An Arizona prison teacher who was left alone in a classroom and then raped by a convicted sex offender will receive $3 million from the state to settle a lawsuit.

The Arizona Senate’s unilateral decision to adjourn left numerous bills for dead, including a measure designed to outlaw “revenge porn” and settle an ongoing lawsuit against the state.

A former Arizona jail inmate alleges in a lawsuit that a detention officer endangered his life a year ago by revealing to gang members that he was helping investigators as an informant.

The attorney for state schools chief Diane Douglas is asking the Court of Appeals to do something a trial judge would not: rule that she controls the employees of the state Board of Education.

A lawsuit by the state Board of Education against state schools chief Diane Douglas should be thrown out because of legal “gamesmanship,” her lawyer is arguing to a judge.

An Arizona sheriff who in the past has adamantly opposed putting body cameras on officers is now boasting that 700 of his deputies have been issued the recording devices.

Prosecutors are seeking the forfeiture of $4.2 million in cash, real estate and other property seized in an investigation of a former state employee charged with stealing millions of dollars from Arizona's health care program for the poor.

The State Board of Education hired a new executive director today in a contentious meeting in which Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas called the new employee “highly over qualified.”

The State Board of Education is meeting tomorrow to hire its new executive director, an act that could bring more dissention and lawsuits in the power struggle with Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas.

Yarnell residents burned out of their homes in 2013 have no right to sue Arizona for their losses, lawyers for the state are arguing.