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Not-guilty plea entered for man in fatal shooting of trooper

PHOENIX — A not-guilty plea was made for an Avondale man in the shooting death of a state trooper during a roadside struggle on Interstate 10.

Isaac Damon King didn’t appear in court for his arraignment Thursday, but his attorneys made a not-guilty plea on his behalf to murder and other charges in the July 25 shooting death of 24-year-old Trooper Tyler Edenhofer.

Authorities say officers were struggling with King when he somehow got hold of another trooper’s gun and fired two shots.

The shots killed Edenhofer and wounded another trooper.

Death sentences upheld in home-invasion killings

PHOENIX The Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a death row inmate’ convictions and sentences in the shooting deaths of a man and his 9-year-old daughter during a 2009 home invasion.

Jason Eugene Bush was one of two people sentenced to death for the killings of 29-year-old Raul “Junior” Flores and Brisenia Flores at their home in Arivaca in southern Arizona. Gina Flores, Raul’s wife, was wounded in the attack.

Authorities said Bush confessed to being the triggerman and that the home invasion was planned by Shawna Forde, a former border-watch activist also sentenced to death in the case. According to authorities, Forde believed drugs, weapons and money were stashed at the home. A third person convicted in the case, Albert Gaxiola, was sentenced to life in prison.

Arizona grandmother covered in bruises after elk attack

PHOENIX — An 83-year-old northern Arizona woman says a mother elk left her with deep bruises and lacerations after she tried to guide the mother’s calf out of her yard.

Jeri Longenbaugh says she’s used to seeing elk around her Payson home and didn’t think she had anything to fear last Friday when she opened the front gate of her yard to let the elk calf out. Longenbaugh tells KNXV-TV that the mother elk trampled her head and stomped all over her body.

One wound on the grandmother’s leg required 17 stitches.