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MESA, AZ — The City of Mesa has reached an $8 million settlement with Laney Sweet, the widow of Daniel Shaver, and his two children. Shaver was shot and killed by now-former Mesa Police Officer Phillip Brailsford in 2016.

Billy Joe Shaver, Seminal Outlaw-Country Songwriter, Dead at 81 Best known as the songwriter of Waylon Jennings’ 1973 album ‘Honky Tonk Heroes,’ the colorful Texas raconteur had his songs recorded by Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley By PATRICK DOYLE & JOSEPH HUDAK Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Show more sharing options Billy Joe Shaver Kirk West/Getty Images Billy Joe Shaver, the outlaw-country music pioneer who wrote some of the genre’s greatest songs, died Wednesday in Waco, Texas, after suffering a stroke. He was 81. Connie Nelson, a friend of Shaver’s, confirmed his death to Rolling Stone. Shaver’s hard-lived career classics included “Honky...

Newly released body camera footage shows a police officer shooting an unarmed man in an Arizona hotel after the man sobbed and pleaded with officers not to shoot him. The graphic video, which was released after a jury on Thursday acquitted the officer of murder and manslaughter charges, stoked outrage on social media and renewed calls for reforms in law enforcement.

A judge on Dec. 8 released graphic video showing Daniel Shaver crawling on his hands and knees and begging for his life before he was shot and killed. The shooting, by Philip “Mitch” Brailsford, then an officer with the Mesa Police Department, occurred after officers responded to a call about a man allegedly pointing a rifle out of a fifth-floor window at a La Quinta Inn. The graphic video, which was released after a jury on Thursday acquitted the officer of murder and manslaughter charges, stoked outrage on social media and renewed calls for reforms in law enforcement. See the...

Jurors returned a not guilty verdict Friday evening in the aggravated assault of Central Texas singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver, 70, who was accused of shooting Billy Bryant Coker in 2007 outside of Papa Joe’s Saloon in Lorena, Texas. Shaver, however, still faces a charge for unlawfully carrying a firearm in a licensed premises, which is a third-degree felony. The judge required him to post a $7,500 bond by next week and told him he was free to go. Shaver left the courthouse to head to Houston, where he was scheduled to perform Friday night. Coker’s family declined comment, although Coker’s...

Jonathan Kroning has been stiffed by enough customers that it barely fazes him. The 20-year-old Pizza Hut driver doesn't like it, but that's part of the job. "Customers complain all the time, and I'm used to stuff like that," said Kroning, of Oswego. "But never would I expect to get punched in the face." According to Kroning, he delivered a Meat Lover's pizza to Shaver McNeil and his wife in Montgomery Monday night. Any tip is fine with Kroning. Three dollars is really good. Five dollars is "awesome." But Kroning says McNeil and his wife offered nothing. So Kroning withheld...