State senators voted Wednesday to bar officials from keeping guns out of government buildings unless an agency is willing to spend the money to install metal detectors.

A recent tragedy at a city council meeting in Missouri has led a Scottsdale City Council member to ask his colleagues to reconsider the council’s 2006 decision to remove X-ray machines at the entrance to the council kiva.

The attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has prompted Tempe to bolster security by installing a metal detector and X-ray machine at the entrance to the City Council chambers.

Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport has started phasing in new body scanning machines that reveal hidden items a metal detector may miss.

Saying the Second Amendment doesn't stop at the door of government buildings, the House voted 38-20 Wednesday to let visitors bring their weapons in.

WASHINGTON - Travelers no longer will encounter conflicting rules about removing their shoes at airports. At some airports, passengers have been told they had to take off their shoes before passing through metal detectors; at others, it was optional.

The president of the state Senate said Friday he finds nothing wrong with lawmakers bringing loaded weapons into the building.

If you don’t travel often, security precautions at airports can be baffling and time consuming when you’re trying to hot-foot it to a flight.

The front of Scottsdale City Hall has resembled an airport security checkpoint for the past nine months. A large metal detector and X-ray machine stand inside the front doors.

The front of Scottsdale City Hall has resembled an airport security checkpoint for the past nine months. A large metal detector and X-ray machine stand inside the front doors.

Scottsdale is proposing sweeping security upgrades to City Hall and several of its high-profile municipal buildings in the wake of last month's mail-bomb explosion that injured three employees.

July 21, 2004

WASHINGTON - Surveillance video from Washington Dulles International Airport the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, shows four of the five hijackers being pulled aside to undergo additional scrutiny after setting off metal detectors but then permitted to board the fateful flight that crashed into the Pentagon.

Five quails sculpted out of sheet metal have made it through the court metal detectors in Gilbert to roost in the lobby.

Five quails sculpted out of sheet metal have made it through the court metal detectors in Gilbert to roost in the lobby.

 MUMBAI, India - Doormen in white suits and black turbans greeted visitors to the Oberoi with a bow on the eve of the hotel's reopening three weeks after it was targeted in a militant rampage. Security was noticeably tighter as guards scanned bags and sniffer dogs patrolled the ground outside.

Metal detectors and X-ray machines will greet visitors to Scottsdale City Hall on Monday as security upgrades planned for more than a year take effect.

Metal detectors and X-ray machines will greet visitors to Scottsdale City Hall on Monday as security upgrades planned for more than a year take effect.

December 17, 2004

Tempe is boosting security at City Hall in response to shootings at municipal buildings in other states, including the killing of five people last month in Kirkwood, Mo.

The gun debate in Arizona has heated up as a result of the recent Tucson tragedy and three students bringing guns onto school property. Because of these incidents, people are asking questions. Should we install metal detectors at schools? Should magazines be sold making it easy for shooters to kill without reloading? And more recently, should teachers be allowed to carry guns while teaching in the classroom to protect themselves and their students from some crazed person? All of these questions do not have a simple answer.

WASHINGTON — Air travelers may have their hands swabbed more often as part of a stepped-up effort to screen passengers for explosives, an Obama administration official said Wednesday.

The man who has confessed to two homicides in a shooting spree throughout 2005 and 2006 is scheduled to testify today against his co-defendant in Maricopa County Superior Court.

Inexorably, the cocoon that Barack Obama will live in for the next four or eight years is tightening around him.