An elderly Mesa couple attempting to cross the main road in Pahrump, Nev., on Sunday evening were struck and killed by a sport utility vehicle.

LAS VEGAS - Plans for a Pentagon-led experiment that involves detonating 700 tons of explosives in the desert drew criticism from state leaders and a disarmament activist.

Authorities say a tour bus that crashed closed to the Arizona-Nevada border after the driver had a heart attack was packed with Australian tourists.

Arizona authorities say they've been alerted about the manhunt for a disgruntled former Los Angeles police officer wanted in a deadly shooting rampage.

February 25, 2005

A state grand jury indicted a Chandler officer Tuesday on 10 felony counts, accusing him of using his position with the police department to obtain records illegally for two men with ties to a Scottsdale nonprofit, now the focus of state and federal investigations.

WASHINGTON - The Senate moved the digital TV transition one step closer to reality on Thursday, setting a firm date for television broadcasters to switch to all-digital transmissions.

"Go high and low, just break it up into sections,” directs Owen Keefe, the most veteran member of the Scottsdale Police Department’s K-9 unit. The officers and their canine partners are combing through a large room at an abandoned building, searching for hidden explosives.

With police finally on his trail, 29-year-old Marco Antonio Villarino pulled out a gun, turned it on himself and fired.

WASHINGTON - The government has endangered the public’s health and safety by failing to clean up abandoned mines on federal land in the West, according to a scathing audit released Friday.

The nation's top civil liberties group on Wednesday issued travel alerts for Arizona, saying the state's new law cracking down on illegal immigrants could lead to racial profiling and warrantless arrests.

A police union president is calling into question the validity of Mesa’s place on a recent magazine list honoring what are supposedly America’s safest cities to live in.

LAS VEGAS - Investigators are looking into whether the driver of a tour bus might have become distracted before a crash that killed seven people, a state official said Monday.

Arizona voters may get a chance this year to do what they thought they were doing in 1996: allow people who are ill to possess and use marijuana legally.

Arizona's climate for small businesses and entrepreneurs is among the best in the nation, according to a report by the National Policy Research Council.

WASHINGTON - Five years after Congress called for better oversight of the nation's 100,000 missing sex offenders, only seven states have adopted federal standards for tracking the 728,000 Americans convicted of sex crimes.

WASHINGTON — A salmonella outbreak that sickened hundreds and led to the recall of hundreds of millions of eggs from one Iowa firm will likely grow, federal health officials said Thursday.

WASHINGTON -- A California natural foods company was linked Friday to a nationwide E. coli outbreak that has killed one person and sickened nearly 100 others. Supermarkets across the country pulled spinach from shelves, and consumers tossed out the leafy green.

Medical marijuana has not gone away in Arizona. Despite its last defeat at the polls nearly three years ago, the medical marijuana issue has returned.

Medical marijuana has not gone away in Arizona. Despite its last defeat at the polls nearly three years ago, the medical marijuana issue has returned.

They are the ones that police and public safety departments can’t afford to lose: Volunteers.

Speed kills! And so do a lot of other drugs. But speed, now known as meth, continues to be the emotional rallying cry for politicians who have jumped on the anti-drug headline-grabbing bandwagon. And Tuesday night’s statewide showing of “Crystal Darkness” brought them out in droves.

The two firms competing for Scottsdale’s ambulance contract have hired politically connected advisers to help their bids, despite pledges to remain above the political fray.

The two firms competing for Scottsdale’s ambulance contract have hired politically connected advisers to help their bids, despite pledges to remain above the political fray.