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Friday, October 19, 2007 - Posts

County attorney drops case against New Times, fires special prosecutor

Saying mistakes were made, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas announced that charges against the NewTimes were being dropped. The paper was the subject of a subpoena for reporters notes as well as information on its online readers after it published
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Jail birds: Phoenix editors put in pokey for divulging sheriff's grand jury request for newspapers' notes and Web users

On Thursday two editors of the New Times in Phoenix, Ariz., were jailed for divulging information about the grand jury subpoena for their stories, notes, and identities of anyone who visited their newspaper Web site. The Maricopa sheriff is apparently