Author – The Durango Herald

Phoenix trails most big police forces in use of body cams

PHOENIX – A Phoenix police officer yelled obscenities and forced an unarmed black man suspected of shoplifting up against a patrol car. Another aimed his gun at the man’s pregnant fiancee, o...

DATE: Jul 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Family of men shot by Phoenix police emboldened after video

PHOENIX – Relatives of Hector Lopez, who was fatally shot by Phoenix police in May, say passing officers have laughed and made obscene gestures – a charge the department vehemently denies – ...

DATE: Jun 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Phoenix police chief promises change amid civil rights claim

PHOENIX – Police Chief Jeri Williams promised change in her department after being booed by some of the hundreds of people gathered to discuss a videotaped police encounter that has caused a...

DATE: Jun 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Arizona border activist going on trial for helping migrants

PHOENIX – A border activist charged with helping a pair of migrants with water, food and lodging is set to go on trial in U.S. court in Arizona. Defendant Scott Daniel Warren has ...

DATE: May 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

‘Mexican oxy’ pills take toll on Southwest

Drug has started showing up in Arizona in recent years

DATE: Mar 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

Border officials alarmed by migrants abandoned in desert

PHOENIX – Smugglers in recent weeks have been abandoning large groups of Guatemalan and other Central American migrants in Arizona’s harsh cactus-studded Sonoran Desert near the border with ...

DATE: Oct 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

‘Urban island’ heat tests Phoenix, other large cities

PHOENIX – When temperatures soar as they have this week in downtown Phoenix, homeless people ride the air-conditioned light rail to avoid a heat so brutal it killed 155 people in the city an...

DATE: Jul 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Heat radiates across Southwest; Death Valley hottest

PHOENIX – Scorching heat radiated across the U.S. Southwest on Tuesday, setting record highs in California’s Death Valley, Thermal and Palm Springs in a week that forecasters say could prove...

DATE: Jul 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

California urges power conservation during heat wave

PHOENIX – California’s power grid operators called for cutbacks in electricity usage as parts of the U.S. Southwest braced Tuesday for another day of scorching heat. With triple-d...

DATE: Jul 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Arizona chief hires former prosecutor to review use of force

MESA, Ariz. – The beating of a 33-year-old man and the rough treatment of teenager prompted the chief of a suburban Arizona police department to enlist a former prosecutor Friday to investig...

DATE: Jun 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Arizona ‘Dreamers’ struggle after losing cheaper tuition

PHOENIX – David Montenegro worked part-time restaurant jobs and took advantage of Arizona’s lower in-state tuition as he labored through years of college. Now a senior with the goal of becom...

DATE: May 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. agent on trial in cross-border killing of Mexican teen

Sixteen-year-old was shot 10 times

DATE: Mar 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News