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Just 11 lawyers have applied to be one of the two new justices that Gov. Doug Ducey will select for the Arizona Supreme Court.

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled today that a mechanism used by water companies to increase rates between rate cases is constitutional, vacating a Court of Appeals opinion that said the opposite.

A special state commission takes the first steps this week to letting Gov. Doug Ducey put two of his choices on the state's high court.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said a surveillance video dispels a Department of Economic Security allegation that one of its detention officers had entered false information on a court form about a DES employee arrested on suspicion of food stamp fraud.

Known as the “Darling of Munich,” Olga Korbut won three gold medals in gymnastics at the 1972 Olympic Games in Germany, a sport she pursues to this day as a traveling coach based in Scottsdale.

As state laws aimed at preventing voter fraud topple like dominoes through the federal court system, national and local Democrats are taking aim at Arizona.

Conceding there’s no evidence of fraud, an attorney for the state asked a federal judge Wednesday to allow enforcement of a new law making “ballot harvesting” a felony.

The arrest Wednesday of a Department of Economic Security employee on suspicion of food stamp fraud has led to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office looking into who is responsible for putting falsehoods about her criminal history in a court document.

Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell today said elections officials and poll workers will not be enforcing the “ballot harvesting ban” lawmakers approved this year.

State Medicaid officials have agreed not to try to cut off family planning dollars from Planned Parenthood, at least not yet.