On Feb. 19, President Obama publicly threatened to further display his executive incompetence. Out of a $3.6 trillion budget he proclaimed that as the executive who proposed the sequester plan and signed it into law as a “compromise”, he can’t find anywhere to cut 2.4 percent in future spending except by letting first responders and teachers go and cutting the benefits and services for those on Medicare. That’s a “cut” in the future increase and not a cut in existing expenditures.

WASHINGTON — Attorneys for sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad plan to file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to stop next week's execution.

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.

He’s already made Canadians other than Steve Nash care about basketball.

There’s no sense in belaboring the point. CEO Jeff Shumway’s decision to fire Coyotes general manager Mike Barnett Wednesday (along with senior executive Cliff Fletcher and assistant GM Laurence Gilman) was overdue.

A Chandler executive hired away from Mesa last summer was fired last week without notice or explanation. Jeff Kramer was an assistant public works director in charge of traffic, streets and transit services since August.

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - A convicted killer's execution was postponed for the second time in less than a day amid continuing concerns over the constitutionality of the state's lethal injection policy.

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.

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - California executed its oldest death row inmate early Tuesday, minutes after his 76th birthday, despite arguments that putting to death an elderly, blind and wheelchair-bound man was cruel and unusual punishment.

Mesa-based Southwest Ambulance’s director of government affairs left the company this week.

Mesa-based Southwest Ambulance’s director of government affairs left the company this week.

Bryan Colangelo, who has worked all his professional life in the shadows of his father, has won the NBA’s executive of the year award, a source with knowledge of the award has confirmed.

Many business executives don’t put much emphasis on the flexibility to work from home when they’re shopping for perks with a new employer.

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The death of Scott M. Coles, the chairman of Mortgages Ltd., has been ruled a suicide by the Maricopa County Medical Examiner.

Lawyers for five Arizona death row inmates are appealing a federal judge’s ruling that how the state conducts injection executions doesn’t violate the inmates’ rights. A lawsuit filed on behalf of the prisoners claimed the state has deviated from court-approved processes by using unvetted personnel to administer lethal injections under a sheet, away from witnesses’ view.

State and federal courts on Wednesday denied requests by inmate Donald Beaty to block his scheduled execution because of a last-minute replacement of one of three execution drugs.

The Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to issue an execution warrant for a man who has been on death row since 1985 for raping and suffocating a 13-year-old girl in Tempe.

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.