On Monday, Arizona State House Speaker Andy Tobin, R-Paulden, announced the state Legislature was launching a probe of the federal gun smuggling operation known as "Fast and Furious."

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The father of a 15-year-old boy fatally shot by Mesa police in 2003 was arrested on weapons and domestic violence-related offenses after taking a gun into his wife's workplace.

Host and No. 3-seed Hamilton beat No.11 Corona del Sol, 5-1, in the quarterfinals of the 5A Division I boys tennis team state tournament. Corey Rizzi-Wise, Andy Yuwen, Sebastian Vargas, Eric Wang and Akash Pendyala all won their singles matches to earn the five wins necessary to clinch victory. Alex Lawson earned a 6-1, 6-0 victory for the Aztecs loan win. The Huskies will face Brophy in the semifinals on Wednesday at 4 p.m. at Paseo Racquet Club in Glendale.

During the summer of 2010, we watched as Joe Arpaio re-election ads ran on television even though he isn’t up for election until 2012. Turns out he was up to his old tricks of pushing the envelope to put the political dagger in the back of Maricopa County attorney Rick Romley.

In his first week on the job, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery said he's taking a slow and cautious approach to changing any of the office's policies, but already is taking a strong stand of prosecuting crimes stemming from illegal immigration and holding criminals accountable.

In honor of Veterans Day, more than 100 residents of Tempe's Friendship Village - many who are veterans themselves - are seeking the public's help in providing donations of everyday items for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

U.S. Marshals have arrested an eighth suspect in Chicago believed to be connected to the July shooting death of Chandler undercover Detective Carlos Ledesma.

In a year of transition for the Maricopa County Attorney's Office, Republican Bill Montgomery will be the one to transform it into what he says will be "his office" and not a clone of former county attorney Andrew Thomas.

U.S. Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl led a group of Republican officials Wednesday denouncing a ballot measure that would allow medical marijuana.

FLORENCE - Arizona has executed Jeffrey Landrigan for a 1989 murder in the state's first execution since 2007.

FLORENCE - Facing a nationwide shortage of a lethal injection drug, Arizona has taken an unusual step that other death penalty states may soon follow: get their supplies from another country.

It's been a year of transitions in the Maricopa County Attorney's Office, but the Nov. 2 general election will soon settle that.

Interim Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley is seeking the death penalty against at least two men involved in the shooting death of a Chandler undercover officer.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is appealing a ruling that his political fliers attacking attorney general candidate Rick Romley were a violation of election laws.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's 2012 re-election campaign committee will be fined for sending out mailers deemed illegal by the county election department's finance committee because they sought the defeat of Interim Maricopa County Rick Romley.

In a spirited race for one of Maricopa County's high-profile positions, Bill Montgomery has defeated interim and former Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley to earn the Republican ticket and now will campaign against attorney Michael Kielsky of the Libertarian Party in the Nov. 2 general election.

We've armed our law enforcement officers with 17-shot pistols, AR15's, Tasers and body armor, but we're still only half equipping them for urban combat.

“I hope to rescue Mesa from the brink of cultural insignificance with my new hobby: elbow texting. Try it, you’ll like it. If successful, this rage could bring national recognition to the East Valley, putting our metropolis back on the map. Just think: Nineteenth Century trolley cars AND elbow texting. Mesa — it doesn’t get any better than this.”

A field of three candidates for the Maricopa County Attorney’s post features a former county attorney, a former deputy county attorney and the Libertarian attorney who will face one of them in the November general election.

As Arizona prison escapee John McCluskey and his accomplice, Casslyn Welch, remain on the loose, law enforcement agencies throughout the nation are delving into dozens of databases in search of clues that can lead to their capture.