Arizona’s top health official will step down March 3 after 23 years with the state. Will Humble submitted his resignation to Governor Doug Ducey on Friday. “This has been an awesome job,” he wrote Monday on the Arizona Department of Health Services Director’s Blog. However, he continued, “Careers have a…

In life, Kayla Mueller was a humanitarian and a peacemaker. In death, she’s becoming a rallying point for ramped-up military action in the Middle East. One day after U.S. officials confirmed reports that the 26-year-old Prescott native had been killed in Syria, a captive of the Islamic State of Iraq…

An Arizona aid worker who spent the past 18 months as a hostage of the Islamic State in Syria is dead, the 26-year-old’s family said today. “We are heartbroken to share that we’ve received confirmation that Kayla Jean Mueller has lost her life,” Mueller’s parents, Carl and Marsha, and her…

As U.S. officials scramble to corroborate the Islamic State’s reports last week that an American hostage died in a Jordanian air strike, the woman’s family is trying to stay positive. “This news leaves us concerned, yet, we are still hopeful that Kayla is alive,” wrote Kayla Mueller’s parents, Carl and…

The Islamic State released a statement today claiming that an Arizona aid worker the terror group was holding hostage in Syria has been killed in a Jordanian airstrike. ISIS reported that Kayla Mueller, 26, was buried in the rubble of a building in Syria’s ar-Raqqah governorate. Air assaults on the…

After diagnosing two cases of the measles in one month, the Maricopa County Department of Public Health announced that unimmunized children must stay home from school if they have been exposed to the disease. The county is in the process of contacting the families of about 195 children who were…