Now that the federal government plans to resume capital punishment, Arizona should as well, according to Attorney General Mark Brnovich.

A federal judge on Tuesday rejected the Justice Department's claim of executive privilege used to withhold certain documents tied to the Fast and Furious "gun-walking" scandal from release to a congressional committee.

A thorny contempt-of-court case dogging Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio isn't the only major legal trouble facing the lawman this summer.

A judge who ruled last year that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office has racially profiled Latinos is criticizing the agency's top leaders for mischaracterizing and trivializing the case's key findings during a training session.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent won't be prosecuted by Cochise County for the 2011 fatal shooting of a man who was climbing over the fence into Mexico from southeastern Arizona, authorities said.

SAN FRANCISCO ai??i?? The federal government argued Tuesday that a section of Arizona's 2010 immigration law that prohibits "harboring" people living in the country illegally should be blocked.

A report examining more than 400 sex-crime cases that were inadequately investigated or not looked into at all by an Arizona sheriff's office attributes the failures to understaffing and mismanagement, including hundreds of pieces of evidence intended for storage that were instead left in offices or taken home by detectives.

The sheriff for metropolitan Phoenix has released 10,000 pages of documents on an internal probe into sex-crime cases.

One-third of a federal civil rights lawsuit against two polygamous towns on the Arizona-Utah border has been dismissed.

A judge has dismissed an Arizona sheriff's office from a lawsuit alleging the agency carried out a pattern of discrimination against Latinos in its immigration patrols, but rejected a request to dismiss Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio himself from the case.