Topic - Joe Arpaio

• American Scene

  Authorities are investigating an envelope containing white powder that was directed to President Obama and listed a controversial Arizona sheriff as the sender.

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  Suspect in Ariz. sheriff death threat in custody

  A 33-year-old Phoenix man is being held by sheriff's deputies in Phoenix in connection with an Internet death threat against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for his ongoing investigation into the legitimacy of President Obama’s birth certificate.

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  Sheriff Arpaio announces re-election bid in Arizona

  Most people know him simply as "Sheriff Joe" - the self-proclaimed toughest lawman in the United States. And, apparently, the five-term boss of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Phoenix wants another four years

• American Scene

  Seven people thought to be related had opened their Christmas gifts and started cleaning up the wrapping paper when they were fatally shot in a suburban Fort Worth apartment, police said Sunday.

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  Judge to hear arguments in racial-profiling case against Arpaio's office

  A federal judge will hear arguments Thursday in a lawsuit that alleges racial profiling in Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigration patrols, a week after federal authorities accused the sheriff's office of a wide range of civil rights violations.

• American Scene

  Investigators said Monday that a woman in the small farming community of Emington fatally shot her three children and live-in boyfriend before killing herself.

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  Ariz. prosecutor wants immigration checks restored

  The federal government's decision to stop an Arizona sheriff from checking inmates' immigration status will allow criminals to be released into the community, Maricopa County's top prosecutor said Friday as he asked the president to order Homeland Security officials to restore access to federal systems revoked a day earlier.

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  Justice Department: Arizona Sheriff Arpaio violated federal law

  Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed "America's toughest lawman," was accused Thursday in a scathing Justice Department report of violating federal law and the Constitution in his department's handling of Hispanics it arrested and held in its jail system.

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  Feds: Ariz. Sheriff Arpaio violated civil rights

  The federal government issued a scathing report Thursday that outlines how Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office committed a wide range of civil rights violations against Latinos, including a pattern of racial profiling and discrimination and carrying out heavy-handed immigration patrols based on racially charged citizen complaints.

• Inside Politics

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  Arizona's Sheriff Arpaio endorses Perry

  One of the nation's leading immigration hard-liners threw his support behind three-term Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday, saying Mr. Perry has done more to combat illegal immigration and secure the border than any other candidate in the Republican presidential field.

• Inside Politics

  President Obama pitched in over the weekend to help small businesses get into the holiday shopping season.

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  Arpaio is next marked man for recall by 'posse' in Arizona

  The same Arizona group that took down the state's leading immigration hard-liner is now gunning for its best-known lawman.

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