MARICOPA — Students from a Maricopa charter school organized a protest on Monday morning in solidarity with a teacher they say was unjustifiably fired.
PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say one person is dead after a head-on car crash west of Phoenix that involved a deputy from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.
PHOENIX – After a beautiful weekend, Pinal County will see a warming trend begin on Tuesday, but later in the week, a weak storm moving east of the state is expected to drop temperatures slightly and kick up winds across northern Arizona.
CASA GRANDE — An 81-year-old woman was confronted by a masked man inside her house Sunday morning, police said.
MARICOPA — The entire City Council chambers was filled parents sitting next to their teens Saturday as the main panel at the Teen Hall began speaking.
MARICOPA — When inspiration hits a local activist and musician, he’s learned do just roll with it.
MARICOPA — School policies aim to keep kids in the classroom as much as possible, but when student behavior leaves them little choice, it takes some creativity to live up to that goal.
MARICOPA — With the Maricopa volleyball team searching for an end to a lengthy losing streak, it needs to be able to take advantage of whatever opportunities it gets. The Rams might have let a good one slip away on Thursday.
SAN TAN VALLEY — San Tan Foothills and Florence essentially matched each other in the first half Friday, with three touchdowns each by their star running backs, Foothills’ Amahri Bailey and Florence’s Josh Maignan.
CASA GRANDE — It wasn’t the way Jake Barro drew it up, but Casa Grande Union got a much-needed 38-20 win over Tucson Catalina Foothills on Friday.
MARICOPA — In less than a minute in the opening quarter, Maricopa watched as Gilbert Williams Field quickly took a 9-0 lead and eventually led 23-0 after the first quarter.
PRESCOTT (AP) — Police say a Prescott man who allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted a teenage girl last week is a registered sex offender.
PHOENIX — The State Court of Appeals threw out the latest legal objection to a high-altitude balloon-launching facility in Pima County, saying challengers waited too long to sue.
FLAGSTAFF (AP) — Police in Flagstaff have arrested a man suspected of deliberately setting a fire at a Walmart store.
PHOENIX — Arizona quietly suspended plans to require about 120,000 people to work, volunteer or go to school to receive Medicaid benefits, as courts have taken a dim view of similar mandates in other states.
PHOENIX (AP) — A baby weighing less than one pound when she was born nearly five months ago is being released Monday from a Phoenix hospital.
PHOENIX (AP) — Police in Phoenix say a man has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend and another woman.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis' controversial meeting on the Amazon has taken a criminal twist after thieves stole indigenous fertility statues from a Vatican-area church and tossed them into the Tiber River.
CASA GRANDE — The Rev. Carl Bengtson has taken the helm at Sonland Lutheran Church.
The portion of Americans with no religious affiliation is rising significantly, in tandem with a sharp drop in the percentage that identifies as Christians.
SALT LAKE CITY — A proposed ban on so-called conversion therapy in Utah is in danger of being derailed after the influential Church of Jesus of Christ of Latter-day Saints came out Tuesday night in opposition, just months after it said it wouldn't stand in the way of a similar measure under …
NEW YORK — Sen. Martha McSally, the Arizona Republican appointed to the seat once held by John McCain, has a book deal.
WASHINGTON (AP) — For Mick Mulvaney, the hits just keep on coming.
WASHINGTON — If the FBI discovers that foreign hackers have infiltrated the networks of your county election office, you may not find out about it until after voting is over. And your governor and other state officials may be kept in the dark, too.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has announced an education proposal pledging to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on public schools while ending all federal funding to create new charter schools.
Would you like to receive our daily news? Signup today!
HOUSTON — Max Scherzer was taunted over his eyes as a kid. Now he treasures them.
NEW ORLEANS — Zion Williamson will miss the start of the season after the No. 1 overall draft pick by the New Orleans Pelicans had right knee surgery, sidelining the hyped rookie for nearly tw…
TEMPE — The Cardinals' offense is still trying to find its way after a day of taking bite-sized yardage chunks just outside the Big Apple.
Eric Cooper, the Major League Baseball umpire who worked the AL Division Series two weeks ago, has died. He was 52.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The game was billed as the return of Saquon Barkley to the New York Giants' lineup and the matchup of first-round rookie quarterbacks Kyler Murray and Daniel Jones. It …
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Denny Hamlin was surrounded by Joe Gibbs Racing teammates at the front on the final restart, and that put Chase Elliott in the most difficult and precarious of situations.
BILLINGS, Mont. — Federal employees overseeing U.S. public lands were assaulted or threatened at least 360 times over a five-year period marked by heightened tensions with anti-government groups and dwindling ranks of law enforcement officers, a congressional watchdog agency said Monday.
DALLAS — A tornado tossed trees into homes, tore off storefronts and downed power lines but killed no one in a densely populated area of Dallas, leaving Mayor Eric Johnson to declare the city “very fortunate” to be assessing only property damage.
WASHINGTON — Climate change is making stronger El Ninos, which change weather worldwide and heat up an already warming planet, a new study finds.
CLEVELAND — The nation's three biggest drug distributors and a major drugmaker agreed to an 11th-hour, $260 million settlement Monday over the terrible toll taken by opioids in two Ohio counties, averting the first federal trial over the crisis.
ORLANDO, Fla. — There are plenty of sunny days to sweep the clouds away where SeaWorld is opening its next theme park.
PHOENIX — "That's not real Mexican food," ''My grandma would slap you" and "sellout" are just some of comments Jose and Leticia Gamiz received when they started their pop-up vegan Mexican food business, Mi Vegana Madre, four years ago.
MARICOPA — When inspiration hits a local activist and musician, he’s learned do just roll with it.
FLORENCE — Bowl with pumpkins and play other midway games, enjoy food and wander through a 3-acre corn maze on weekends Oct. 11 through Halloween at the Rankin Family Farm Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch, 924 W. Butte Ave., next to the Windmill Winery.
"Oh good, another Hitler comedy! It's been too long," said no studio development executive, ever.
ALONG THE VJOSA RIVER — Under a broad plane tree near Albania’s border with Greece, Jorgji Ilia fills a battered flask from one of the Vjosa River’s many springs.
VICTORIA, Australia (AP) -- A dog had to be rescued from a steep cliff in Australia after becoming stranded halfway down.
BENI, Congo — When Germain Kalubenge gets a request for a ride on his motorcycle it can be a matter of life or death. The 23-year-old is a survivor of the Ebola virus and often is the only dri…
Miguel Sfeir remembers the first time he visited the small town of Superior. He had driven by on Highway 60 while riding his motorcycle, and a friend, Curtis Pierce, had a connection to the to…
Frank Pinkley was 19 years old in 1900 when he arrived in Arizona on a train from Missouri. He was scheduled to stay six months to recover from a mild case of tuberculosis. He never left.
The world-famous Heard Museum in Phoenix has about 130,000 square feet of space. Then there’s the World’s Smallest Museum in Superior, which has about 130.
Oracle was in its infancy as a mining and cattle ranching community around 1891 when it was mentioned in a medical journal. The article stated that the area north of Tucson was a great place f…
When my wife and I go on vacation, I normally make the schedule for the week and then buy airplane tickets and rent a car.
In a sense, the people of the Ak-Chin Native American community have always been involved in gambling. Translated, Ak-Chin means “mouth of the wash” and refers to farming that relies on the de…
