Convicted serial killer Dale Hausner was sentenced to two consecutive life terms Monday, just days after receiving a half dozen death sentences.

During the past several weeks, the Tribune has published editorials regarding plagiarism on the part of Pinal County Sheriff Chris Vasquez, and the Arizona Peace Office Standards and Training Board response to the issue.

LOS ANGELES - Lindsay Lohan is about to see dead people. The 21-year-old actress will soon be working at a morgue as part of her punishment for misdemeanor drunken driving, her attorney, Blair Berk, told a judge Thursday.

NEW YORK - Indiana’s Ron Artest, Jermaine O’Neal and Stephen Jackson, and Detroit’s Ben Wallace were suspended indefinitely by the NBA on Saturday for taking part in one of the ugliest brawls in U.S. sports history, a fight with fans that commissioner David Stern called ‘‘shocking, repulsive and inexcusable.’’

Appeals court judges expressed skepticism Wednesday that prosecutors in the case against Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley can be sanctioned for the release of a sealed document to the Tribune.

A city of Chandler fact-finding group upheld the discipline handed down to Sgt. Tom Lovejoy after he ran his own license plate through a police computer, according to documents released Monday.

 LOS ANGELES - UCLA Medical Center has disciplined an employee for snooping in Farrah Fawcett's medical records, the hospital said Wednesday, a few weeks after announcing that several employees were fired for taking peeks at Britney Spears' files.

Legislators are quickly moving foward with a bill drafted in response to a Scottsdale woman’s murder by an ex-convict who had a violent history in and out of prison.

The Phoenix Public Transit Department is pushing for the prosecution of whoever shattered a large window in a Valley Metro bus full of passengers when an object was thrown Tuesday morning in Scottsdale.

The Phoenix Public Transit Department is pushing for the prosecution of whoever shattered a large window in a Valley Metro bus full of passengers when an object was thrown Tuesday morning in Scottsdale.

FORT HOOD, Texas - Army Pfc. Lynndie England should be punished lightly for her crimes at Abu Ghraib because the Baghdad prison was a "poisonous environment" where abusive treatment of detainees was inevitable, a defense witness told a military jury Tuesday.

A pair of Tempe Public Works supervisors have been suspended without pay for a week for allowing a bikini-clad woman to hand out doughnuts during a retirement party on city property.

A pair of Tempe Public Works supervisors have been suspended without pay for a week for allowing a bikini-clad woman to hand out doughnuts during a retirement party on city property.

February 18, 2005

A 15-year-old Gilbert girl will not likely see any immediate time in juvenile corrections as punishment for disrupting Gilbert High School with a note about a Columbine-type massacre, her attorney said

There is no set timetable for the NFL to hand down any punishment to Cardinals receiver David Boston after Boston pleaded no contest to two misdemeanor DUI charges Wednesday.

We have recently witnessed the exposure of various examples of abuse by government employees. This abuse includes the theft, pilfering and misuse of public monies, and also bribery. It seems that these people do not fear being caught, and worse, they do not fear punishment.

Tom Patterson

Tom Patterson

Tom Patterson