A federal judge who ruled an Arizona sheriff's office racially profiled Latinos delayed instituting remedies Friday to allow parties time to agree on options, but he indicated a court-appointed monitor likely would be assigned to assure the agency is complying with constitutional requirements.

First thing’s first: Even though he had no possible reason to want to hit Dodgers instant-living-legend Yasiel Puig with a 2-0 lead and no one on in the sixth inning last Tuesday, Arizona’s Ian Kennedy put a pitch where you just don’t put a pitch in today’s baseball.

As Yogi Berra said, “It’s déjà vu all over again.”

Regardless of your interest in the culinary arts, it’s hard not to find Alton Brown, the Iron Chef commentator and host of “Good Eats,” entertaining. With a wacky blend of science, gastronomy and humor that’s entirely unique, it comes as no surprise that his national tour, “Alton Brown Live,” is selling out quickly.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the Arizona law enforcement head who led the way for local police across the country to take up immigration enforcement is reconsidering his crackdowns — and other law enforcement officials who followed his lead are expected to eventually back away, too.

In April, Hudson Blake became the first Brophy tennis player to win the singles state championship in 16 years.

LAS VEGAS — The junked signs that attracted throngs to old Las Vegas have for years gathered dust in a neon boneyard just a few miles from the sleek mega-casinos on the Strip.

City of Mesa water customers who reside in the general area of Mesa Drive to the Eastern Canal between McKellips Road and University Drive may notice a subtle change in their tap water. This is due to a temporary increase in groundwater well pumping which causes millions of tiny air bubbles to form and the water to appear cloudy. The air bubbles are formed by a release of pressure and it may take several minutes for the air to escape. As it does, the water will clear from the bottom of the glass, upward. Leftover dissolved air can cause the water to sparkle or have small bubbles.

The handwritten note on a piece of paper is taped to Dave Shapiro’s office window. It rested there Wednesday either as a joke or to mock his peers:

Now that June is boiling up all over, as a public service this column will provide, especially to new arrivals, unsolicited advice on summer survival in the Sonoran Desert. When you’re not covering yourself in aloe vera juice to relieve a scalding sunburn, when surfaces inside your car are noticeably less than molten, when you’re watching someone else on TV being carried down from Camelback Mountain giving a thumbs-up to the camera — that’s when you’ll thank me, um, I hope.

Americans are more confident in the U.S. economy than at any point in the past five years, thanks to surging home values, a brighter job market and record-setting stock prices.

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The Medicaid expansion plan approved by the Senate late Thursday is pretty much dead on arrival at across the courtyard, House Speaker Andy Tobin said Friday.

A Tempe man has been sentenced to life in prison after causing a crash in which an 11-year-old boy died .

Utah is one of the country's top 10 federal districts for the prosecution of immigration-related offenses, according to a new report.

Picking up some fresh wines for summer is in the bag — or shopping cart, actually — as supermarkets get in touch with their inner sommeliers.

Arizona's economic recovery is flattening out statewide, with job growth outside the Phoenix metro area for this year and next predicted to be anemic.

Attorney General Tom Horne paid a $300 fine Wednesday -- $582 with surcharges -- to settle a criminal misdemeanor charge he left the scene of an accident without leaving a note.

It's not a big breakthrough.

About 568 graduates will receive diplomas this year from Mesa's Westwood High School.

WASHINGTON — Americans are more optimistic the job market is healing and will deliver higher pay later this year. That brighter outlook, along with rising home prices, cheaper gasoline and a surging stock market, could offset some of the drag from the recent tax increases and government spending cuts.

Private companies that do business on reservations with tribes and their corporations cannot automatically ask federal courts to intercede when legal disputes erupt, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

New unemployment numbers released Thursday suggest the state's economic recovery is weakening.