Apache County News

By Tammy Gray-Searles As the governor calls on the state legislature to balance the budget, state tax revenues continue to slide, reducing, in turn, the funds available to local governments even before any additional budget cuts are made.

A plea deal for a 9-year-old eastern Arizona boy who had been charged with killing his father and another man could be in jeopardy.

Defense and prosecution lawyers in the case of a 9-year-old Arizona boy charged with killing his father and another man want a new judge appointed so a plea deal doesn't fall through.

The attorney for a 9-year-old murder defendant in St. Johns is asking that the judge handling the case be removed because of alleged bias against the boy.

The Pima County Medical Examinera s Office has released the autopsy report for a 16-year-old boy found murdered in Northern Arizona.

The price of first-class stamps will not go up next year. The Postal Service has been implementing rate increases annually in recent years, with increases announced in January to take place in May.

A 9-year-old Arizona boy who pleaded guilty in the killing of his father's roommate likely won't be sentenced Thursday because no state or county agency is willing to pay for the costly psychiatric treatment required under terms of a plea agreement, attorneys said.

Sentencing for a 9-year-old eastern Arizona boy who pleaded guilty to killing his father's roommate was delayed on Thursday because details of where the boy might receive psychiatric treatment -- required under the plea deal -- remain unresolved.

Prosecutors in St. Johns have asked a judge to postpone today's planned sentencing of a boy who admitted to negligent homicide in the shooting death of his father's friend.

The sentencing for the now nine-year old boy who pleaded guilty in the killing of his father's roommate has been delayed.

He wanted to tell the police chief that cops from out of town were in hisA jurisdiction.

It was less than one year ago that the small town of St. Johns, Ariz., population 3,865, was thrust into the national spotlight when an 8-year-old boy was charged in the killings of his father and his father's friend and just last month three people were charged with killing a 16-year-old. Now St.

A man from the rural eastern Arizona town of Springerville already being held on a murder charge pleaded guilty to that murder and two other previously undisclosed killings on Wednesday.

Two people accused in the slaying of a 16-year-old St. Johns boy whose remains were found in a shallow grave have pleaded not guilty in the case.

ST. JOHNS, Ariz. -- The sentencing of a 9-year-old St. Johns boy who killed his father's roommate has been pushed back by a month.

Company will work with Apache County, Blue Hills Environmental, to conduct a study on recycling in the country.

ST. JOHNS, Ariz. -- Within the last year, this closeknit town in eastern Arizona has seen crime that some here believe only happens in the big city.

ST. JOHNS, Ariz. -- Prosecutors took the death penalty off the table Tuesday for a man accused of soliciting the murder of a 16-year-old eastern Arizona boy who fathered a child with his teenage daughter.

Apache County Attorney Michael B. Whiting, center, poses with former Apache County Sheriff Brian Hounshell, left, and Irwin Hugh Lynch Tuesday in Window Rock.

Flanked by his daughter, wife, and current Apache County Supervisor Jim Claw, Tom Shirley receives a medicine man's blessing at the open house for the new Apache County building in Chinle Aug.