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Al-Qaida lurking about in Pinal County? Developer George Johnson says terrorists could target his water and sewer utility system if information about it were disclosed to the public.

When Janice Davis visits old friends in her former south Scottsdale neighborhood, where she lived for 47 years, she is reminded of how much she misses her neighbors.

A 20-year-old college student was held down by a group of men and raped inside her Tempe apartment.

It took more than two years, but Betsy and Randy Olson finally got closure on a crime committed in their home in a matter of minutes - a burglary resulting in the loss of about $500,000 worth of property.

 GRAPHIC: Scottsdale burglaries in 2007

 About $50 million for vacant land, which Scottsdale has no plans to use.

GRAPHIC: Area map of Scottsdale land deals

ASU needs better tools to track and assess students’ behavior and to upgrade its emergency notification system for when worst-case scenarios become real, a university committee recommends.

Sheriff Chris Vasquez is running a tightknit campaign and bumping up his public affairs staff before a bid for a first full term as Pinal County's top law enforcement official.

For two years, developers were buying up land and modest homes in one of Chandler’s oldest neighborhoods. Now, they’re joining forces with the city’s most powerful political forces to transform the area into a conference center showcase that could cost taxpayers as much as $35 million.

Parents in Apache Junction will be out hundreds of extra dollars next year and their busing options will be drastically reduced if the school superintendent's budget proposal is adopted.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio in September called his agency's high-profile arrest of a Chandler police officer "a tough decision that I had to make."

A rare confidentiality agreement brokered between a private developer and Florence is concealing the viability of a multimillion-dollar water and sewer utility that serves more than 20,000 customers in the Johnson Ranch area.

 Going by the string of gas purchases and ATM withdrawals on her recent bank statements, it would appear that Irma Judson is a plastic-savvy Mesa resident who loves to drive about town.

ASU's Newman Center wants to make downtown Tempe home to 432 students in a high-rise dorm without building a single new parking space for those additional residents. The idea seems to fly in the face of Tempe's effort to require far more parking in new downtown developments than it had in the past.

One of the biggest sources of cash for Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas' campaign has come from a group of donors almost unheard of in Arizona politics.

Chandler Councilman Martin Sepulveda has raised $20,000 for his re-election bid, the bulk of it from commercial developers or contributors linked to that industry, according to a review of campaign finance records.

Low graduation rates at Arizona's public universities might keep students from an increasingly popular cash source for college expenses.

Cheryl Butler says her family of seven sweltered in their west Mesa apartment for at least a month last summer without air conditioning.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is fighting a statewide effort to punish law enforcement officials caught abusing anabolic steroids.

A Gilbert police officer accused of racial profiling last month after he had the car of a visiting Mexican family towed has a history of citizen complaints, including two other racial profiling claims.

Armando Rodriguez Morales found himself and his wife stranded alongside the road in one of Mesa’s high-crime neighborhoods one night last week after being pulled over by a Gilbert motorcycle officer.