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An ambitious, $6.7 billion government project to secure nearly the entire Mexican border with a "virtual fence" of cameras, ground sensors and radar is in jeopardy after a string of technical glitches and delays.

An Arizona Senate panel on Feb. 3 endorsed a bill that prosecutors hope would make young people think twice before sending nude pictures of themselves to their friends or significant others.

An Arizona House committee has approved a bill that could help Glendale prevent an American Indian tribe from building a casino near the city.

WASHINGTON - Democratic lawmakers must soon decide whether President Barack Obama is leading them toward statesmanlike courage or political folly.

A request by Maricopa County prosecutors to appoint special prosecutors to press criminal cases against three county officials was denied Jan. 27.

WASHINGTON - A major ruling Thursday by the U.S. Supreme Court could change how presidential and congressional campaigns are funded, possibly opening the floodgates of money from corporations, labor unions and other groups.

MESA - A Colorado company that offered to buy the East Valley Tribune from Freedom Communications has expanded its offer to include two other Phoenix-area newspapers in the proposed sale.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies are conceding for the first time that they may have to accept a less ambitious health overhaul bill than the massive one they've struggled for a year to assemble.

WASHINGTON - Something is better than nothing on healthcare, the House's second-ranking Democrat asserted Tuesday, facing the outcome of an unpredictable Massachusetts election that may give Republicans the power to kill the bill.

The trial date for a man charged with killing the operator of a speed-camera van parked along a Phoenix freeway has been delayed so he can undergo a psychological evaluation.