Arizona’s highest court on Tuesday ruled one half of a divorced lesbian couple has constitutionally guaranteed equal parental rights, even though she didn’t give birth to the child the couple had while together.
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A former student sued the University of Arizona on Wednesday, saying she was strangled and beaten by a running back on its football team after the school ignored other domestic violence allegations against the player.
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Arizona’s attorney general sued his state’s public university system, claiming the Board of Regents has more than tripled tuition at its three public universities, in violation of the state constitution, which declares that “the instruction furnished shall be as nearly free as possible.”
Read moreFor two months, health care providers and law enforcement in Arizona have been reporting drug overdose deaths to the state health department. Authorities now know more Arizonans die of drug overdoses than in car accidents, with opioids responsible for over half the overdose deaths.
Read morePresident Donald Trump’s Friday night pardon of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio caused a raucous reaction in Arizona as Republican supporters applauded and civil rights workers called it support for white supremacy.
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An Arizona law that shuttered Mexican-American studies classes in the Tucson Unified School District was “motivated by a desire to advance a political agenda by capitalizing on race-based fears,” a federal judge ruled late Tuesday.
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A Phoenix rally for President Donald Trump ended in violence Tuesday night, but city officials and protesters don’t agree on which side fired tear gas first, or if anyone was hurt.
Read morePresident Trump used a Phoenix rally Tuesday night to thrash the news media, threaten to shut down the government if he does not get funding for a border wall, and indicate he will pardon Sheriff Joe Arpaio — but not quite yet.
Read morePhoenix is bracing for protests as President Trump holds a campaign-style rally downtown despite the mayor’s request that he stay away so soon after the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia that led to three deaths.
Read moreA former swim team member has sued the University of Arizona, claiming that after he was beaten by a teammate his coach berated, ridiculed and ostracized him until he was forced to give up his scholarship and leave the university.
Read moreThe mayor of Phoenix asked President Donald Trump not to come to his city as planned next Tuesday for a political rally, saying it’s not the time for it while the “nation is still healing from the tragic events in Charlottesville.”
Read moreTucson cannot destroy confiscated guns, because it violates a state law against local governments regulating the weapons, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Read morePresident Donald Trump said he may pardon former Sheriff Joe Arpaio for his criminal contempt of court conviction for racially profiling Latinos in defiance of a federal judge’s order, because Arpaio is “a great American patriot” who “has done a lot in the fight against illegal immigration.”
Read moreU.S. Sen. John McCain has returned home to Arizona to fight brain cancer – and speculation about the future of his seat.
Read morePASADENA, Calif. (CN) – The Ninth Circuit heard arguments Thursday morning that Arizona prosecutors did not have qualified immunity in
Read moreTEMPE, Ariz. (CN) – The parents of a 19-year-old black man who was shot and killed by a white Tempe,
Read moreBurnishing a largely unbroken record at trial, General Motors swatted away another ignition-switch liabilities lawsuit on Wednesday, as a federal jury rejected the case of an Arizona fender-bender.
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A federal trial considering whether an Arizona law that shuttered a popular Mexican-American studies program in Tucson was enacted with discriminatory intent resumes this week and will include testimony from the man behind the effort to end the program.
Read moreArizona did not discriminate against the Libertarian Party by changing the formula by which its candidates qualify for the ballot, a federal judge ruled, finding it “difficult to conclude that Arizona’s requirement is unconstitutionally burdensome.”
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The parents of a Northern Arizona University student killed during an October 2015 campus shooting claim in court the shooter’s parents gave him the handgun he used despite knowing he was immature and prone to outbursts.
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