Articles by Associated Press

A jury took less than two days to find Jerry Sandusky guilty of 45 of 48 counts of child sexual abuse, but the judge will need substantially more time to decide his punishment. It’s likely that Judge John Cleland would order a pre- sentencing report, which would take anywhere from one to two months to […]

Jerry Sandusky was convicted Friday of sexually assaulting 10 boys over 15 years, accusations that had sent shock waves through the college campus known as Happy Valley and led to the firing of Penn State’s beloved Hall of Fame coach, Joe Paterno.

Your life can go from uneventful to forever changed in a moment. Just ask 23-year-old Scott Dexheimer.

It’s 3:30 p.m., the middle of the afternoon on Monday, May 9th. A 19-year-old resident of an apartment complex at Camelback and 57th Avenue decided to run over to the store. “He jumps over a wall to gain access to the shopping center and he’s confronted by two suspects,” Phoenix police sergeant Darren Birch said. […]

Talk about feeling violated, imagine getting this call from the Social Security Administration.

It can’t get much more terrifying than working the overnight shift by yourself at a convenience store when a guy walks in with an assault weapon.

Betty says her brother Adam was the baby of the family, the youngest of five children.

Terry Neese was a carpenter. “He built furniture with his hands,” his daughter Tara said, adding he also liked to draw too. “He just was very artistic.” Phoenix Police Sergeant Darren Burch said the 52-year-old lived near 1st Avenue and Broadway, South of downtown Phoenix. “On February 13th, 2010, we don’t know of the time, […]

There were two things Sophia Abril loved: dancing to Michael Jackson music and playing basketball. Her mom, Carmen, said she was really good at both. “She said one day she was going to play with the Mercury,” she said of the 22-year-old West Valley native. “She went to Butler school, she went to Isaac Junior […]