Henry Diaz Jr. didn’t make excuses when he stood before Judge Robert Gottsfield Friday, just before being sentenced for a string of armed robberies in Ahwatukee Foothills and Tempe where he used a sawed-off shotgun.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - Rodney King, whose videotaped police beating in 1991 led to deadly rioting when the officers involved were acquitted, was shot on a street corner, but his wounds were not life-threatening, police said.

Police are looking for a man and two women who took a shopping cart full of alcohol from a Chandler Walmart store and fired a shotgun blast toward its employees.

The man arrested for terrorizing small business clerks in Ahwatukee Foothills with a sawed-off shotgun during a two-month robbery spree has changed his plea to guilty and will be sentenced to prison March 1.

The man arrested for terrorizing small business clerks in Ahwatukee Foothills with a sawed-off shotgun during a two-month robbery spree has changed his plea to guilty and will be sentenced to prison March 1.

Henry Diaz Jr. has rejected a plea offer that would have sent the Ahwatukee Foothills man to prison for between 18 and 21 months.

Henry Diaz Jr. has rejected a plea offer that would have sent the Ahwatukee Foothills man to prison for between 18 and 21 months.

Of the two shotguns seized from Dale Hausner’s property on the night of his arrest, neither one had his fingerprints on them, a Mesa police fingerprint analyst testified this afternoon.

The man who confessed to two homicides in a 14-month shooting spree took the witness stand Tuesday amid heavy security and much anticipation in the trial of his co-defendant.

 The man who robs local sandwich shops and small businesses using a sawed-off shotgun struck again Monday night, his fifth or sixth robbery in the Ahwatukee Foothills area in the past month.

Police are searching for a man who has robbed a string of local sandwich and fast food locations using a sawed-off shotgun.

The man police suspect has robbed a string of Ahwatukee Foothills and Tempe businesses using a sawed-off shotgun was arrested without incident Thursday morning just after 8 a.m., as he walked out of Bashas' at 48th Street and Warner Road.

PHOENIX - Police say a young woman was killed by shotgun blasts early Tuesday as she stopped to pick up a friend at a west Phoenix home.

Mesa police responded en masse to a call from an officer in distress at 2010 N Lazona Dr. on Thursday night after he came across a man firing a shotgun at a car, a police spokesman said.

Tempe police released on Friday the name of the second man suspected in shooting a shotgun several times at a Tempe hamburger joint.

MARRERO, La. - Anonymous tips led police investigating a 12-hour spree of murder, rape and robbery on the west bank of New Orleans and suburban Jefferson Parish to the wanted man, in Arizona.