Police arrest suspect in string of Phoenix freeway shootings
By WALTER BERRY and BRIAN SKOLOFF Police arrested a man Friday for a string of seemingly random freeway shootings in Phoenix, adding that they had linked the man’s gun to…
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Disavowed by GOP leaders, Trump has supporters cheering
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE AND JILL COLVIN The Republican establishment may hope this is the beginning of the end for Donald Trump’s circus-like run for the presidency. But as the fallout…
FBI: Man tied to Texas shooting wanted to attack Super Bowl
By RYAN VAN VELZER and JACQUES BILLEAUD Calling him “off-the-charts dangerous,” authorities said a Phoenix man helped orchestrate a shooting at an anti-Islam event in Texas and had aspirations to…
High court case threatens independent electoral map drawers
By MARK SHERMAN In a reversal of the usual worries about political influence on electoral map-making, the Supreme Court is being asked to let raw politics play an even bigger…
Kayla Mueller’s boyfriend describes effort to free her
By FELICIA FONSECA Kayla Mueller was in a detention cell in Syria, face to face with her boyfriend who was posing as her husband. Had she told her captors she…
Lawmakers seek to wrap up costly tribal relocation program
By FELICIA FONSECA The rolling hills of northeastern Arizona where cornfields lined a watering hole and sheep grazed in the distance were home to Susie Robinson and her extended family.…
Islamic State hostage’s family hopeful she’s still alive
By FELICIA FONSECA and BRIAN SKOLOFF The parents of a 26-year-old American who Islamic State extremists say was killed in an airstrike in Syria said in a statement addressed to…
Town once run by polygamist leader is sharply divided
By BRADY McCOMBS As polygamist leader Warren Jeffs awaited his fate in a Texas prison, he sent an order to his followers on the Utah-Arizona border: Build me a new…