Applications are being accepted for a vacancy created on the Superior Court in Maricopa County by the retirement of Judge Linda Akers.

Applications are being accepted for a vacancy created on the Superior Court in Maricopa County by the retirement of Judge Michael Jones.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has announced the appointment of Assistant Attorney General Boyd Dunn to the Maricopa County Superior Court.

The state’s highest-ranking justice on Wednesday appointed a retired Supreme Court justice to oversee the administration of cases among the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, the sheriff’s office, Board of Supervisors and Superior Court.

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office bomb squad has determined a suspicious package found in the plaza of the county complex in downtown Phoenix Wednesday was not a bomb.

Editor’s Note: This is the second part of the top 20 news stories for Maricopa in 2007.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Barbara Rodriguez Mundell has been named the court’s newest presiding judge, the first female and Hispanic to be so honored.

A new judge is coming to Maricopa County Superior Court in Mesa.

Judge Dean M. Fink will officially join the Maricopa County Superior Court bench on Tuesday.

When Judge Dawn Bergin received her first official gavel Friday afternoon in Phoenix, she became one of 15 new judges to join Maricopa County Superior Court since last fall. Judges say the turnover is the highest in the court’s history.

Dave Wells: In countries like Iran we regularly see dissent brutally crushed and political enemies jailed. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas are behaving in similar fashion.

Hoping for a speedy conclusion, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery on Friday asked the Arizona Supreme Court to immediately take up his challenge to the state's medical marijuana law.

The state Court of Appeals on Thursday rebuffed a request by Maricopa County to delay a medical marijuana dispensary.

Maricopa County is seeking the public’s input on nine candidates for a vacancy on the Superior Court.

Sheriff's deputies raided a Maricopa County office Wednesday and seized control of a county computer system.

Across the nation, people who wanted to become judges in state courts in recent years have been engaging in some of the nastiest and newly expensive political campaigns in history.

The second-in-command for Maricopa County Superior Court’s criminal division will hear arguments today for why he should recuse himself from all cases involving the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office.

In 1987, when Timothy Ryan graduated from law school at the University of Arizona and began practicing law in Mesa, the Maricopa County Superior Court’s office in Mesa included two judges in a strip mall.

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge did not allege racism against the county attorney’s office until after a prosecutor declined a request for a lighter sentence to a poor, black defendant, court records show.

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge did not allege racism against the county attorney’s office until after a prosecutor declined a request for a lighter sentence to a poor, black defendant, court records show.

December 9, 2004

The daughter of a Maricopa County supervisor has been sentenced in a sex case involving a teenage boy.

An ongoing showdown involving two of Maricopa County's top elected officials, the county's Board of Supervisors and the judges that preside over the county's courts has escalated into a high-stakes standoff involving criminal charges, search warrants and political posturing that appears to grow more complex by the day.

The sentencing for the daughter of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock will be delayed for about two months. Rachel Brock, 22, entered into a plea agreement in June on charges of two counts of felony child abuse for a sexual relationship with the same teenage boy molested by her mother. In April Susan Brock was sentenced to 13 years in prison.