Maricopa County News

A tightening of federal air quality rules has prompted a rash of warnings about the amount of ozone in the Valley's air, but experts say it will likely be years before Maricopa County will have to adhere to the ...

Maricopa County sheriff's officials say a body believed to be that of a California man who disappeared in the Salt River last weekend has been found.

Graffiti vandals hit a building in Mesa but the taggers had a message of hate aimed at Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

The air pollution in Maricopa County apparently is bad enough to draw the attention of a prestigious medical school.

A woman faces charges of child neglect and endangerment after Gilbert police found a 4-year-old girl unattended and crying in a residence, authorities said.

An effort to let Arizona voters decide if the state Constitution should be amended to ban affirmative action programs is facing a court challenge.

Gerald Richard , Democratic candidate for Maricopa County Attorney , today released a list of people endorsing him that included Paul Charlton, former U.S. Attorney in Arizona.

A Maricopa County court is trying group-therapy methods instead of jail threats to collect overdue traffic fines.

Blair Parker has escaped the 30-year minimum mandatory sentence his wife received last year for starving their three children on a strict vegan diet.

The Pinal County Sheriff's Office is switching to a four-day workweek for all of its employees to offset the high cost of gasoline.

Rap star DMX was arrested for failing to appear in court and other complaints at a Phoenix airport on Wednesday, adding to his legal woes that include drug possession and animal cruelty charges.

An Arizona appeals court has reversed a ruling that prevented state prosecutors from seizing suspected immigrant smuggling money flowing from other American states into northern Mexico.

A serial robbery suspect dubbed by Phoenix police as the "Banana Boy Bandit" has been been given lots of time to live down that nickname.

A man who fatally shot a Mesa woman in front of her two young children has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.

Two Glendale men have been arrested on kidnapping and robbery charges that involve the alleged abduction and sexual assault of a 25-year-old Phoenix woman, authorities said.

A Gilbert high school band instructor who pleaded guilty to sexual conduct with a 15-year-old student was sentenced Friday morning to two years in jail and placed on lifetime probation by a Maricopa County ...

Legislation to prohibit selling animals in parks and along Arizona roadways in Arizona's two most populous counties is headed to Gov.

More than 230 law officers swarmed the streets of Mesa on Thursday, with Maricopa County sheriff's deputies looking for criminals and undocumented immigrants while local police monitored the deputies.

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis is being sued by company that provided hostesses for his party at this year's Super Bowl in Phoenix.

PHOENIX: Shaquille O'Neal will lose his special deputy's badge in Maricopa County because of language he used in a rap video that mocks former NBA teammate Kobe Bryant.