a big win for paul babeu. >> two sheriffs, paul babeu and arpaio who have been embattled. paul babeu had the whole scandal with the pictures and the selfies, coming out as gay, all of this got everyone riled up voters know me and they will return me to always and that has cared him in this district one. he worked extremely hard in this race. >> he will be facing a former republican, tom o'halleran. he has ann kirkpatrick's support. he will be facing tom o'halleran in november. >>oh over kelli ward. people tried to beat incumbent john mccain, which would have been abenormous upset. he wins by almost 20 percentage points. kelli world could not get by him. a deep war chest and he has been around since 1982 serving arizona. it is a difficult race for anyone to beat him but there is ann kirkpatrick will be the challenger and anne kirk pat wick comes with a big war chest. you see her ads running up tonight. >> linda williams covering john mccain and she was with him when he made his victory speech. i sense a sigh of relief and the battle goes on and it goes into high gear starti

babeu. if babeu holds on, this will be an interesting race in the fall. >> has babeu been declared the winner in a.p.? not official by the a.p. >> he will face tom o'halleran once a republican, now a democrat. it i >> o'halleran former sedona police officer and has that connection to northern arizona. >> let's move to district five. christine jones has put out slick commercials. she is ahead by roughly of 1,000 votes here. andy biggs is the one that has been supported by matt salmon. christine jones is giving him a close, it may be because of the mormon vote. this is interesting, matt salmon handpicking him. matt salmon was winning the races, 70% of the vote. sheriff joe arpaio easily winning his race tonight as he goes for a seventh term at 84 years old to become sheriff one more time. >> andrew hasbun live with a preview of november's race, arpaio vsu andrew, earlier arpaio talked about his age and said i'm not slowing down. it is true. he does have a lot of energy for an 84-year-old man.

mexican nationals with ties to drug cartels and drug trafficking that is according to sheriff paul babeu. investigators were able to link th whose remains were discovered years apart. two brothers from mexico now suspects in a double murder in arizona in 2008. pinal county sheriff paul babeu linking fausto negrete-olivas and his brother dionicio to two murders in casa grande. gruesome murders we've seen here. >> reporter: he says they lured baltazar lopez, a known drug trafficker and his friend, azaren cordova to casa grande on april 27 of 2008. >> baltazar believed he was owed $10,000 and he was coming to casa grande. they told him they were going to pay him. >> reporter: instead of yi dismembered their bodies and scattered them in two different places. they had not been connected until a medical examiner and detectives were able to link the two victims through d.n.a. in 2014. this appears to be a cartel drug deal gone bad among mexican nationals in the arizona desert. the sheriff says it happened in >> our job is, we're the protectors. we do not walk in fear of these criminals but our

sheriff babeu says both are suspects in the 2008 murders of lopez in cordova. both of those men were reported missing, and their remains were nationals who lived in west phoenix. the remains of lopez, who has an extensive drug crime history, were discovered in a shallow grave in 2009 in casa grande, and then in 2014 remains of his brother were discovered in a septic tank in casa grande. sheriff babeu says extensive work, and you can imagine how tough it must have been, by the medical examiner's office as well as investigating deputies is what allowedhe these two drug traffickers to these two cold case murders. >> this is a cold case and often time people think that we forget about these cases and they are on the back burner while we have so many cases right in front of us that we do have to focus on while the information or suspects are hot on these cases. we never let these down, and we never give up. keep a look out for the olivas brothers. one of them last spotted in nogales as early as last year. he says if you have any information in these cases or if you

sheriff paul babeu is ahead beating wendy rogers. gary kiehne who nearly won last time is doing pretty well. paul babeu spoke as if he already won but it has not called. >> i think h you have bennett, shawn redd who is l.d.s., by the way. let's go to democrats. tom o'halleran was once a republican in the state house in arizona switched to democrat. he battled with the far-right wing and he is trying to find the sweet spot tonight. he will be the democratic candidate on whoever wins in told you this already, joe arpaio, looked at that trouncing. he easily beat dan saban. this is the third time he beat dan saban, former buckeye police chief. all of the troubles joe arpaio is in and this is guy who knows how you to win an election and he did it handily. >> let's check in with the arizona commission corporation. these are important positions rates at stake. ok, here we go. arizona corporate commission. bob burns and andy tobin are the two incumbents and they are cruising to victory. so the top three vote getters, this is a four-year term

pinal county sheriff paul babeu linking fausto negrete-olivas and his brother dionicio to two murders in casa grande.

the county sheriff, paul babeu, is with me now. he says this is a real threat.ty, sheriff, is about 60 miles from the border. >> yes. >> but you've told me before you see a lot of illegals coming through your county as they head north. are you seeing a lot of this new type of illegal, people from syria, afghanistan and pakistan, are you seeing them come through your county? >> we are, from different countries. we've had people from china come through piniella county. this is insane. not only what's troubling, the 100,000-plus that on average have come just through this one part of arizona. this new figure, 6,400 people from countries that have either harbored or sponsored terrorism, countries from asia, from africa, from the middle east, my god, why are they ending up here in mexico to come across this unsecured border? and that's the reason, it is unsecured, it is not safe. this is a far more dangerous issue, the threat from terrorism, isis and the like, far more important than illegals, far more important than the drug cartels that we're successfully fighting

where pinal county sheriff paul babeu wins the republican nomination in the 1st congressional districtthe sheriff is trying to make the jump to washington.he says congress needs someone like him... because he's a fighter. for full election coverage.. and a list of the results -- just head to 12- news-dot-com. halle berry... struts her stuff in a struts her halle berry... halle berry... struts her stuff in a bikini..and tim tebow playing baseball.it's in the morning juice....here's here's emma...juice....here's emma... halle berry - makes 50 look good!real good!she celebrated her birthday earlier this month by sharing a couple of bikini pictures on her instagram account.instagram account.berry has account. berry has been doing cross training sessions, weight training and planks. ?? ad lib ?? ?? ad lib ?? we've been following his we've been following his progress for a few weeks now...and yesterday - tim tebow finally had his moment in the sun.. tebow - who didn't make it as an n-f-l quarterback is trying to become a professional baseball player. baseball player. 28 teams sent scouts to los

pinal county sheriff paul babeu won the primary for the state's 1st district.. and county recorder helen purcell's race is still too close to call. for full election coverage.. and a list of the results -- just head to 12- news-dot-com. huge decision 20-16 news... as today donald trump will make a major speech on immigration right here in phoenix -- but not before a trip to mexico.. team 12's nico santos has what you need donald trump's 5th stop in the announcing he was running for president.he'll be here at the convention center once again and all eyes with hopes he'll outline a immigration plan if he's elected president.trump has made illegal immigration the focus of his campaign.that includes his plans to build a wall along the u.s.-mexico borderand to make mexico pay for it.?but -- the republican presidential nominee has suggested lately that he could back off slightly.that would be a major change to his positions he outlined during the republican na convention.but before he even gets to arizonatrump will be in mexico city trump will be in mexico city with m

pinal county sheriff paul babeu won the primary for the state's 1st congressional district.. representative for congress ... and county recorder helen purcell's race is still too close to call. for full election coverage.. and a list of the results -- just head to 12- news-dot-com. checking traffic???adlib traffic checking checking hot headlines this morning - flags across the state are flying at half staff today - in honor of navajo nation police officer leander frank. he was kileld yesterday in a head-on crash on route 64. officer frank was on his way to a call when the crash happened. all hands on deck for 3 year old vanessa carrera. she's the little girl who was hit by a police officer while she ran to an ice cream truck. the pita jungle in at that location -- so the restaurant gave all tips directly to her family. they say vanessa is still in a medically induced coma. this morning the pilot of this single engine plane is doing ok. that plane... had to make a hard landing at deer valley airport yesterday. the landing gear didn't work .. so the plane skidded to a stop. the

pinal county sheriff paul babeu wins and he will face tom o'halleran who is a former state legislator. >> christine jones leading in a tight race. the former godaddy c.e.o. spent a lot of her own money to stand out. she leads over andy biggs' 29%. >> same race on the democratic side, talia fuentes wins and she will take on whoever ends up wing on the other side. sheriff joe arpaio still popular he beat three g.o.p. rivals to win the nomination for a chance at his seventh run, including a republican foe he faced and beat twice before, dan saban. he will face paul penzone in the democratic election. penzone is calling for a public debate with arpaio. >>> let's get to the other headlines today. in glendale, a fight between roommates leads to a shooting between 67th avenue and bethany home road. glendale police on scene as a shooting broke out about 9:30 this morning. a woman was arguing with her other roommate when gunfire broke out. no word on the condition of the victim. >>> in phoenix, a car is on fire and a man is arrested after an argument between neighbors. it hand at 15th avenue a

now, paul babeu, the favorite going in leading wendy rogers. but that has not officially been called. he will face off against tom o'halleran in november. >> now, the other congressional race we are watching. district 5, and here are the results on the republican side. christine jones has a very narrow lead over andy biggs. i >> on the democratic side, it has been calmed for talia fuentes. easily. the winner will be trying to grab matt salmon's congressional seat. we have vote totals but only after serious issues with the secretary of state's new website. the one she touted last week. the election site crashed immediately at 8:00 when all those first numbers, that so- hour. and has been sputtering ever since. this is just the latest election debacle for the secretary of state michelle reagan and her office. the secretary so far hasn't explained exactly what happened. but rest assured, 12news will go looking for answers starting tomorrow morning. and you can stay with our website, 12news.com, for updates throughout the night. >>> 12news is your

come in sheriff paul babeu. let's just get a comment first off on the dallas cowboys.e. your comments on that. >> it's powerful. we should celebrate and applaud and cheer and support our law enforcement. these are men and women, for little pay, who protect our families and keep us safe. often times we don't even know the people that we're running to help and to rescue. ashley: also i just wanted to talk about that new law going into effect in louisiana, making it a hate crime to attack a cop or a first responder. your thoughts on that. >> well, it's crazy that we wound up in this place in america and the fact that usually hate crimes are reserved for characteristics such as race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation because these people are targeted for such. never an occupation. and this is the first time, and louisiana is leading the way, i think, in our country because law enforcement certainly, clearly, is under attack simply because we're wearing this uniform be, protecting -- uniform, protecting our families. and this incitement that's gone on in many blac