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The mother of a young man who died by hanging in a Buckeye prison in January 2021 says that the prison’s negligence is to blame for her son’s death, which came two weeks after his arrival.  

The Arizona Board of Executive Clemency unanimously denied clemency to death row inmate Frank Atwood, who was sentenced to death for the 1984 kidnapping and murder of 8-year-old Vicki Lynne Hoskinson. 

Attorney General Mark Brnovich can't bring criminal charges against the firm that circulated petitions for the successful 2020 Invest in Ed ballot measure. 

The U.S. Supreme Court has put two Arizona murderers back on death row, one convicted of killing a 4-year-old Tucson girl and another convicted of killing a teen and her mother in Phoenix.

Arizona voters may get a chance to keep abortion legal even if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. 

The Arizona Board of Regents has no legal right to sue the owner of an Instagram account who posted anonymous messages about "ASU covid parties.''

The Biden administration says state Attorney General Mark Brnovich has no right to second guess - and sue - over the president's decision to set a $15 minimum wage for employees of federal contractors.

A man convicted of murdering 21-year-old Deana Bowdoin in 1978 was executed Wednesday morning -- the first time Arizona has put someone to death in nearly eight years. 

The Senate claimed legislative privilege Tuesday at the Arizona Supreme Court in its bid to withhold or redact more than 1,000 documents related to the review of the 2020 general election in Maricopa County. 

Minor league players and Major League Baseball have reached a settlement in a lawsuit alleging teams violated minimum wage laws.