Nine members of an Arizona family, together for the Thanksgiving holiday, were in an oversized military-style truck when they got stuck in a raging creek swollen by runoff from a powerful storm.
Read moreHumanitarian aid worker Scott Warren testified in his federal trial in Arizona Tuesday that he had a simple goal in mind when he helped two Central American men in January 2018 at an aid station in a remote desert town: keeping people alive in a hostile environment.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden holds a double-digit lead over his 2020 Democratic rivals in Arizona, though it is mainly concentrated within Arizona’s most populated counties, according to polling data released Tuesday.
Read moreThe owner of a now-closed body donation facility was found civilly liable Tuesday for mishandling remains in about half of 21 cases filed by families of the dead.
Read moreA chapter of the Satanic Temple’s civil rights claims against Scottsdale, Arizona, may continue, a federal court in the state ruled. The chapter was not allowed to give an invocation at a city council meeting. The court ruled the plaintiffs have shown that their beliefs are “sincerely held.”
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A humanitarian aid worker on trial for a second time for helping two undocumented immigrants in Arizona never intended to break the law and without that intent there is no crime, his attorney told the jury in opening arguments in a federal court in Arizona Tuesday.
Read moreA Cochise County, Arizona jail inmate claims in state court that a jail chaplain forced her to give him oral sex in the jail.
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Documents released this week by a federal agency raise questions about whether a self-driving Uber SUV that ran down a pedestrian last year should have been allowed on public roads for test purposes.
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A string of violence south of Arizona’s border with Mexico has sparked warnings by U.S. authorities and is forcing people who say they won’t stop crossing into Mexico to consider how to travel safely.
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Voters in Tucson, the home of the sanctuary movement that swept the nation in the 1980s, soundly rejected a return to those roots Tuesday.
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A court-appointed investigator concluded that high-ranking managers for former metro Phoenix Sheriff Joe Arpaio disregarded a federal judge’s order for Arpaio to halt immigration sweeps targeting Latinos, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Read moreThe Democratic National Committee sued the Arizona secretary of state in federal court for using a method of ballot-creation that will list all Republican candidates first in all statewide races in 11 of the state’s 15 counties; the DNC filed a similar lawsuit against Texas, in Austin Federal Court; and against Georgia, in Atlanta.
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The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed two bills to protect a combined 1.3 million acres of land in Arizona and New Mexico from new mining and drilling operations.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden has a distinct edge over his nearest Democratic rivals, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, in a poll of likely Arizona voters released Tuesday.
Read moreA federal court in Arizona certified a “Medicaid subclass,” in a civil rights suit brought on behalf of children in the state’s foster care system, finding the class has sufficiently alleged that certain policies in the system put children at risk of not receiving necessary physical, dental and behavioral health services.
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An Arizona elected official ran a human smuggling scheme that promised pregnant women thousands of dollars to lure them from a Pacific Island nation to the United States, where they were crammed into houses to wait to give birth, sometimes with little to no prenatal care, prosecutors say.
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The Little Colorado River cuts across the northeast corner of Arizona, emptying its waters into the much-larger Colorado River after a more than 330-mile journey.
Read moreA federal court in Arizona ruled that an officer is not entitled to immunity in a civil rights suit brought by a party-giver. The officer, who allegedly hit the party host several times, was not in imminent danger, did not have probable cause to arrest the host and did not need to enter the home to protect anyone’s safety.
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