Former Arizona Corporation Commissioner Gary Pierce and his wife, lobbyist Jim Norton, and developer George Johnson have been indicted by a federal grand jury for an alleged bribery scheme.
Ousted Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio filed a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court this week in a last-chance bid for a jury trial or delay of his upcoming bench trial for criminal contempt.
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery asked the media on Wednesday to warn parents of an alleged online game called “Blue Whale,” which teens “win” by committing suicide. But there’s no evidence that suicides in the United States have been linked to the game, and reports from Russia about a widespread problem have been largely debunked.
A Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office sergeant whose possession of 1,500 IDs helped spur contempt charges for ex-Sheriff Arpaio and his staff claims in a fresh lawsuit that the flap damaged his career.
More pro-firearms bills could have passed this year, but Governor Doug Ducey and several GOP lawmakers helped keep them down, a spokesman for a local gun-rights group said.
An Arizona State University student from China faces a federal conspiracy charge for allegedly faking her way into the school by hiring an imposter to take a required English-proficiency test.
Arizona’s only marijuana-legalization effort for 2018 saw its Facebook page, with 24,000 followers, go dark this week for unknown reasons.
The suspect in March 30 burglaries at mosques in Chandler and the city of Maricopa has now been linked to similar crimes in other states.
Homeowners on Camelback Mountain propose moving the trailhead and start of the mountain’s popular Cholla Trail during a new renovation of the Phoenician Resort.
Arizona has settled a federal lawsuit with the Tohono O’odham Nation and will grant the tribe full gaming rights for its West Valley casino.
The University of Arizona is preparing to change the title of its new “social-justice advocate” student jobs following an outcry in right-wing media.
A Phoenix New Times article about the Safer Arizona 2018 adult-use marijuana-legalization initiative sparked some serious debate online Wednesday and Thursday. Here are some choice posts to ponder.
A spokeswoman for a local politician told New Times last week that “nobody” at the politician’s office knew anything about a police-training seminar that rights groups consider “Islamophobic.” This week, the interim Mesa police chief revealed in a letter to one of those groups which Maricopa County agency is funding the event.
One of the biggest challenges to Safer Arizona’s campaign to legalize marijuana in 2018 will be the division within the pro-cannabis community that its members helped to create.
Creationist Andrew Snelling wants to collect rocks in Grand Canyon to help prove his Bible-based worldview of a 10,000-year-old Earth, but the National Park Service rejected his proposal. He sued the government this week in federal court with the help of the Scottsdale-based Alliance Defending Freedom.
The well-known group Human Rights Watch claims that the unsolved problem of “subpar” medical care in federal immigrant detention centers is about to get a whole lot worse under President Trump.
Arizona’s new voucher expansion program, which subsidizes private school tuition by taking money from public schools, faces a possible referendum threat by a grassroots group critical of the law.
A group headed by two former Arizona politicians will soon begin collecting signatures for ballot measures that would overturn changes made by the Arizona Legislature this year that make it tougher to put citizens initiatives on the ballot.
A probe is still ongoing as to whether dozens of guns and 80,000 rounds of ammunition found at the Arizona Department of Economic Security in November were improperly obtained or stored, despite an official statement previously that the investigation was complete.
Arizona is one of the few states with medical-marijuana programs that requires no testing of dispensary products for pesticides or active ingredients. Experts are divided on whether a testing mandate is needed.
The driver of a hearse filled with 68 pounds of marijuana told federal agents in Arizona on Saturday that he had taken up smuggling because his Tucson funeral-services business “had been slow.”
Matt Burkett, a noted firearms instructor and shooting-competition champion, was detained this week by federal authorities following a fraud allegation against him and his Scottsdale company, Predator Tactical, LLC.
