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  • Budget standoff Brewer vetoes 5 bills

    PHOENIX - Gov. Jan Brewer sent lawmakers a message Thursday: Don't mess with me. After Brewer vowed not to sign anymore bills until Senate and House leaders made significant progress on a state budget and her proposal to expand Medicaid, Senate President Andy Biggs decided to test Brewer's resolve this week by sending her five bills. Brewer vetoed them all. Her vetoes Thursday included ...

  • PD AZ man molested 4-year-old girl

    PRESCOTT, AZ - Prescott Valley police arrested a man Sunday suspected of molesting a 4-year-old girl. Officers were called to a residence near Viewpoint Drive and State Route 89A and learned that 19-year-old Chaun Tyler Sewell had reportedly touched a 4-year-old girl inappropriately. Police said the girl's father walked into a room and witnessed Sewell with his hand placed in the ...

  • YCSO Man smuggled marijuana from CA

    PHOENIX - Yavapai County sheriff's deputies arrested a man Wednesday on Interstate 40 after searching his rental car due to suspicious behavior and reportedly finding several pounds of marijuana. Deputies stopped a black Ford sedan on I-40 after he was seen following a semi-truck at an unsafe distance, officials said. The driver was identified as 42-year-old Benny Paul from Atlanta, Ga. He ...

  • VIDEO Arias reacts to jurys decision

    in the penalty phase Thursday after the jury reported for a second time that it was deadlocked on whether to sentence her to life in prison or death. Arias, who first said she wanted to die and then that she wanted to live, looked visibly upset about the jury deadlock. She sobbed in the courtroom before the mistrial was announced. Her family didn't attend Thursday but has been present for ...

  • Arizona jury deadlocks over Jodi Arias sentencing

    Jodi Arias addresses the jury during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona May 21, ...


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  • Senate sending Brewer bills despite veto threat

    Senate President Andy Biggs is ignoring an implicit veto threat from Gov. Jan Brewer and sending her bills despite a moratorium on signings the governor put in place more than two weeks ago.Biggs said Thursday he's never been personally told by the governor not to transmit bills for her signature."She has never told me not to send bills," Biggs said. "Nobody on her staff told ...

  • Arizona students accused of hacking their grades

    The Northern Arizona women's basketball team has announced a new addition to its team as forward Shay Young will be joining the program after ...

  • Schools locked down for police search

    GOODYEAR, AZ - Four schools in Goodyear were put on lockdown Thursday while police searched for a suspect with felony warrants who still has not been located, police said. Arizona State Gang Task Force officers pursued the suspect, a documented gang member, in the area of Dysart Road and Encanto Boulevard around 1:10 p.m. when he jumped a wall and evaded them. As a precaution, Palm Valley ...

  • Memorial Day gas prices at 3-year low

    PHOENIX - Gasoline prices at the pump this Memorial Day holiday weekend will be at their lowest level in three years around Arizona. Officials with Triple-A Arizona said Thursday that the average statewide price for unleaded regular gasoline is $3.45 a gallon. That's up by less than a penny from last week. This week's national average is $3.65 per gallon, an increase of nearly 6 cents ...

  • IRS replaces official in targeting case

    WASHINGTON - A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lois Lerner has been replaced as director the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups. Danny Werfel, the agency's new acting commissioner, told IRS employees in an email Thursday that he has selected a new acting head of the division. Ken Corbin will be the acting ...

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