The number of confirmed swine flu cases in the United States has jumped to 64, federal officials said Tuesday, and states reported at least four more.

BUDAPEST, Hungary - Eight European leaders voiced deep gratitude to the United States on Thursday and wrote that U.S.-European ties “must not become a casualty’’ of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s attempts to “threaten world security.’’

It isn't helping America's image in the world that the U.S. government is being sued by a Nobel Prize-winning Iranian human-rights activist, lauded by President Bush, in a suit that basically alleges censorship.

No neighborhood or even rural area is exempt from gangs, a coalition of law-enforcement agencies reported Thursday while pledging to renew efforts to clamp down on what they believe is becoming a more organized and diverse crime problem.

Bomb technicians from across the state took a crash course in disabling vehicle bombs Thursday, less than three miles from University of Phoenix Stadium, the site of the annual Fiesta Bowl and this season’s Super Bowl.

TONOPAH - About 75 illegal immigrants were found Tuesday in the desert about 50 miles west of Phoenix, many suffering from dehydration and exhaustion from triple-digit heat, authorities said.

Authorities will again be searching for any remaining tourists or hikers in and around the Havasupai Tribe's village of Supai deep in the western portion of the Grand Canyon after floodwaters forced the evacuation of scores of people.

State officials must act quickly to impose tougher environmental restrictions if they hope to reverse the rapid global warming-related pollution increase in Arizona, an environmental policy report released Monday says.

State officials must act quickly to impose tougher environmental restrictions if they hope to reverse the rapid global warming-related pollution increase in Arizona, an environmental policy report released Monday says.

Tempe police seized dozens of guns, a cooler of ammunition and 20 pounds of marijuana Wednesday from an apartment.

Tempe police seized dozens of guns, a cooler of ammunition and 20 pounds of marijuana Wednesday from an apartment.

Thousands of convicted sex offenders are evading state and federal authorities, congregating in regions thought to have lax enforcement, slipping back and forth to Mexico or disregarding laws on reporting their whereabouts.

Real estate agents and other sales people have to think they can earn millions if they want it to happen. This was real estate veteran Gary Keller's message Wednesday to nearly 600 Valley real estate agents at the Radisson in Scottsdale and is the foundation of his new book, "The Millionaire Real Estate Agent."

What happens in Mexico no longer stays in Mexico.

What happens in Mexico no longer stays in Mexico.

What happens in Mexico no longer stays in Mexico.

SYDNEY, Australia - "Crocodile Dundee" star Paul Hogan challenged Australian tax authorities Friday to track him down in the United States after a newspaper report that he was under investigation for tax evasion.

She speaks six languages (German, Polish, English, French Italian and Russian), volunteered for the Red Cross during World War II and survived the Soviet occupation of Poland.

Most Catholic nuns are feminists whose education and savvy provide them the freedom and confidence to walk out of their convents tomorrow for jobs and outside opportunities, argues the writer of a new book, "Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns."

March 14, 2005

Your thoughts are worth a lot of money. Ask psychologist and Arizona State University professor Robert Cialdini, who has been tracking your thoughts — and talking about them — for more than 20 years.

If President Bush seems to have gone well out of his way two weeks ago to welcome and host Pope Benedict XVI during the papal visit to Washington, D.C., perhaps Deal Hudson can take some of the credit.

TUCSON - A southern Arizona sheriff's department has created a border crime unit in response to escalating smuggling-related violence in what authorities are calling "a war zone," officials said Monday.

DECATUR, Ala. - Authorities searched Monday for the head of a northern Alabama city's organized crime unit, who was last seen working late Friday and then vanished, leaving signs of a struggle in his office.