Brian Skoloff

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Border security expo set amid fed spending cuts

Brian Skoloff · March 12, 2013 9:12 am

Jodi Arias testifies in Maricopa County Superior Court in downtown Phoenix Monday March 4, 2013. Arias is on trial for the murder of Travis Alexander in 2008.

Arias attorneys work to overcome cross-examination

Brian Skoloff · March 4, 2013 5:00 am

Prosecutor Juan Martinez hands evidence to show Jodi Arias during cross examination during the Jodi Arias trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. Arias is charged in the June 2008 death of her lover in his suburban Phoenix home. She says it was self-defense, but police say she planned the attack on Travis Alexander in a jealous rage. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace, Pool)

Arias prosecutor chips away at numerous stories

Brian Skoloff · February 27, 2013 5:00 am

Arias faces intense questioning from prosecutor

Brian Skoloff · February 26, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2013 file photo, Prosecutor Juan Martinez asks defendant Jodi Arias a question about her diary during cross examination testimony in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Arias resumes testimony Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 in her Arizona murder trial after the start of a withering cross-examination last week by a prosecutor working to poke holes in her numerous stories. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Tom Tingle, Pool)

Jodi Arias attempts to explain away her lies

Brian Skoloff · February 25, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2012 file photo, former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords blows a kiss after reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. Giffords and her husband launched a political action committee aimed at curbing gun violence on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, the second anniversary of the Tucson shooting that killed six people and left her critically injured. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Gabby Giffords, husband launch gun control lobbying effort

Brian Skoloff · January 8, 2013 5:00 am

A look at military-style semiautomatic rifles

Brian Skoloff · December 28, 2012 12:21 am

FILE - In this March 8, 2012 file photo, Mexican-American singer and reality TV star Jenni Rivera poses during an interview in Los Angeles. Las Vegas-based Starwood Management, the company that owns the luxury jet that crashed and killed Rivera on Dec. 9, is under investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and the agency seized two of its planes earlier this year as part of the ongoing probe. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

Owner of Rivera plane denies drug connections

Brian Skoloff · December 15, 2012 8:15 pm

Elizabeth Johnson completes paperwork after being sentenced Friday, Dec. 7, 2012 in Phoenix. Johnson, an Arizona woman who was convicted in her young son's disappearance nearly three years ago was sentenced Friday to 5 1/4 years in prison after tearfully telling the judge she thought she deserved the maximum of 9 1/2 years. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Mark Henle) MARICOPA COUNTY OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES

Mom of missing boy gets 5 1/4 years in prison

Brian Skoloff · December 8, 2012 6:51 am

Mike Gonzalez, the first customer at Arizona Organix, reacts for the media as he holds up his medical marijuana purchase at Arizona Organix, the first legal medical marijuana dispensary to open in Arizona, Thursday Dec. 6, 2012, in Glendale, Ariz. Several dozen waited outside for the Glendale dispensary to open, the first among 96 applicants chosen through a lottery system for 126 geographic areas across the state.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

First medical marijuana dispensary opens in Ariz.

Brian Skoloff · December 7, 2012 1:17 am

In this hospital surveillance photo released by the Phoenix Police Department on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012, a woman is seen with her 11-year-old daughter, a leukemia patient who had her arm amputated and a heart catheter inserted due to an infection. Authorities say the woman inexplicably took the girl from the hospital last week. Police say that if the catheter is left in too long it could lead to a deadly infection. The familyâs identity is being withheld but they are calling the girl Emily. (AP Photo/Phoenix Police Department)

Father: Sick girl safe and being treated in Mexico

Brian Skoloff · December 6, 2012 3:51 am

In this hospital surveillance photo released by the Phoenix Police Department on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012, a woman is seen with her 11-year-old daughter, a leukemia patient who had her arm amputated and a heart catheter inserted due to an infection. Authorities say the woman inexplicably took the girl from the hospital last week. Police say that if the catheter is left in too long it could lead to a deadly infection. The familyâs identity is being withheld but they are calling the girl Emily. (AP Photo/Phoenix Police Department)

Sick girl sought after mom takes her from hospital

Brian Skoloff · December 5, 2012 1:53 am