Leaders of Maricopa County’s health system are evaluating the merits of closing down the aging Maricopa Medical Center and building a new hospital near a proposed medical school in downtown Phoenix.

February 9, 2005

The death of a 64-year-old Tempe woman who was discovered dead inside her home by a caretaker on Friday morning, has been declared a homicide.

When Shannon Aumock was 10 years old, a psychologist asked her during an interview what she would want on her tombstone if she were to die because of her continued behavior of running away and constant run-ins with the law.

When Shannon Aumock was 10 years old, a psychologist asked her during an interview what she would want on her tombstone if she were to die because of her continued behavior of running away and constant run-ins with the law.

The Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office determined Thursday that a 4-year-old Gilbert-area boy’s death a day after his mother found him tangled in a swing set was accidental and due to not getting enough oxygen to the brain.

The Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office will conduct an autopsy Thursday on a 4-year-old boy who died Tuesday, a day after his mother found him entangled in a swing set in the backyard of the family’s home.

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.

The cause of death for a 19-year-old female Paradise Valley Community College student who died after a visit to her psychology professor's home in April has been determined to be an accidental cocaine overdose.

Scottsdale police are investigating leads from a decades-old cold case involving the death of a suspected Phoenix prostitute after a resident found a human femur in a north Scottsdale wash.

A single-vehicle crash that killed a Chandler man likely will be ruled a fatal collision due to a medical condition, a police spokesman said.

Ahwatukee Foothills doctor Lynn Sweet, whose medical license was suspended for a second time this summer in an "emergency action" by state regulators, said Tuesday that he has sold his practice to another doctor in a bid to keep it open.

Ahwatukee Foothills doctor Lynn Sweet, whose medical license was suspended for a second time this summer in an "emergency action" by state regulators, said Tuesday that he has sold his practice to another doctor in a bid to keep it open.

Two Goodyear police officers have been cleared of wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of a robbery suspect earlier this year.

Gilbert police Chief Tim Dorn said it was unfortunate an 18-year-old man died 11 hours after being shocked by a police Taser, but the officers involved followed proper procedure.

Five Mesa police officers who were placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of a criminal investigation in connection with an incident at a Mesa motel that involved a fetus being flushed down a toilet are back to work, but an internal investigation into the matter has begun.

Maricopa County Sheriff deputies are continuing to investigate the death of an 88-year-old Mesa woman and trying to locate her grandson who was living with her at the time her body was in a decomposed state inside her residence.

A 25-year-old Luke Air Force Base military officer died last week following complications related to the H1N1 virus, according to preliminary autopsy results from the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office released Thursday.

A report examining more than 400 sex-crime cases that were inadequately investigated or not looked into at all by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office attributes the failures to understaffing and mismanagement, including hundreds of pieces of evidence intended for storage that were instead left in offices or taken home by detectives.

August 11, 2004

October 18, 2004

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against a man charged in the 2003 murder of an elderly disabled Mesa man.