The former state banking chief accused a foe in the attorney general's race of filing a lawsuit against a payday lender to get some publicity and then abandoning the case.

Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas announced Wednesday he is forming an exploratory committee to consider a run for Arizona attorney general in the 2010 election.

WASHINGTON - President Bush has settled on Michael B. Mukasey, a retired federal judge from New York, to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general and will announce his selection Monday, a source familiar with the president's decision said Sunday evening.

WASHINGTON - Alberto Gonzales, the nation's first Hispanic attorney general, announced his resignation Monday, ending a wrenching standoff with congressional critics over his honesty and competence at the helm of the Justice Department.

Attorney General Terry Goddard improperly used legal tactics in an effort to hinder a criminal investigation in his office, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas contends in a lawsuit filed Monday.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has submitted the first part of its fraud investigation into Cactus Towing to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has submitted the first part of its fraud investigation into Cactus Towing to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office.

Methamphetamines are the "biggest illegal drug menace in America," according to a group of attorneys general and drug experts who convened Thursday in Scottsdale for the 2005 Methamphetamine Summit.

February 25, 2005

Methamphetamines are the "biggest illegal drug menace in America," according to a group of attorneys general and drug experts who convened Thursday in Scottsdale for the 2005 Methamphetamine Summit.

Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard wants the federal government to more closely regulate when refineries switch from winter to summer gasoline blends so they don’t all do it at the same time, a move that results in huge gas price increases in the East Valley every spring.

Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard wants to know why Valley gas prices are more than 30 cents higher than what the average U.S. consumer is paying.

Scottsdale council members praised the clarity brought by the Arizona attorney general’s legal opinion that leaves no doubt that they can speak with the media or their constituents about an upcoming vote.

The Arizona Treasurer has called for an independent investigation to decide if $1.1 million in payments to the attorney general’s office last year was legal.

The Department of Economic Security isn’t the only state agency having financial woes dealing with the new child welfare reforms.

Attorney General Tom Horne is warning Arizona residents to be on the lookout for a mailer that asks for illegal up-front fees to join a national lawsuit.

I don’t suppose some Arizona voters will care about Tom Horne’s lifetime trading ban by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (along with people like Bernie Madoff and Michael Milkin) or his failure to report a 1970 bankruptcy in several annual reports for his law firm during his primary run for attorney general. But they certainly should care about his eight-year record as superintendent of public schools. They should care that he proudly gives himself an “A” for the job he did, while our school system slid from about 40th overall in the nation to its present position of dead last. Now he’s running for attorney general — the lawyer for us, the people of Arizona. I don’t think we want our lawyer to be either unethical or a proven failure. Tom Horne is both.

A clear winner had still not emerged Tuesday evening in the bitter and often ugly primary race to become the Republican nominee for state attorney general.

The race to become Arizona's next attorney general has turned into a slugfest where the two Republican candidates have set up websites devoted exclusively to savaging each other.

To hear the candidates describe it, the Republican race for attorney general is a choice between a con man who is barred for life from securities trading or a liar who used his position as a prosecutor to bring charges against political enemies.