MANHATTAN, Kansas - President Bush pushed back Monday at critics of his once-secret domestic spying effort, saying it should be termed a "terrorist surveillance program" and contending it has the backing of legal experts, key lawmakers and the Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON - Iraqi fighter jets threatened two American U-2 surveillance planes, forcing them to abort their mission and return to base, senior U.S. officials said Tuesday.

October 12, 2004

Being on YouTube can make you famous, but it can also make you infamous - especially if you're a crook. Scottsdale police have turned to the popular Web site twice this week to help them nab suspects.

A man was arrested after he was caught on camera trying to get into an industrial yard containing a significant amount of copper in Mesa, according to police on Monday.

Two Phoenix men have been arrested in connection with a rash of mobile-phone store burglaries in Mesa and Gilbert, police said.

NEW YORK - Wiretapping takes on a whole new meaning now that phone calls are being made over the Internet, posing legal and technical hurdles for the FBI as it seeks to prevent the emerging services from becoming a safe haven for criminals and terrorists.

Sen. Jon Kyl on Friday defended the use of domestic eavesdropping to monitor communications from suspected terrorists but said Congress should find ways to increase oversight without jeopardizing the effectiveness of the controversial program.

November 11, 2004

Mesa police arrested a 43-year-old ex-con Tuesday after he admitted to breaking into a business four times since his release from prison on Dec. 1.

Police arrested three men early Wednesday morning on suspicion of stealing copper wire from a Chandler construction site.

Police arrested three men early Wednesday morning on suspicion of stealing copper wire from a Chandler construction site.

President Bush spoke for 33 minutes this morning to about 350 supporters who paid $500 a ticket to attend a fundraiser for Arizona Congressman Rick Renzi at the Camelback Inn in Paradise Valley.

August 19, 2004

PHOENIX — From high above the Earth, the U.S. intelligence community is using satellites to track the activities of drug cartels operating along the U.S.-Mexican border.

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.

As President Bush would have it, the choice is simple. Either Congress renews the USA Patriot Act intact, with all the new powers for government now scheduled to “sunset” at the end of the year and a few new ones to boot, or America will be fighting terrorism with one hand tied behind its back.

LONDON - He was James Bond's go-to guy for inventions that included dagger-embedded shoes, radioactive lint and a deadly sofa that swallowed people. Now, Britain's domestic spy agency - MI5 - is hunting for its very own "Q," of sorts.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. fence along the Mexican border is less a wall than a stuttering set of blockades: half barrier, half gaps.

An unemployed cook will be spending life in prison for bludgeoning a Phoenix manicurist to death with a metal pipe in a south Scottsdale parking lot nearly 4 1/2 years ago, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled.

The man responsible for the 2003 death of a Phoenix manicurist was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder and kidnapping.

A convicted copper thief who posed as an electrician at a north Phoenix commercial property failed to appear in court Tuesday for his verdict and is now a fugitive, prosecutors said.

A convicted copper thief who posed as an electrician at a north Phoenix commercial property failed to appear in court Tuesday for his verdict and is now a fugitive, prosecutors said.

A group of Arizona State University professors has received a grant from a national inventors organization to start an undergraduate honors course on the commercial potential of nanotechnology.