Pinal County News

A bill that would have cleared the way for a Houston company to open up a huge underground cavern to store natural gas near Eloy died in the Legislature's closing days.

A 38-year-old Maricopa woman has been arrested in the domestic stabbing of her boyfriend.

Two members of the Pinal County sheriff's command staff are under investigation and have been placed on paid administrative leave.

The Pinal County Sheriff's Office has been undergoing a makeover unlike anyone has ever seen in this once-rural county, a county that has doubled population in the last few years to nearly 400,000 residents.

A Queen Creek man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of weapons violations after a man was found shot to death in his home.

A Maricopa woman was arrested on suspicion of stabbing her boyfriend early Tuesday morning.

The shoots of recovery may be showing in Maricopa, but they're not coming quickly enough for many people struggling to live the American Dream.

Incorporation of the San Tan area southeast of Queen Creek wasn't part of Republican Bryan Martyn's 2008 campaign for the Pinal County Board of Supervisors.

Managers at Gordons IGA in San Manuel got an early morning wake up call yesterday from Pinal County Sheriffs Deputies who told them the store had been burglarized.

Lupita Murillo reports Pinal Co. adds Explorer Post to their Mounted Patrol The largest mounted patrol in Arizona now can boast it has the only Explorer Post on horseback.

A Casa Grande police officer has been cleared of wrongdoing for breaking up a gay-rights demonstration, but he and fellow officers are getting First Amendment training.

A 67-square-mile area northwest of Florence that was once farmland and now is home to 80,000 residents is on the verge of getting an official name.

Tisha Castillo meets with other Greater San Tan Area Coalition members Thursday to discuss the voting procedure in changing the name of the area for its own identity.

Calls to the jails have revealed nothing - "I've checked my e-mails and I've heard nothing about it," one deputy stated.

The Pinal County Sheriffs Report is taken from the daily logs, based on the information provided by deputies.

A Queen Creek mom is under investigation over the possibility that she failed to report her 14-year-old daughter's sexual tryst with a young transient she'd invited to live in her home.

The following is a press release from the Pinal County Sheriff's Office: On June 10, 2009 at approximately 10:00 a.m., Pinal County Sheriff's Office was contacted by Air National Guard Pilots who reported they had seen a truck in the desert area near Brady Pump and Houser roads on the Northwest side of Newman Peak in Pinal County.

A body was found this week inside of a truck belonging to a Pinal County man reported missing on May 25, authorities said.

Pinal County connects metro Phoenix to metro Tucson. It's wide, desolate and a route of choice for drug smugglers.

The state agency that certifies police officers is investigating a Pinal County sheriff's commander.