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Newly-appointed Arizona Supreme Court Justice James Beene gravitated toward his profession in the same way a lot of young kids do — he fell in love with a book.

In a unanimous ruling Tuesday, the justices said that Hector Sebastion Nuñez-Diaz never would have entered into a plea deal on a drug charge had he been informed it would result in his automatic removal from this country.

Environmental groups are trying to halt a plan by the Bureau of Land Management to lease out more than 4,000 acres of land near the Petrified Forest National Park for oil and gas exploration.

The Arizona Senate fired a former Democratic policy advisor because she complained that she was being paid less because of her race and gender, a federal court ruled Friday evening.

A new lawsuit seeks to strike down a statute that can invalidate otherwise legitimate and qualified signatures on an initiative petition.

Anonymous investors will keep a horse racing track that abruptly ended its season in June open through the end of summer. But the long-term future of that track and two others in Arizona remains in question in the wake of a new state law intended to bust up a monopoly.

A judge has slapped down a plan by Gov. Doug Ducey to balance last year's budget and pay for his teacher pay raises by hitting up Tucson area residents for more taxes.

A magistrate judge recommended June 24 that a transgender professor’s claim he was discriminated on the basis of sex for his preapproved gender reassignment surgery be tossed out.

Anyone looking for major changes at the Arizona Supreme Court with the naming Friday of Robert Brutinel as its chief justice is likely to be disappointed.

Saying time is running out, the former chairman of the Arizona Libertarian Party wants the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to order an election – and soon -- to decide who fills out the term of John McCain.