BOISE, Idaho - The expiration Monday of a 10-year federal ban on assault weapons means firearms like TEC-9s can now be legally bought - a development that has critics upset and gun owners pleased.

PHOENIX — Authorities say Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies have shot and killed a man who fired an assault weapon during a standoff.

Assault weapons.

With the expiration Monday night of a ban on certain types of weapons styled as “assault weapons,” a few politicians and gun-control activists have been shedding crocodile tears, but ordinary Americans can save their tears.

The night of the shooting in Aurora, Colo., Ahwatukee Foothills mom and lawyer Ellen Davis had enough.

As you know, we had one assault weapons ban (1994 – 2004). What good did this ban do? During this first assault weapons ban we experienced the most horrific school shooting in our nation’s history — the Columbine Massacre.

AHWATUKEE - An Ahwatukee mom has started an online petition to ban the private purchase of assault weapons.

ISLAMABAD — An audacious weekend assault by Islamic militants on Pakistan's army headquarters is again raising fears of an insurgent attack on the country's nuclear weapons installation. Pakistan has sought to protect its nuclear weapons from attack by the Taliban or other militants by storing the warheads, detonators and missiles separately in facilities patrolled by elite troops.

The man police believe killed a Scottsdale woman early Sunday received a 3 1 /2-year sentence in 1999 for splashing a man with boiling water while in prison for murder.

The man police believe killed a Scottsdale woman early Sunday received a 3 1 /2-year sentence in 1999 for splashing a man with boiling water while in prison for murder.

Phoenix police believe a man sexually assaulted two Ahwatukee Foothills women living within a half-mile of one another Friday morning.

A federal judge sentenced former Meat Puppets bassist Cris Kirkwood to 21 months in prison Monday for attacking a security guard with a baton.

The Apache Junction City Council this week called for the creation of a policy by February to regulate the disposal of weapons in police custody.

A runaway Hendrix Junior High School student pointed a handgun at a security officer about 4:20 p.m. Monday after the officer recognized the student on campus and tried to question him, a Chandler police spokesman said Tuesday.

Tempe police are asking for the public's help in tracking down a 22-year-old man accused in an assault on a Tempe man May 2.

Jailed rapper DMX was booked on charges of aggravated assault Wednesday in connection with an assault on a detention officer.

Phoenix police are searching for a man they believe sexually assaulted two Ahwatukee Foothills women who live within half a mile of each other and who were attacked within an hour of each other Friday morning.

Former Cardinals running back Michael Pittman was charged Wednesday in Phoenix with two counts of aggravated assault after ramming his Hummer into his wife’s car, a pair of class 3 dangerous felonies.

 NEW YORK - Grammy-nominated rapper Remy Ma was led out of a Manhattan courtroom Thursday, weeping and in handcuffs, after being convicted of shooting a woman outside a nightclub last summer.

NEW YORK - Foxy Brown was singing a different tune Tuesday when she showed up in court four days after refusing to appear to face assault charges.

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somali troops backed by Ethiopians prepared to launch a major assault Friday on the last stronghold of Islamic movement militiamen. U.S. Navy warships were patrolling off the Somali coast to prevent the militiamen from escaping by sea.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pentagon Chief Robert Gates, in his push for a coordinated assault against the Taliban in Afghanistan this spring, is enlisting Pakistan's help and vowing better military coordination along the troubled border between the two countries.