There’s something missing from our current debate about national health care. Too few are talking about actual health. We lament the red tape, the gaps in insurance coverage and the costs that seem to escalate daily. But we often forget the central point: Our own individual health and well being. How can Americans be healthier, feel better and live longer?

A nurse at a hospital in Mesa is being accused of stealing nearly $700 worth of drugs for his personal use.

There’s something missing from our current debate about national health care. Too few are talking about actual health! We lament the red tape, the gaps in insurance coverage and the costs that seem to escalate daily. But we often forget the central point: Our own individual health and well-being. How can Americans be healthier, feel better and live longer?

WASHINGTON – Up to 1.76 million illegal immigrants could be eligible for a two-year reprieve from deportation under an Obama administration program that begins accepting applications Wednesday.

WASHINGTON – Up to 1.76 million illegal immigrants could be eligible for a two-year reprieve from deportation under an Obama administration program that begins accepting applications Wednesday.

If Mesa police suspect you’re up to no good and want to identify you quickly on the street, it turns out they’d like you to just give them the finger.

Analyzing the DNA samples of youngsters who have not been found guilty of any crime is an unconstitutional warrantless search, the Arizona Supreme Court has ruled.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Office is hosting an open house for the public in downtown Phoenix on Friday to show what services it provides for immigrant applicants.

As long there have been police, there have been suspects who’ve evaded justice with forged identification, fake names or not having any I.D.

WASHINGTON • Requiring employers across the nation to use E-Verify to check workers’ citizenship would carve out jobs for unemployed Americans by keeping illegal immigrants out of the job market, backers said Wednesday.

My name is Glenn Ray, and I am a candidate for state representative in District 22. Like many of you, I have come to realize that I can no longer just sit by and watch as those who say they represent us fail to hear our voices.

WASHINGTON - The intercepted e-mail was alarmingly matter-of-fact for anyone worried about a new terror attack: "getting into U.S is no problem at all. thats what i do best."

Mesa schools spend $35 million on health care each year and for the past three years have been looking at ways to reduce those costs through prevention and wellness.

A Valley defense contractor hopes to make U.S. soldiers a little safer with an electronic device fitted inside their helmets that will measure blasts and other forces that their heads receive in combat.

State senators have given preliminary approval to blocking schools from collecting fingerprint data from their students.

A high-tech tool that makes lunch lines move faster is raising concerns about student privacy rights.

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Gov. Janet Napolitano signed a deal Thursday with federal officials to create a new “technologically enhanced’’ state driver license.

Q. Could you suggest a simple program to encrypt an entire flash drive? - Richard

Gilbert’s new system tracking its employees has Big Brother’s fingerprints all over it.

SAN DIEGO - The face- and fingerprint-matching technology that has been touted over the past decade as a sophisticated new way to stop terrorists and illegal immigrants from entering the country through Mexico has one major drawback: U.S. border inspectors almost never use it.

The U.S. government, goaded by Congress, has made many demands of the Iraqi government, and now the Iraqi government, in the person of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, has made one of its own. He has demanded that the United States halt construction of a three-mile wall to surround a Sunni neighborhood to protect it from adjacent Shiites.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. - Todd Fortier is banking on the day when ATMs will be required to confirm a user’s face, voice or thumbprint before spitting out cash. Fortier, 19, is seeking a degree in biometric security at Davenport University, one of the first such programs in the nation.

America seems to just be waking up to the reality that the deadline for implementing 2005’s Real ID act, which standardizes the information to be included on state-issued drivers licenses and mandates the information to be accessible via nationwide database, is coming up in 15 short months.