Staff in the Higley Unified School District will not have the spring furlough day that was built into the district’s 2011-12 budget, after all.

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Police in Arizona remain free to use drones -- assuming they have them -- to spy on people.

The news nuggets just keep on coming in the Osama bin Laden story, even as we wait patiently for the movie and the inevitable HBO documentary. For instance, we learned that the most wanted man in the world apparently dyed his beard - not as a disguise, but to look better on YouTube.

With gasoline passing $3 a gallon, business must be good for anyone involved in alternative energy projects.

Stephen Rayleigh and Matt Lyon thought they were done with careers in drones after they left the Army in 2010 and enrolled at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott.

State lawmakers on Wednesday gave the first clearance to a measure designed to require police to get search warrants before they use drones to gather evidence.

WASHINGTON – Drones numbering in the tens of thousands will be in the skies by 2030, the Federal Aviation Administration predicts. But where some may fear precision weapons or flying spy cameras, Steve Markofski sees flying tractors.

Rapidly advancing drone technology packing the latest surveillance tools into affordable and lightweight machines could help police do their jobs more effectively and with greater safety.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Lawmakers across party lines on Tuesday endorsed the prime minister's new plan for stopping sectarian killings, but Shiite and Sunni leaders still had to work out details of how to put aside their sharp divisions and work together to halt the violence.

After the high-profile shooting of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in 2010, Scott Rollefstad felt he had to do something to help keep other agents safe.