Arizona News

The state's coffers could be fattened by $210 million a year - or more - under the terms of the new contract for photo enforcement of speed and red-light laws.

John McCain says he intends to reverse a trend that other politicians from Arizona have faced in running for president.

The four Arizonans who have made presidential bids _ Sen. Barry Goldwater in 1964, Rep. Morris K. Udall in 1976, former Gov. Bruce Babbitt in 1988 and McCain in 2000 _ either lost in the general election or never won their party nominations.

'Arizona may be the only state in America where mothers don't tell their children that some day they can grow up and be president,' McCain quipped Sunday.

The state appeals court has upheld the conviction of an illegal immigrant prosecuted as a conspirator under Arizona's human-smuggling law.

Arizonans looking for state services might find the days they can get them reduced by 20 percent.

House Speaker Jim Weiers can't legally use leftover cash in his chamber's bank account to fund a voucher program for some special-needs students specifically excluded from the new state budget, Attorney General ...

A U.S. House report says Minnesota was tied for last in the percentage of federal bridge funds it actually spent on bridges over a five-year period.

A group of southern Arizona automobile dealerships that were barred from selling to soldiers at the Army's Fort Huachuca in May have filed for bankruptcy protection.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain, in one of his strongest endorsements of free trade, called himself "an unapologetic supporter of NAFTA," an agreement that many Americans feel has cost them jobs.

Local motorists were forced out of their cars today after flash flooding closed both directions of US 60 in Tempe. [full story]

Sunday, July 13, 2008; 07:58 PM | KTVK-3TV & AZFAMILY.COM

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Tourists flocked to Arizona in record numbers last year, and they spent a lot of money while they were here.

A salmonella food-poisoning outbreak that has sickened more than 1,000 people nationwide since April has infected at least 49 Arizonans, authorities said.

Arizona's early-June deadline for independent presidential candidates to get on the general-election ballot is illegal, a federal appellate court ruled Wednesday.

Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was found "convulsive," weak and feverish in an Arizona jail cell before he was hospitalized under tight security in Las Vegas, a sheriff's spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Mixed martial arts fighting clawed its way onto the scene in the early 90s. It was a gladiatorial, rogue sport back then.

The victims of a mid-air medical helicopter crash in Flagstaff will be remembered Tuesday during a memorial service.

The Democratic National Committee and Barack Obama's presidential campaign will hold meetings in all 50 states to get voters more involved in developing the party platform.

Walls get tagged with graffiti. Cars get shot up in drive-by shootings. Youngsters flash gang signs and battle with bricks, sticks, bats and pipes in the local park over turf.

When Gov. Janet Napolitano and state lawmakers went looking for ways to balance the budget, they slashed funding for some large and small programs and took money out of a host of special dedicated accounts.

Employees assemble parts at an electronics plant in Southern California in May. The chief executive worries that an immigration raid could cripple the company.