The Metro board has announced its decision to offer the mass transit service's top position to Stephen Banta, currently in a senior position at TriMet, the transit authority for the Portland, Ore., metropolitan region.

Brendan Herron spends his overseeing acquisitions Pathlore Software Corp., a developer. As vice for strategic devel-, Herron works long , travels a lot and attends countless meetings.

CHICAGO - Boeing Co. fired its chief financial officer Monday for negotiating the hiring of a missile defense expert while she worked for the U.S. government and was in a position to influence Boeing contracts.

Banner Ironwood Medical Center named Terresa Paulus as its new chief nursing officer.

East Phoenix-based Mesa Air Group said Friday it placed its chief financial officer on administrative leave while the company investigates his conduct in an ongoing lawsuit with Hawaiian Airlines.

The trail to condemned prisoner Robert C. Comer’s capture began with a barefoot print in the sand spotted from a helicopter hovering low over the wilderness.

As the nation moves beyond its 1,000th execution since capital punishment resumed in 1976, landmark legal battles have left Arizona’s death chamber unused for five years.

Executives at two of Arizona’s largest private school scholarship charities have used state income tax dollars to give themselves luxury cars, expensive real estate, jobs for relatives and friends, and extra cash hidden in the nonprofits’ balance sheets.

In the midst of trying to sort out an underestimation of uncollectible payments from years past, Scottsdalebased Rural/Metro Corp. has hired a new chief financial officer.

Dee Taylor, the second in command on the Scottsdale police force, said she will retire at the end of January after more than 30 years of service.

The focus was on a promise to continue community policing on Monday as Daniel Garcia was sworn in as the new police chief of the Phoenix Police Department.

The focus was on a promise to continue community policing on Monday as Daniel Garcia was sworn in as the new police chief of the Phoenix Police Department.

The Arizona Interscholastic Association went into executive session at Monday afternoon’s board meeting to discuss the financial questions brought about recently by the Arizona Football Coaches Association.

Two executives with the Arizona Diamondbacks have purchased majority interest in the NASCAR team owned by Troy Aikman and Roger Staubach, The Associated Press learned Saturday night.

A huge stock sale was done Tuesday by US Airways executives because options were nearing expiration and not because the insiders believe the airline’s share prices have peaked, said CEO Doug Parker.

Phoenix-based Mesa Air Group announced Thursday a new senior management lineup, shuffling existing employees into new positions after a rough few months for the embattled company.

HOUSTON - Now that Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay and former chief executive Jeffrey Skilling are felons, the string of ex-executives whose testimony helped the government snag those convictions face punishments of their own.

PHOENIX - The Arizona Supreme Court has denied a request from the state to set an execution date for a convicted murderer who's been on death row for 20 years for killing two men in 1987 in Lake Havasu City.

A new company aimed at creating jobs for retired and soon-to-be-retired business executives in the East Valley is about to adopt its official name and home.

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators, responding to a pay scandal at the New York Stock Exchange, approved an overhaul of the exchange Wednesday after the NYSE agreed to split its top executive position in two to avoid massing excessive power in one person.

The incoming chiefs of the House and Senate want lame-duck Gov. Janet Napolitano to stop issuing executive orders.

The Arizona Interscholastic Association is not admitting that the current power point system has a flaw, but it will present local engineer John Carrieres' formula to the AIA Executive Board for analysis on Feb. 21.

SAN FRANCISCO - Google provided stock market analysts with more color about its secretive operations Thursday, painting a bright picture that appeared aimed at defusing growth concerns raised by the search engine leader’s chief financial officer earlier this week.

Top-level executives and government leaders in China's largest commercial hub will begin classes Sept. 20 at the Arizona State University W.P. Carey MBA Shanghai, believed to be the first time a U.S. business school has partnered with the government of the People's Republic of China.