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Maricopa County gets $500M grant to get fugitives
Maricopa County has been awarded $500,000 to start and expand programs to track down felony fugitives.
Some communities moving to ban fireworks as state law looms
Payson is one of the first cities in the state to enact a local ordinance banning the use of fireworks that will become legal statewide on Dec. 1. Show Low and Queen Creek have also passed bans, and Flagstaff is considering regulation. Yuma is among cities taking a wait-and-see approach.
State lawmakers preparing citizenship legislation
Lawmakers in states across the country are combining to work on proposed legislation to deny U.S. citizenship to children born in this country to parents who are illegal immigrants, the sponsor of Arizona's 2010 law targeting illegal immigration said Tuesday.
Non-profits now using SB1070 as fundraising tool
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has proven that tough immigration policies make it easy to raise cash for political campaigns, and Gov. Jan Brewer has shown that the same rule applies to raising money for legal defense of the state’s new immigration law.
But now, private-sector interests are getting wise as well.
South Mountain JP Cody Williams reprimanded
The state commission that enforces judicial conduct has reprimanded Justice of the Peace Cody Williams on grounds he is consistently absent from his $101,500-a-year job and he created an appearance of impropriety when he didn’t transfer a personal speeding ticket to another judge.
UpClose with Paul Eckstein
Eckstein is one of the most renowned constitutional attorneys in the state and the go-to lawyer for the Arizona Democratic Party. And during his four-decade career at the prestigious law firm Perkins Coie Brown & Bain, Eckstein has played major roles in some of Arizona’s biggest cases and most heated political debates.
MCSO’s appeal of jail ruling rejected
A federal appeals court says jails in Maricopa County don't meet constitutional minimums when it comes to food quality and housing conditions for inmates on psychotropic drugs.
Law firm that represented ex-prosecutor fired
The Maricopa County Attorney's Office has fired the law firm that represents a former prosecutor in an Arizona State Bar inquiry.
AG candidates duke it out brutally over experience
The candidates for Arizona attorney general have made the race less about the issues facing the state's next top prosecutor and more a contest of experience a�� and their assessments of each other are brutal.
Computer taken in break-in at Phoenix mayor’s home
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon says someone forced their way through his home's backdoor and took his personal computer, apparently while he slept.
Supreme Court finalist: Ann Scott Timmer
Timmer, the chief judge of the Arizona Court of Appeals, has been on the court 10 years and this is her third time as a finalist for Supreme Court justice.
AG’s Office: Corporations may donate to IE groups
The Attorney General’s Office won’t go after corporations and labor groups that donate to independent expenditure committees, despite its position that state law prohibits such contributions.
