Arizona AttorneyArizona Attorney General Tom Horne has been given more time to pay back $400,000 in donations for his 2010 campaign for office. General Tom Horne has been given more time to pay back $400,000 in donations for his 2010 campaign for office.

A former Attorney General’s Office staffer filed a long-awaited complaint with election officials alleging that she and other employees spent significant amounts of time working on Tom Horne’s reelection on taxpayer time.

A former Arizona Attorney General’s Office employee who did volunteer work for Tom Horne’s re-election said she and other employees routinely violated state laws by doing campaign work on taxpayer time, and that Horne himself encouraged and was aware of the unlawful activity.

An attorney representing a former Attorney General’s Office employee who resigned over alleged violations of campaign laws within the office officially demanded that Attorney General Tom Horne preserve electronic and other records in preparation for complaints to elections officials and a possible lawsuit.

Attorneys for two Arizona death row inmates are asking the Department of Corrections for information on who manufactured the drugs that will be used for their lethal injections.

A staffer at the Attorney General’s Office who volunteered as a fundraiser for Tom Horne’s re-election campaign resigned over what she called violations of campaign law within the office.

The Attorney General’s Office said it will continue funding patrols by Mohave County deputies of the polygamous enclave of Colorado City, despite Gov. Jan Brewer’s decision to line-item veto a $500,000 appropriation for those patrols.

Gov. Jan Brewer signed the $9.2 billion budget for fiscal year 2015 budget but line-item vetoed several provisions.

While all eyes are on the reconstruction of the state’s child-welfare agency, a growing backlog of abuse and neglect cases involving adults who can’t care for themselves threatens to become the next big crisis.

Lawyers for Attorney General Tom Horne and ally Kathleen Winn alleged that an FBI agent who served as the prosecution’s key witness against them in their campaign finance case perjured himself on the witness stand and that his testimony should be thrown out.