Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas announced a few minutes ago that investigators from his office have busted four people on murder charges in the 2005 “assisted suicide” death of a seriously mentally ill Phoenix woman. New Times broke the news of this unusual and tragic case in 2007 in an…

We’ve gotten several e-mails in the last few days wondering what happened in the sentencing phase of recently convicted cop killer Donnie Delahanty. Short answer — nothing yet. Superior Court Judge Warren Granville has been off this week, and the jury is not scheduled to reconvene until Monday, May 18. At…

We did a double-take   The story spoke of a filly named Rachel Alexandra, who may be running against the guys next week at the Preakness, the second leg of racing’s Triple Crown. “She is a graceful athlete,” Rachel’s owner said of the record-breaking filly with the big white stripe running…

A Maricopa County jury convicted Donnie Delahanty today of murdering veteran Phoenix police officer David Uribe in the first degree. Delahanty faces a minimum sentence of life without parole when the jury recovenes to consider his punishment. The 22-year-old California native also could be sentenced to death.  Delahanty stared straight ahead…

Later this morning, a Maricopa County jury will announce its verdicts in the first-degree murder case of Donnie Delahanty, who stands accused of killing veteran Phoenix police officer David Uribe (in the photo) in May 2005.Authorities accused Delahanty, now 22, of shooting Officer Uribe to death during a routine traffic…

Doug Grant, the onetime Phoenix Suns nutritionist convicted last month of manslaughter was scheduled to be sentenced Friday, May 1. But Vincent Funari, the able public information officer for the Maricopa County Superior Court, just sent out an e-mail to announce that Grant’s sentencing has been postponed until further notice because…

The first-degree murder case of accused cop killer Donald Delahanty is in the hands of a Maricopa County jury.    Superior Court Judge Warren Granville sent the 12-person     panel home yesterday afternoon after opposing attorneys completed closing arguments in the death penalty trial.   The jurors were scheduled…

On the morning of Friday, April 17, under a brilliant blue sky reminiscent of a terrible day almost four years ago, David Uribe’s friends and family gathered on West Cactus Road near 33rd Avenue. Weeks ago, the Phoenix Police Department scheduled the memorial service and street-sign dedication to the fallen…

More than one source we know and trust has told us that all signs are pointing to longtime Democatic politico Dennis Burke as the next United States Attorney for Arizona. Burke previously served as chief of staff to former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano and worked closely with Napolitano when she was Attorney…

We got to know Mike Polk a little during our year hanging out with a Phoenix Police Department homicide squad for our “Murder City” series. Mike was in another squad up on the third floor at 620 West Washington, but he was an approachable, kind of goofy guy with a sense…

The folks at the Arizona Department of Gaming are convinced that onetime Phoenix Justice of the Peace Harold “Bud” Lee isn’t playing with a full deck. It infuriates them that the 64-year-old Tombstone resident continues, as they see it, to break the law and laugh in their faces as he…

The driver who says front-seat passenger Donald Delahanty fired four bullets in Phoenix police officer David Uribe’s face back in May 2005 took the witness stand Tuesday at Delahanty’s first-degree murder trial. The underlying question to Chris Wilson’s terse, stark, and generally believable testimony was: Why? Why in the world…

We dropped in yesterday at the first-degree murder trial of Donnie Delahanty, a young Phoenix man who, on May 10, 2005, followed through on a promise he had been making to pals: If some cop, any cop, pulled him over when he was in a car, he’d shoot the son-of-a-bitch…

The juror, a thoughtful woman who teaches art to elementary school children, started dreaming about the case during the trial. “The other jurors and myself were lost in a forest, and we couldn’t find our way back out,” she says. “There was a cabin, and Doug Grant was in there…

The pivotal moment in Doug Grant’s murder trial came without fanfare. Former Phoenix Suns nutritionist and vitamin-supplement entrepreneur Grant was accused of committing the ultimate crime: the first-degree murder of his wife, Faylene, at their Gilbert home as three of their young children were in another part of the house…

Doug Grant sits in the Maricopa County Jail tonight, the consequence of a deeply flawed life and the vagaries of the criminal-justice system. A 12-person jury convicted the one-time Phoenix Suns   nutritionist of manslaughter in the death of his wife Faylene. It was the least serious (though definitely nothing…

It’s been exactly two weeks since the jury in the Doug Grant murder case began to deliberate his fate. The panel returned to work this morning, and some close to the case suspect that a verdict finally may be near. The basis for that belief are questions the jury has had in the past…

An attorney who recently left a top spot at the State Bar of Arizona says Maricopa County sheriff’s detectives recently questioned him in Flagstaff about his alleged “intimidation” of another lawyer with close ties to Andrew Thomas. That attorney, Bob Van Wyck, says he was baffled by the unannounced visit…