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A federal appeals court last month ordered a temporarily end to Arizona’s rules that prevent participants in the Obama Administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program from receiving driver’s licenses, but that ban didn’t take effect. The state then asked that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals review its…

There’s a lot of discussion taking place about the militarization of police amid protests in Ferguson, Missouri, over the local police department’s controversial shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Peaceful protests have been met with police tear-gassing, aiming rifles at protesters, and arrests, according to reports. It’s gotten to the point…

Community activists are organizing a rally for tonight in Phoenix to protest police brutality in the wake of the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Police in the Missouri suburb have been clashing with protesters outraged over the killing of the 18-year-old black man. People in cities across the…

Not everyone is convinced that drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, head of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, actually was arrested by authorities earlier this year. Documentary filmmaker Charlie Minn, who’s produced several movies about drug violence in Mexico, says he went to El Paso, Texas, after hearing of Guzmán’s arrest in…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s release of more than 2,000 immigrant detainees in early 2013 wasn’t particularly extraordinary, according to an investigation into the matter. Senator John McCain has alleged that public safety was put at risk by the releases, and Governor Jan Brewer said she believed the releases were the…

A death-row inmate’s fight against the Arizona Department of Corrections reading his letters to his attorney lives on. A court had initially dismissed Scott Nordstrom’s lawsuit seeking to prevent the ADC from reading legal mail, but the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week to reverse the dismissal,…

A class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of about 33,000 Arizona prisoners is likely headed to trial this fall. Attorneys for the Arizona Department of Corrections had sought a summary judgment in the case, which would have prevented a trial, but U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake denied that motion. “It’s…

Arizona has had a lot to offer to the scientific community over the years. From natural features, to discoveries, to inventions, and more, we bring you Arizona’s 10 coolest contributions to the world of science:…

In case you missed any news action this week, we’ve got you covered. Here’s our recap of the most-read news stories of the week:…

The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona and other immigrant-rights groups that are suing over Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s workplace raids want a judge to put an end to such raids immediately. The ACLU and others filed a lawsuit in June alleging that a pair of state laws used by Maricopa…

Phoenix resident Noah Dyer has an idea: Let’s do without privacy. Dyer thinks a society with no privacy might be best, and he’s offering to go first, by planning to live his life without any privacy at all, with every moment being live-streamed 24 hours a day for a year…

Residents of the community of Tonopah are trying to stop Hickman’s Family Farms from building a new facility that will house about 2.2 million hens, and possibly more. A citizens’ group calling themselves Save Tonopah Oppose Poultry Plant (STOPP) have filed a lawsuit with the intention of having a county…

UPDATE 7:08 p.m.: Reports out of Tucson say the charges have been dropped. Three activists who rally against alleged abuses by federal border authorities want prosecutors to drop charges stemming from a run-in between the two sides in May. Shena Gutierrez — whose husband suffered severe injuries including brain damage…

An atheist organization claims there’s a “significant religious bias” in a Queen Creek charter school run by Republican state Representative Eddie Farnsworth. The American Humanist Association’s legal team sent a letter on behalf of a family to Farnsworth and the Benjamin Franklin Charter School, asking that the seemingly religion-heavy curriculum…

The Phoenix-area housing market has slumped for nearly a year now, according to the latest real estate report from the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice at Arizona State University. “Demand has been much weaker since July 2013 and as yet shows little to no sign of recovery,” the…

Convicted murderer Joseph Wood was given 15 doses of lethal-injection drugs during the course of an execution that lasted nearly two hours on July 23.This appears to be a violation of the state’s lethal-injection protocol, which says “an additional dose of the lethal chemical(s)” may be used if the first…