Paul Rubin and Amy Silverman

Long before we were officially a state, Arizona was making history — and not all of it bad, though some of it certainly borders on the unbelievable. In 1910, a Maricopa County Sheriff by the name of Carl T. Hayden took part in the first known automobile chase. He caught...

Editor's note: This story has been edited from its original version. Here's a story about a mentally ill man with a gun in Tucson that you probably haven't heard. On a Monday afternoon last October, Joseph Molina, 34, stopped traffic near the bus station in the city's downtown. Armed with...