May 18, 2005

The Mesa Police Department’s next leader will be an outsider. The pool of semifinalists for the position of chief has been pared in half.

The Mesa Police Department’s next leader will be an outsider. The pool of semifinalists for the position of chief has been pared in half, to Phoenix assistant chief John L. Buchanan and Los Angeles assistant chief George Gascón, Mesa officials announced Monday.

Authorities on the hunt for a missing 8-month-old Tempe boy whose mother is in custody and not cooperating with police said they believe the boy is alive.

TOLUCA, Mexico - Eleven policemen have been shot to death near Mexico City in a three-day string of drug-gang attacks, prosecutors said Sunday.

Mesa City Manager Chris Brady has decided that the city’s next police chief will come from outside of the department.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — San Antonio police announced Saturday that they are investigating the case of an Arizona baby missing for more than a month as a kidnapping and homicide, allowing them to search for a dead body.

Tempe police searched the home Thursday of a Scottsdale couple considered "persons of interest" in a missing Arizona baby case.

Tempe police searched the home Thursday of a Scottsdale couple considered “persons of interest” in a missing Arizona baby case.

BETHEL, Vt. - The body of a missing 12-year-old Vermont girl was found Wednesday buried near her uncle's home, hours after documents surfaced that accused the man of planning to initiate her into a child sex ring.

SAN ANTONIO -- A man convicted of helping run what police called a "fight club" that set developmentally disabled residents of a state-run center against each other was sentenced to three years in prison Friday.

SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio authorities searching for a missing Arizona baby were forced to suspend their landfill dig because of heavy rains.

Jurors will begin deliberating Wednesday at a trial for an Arizona woman charged in the disappearance of her baby more than two years ago.

The trial of an Arizona woman charged with criminal wrongdoing in her child's disappearance is set to resume Tuesday.

Managers of a San Antonio landfill have closed a section of it in case investigators want to search that area for the remains of missing 8-month-old Gabriel Johnson of Tempe.

San Antonio police began excavating a landfill Tuesday in search of missing 9-month-old Gabriel Johnson, but investigators also are continuing to follow up on leads involving the boy.  Timeline  |  Texas police: Missing Ariz. baby case a homicide

The father of a missing Valley baby says he plans to move to Texas later this month to continue the search for his 8-month-old son.

The search is over for a Scottsdale fugitive who was wanted by police on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder.

A Scottsdale woman who wanted to adopt a missing Arizona baby has been indicted on felony charges.

The mother of an Arizona baby missing for more than two years wants a felony child abuse charge against her dropped before her trial begins in September.

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has set a trial date for an East Valley mother whose baby has been missing nearly a year.