You can’t pick up the paper or turn on the news without hearing about yet another Arizona police officer being fired or investigated for a crime or violating their department’s rules of conduct.

Deputies say the man allegedly admitted hitting his girlfriend in the face and head repeatedly with a bat during an argument.

A federal judge on Friday found the department run by the self-professed "toughest sheriff in America'' was guilty of racial profiling and ordered the agency's practices permanently halted.

"Reasonable Doubt" is The East Valley Tribune's five-part series investigating the hidden costs of the MCSO's immigration enforcement efforts... winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting. First published July 9-13, 2008.

It’s official: Jodi Arias is guilty of 1st Degree Murder in the death of Travis Alexander.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is looking for the person who allegedly lured a 10-year-old girl into his car in Queen Creek.

A driver involved in a deadly hit-and-run east of the Valley Wednesday morning may also be to blame for a second fatal crash, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.

“A group of parents in petitioning Mesa Schools to give teachers a raise. The average teaching salary in MPS is $54,398. If teachers can’t figure out how to live on a salary that is nearly double the average salary for the general population of Mesa, how are they smart enough to teach children?”

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office says 11 people have been arrested in an operation targeting false identifications used to gain employment.

A Phoenix group says it doesn't want Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's volunteer posse to patrol their kid's schools in the Roosevelt School District.

Joe Arpaio is the best sheriff ever in the history of Maricopa County! No, he’s the worst Maricopa County sheriff ever!

It was the system.

Harry Lopresti goes to the Maricopa County Animal Care and Control shelter in Mesa every day after work to give treats out to the dogs waiting to be adopted. On January 22nd, he came across a pitbull in kennel 146 who was struggling with his hind leg.

Maricopa County sheriff's deputies have raided a Tempe company and arrested 27 employees.

With the opening of the state legislative session, school safety soon took center stage.

PHOENIX - A Mesa high school student, who was arrested last month for allegedly plotting to kill herself and some of her peers, will not be tried as an adult.

MESA, AZ - Authorities say three guns were found in the home of a Mesa high school student arrested Thursday for threats to kill herself and some of her peers.

FOUR PEAKS - A scout troop involving Two adults and six children ages 12 to 13 were found to be okay, after they went missing Saturday night in the Four Peaks area.

Deputies discovered a 30-year-old man with a gunshot wound in front of a known drug house in Mesa Thursday afternoon, Maricopa County Sheriff's Office reports.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio won again.

Five people were arrested Wednesday evening and a man was rushed to the hospital after a shooting and barricade in an East Valley neighborhood.

Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies had their hands full Wednesday night when they tried to stop a car on the Interstate 10 near Wild Horse Pass in Chandler.

Authorities have identified a man and woman found dead in a trailer in Mesa as they continue to search for suspects in the double homicide.

Just in time for Halloween, the Tempe Police Department is trying to make the city safer through a more detailed sex offender database program with real-time information now accessible to the public.