Some East Valley schools could find themselves without police officers in their hallways this fall as a state school safety program faces a $3.7 million budget shortfall.

COOLIDGE - Four undocumented immigrants have been turned over to Border Patrol agents after Pinal County Sheriff's deputies tried to stop a vehicle in Coolidge Friday.

A $1,000 reward has been offered in Pinal County for information about two bank robberies, one on Nov. 23 in Arizona City and one Monday in Coolidge.

There is a $1,000 reward in Pinal County for information about two bank robberies, one on Nov 23 in Arizona City and one on Monday in Coolidge.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced late last month that more than $100 million in grant funding was available for projects in rural Arizona communities, including the Gila River Indian Community and the city of Maricopa.

The Pinal County Narcotics Task Force this week added an investigator from the Apache Junction Police Department. The task force, led by the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, includes Florence, Eloy and Coolidge police departments. The Casa Grande Police Department will add a detective to the unit later this year.

A 28-year-old Casa Grande man was sentenced to 9.2 years in prison for his role in one of Pinal County’s largest drug busts.

A Pinal County Employee Merit Commission issued a formal order Monday to rehire, with full back pay, a sheriff's deputy who admitted to illegally using a police database.

The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, working with the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, will conduct a DUI task force on Friday and Saturday from 5 p.m. to 3 a.m., the sheriff’s office said over the weekend.

Bomb technicians in Pinal County can relax a tad as a new $250,000 robot will replace the need to send a lone officer into a building to defuse explosives.

Police wearing tactical gear infiltrated Casa Grande neighborhoods Thursday, searching the homes of gang members and arresting 17 people believed to be linked to a criminal syndicate that evolved over several generations.

Pinal County sheriff’s Deputy Ben Cobb’s white cruiser becomes a blur as it zips past traffic, lights flashing and sirens blaring, on the way to the first of many emergency calls of the day.

A 19-year-old Mesa man was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault and DUI in connection with a street racing crash, one of three unrelated crashes Friday in the East Valley.

A severed Qwest fiber-optic loop in the south East Valley left thousands in central Arizona without communications Thursday, creating a state of emergency for police and fire departments.

January 14, 2005

Chandler could impose new limits on early morning and late night construction in an attempt to clear up years of confusion about when exactly noisy activity is allowed to happen.

The East Unit Bike Shop sits secured within a towering chain-link perimeter that’s topped with barbed wire at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Florence.

A Pinal County employee commission has tentatively rehired a sheriff's deputy fired in 2007 for illegally using a police database and amid allegations of domestic violence.

A large number of Pinal County residents could soon be forced to put their vehicles through emissions testing.

An ex-convict who killed his former girlfriend in 1990 and is suspected in the Mother’s Day shooting death of another woman was found dead in his car Monday.

An ex-convict who killed his former girlfriend in 1990 and is suspected in the Mother’s Day shooting death of another woman was found dead in his car Monday.

In the height of Arizona’s housing boom in 2003, Mesa held more than 460 acres of cotton farms and desert in south Gilbert that the city’s real estate broker would soon turn into gold.

Mesa came out for the first time Thursday with a list prioritizing $37.7 million in possible budget cuts if some sort of new tax isn’t approved.

Mesa came out for the first time Thursday with a list prioritizing $37.7 million in possible budget cuts if some sort of new tax isn’t approved.