Scottsdale’s city attorney lives in Paradise Valley, an offense that merits tossing Deborah Robberson from the top legal post, one neighborhood activist argues.

Scottsdale’s city attorney lives in Paradise Valley, an offense that merits tossing Deborah Robberson from the top legal post, one neighborhood activist argues.

The Scottsdale Unified School District has substantially reduced what it spends on attorneys, but is still paying more than even the state’s largest school district so far this school year.

SAN FRANCISCO - California's Supreme Court declared that gay couples in the nation's most populous state can marry - a monumental but perhaps short-lived victory for the gay rights movement Thursday that was greeted with tears, hugs, kisses and at least one instant proposal of matrimony.

Tempe Union High School District Superintendent James Buchanan said Tuesday an order of protection taken against him last week — to be discussed tonight during a previously planned job performance evaluation — is "totally unfounded."

WASHINGTON - John G. Roberts Jr., a conservative protege of the late William H. Rehnquist, succeeded him Thursday and became the nation's youngest chief justice in two centuries, winning support from more than three-fourths of the Senate after promising he would be no ideologue.

WASHINGTON - John Roberts was sworn in as the 17th chief justice of the United States on Thursday, taking his oath at a White House ceremony attended by President Bush and other justices of the Supreme Court.

Five days into his job as Scottsdale’s school superintendent, John Baracy heard familiar words: Prostate cancer. They were words that have been a part of Baracy’s life for many years, affecting his father, brother and an uncle.

The Scottsdale Unified School District has substantially reduced what it spends on attorneys, but is still paying more than even the state’s largest school district so far this school year.

Perhaps the answer to why a highly paid college chancellor is on indefinite leave at taxpayer expense lies somewhere in the pages of his recent job evaluation. But that’s a document the public can’t have, say officials at the Maricopa Community College District.

Five days into his job as Scottsdale’s school superintendent, John Baracy heard familiar words: Prostate cancer. They were words that have been a part of Baracy’s life for many years, affecting his father, brother and an uncle.

The Higley Unified School District governing board is scheduled to vote Thursday on Superintendent Larry Likes’ recommendation for who takes over his job.

Perhaps the answer to why a highly paid college chancellor is on indefinite leave at taxpayer expense lies somewhere in the pages of his recent job evaluation.

Three members of the Independent Redistricting Commission voted Saturday night to spend public funds to hire lawyers for each of them to respond to questions raised about their conduct by Gov. Jan Brewer.

WASHINGTON — The Major League Baseball Players Association is telling Congress that it discourages members from using smokeless tobacco, but players should be allowed to use substances that are legal and available to the general public.

Gov. Jan Brewer is threatening to have Attorney General Terry Goddard blocked from interfering in what could be the most broad-based challenge to the state's new immigration law.

A Tempe woman has been practicing law without certification and ripping off people who were going through divorces, the State Bar of Arizona alleges in a complaint filed Thursday.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio refuses to comply with a court order that he restore his jails’ former visitation hours for members of the legal community by today.

February 1, 2005

Those looking to hire legal representation have a new option today for checking whether an attorney has discipline problems.

Apache Junction City Manager George Hoffman refused to be interviewed about turmoil in the city’s police department since Chief Glenn Walp took control of the agency in January 2006. Hoffman did agree to answer questions by e-mail. The following is the questions posed to Hoffman, and his answers. Some questions he did not answer, referring them to City Attorney Joel Stern because they may involve litigation.

Monthly meetings in Pinal County can be dry affairs full of contracts, intergovernmental agreements and zoning changes. But a wrinkle in the way the county Board of Supervisors does business is seen by some legal experts as a way of skirting the public’s right to know what their government is doing, a violation of the state statute known as the Open Meetings Law.

State senators voted 26-1 Thursday to let prosecutors hold smuggled illegal immigrants for up to a week without bringing criminal charges against them.

Foes of government services for illegal immigrants renewed their efforts Monday to force state agencies to demand proof of legal presence before providing any benefits. Legal papers filed in Maricopa County Superior Court contend that Gov. Janet Napolitano is ignoring the plain language of Proposition 200, approved by voters in 2004.