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The answers provided by former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and his deputy Lisa Aubuchon during three days of testimony this week maintained a consistent theme: It was nothing personal.

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge today struck from the 2012 ballot a measure that would have ended Arizona’s system of publicly financed political campaigns.

Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas called politicians and judges he once prosecuted cowards and “corrupt” during testimony Wednesday in discipline hearings against him.

Former Deputy County Attorney Lisa Aubuchon never wavered during testimony today from her belief that filing criminal charges and a racketeering suit against County Supervisors and judges feuding with Andrew Thomas was legally justified.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s testimony in the Andrew Thomas discipline hearing was short on details and was filled with vague memories.

A court hearing is scheduled Friday on a request to block Arizona's planned award of contracts for 5,000 additional private prison beds authorized under a 2009 state law.

A federal judge Thursday refused to derail a challenge to a 2010 state constitutional amendment, dealing a setback to Arizona's effort to require union elections by secret ballot before companies can be unionized.

The former No. 2 official in Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office is scheduled to testify Thursday about his role in three failed public corruption investigations that are the subject of an attorney discipline hearing against former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas.

Harkins Theatres and the state are on the verge of settling a hard-fought, groundbreaking lawsuit that became the center of a national struggle between theater owners and the hearing and visually impaired.

Retired Superior Court Judge Gary Donahoe testified Wednesday that former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Arpaio’s former top aide, David Hendershott, set out to destroy his good name. And they succeeded, he said.