A second high-ranking Arizona State University police department official is stepping down unexpectedly following a backlash over the arrest of assistant professor Ersula Ore.

Another email that surfaced on a blog by people disgruntled with ASU police confirms that Assistant Chief James Hardina is leaving this week. ASU Police Chief John Pickens is also leaving his position, moving into another university position. Both departures come as one of their officers, Stewart Ferrin, is being scrutinized by the FBI at the request of ASU.

Darlin Adonay Peña fled a hard life in Honduras and got a second chance in the United States.

Andrew Pielage

Darlin Adonay Peña has a headache.

On a Wednesday afternoon in May, he takes a break from his job flipping burgers at a McDonald's on Central Avenue in Phoenix toOmaha, NE—News Channel Nebraska has learned that city officials in Omaha, who are taking a hard look at the future of two historic apartment buildings near downtown, are now armed with new legal ammunition.

The owner of the buildings, Dave Palladino, wants 285 thousand dollars in Tax Increment Financing to help pay for the fixer-upper.

At the same time though Palladino is accused of running slumlord operations in other parts of town, leading to talk that the city council should put strings on the TIF deal.

And according to a legal opinion from City Attorney Paul Kratz the city can do just that: “It is the opinion of the law department that the council can consider past practices of a developer that has sustained multiple code violations outside the plan area