The Arizona attorney general's office plans to appeal a federal judge's ruling that struck down a 2005 law against human smuggling, his spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday blocked Arizona from enforcing a state law that restricts access to abortion-inducing drugs by prohibiting off-label uses of RU-486, the so-called "abortion pill."
Takata Corp (7312.T) faces a long battle to gauge the fallout from a fast-moving air bag crisis as recalls mount up, adding to the costs for the loss-making Japanese auto parts maker.
Barriers to gay marriage fell in Arizona, Alaska and Wyoming on Friday following a series of federal court actions in the latest in a series of legal victories for supporters of same-sex matrimony in America.
County law enforcement officials in Arizona said on Thursday no criminal charges are pending after a probe into a gun range incident in which a 9-year-old girl fatally shot her instructor with an Uzi, adding it was "being viewed as an industrial accident."
The fast-moving wildfire that killed 19 firefighters Sunday in the communities of Yarnell and Glen Isla, about 85 miles northwest of Phoenix, has grown to quadruple in size.
Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio received a package, and was turned over to a bomb squad after a postal inspector deemed it suspicious. Sheriff Arpaio, known for his hard-line anti-immigration policies, received a package, and it remains unclear whether it contained an explosive device, nor if the item contained any bomb components.
Gino Maraventano has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder after police said after he admitted to stabbing his wife and 27-year-old son to death in Goodyear Arizona. Maraventano called 911 on Saturday, and told dispatchers, and telling investigators that he committed the murders four days before notifying police.
The jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial asked more than 100 questions to the defendant on Wednesday, Accused of vengefully murdering her boyfriend Travis Alexander, the jury's questions were put to Arias by Judge Sherry Stephens.
Jodi Arias, the woman accused of the brutal stabbing, shooting and killing of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander, resumed on Tuesday after a 5-day absence. On Wednesday, for the first time, she began describing the day she killed him, claiming it was out of self-defense.
