Supreme Court rejects Brnovich attempt to fast-track opioids lawsuit
By Staff | Monday, Dec. 9, 2019
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Arizona's attempt to fast-track a case against the owners of Purdue Pharma in an effort to protect assets of the company for victims of the opioid crisis.
DACA activists vow to keep up the fight as Supreme Court weighs program’s fate
By Miranda Cyr | Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019
PHOENIX – Arizona DACA recipients wavered between expectation and resignation Tuesday while the Supreme Court considered the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals initiative, a 2012 presidential order that protects 660,000 people from deportation across the country.
Falling foot traffic across border worries businesses, state officials
By Miranda Cyr | Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019
NOGALES, Ariz. - Business owners in Nogales worry that long wait times at the border are driving down the number of pedestrians who cross to shop in Arizona, a drop that state officials worry could be felt throughout Arizona's economy if crossing times don't improve.
South Phoenix business owners wary of light rail expansion, seek city assistance
By Miranda Cyr | Friday, Oct. 4, 2019
PHOENIX – With the rejection of Proposition 105, the expansion of the light rail in south Phoenix will begin in November. A group of businesses is organizing to demand that Phoenix officials support them with subsidies in anticipation of business losses during years of construction.
‘Deaths of despair’ grew slowly in Arizona, but still higher than U.S.
By Miranda Faulkner | Friday, Aug. 16, 2019
WASHINGTON - "Deaths of despair" - the catchall name for deaths from drug overdoses, alcohol and suicide - have grown more slowly in Arizona than in the nation as whole since 2005, but death rates in the state still exceed the nation in every category, according to a national survey.
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Senate GOP steamrolls Democrats, gets immigration bill out of committee
By Miranda Faulkner | Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019
WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Senate Judiciary Committee pushed through a GOP-backed bill that would force migrants to apply for asylum at facilities outside the U.S., raise the limit on how long immigrant children can be held in detention and add 500 new immigration judges, among other changes.
Brnovich makes long-shot pitch to Supreme Court to take opioid lawsuit
By Miranda Faulkner | Wednesday, July 31, 2019
WASHINGTON - Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the Sackler family from "looting" Purdue Pharma of billions of dollars being sought by victims of the opioid crisis the company is accused of helping create.
Courts reject environmental lawsuit to block Navajo coal mine expansion
By Miranda Faulkner | Tuesday, July 30, 2019
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court said environmental groups cannot sue to block expansion of a coal mine owned by the Navajo Transitional Energy Co., because the company is an arm of the Navajo government and thus immune from civil suits.
Lawmakers spar over family separations, detention center conditions
By Miranda Faulkner and Julian Paras | Thursday, July 25, 2019
WASHINGTON - A House panel grilled administration officials over migrant family separations and conditions at border detention facilities, but the hearing produced more partisan sparks than answers - although both sides agreed that the situation at the border has reached crisis levels.
Court upholds conviction in ‘cold-blooded’ murder of Phoenix family
By Miranda Faulkner | Thursday, July 25, 2019
WASHINGTON - A federal court rejected the appeal of an Arizona death-row inmate who murdered four Phoenix family members in their home in retribution for a petty theft by another of the family members, saying it presented "one of, if not the, strongest" cases for the death penalty it had seen in years.
Barr orders resumption of federal executions; Navajo among those targeted
By Miranda Faulkner | Thursday, July 25, 2019
WASHINGTON – Attorney General William Barr ordered a resumption of federal executions and named a Navajo double-murderer as one of the first five death-row inmates who will be put to death. Lezmond Mitchell is scheduled to be executed Dec. 11 with a fatal injection of pentobarbital.