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File photo of Marciopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. (credit: Getty Images)

Arpaio To Release Report On Bungled Sex-Crime Investigations

The sheriff for metropolitan Phoenix is scheduled to release a report Monday on an internal probe into why hundreds of sex-crime cases were either inadequately investigated or not looked into at all during a three-year period ending in 2007.

2013/02/11

Live And Local With Kevin Wall 02/05/13: Drone Strikes, American Citizens, And Immigration

A Justice Department memo concludes that the United States government can order the killing of American citizens if they believe the individual is a senior operational leader or and associated force of Al-Qaida.

2013/02/05

File photo of Joe Arpaio. (credit: Getty Images)

Arpaio’s Lawyers Seek More Latitude In DOJ Race Suit

Attorneys for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio are asking a judge for more latitude in gathering information and deposing witnesses in a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit that alleges the police agency has racially profiled Latinos.

2013/01/17

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Grand Jury Reportedly Probing Police Incident

A federal grand jury is reportedly reviewing a nearly three-year-old incident, in which a Henderson police sergeant was caught on video kicking a man who was in diabetic shock.

2013/01/15

File photo of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio/ (credit: PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/GettyImages)

Judge Asked To Reconsider Discrimination Ruling In Arpaio Case

Maricopa County is asking a judge to reconsider her decision not to dismiss the county from a lawsuit alleging that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office carried out a pattern of discrimination against Latinos in its immigration patrols.

2012/12/26

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$500M Animal Abuse Settlement Reached

A landmark $500 million agreement was reached to settle a slaughterhouse abuse case in California that led to the biggest meat recall in U.S. history in 2008, an animal welfare group announced Friday.

2012/11/16

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Feds Releasing Metro Investigation Results

Nearly a year after civil rights groups called for federal intervention, U.S. Justice Department officials plan to make public the findings and recommendations of a review of Las Vegas police use-of-force policies and practices.

2012/11/15

Attorney General Eric Holder (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

Opinion: Eric Holder Continues To Show Contempt Of Congress

Attorney General Eric Holder continued to show contempt of Congress in his remarks following the House vote to hold him “in contempt” for refusing to hand over documents associated with the Fast and Furious operation.

2012/06/29

Warren Jeffs, left, and his council reacts to the the guilty verdicts rendered in his trial on Sept. 25, 2007 in St. George, Utah. (credit: Douglas C. Pizac-Pool/Getty Images)

Justice Department Sues Polygamous Towns Over Religious Discrimination

Authorities in a pair of polygamous Utah-Arizona border towns have supported a campaign of intimidation against the unfaithful, denying them housing and municipal services and allowing members of the dominant religious sect to destroy their crops and property, the U.S. Justice Department said in a lawsuit.

2012/06/22

Street preacher Jerry Holt and several of his followers stand in protest to try inform Mormons of the many wives of Mormon founder Joseph Smith. Smith was married to as many as 33 wives with some being teenagers while others were still married to their first husbands. (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images)

Justice Dept. To Sue Polygamous Towns

An attorney for local law enforcement in two polygamous towns along the Utah-Arizona border says the U.S. Justice Department plans to sue both communities, claiming religious discrimination.

2012/06/21

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