Downtown Scottsdale’s greatest challenge may be to develop a unified vision for diverse interests in a city that is known for having its share of squabbles.

Downtown S cottsdale’s greatest challenge may be to develop a unified vision for diverse interests in a city that is known for having its share of squabbles.

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court rejected a challenge Tuesday to the Bush administration's domestic spying program.

After 87 years living in the same house, it looks like Wilhelmina Dery of New London, Conn., will have to move soon.

WASHINGTON - Judicial nominee Priscilla Owen gets the vote she's been awaiting for more than four years, the most immediate beneficiary of a deal worked out by Senate moderates to avoid a debilitating fight over filibusters.

ATLANTA - A man being escorted into court for his rape trial Friday stole a deputy’s gun, killed the judge and two other people and carjacked a reporter’s vehicle to escape, setting off a massive manhunt and creating widespread chaos across Atlanta, police said.

Kudos to John McCain! And kudos to the bipartisan group of attorneys general from 22 states and the District of Columbia who recently filed an “unsolicited brief” with the Supreme Court, asking them to “reconsider” it’s decision in the “Citizens United” ruling it handed down in 2010.

Attorneys representing some gay state and university workers said the U.S. Supreme Court should spurn as "unworthy'' a bid by Gov. Jan Brewer to let her immediately slash domestic partner benefits.

Senior Bailey Nations’ impact on the Peoria volleyball program is so profound that even the football-mad Panther fans are taking notice.

Prepared text of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's State of the State speech:

Maricopa High School’s We the People team is fighting for a return trip to state competition in just the second year of participation in the program.

PHOENIX — A school district serving a remote area of northern Arizona and southern Utah long dominated by a polygamist sect is poised to emerge from a state takeover implemented nearly four years ago because it finances were in disarray.

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A mother who is suing the Scottsdale Unified School District has become part of a national trend: Parents who take schools to court when their children are bullied on campus.

The attorney representing the 14-year-old girl who told police she was raped by a janitor at Saguaro High School said he is readying a lawsuit against the Scottsdale Unified School District.

The attorney representing the 14-year-old girl who told police she was raped by a janitor at Saguaro High School said he is readying a lawsuit against the Scottsdale Unified School District.

A new property tax approved by voters Tuesday will bolster Maricopa County’s health care system for at least the next 20 years.

President Barack Obama's $600 million border security plan seems to have it all: More than 1,000 agents, seven gunrunner teams, five FBI task forces and more prosecutors and immigration judges.

Arizona's new immigration law illegally conflicts with federal statutes and undermines the nation's foreign policy, attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice argued Friday.

Same-sex marriage is now legal in New York after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that was narrowly passed by state lawmakers, June 24 - making New York the third state to pass gay marriage through a legislative act and without court action or a vote by the people. New York is the sixth state to legalize gay marriage, after Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, New Hampshire and Vermont. The District of Columbia also allows same-sex marriages.

Saying it needs to protect its citizens in Arizona, legal and otherwise, the Mexican government on Tuesday urged a federal judge to strike down the state's new law aimed at illegal immigrants.

The U.S. Supreme Court could decide as early as Monday whether Arizona will get a chance to begin enforcing its year-old law aimed at illegal immigrants.

A loosely organized effort to oust a state Supreme Court justice is forcing him to consider an unprecedented campaign to keep his post.

PASADENA, Calif. • Arizona is entitled to force would-be voters to prove citizenship so that everyone who is legally entitled to cast a ballot believe in the process, state Attorney General Tom Horne argued Tuesday.