The East Valley Tribune

The state Board of Education gave preliminary approval Monday to adding requirements for high school students to get their diplomas.

The Arizona Republic

CONCORD, N.H. - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain on Tuesday officially signed up to compete in his second New Hampshire primary, scrawling "He's BAAAACK!" on a commemorative poster at the secretary of state's office.

The East Valley Tribune

The president of Mexico defended the right of his countrymen to migrate to the United States and to be treated with dignity, no matter whether they arrive legally or not.

The East Valley Tribune

Fresh after Democrats picked up two new congressional seats in Arizona in 2006, they want more. Party leaders are focusing on two additional seats in the U.S. House, both of which represent parts of the East Valley.

The Arizona Republic

WESTMINSTER, S.C. - Republican John McCain is accusing Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton of indecisiveness on foreign policy, arguing that the nation can't afford a post-Sept. 11 commander in chief who employs a triangulation policy.

The Arizona Daily Sun

PHOENIX -- Arizona and at least seven other states are asking a federal judge to overturn new regulations by the Bush administration limiting the growth of the federal children's health program.

The Tucson Citizen

PHOENIX - A federal judge has temporarily blocked criminal enforcement of a new Arizona law that bans sales of items that use names of U.S. troops killed in Iraq without permission of their families.

The judge granted a request by a man who sells anti-war T-shirts displaying names of service members killed in Iraq. The T-shirts say "Bush Lied — They Died."

The East Valley Tribune

The legal battle between Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will be waged in public after a judge ruled the case should not be shielded under the guise of a grand jury investigation.

The East Valley Tribune

Most Arizonans want state lawmakers to follow the Phoenix’s lead and ban text messaging while driving, according to a new state poll.

A survey by KAET-TV, the Phoenix PBS affiliate, shows 87 percent of those polled support a law that would make it illegal for motorists to send messages from cell phones, personal-digital assistants and similar devices while they are operating a motor vehicle.

The Arizona Republic

NEW YORK - John McCain argued Thursday that the United States would be safer with him as president than if his leading Republican rivals were commander in chief as he seized on newfound opportunities to revive his weakened candidacy.

The Arizona Daily Sun

PHOENIX -- Gov. Janet Napolitano said she intends to grill the nation's homeland security chief about delays in erecting a "virtual fence" along the state's southern border.

The East Valley Tribune

A squabble between the U.S. Department of Justice and Arizona’s highest court could end up being decided by some federal judges.

The Arizona Republic

A judge has dismissed a criminal indictment against former state Rep. Russ Jones, granting a defense motion that argued that the charges against the Yuma Republican were based on an unconstitutionally vague election law.

The Arizona Daily Star

CHICAGO - Republican presidential candidate John McCain called it "astonishing" and "astounding" that Iran's president is in New York to speak at Columbia University.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke at a university forum and plans to follow it up with a scheduled address to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday.

The Arizona Daily Sun

PHOENIX (AP) -- Arizona has received a three-year, $8.3 million federal grant to help fight against methamphetamine abuse in the state.

The money will support the expansion and enhancement of meth treatment and recovery services through drug courts. That will mean more options for substance-abuse treatment and recovery, including faith-based services.

The East Valley Tribune

Former state Rep. Laura Knaperek had been perfectly fulfilled without holding an elected office for the past couple of years.

The East Valley Tribune

PHOENIX - Gov. Janet Napolitano on Wednesday proposed a plan to erase a projected $600 million shortfall in the state's budget that has been increasingly battered by the slumping economy.

The Arizona Republic

A La Paz County grand jury today returned a two-count indictment against state Rep. Trish Groe, including a felony DUI charge for which conviction would force her to resign her District 3 seat.

The Goldwater Institute

Phoenix--The Goldwater Institute today filed a legal challenge against Mesa’s “cultural facilities” impact fee, in an effort to force the city to abide by its legal requirement that impact fees must be for necessary public services related to new development.

The East Valley Tribune

More than 3,000 Arizonans have lost public health insurance in the past year because they couldn’t prove U.S. citizenship, though it’s unknown how many, if any, were in this country illegally.

The Tucson Citizen

U.S. Border Patrol agents have seized a record amount of marijuana in Arizona during the first 11 months of the fiscal year, which comes to a close at the end of September.

The Arizona Republic

Republican Sen. Jon Kyl delivered the verbal broadside Saturday while visiting Sierra Vista as part of a breakfast meeting hosted by the Thunder Mountain Republican Women.

The Tucson Citizen

PHOENIX - Gov. Janet Napolitano says the Arizona Constitution's "anachronistic" provision that says she loses her gubernatorial authority when absent from the state is the law as written but that reality is another matter.

KTVK

AIKEN, S.C. -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain says questions over whether he identifies himself as a Baptist or an Episcopalian aren't as important as his overarching faith.

The East Valley Tribune

Arizona State Mine Inspector Joe Hart wants $1.2 million for each of the next 10 years to start making at least some of the estimated 100,000 abandoned mines around the state safe.

That would be a significant boost in his budget. This year he got just $50,000 from lawmakers.

The Arizona Daily Sun

The Sept. 10 issue of the Herald-Journal, Spartanburg, S.C., on the Constitution and the Patriot Act:

Should the FBI be able to force your Internet service provider to turn over all your Internet records and then prohibit your provider from telling you about it?

The Tucson Citizen

U.S. Border Patrol agents on patrol near Sells this week found a man dying in the desert, a Border Patrol spokeswoman said Thursday.

When agents came across the man he already was convulsing, a sign a person is heading into a heat-related death.

The East Valley Tribune

Turning a deaf ear to the rightful criticism they received over demanding that the design of a downtown building be changed because it didn’t look “Western enough,” members of the Scottsdale City Council once again set themselves up for the same pratfall.

The East Valley Tribune

Gov. Janet Napolitano wants auto makers to drop their legal objections to states regulating greenhouse gases so Arizona can require that dealers in this state sell only vehicles that meet new emissions standards.

The Arizona Republic

WASHINGTON - Gen. David Petraeus' high-profile report on Iraq is pumping new life into Sen. John McCain's presidential bid, his backers say, making the Arizona Republican appear prescient and courageous on the campaign's most vital issue.