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Fight over Colorado City looms once more
Flora Jessop, an escaped former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Colorado City, promised today that change is coming to the small community that straddles the Arizona-Utah border.
Judge to hear bid to move Arizona polygamy civil rights case
A federal judge will hear arguments Friday on a request to move a civil rights lawsuit against two polygamous towns out of Arizona.
Business lobby wants Arizona to create program supporting venture capital investment
Arizona’s economy would benefit if elected officials followed the lead of states including Utah and New Mexico that have established government-supported programs promoting venture capital investment, two business groups contend.
U.S. Justice Department sues Colorado City
The U.S. Department of Justice filed suit today against two rural polygamous towns, alleging that their police officers selectively enforce laws based on religion and defer to the wishes of Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
The rumor mill keeps on turning
The rumor mill was spinning furiously yesterday, as word began circulating that Crandall was planning to pull up stakes and move out of state to Utah as soon as this weekend.
Senate approves bill for public lands fight
The Arizona Senate has approved legislation that attempts to force the federal government to hand over control of public lands in the state. A majority of the land in Arizona is controlled by federal agencies, but some state lawmakers say the state would be a better manager of that land.
Buckey O’Neill and the A&P Train Robbery
Buckey O’Neill had been a newspaper reporter with the Tombstone Epitaph when the OK Corral shootout occurred in 1881. The following year he moved to Prescott and worked as a court reporter and founded his own newspaper, Hoof and Horn, serving the livestock industry. He became captain of a local unit of the Arizona militia in 1886 and was elected Yavapai County sheriff in 1888.
USDA: $5.2 million for Ariz. in disaster funds
Arizona is set to get $5.2 million in disaster aid from the Department of Agriculture.
Healer of the Lonely Dell
On Christmas Day in 1871, Emma Batchelor Lee, her soon-to-be infamous husband, and six young children arrived at a desolate location next to the Colorado River in between Grand and Glen canyons that would become their new home. She originally called the site ‘Lonely Dell,’ but the area would become better known as Lee’s Ferry.
Brewer urges Supreme Court to hear SB1070 appeal
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case involving the state's immigration law.
GOP-led bill opens up Grand Canyon area to mining
A group of Republican lawmakers from Arizona and Utah is renewing an effort to open up 1 million acres near the Grand Canyon to new mining claims.
LDS church influence key in Utah immigration bills
Illegal immigration is no less divisive in Utah than in Arizona, and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in both conservative states are wrestling with their church’s recent positions on the issue.
