Henry Diaz Jr. didn’t make excuses when he stood before Judge Robert Gottsfield Friday, just before being sentenced for a string of armed robberies in Ahwatukee Foothills and Tempe where he used a sawed-off shotgun.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - Rodney King, whose videotaped police beating in 1991 led to deadly rioting when the officers involved were acquitted, was shot on a street corner, but his wounds were not life-threatening, police said.

Police are looking for a man and two women who took a shopping cart full of alcohol from a Chandler Walmart store and fired a shotgun blast toward its employees.

The man arrested for terrorizing small business clerks in Ahwatukee Foothills with a sawed-off shotgun during a two-month robbery spree has changed his plea to guilty and will be sentenced to prison March 1.

The man arrested for terrorizing small business clerks in Ahwatukee Foothills with a sawed-off shotgun during a two-month robbery spree has changed his plea to guilty and will be sentenced to prison March 1.

Henry Diaz Jr. has rejected a plea offer that would have sent the Ahwatukee Foothills man to prison for between 18 and 21 months.

Henry Diaz Jr. has rejected a plea offer that would have sent the Ahwatukee Foothills man to prison for between 18 and 21 months.

The man who confessed to two homicides in a 14-month shooting spree took the witness stand Tuesday amid heavy security and much anticipation in the trial of his co-defendant.

Of the two shotguns seized from Dale Hausner’s property on the night of his arrest, neither one had his fingerprints on them, a Mesa police fingerprint analyst testified this afternoon.

 The man who robs local sandwich shops and small businesses using a sawed-off shotgun struck again Monday night, his fifth or sixth robbery in the Ahwatukee Foothills area in the past month.

Police are searching for a man who has robbed a string of local sandwich and fast food locations using a sawed-off shotgun.

The man police suspect has robbed a string of Ahwatukee Foothills and Tempe businesses using a sawed-off shotgun was arrested without incident Thursday morning just after 8 a.m., as he walked out of Bashas' at 48th Street and Warner Road.

PHOENIX - Police say a young woman was killed by shotgun blasts early Tuesday as she stopped to pick up a friend at a west Phoenix home.

Mesa police responded en masse to a call from an officer in distress at 2010 N Lazona Dr. on Thursday night after he came across a man firing a shotgun at a car, a police spokesman said.

Tempe police released on Friday the name of the second man suspected in shooting a shotgun several times at a Tempe hamburger joint.

MARRERO, La. - Anonymous tips led police investigating a 12-hour spree of murder, rape and robbery on the west bank of New Orleans and suburban Jefferson Parish to the wanted man, in Arizona.