mean friendly relations with the United States.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio took his controversial "crime suppression" sweeps to the West Valley on Wednesday, stopping vehicles during afternoon rush hour in and around Surprise and Sun City.

NASHIK, India - Two bombs rigged to bicycles tore through a crowd of Muslim worshippers leaving Friday afternoon prayers at a mosque, killing 31 people and injuring 100 in what a top official called "a terrorist act".

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen opened fire on a convoy of Iraqi Sunni pilgrims bound for the holy city of Mecca on Sunday, killing at least one person, while U.S. forces said they killed 17 insurgents preparing to ambush American troops.

Don’t look now, but Valley cynicism towards the president of the United States is about to get worse. At least, there is plenty good reason for the cynicism worsen.

After nearly three years, the little girl’s name still stands out among those who can’t forget her, the little girl who was a victim of what Chandler police detectives described as the worse case of fatal child abuse they had ever seen.