LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears' lawyer won more time Friday to work on the pop star's case in which she is charged with driving without a valid license.

Lawyers for Gov. Jan Brewer are urging a judge to reject a request to block Arizona from enforcing the governor's order that denies driver's licenses for young immigrants who have gotten work permits and avoided deportation under a new Obama administration policy.

WASHINGTON — The country needs more secure driver's licenses to thwart terrorists, and a new Obama administration program supported by governors across the country would do that and save money, Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears has a license to go free. Jurors remained deadlocked 10-2 on whether she was guilty of driving without a valid California license Tuesday. A mistrial was declared, prosecutors said they wouldn't pursue the matter further - and Spears was spared a criminal record when the judge ultimately dismissed the case.

LOS ANGELES - An attorney for Britney Spears has rejected a plea offer that would have placed her on a year's probation and forced her to pay a $150 fine in her misdemeanor driver's license case.

A plumbing license is not the only license "Joe the Plumber" is having troubles with. The former Mesa resident has a suspended driver's license and outstanding court fines in Arizona, according to Mesa Municipal Court records.

Gov. Janet Napolitano signed a deal Thursday with federal officials to create a new “technologically enhanced’’ state driver license.

WASHINGTON - Americans born after Dec. 1, 1964, will have to get more secure driver's licenses in the next six years under ambitious post-9/11 security rules to be unveiled Friday by federal officials.

Arizona residents may find themselves unable to use their state driver’s licenses to board aircraft as soon as May 11. Two state lawmakers are pushing a measure to specifically block the state from cooperating with federal officials in creating what they believe will be the equivalent of a national identification card.

WASHINGTON - A revolt against a national driver's license, begun in Maine last month, is quickly spreading to other states. The Maine Legislature on Jan. 26 overwhelmingly passed a resolution objecting to the Real ID Act of 2005.

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A group of Republican lawmakers and the head of the state’s ACLU vowed Wednesday to kill a plan by Gov. Janet Napolitano to create a “technologically enhanced’’ state driver’s license.

Gov. Janet Napolitano agreed Friday to have Arizona create a new driver’s license that can be used for everything from international travel to getting a job.

That information encoded on your driver’s license would get a little more privacy protection under terms of legislation approved Wednesday by the House.

If Arizona "dreamers'' are going to get state drivers' licenses, they're going to have to wait for a court order.

A civil rights group is claiming a new memo from immigration officials proves that Jan Brewer is legally wrong in denying driver licenses to individuals in the president's "deferred action'' program.