A former Arizona legislator has been picked to serve on the board for Maricopa Community Colleges.

Funeral services for former Arizona legislator Ben Miranda are scheduled for next week in Phoenix.

Early voting in the 2014 primary begins in nine months, and candidates are already firing up their campaigns.

The State Bar of Arizona on Tuesday dismissed a complaint against former lawmaker Ben Miranda, who admitted to signing nomination petitions he didn’t personally circulate.

Handwriting analysts have concluded that Rep. Catherine Miranda’s signature was forged on documents she submitted to the Citizens Clean Elections Commission, and a “vast majority” of her campaign contributor signatures do not match signatures on file.

Hispanic lawmakers stopped short of saying there was a racial undercurrent in the fatal shooting of a 29-year-old man in South Phoenix last week, but they demanded that the Phoenix Police Department ramp up its cultural sensitivity training for officers.

Arizona politicians reacted to today’s S1070 ruling as expected: Many Republicans were upset that federal Judge Susan Bolton halted the major parts of the law, and many Democrats were relieved that it was gutted before taking effect. Here’s what they had to ...

One of Rep. Ben Miranda’s political rivals in the three-way Democratic constable race — Constable Jimmie Munoz, Sr. — is leveling allegations that Miranda has no intention of fulfilling the constable post or leaving his law practice. Munoz, who is seeking his third term as constable, said Miranda is trying to “spoil the vote” because of a long-simmering rivalry between the pair.

A national group of Latino clergy leaders filed the first lawsuit against S1070 on April 29, arguing that it infringes on the federal government's right to enforce illegal immigration laws and will lead to racial profiling against Hispanics.

A House committee unanimously approved legislation that would carve out a lesser crime for men who unknowingly solicit child prostitutes, while still retaining tougher penalties for those who knowingly pay children for sex.