Police Chief Jeri Williams promised change in her department after being booed by hundreds of people gathered Tuesday night to discuss a videotaped police encounter that has caused a national outcry
Read moreThe Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a convicted double-murderer’s appeal of his death sentence and decide whether Arizona’s high court should have applied current law when reviewing mitigating and aggravating evidence in the decades-old case.
Read morePolice departments in at least five states are investigating, and in some cases condemning, their officers’ social media feeds after the weekend publication of a database that appears to catalog thousands of bigoted or violent posts by active-duty and former cops.
Read moreA volunteer for a southern Arizona humanitarian aid group testified Wednesday in federal court that he wasn’t harboring two undocumented Central American men when he fed them and gave them water and place to sleep for two nights in January 2018 – he was just carrying on a tradition in the small town of Ajo, Arizona.
Read moreLed by the Alliance of Christian Leaders of the East Valley, a group of churches that assist refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants after they are released from ICE custody brought a federal civil rights complaint against the Patriot Movement AZ for conspiracy, trespass, and defamation.
Read moreWhile Arizona’s election requirements may force Libertarians to work harder to put candidates on the primary ballot, the rules passed constitutional muster Friday with a Ninth Circuit panel.
Read moreA volunteer who sheltered, fed and medically treated two illegal immigrants for several days in a house in a small Arizona town went on trial Wednesday for the second time in a month.
Read moreDispensaries of medical cannabis and the patients they serve breathed a collective sigh of relief Tuesday when the Arizona Supreme Court ruled state law protects the manufacture and use of cannabis concentrates, not just the plant itself.
Read moreArizona has banned prisoners from reading a book that discusses the impact of the criminal justice system on black men, drawing outcry from First Amendment advocates who say the move is censorship.
Read moreThree Native American tribes have called for a halt to preliminary work on a planned copper mine in southern Arizona’s Santa Rita Mountains.
Read moreThe U.S. government plans on replacing barriers through 100 miles (161 kilometers) of the southern border in California and Arizona, including through a national monument and a wildlife refuge, according to documents and environmental advocates.
Read moreA high school football player who has been in the United States since he was a toddler is in custody awaiting deportation to Mexico, prompting a protest Monday by classmates outside an Arizona sheriff’s office.
Read moreArizona is seeing a surge in hepatitis A cases, mostly in the Tucson area but also in metro Phoenix, health officials say.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit affirmed certification of a class of children in the Arizona foster care system who say state policies deprived them of necessary medical services, but vacated certification of a subclass who need “early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment.”
Read moreA federal judge found that El Paso Natural Gas is responsible for 65% of past and future response costs for the cleanup of 19 uranium mines near Cameron, Ariz., and the federal government is responsible for 35% of it.
Read moreArizona’s abortion laws – including a telemedicine ban and an effective ban on abortion services by anyone other than a doctor – block access and violate the 14th Amendment, Planned Parenthood of Arizona and three health care providers say in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday.
Read moreA federal judge advanced illegal search and seizure claims against former Sheriff Joe Arpaio for the arrests and prosecution of the owner and manager of Uncle Sam’s restaurants, finding evidence that Arpaio was “personally involved or should have known about and stopped the alleged illegal search and seizures.”
Read moreEnvironmental groups say the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated numerous federal laws and regulations when it approved a Clean Water Act permit for a copper mine in southern Arizona’s Santa Rita Mountains, threatening to upend one of the few wild jaguars living in the U.S. and the surrounding wildlife.
Read moreMonsanto continues to face liability problems over its weed-killer Roundup, with 17 federal lawsuits filed this week in Phoenix and Tucson, alleging the herbicide gave people cancer or killed them.
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