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A struggle that began weeks after the November elections moved into the courtroom on Aug. 6 when Rep. Doug Quelland petitioned an administrative law judge to undo a state agency’s order that could force him from office. Quelland has appealed to the Office of Administrative Hearings in hopes of keeping his seat as a District 10 representative.

The appeal of a May order to remove Rep. Doug Quelland from office started Aug. 6 as attorneys for the Citizens Clean Elections Commission and the Phoenix lawmaker squared off in front of an administrative law judge. Peter Limperis, an attorney hired by the commission, began opening arguments with a stark reminder that Quelland once stood as a strong supporter of Arizona's publicly funded elections.

FLAGSTAFF - A Flagstaff man arrested in connection with threatening phone calls to the mayor and her staff pleaded guilty in Superior Court Aug. 3 to a charge of aggravated harassment.

The Attorney General’s Office announced a 65-year-old Tucson woman faces up to 12-and-a-half years in prison after pleading guilty to charges stemming from her theft of almost $1 million from a southern Arizona museum. According to Attorney General Terry Goddard, ...

The five Democrats and three Republicans in Arizona’s congressional delegation displayed a rare unified front in their request to have five new federal judge positions created to combat border-related crime in the state. The eight representatives signed a letter July ...

Gov. Jan Brewer on July 28 announced the appointment of Tucson appellate court Judge John Pelander to the Arizona Supreme Court. Pelander, a Republican, was one of three final candidates presented to Brewer by the Arizona Commission on Appellate Court ...

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office arrested 72 people during a three-day crime sweep in Chandler and Queen Creek southeast of Phoenix. Sheriff Joe Arpaio says the operation started as an attempt to control illegal immigration, but new federal guidelines prevent ...

The Arizona Supreme Court has decided unanimously that state lawmakers overstepped their authority when they swept millions of dollars of interest held in the Arizona Early Childhood Development and Health Fund. The dispute came down to the fine print of ...

Acting on a tip, policemen conducting surveillance on a home in the outskirts of Tucson waited until the right moment to make their move on a suspected drug house. The last of the home's occupants had just left, and a police canine unit soon confirmed it had identified the odor of narcotics seeping from the garage of a home belonging to Jose Salvador Guillen.

Roughly four months after an announcement that Arizona Supreme Court Justice Ruth McGregor would step down from the bench, Gov. Jan Brewer is poised to choose the state's next justice.