Despite a documented 54 percent increase in rear-end collisions and a 9 percent increase in injuries from rear-end collisions, Scottsdale's lucrative freeway cameras will return February 22nd.
This month's speaker Roy Miller is a long time Republican that knows and understands the history of Ron Paul's advocacy of Liberty as the solution to America's challenges. Please share your questions and your own research.
Legislators rejected a proposal by Sen. Ken Cheuvront, D-Phoenix, that would have made it illegal to put anything on a license plate that obscures the letters and numbers. “The real issue revolving around this ... is that cities are not getting the r
Mesa, Arizona Councilman, Tom Rawles (R) explains that he is refusing to say the pledge of allegiance at council meetings until all the troops come home from Iraq. He’s been the recipient of death threats since taking this stance.
The Arizona Science Museum has Body World 3, a traveling exhibit of over 200 cadavers, dissected, posed and preserved in ways to display the muscular, circulation, neural systems for understanding human anatomy in 3D.
Mesa Councilman Tom Rawles is under 24-hour police protection after receiving threats in newspaper online chats, blogs and in a phone call for refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. One blogger “talked about putting a bullet in me,” he said.
The Scottsdale City Council will vote on a new ordinance that outlaws Dumpster diving. While refuse in Scottsdale dumpsters can be a source of used furniture for some, they also provide a ready source of information for identity thieves.
[god this is funny] The Christopher Verde School District was created with no intention of ever building schools, buying buses or hiring teachers. It has a name, a school board and 437 students who are bused to neighboring districts.
Scottsdale's Loop 101 speed-enforcement cameras should be reactivated through June while state officials consider adding more cameras to other Valley freeways, Gov. Janet Napolitano said.
The support paves the way for Arizona to become the fir
Mesa City Councilman Tom Rawles refused to join in saying the Pledge of Allegiance before Monday night's council meeting to protest American involvement in what he calls an Iraqi civil war.
An unusual and long night for the Mesa City Council began with Councilman Tom Rawles, known for his maverick opinions, refusing to stand and cover his heart for the Pledge of Allegiance.
A state senator hopes to relieve Arizona taxpayers of what he called the “burden” of having to decide whether legislators should get a raise. Sen. Jack Harper, R-Surprise, wants voters to give up their constitutional right to decide if lawmakers dese
It snowed in Phoenix on Sunday afternoon and locals were crazy about it. Flurries whitened parts of the Valley with reports of snow from Avondale to central Phoenix to Carefree and places in between. The National Weather Service and readers re
A perfect example is another female who has absolutely no clue regarding the oath of office she took when sworn into the Arizona State Legislature, Rep. Kyrsten Seinema.
Bill to revise the state's statutes on organized crime and fraud by defining "domestic terrorism" in such a way that members of the Minuteman Project or other border-patrol groups could be prosecuted and forced to serve a minimum six-mo
Former photo radar supporter Lydia D'Agosto, had her license suspended for an offense she didn't commit. The photo showed a dark-haired 35-year-old behind the wheel of a Mini Cooper -- D'Agosto drives a van and looks nothing like the pers
A man who punched a Gilbert woman, stole her keys and later was found in a fountain and subdued with a Taser stun gun died early Thursday, police said.
[I don't normally put stories like this on FP, but it is so weird!] A charter school alerted authorities to a 29-year-old sex offender who tried to enroll there, pretending he was 12, nd conned 2 men into having sex believing he was a boy.
3 of the final 5 designs of Arizona's quarter feature the motto, and the Grand Canyon is depicted on 2 of them. 2 of the designs feature a stately saguaro. One represents Powell's Grand Canyon expedition, the other Navajo Code Talkers.
Napolitano was responding to a unanimous Scottsdale City Council vote that asked the state to operate the freeway photo enforcement program, which Scottsdale ran as a nine-month pilot program last year along the city’s 8-mile stretch of freeway.
Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies were serving search warrants at three community colleges and the district headquarters today as part of an investigation into possible corruption, officials said.
Officials are looking for travel records, fin
Last January, an Arizona law took effect requiring police to seize the vehicles of individuals accused -- but not convicted -- of certain violations. Already at least two jurisdictions are generating millions in revenue.
“I’m still upset we did the whole thing in secret,” Littlefield said. The council gave each official an oral review in closed session. No written job performance reviews were produced. Each official did produce a self-evaluation that was distributed
The kilns of the Phoenix Brick Yard fire 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to turn out bricks for artfully paved driveways or the facades of hip downtown redevelopment projects. The brickyard, incorporated in 1917 and operating its 13-acre plant at the c
Within days of becoming a sworn agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Jay Dobyns was taken hostage and shot during a Tucson sting operation. A year later, he was run over by gangsters in a getaway car.
AHELA was formed by Billy Shields and Pat Cantelme, the current and former heads of the Phoenix firefighters union and 2 of Gov. Janet Napolitano’s closest political allies. 2 weeks after the company was created, Napolitano awarded AHELA a contract
Thomas: They then spoke to the uh…the juvenile who made uh, certain admissions. Uh, while he denied accessing adult uh, pornography, he did admit to being a part of uh, accessing uh, adult pornography and…
Congressman Shadegg - "Within the first five days of taking power, the Speaker of the House has inserted an 'earmark' providing a special benefit to a company in her home town."