A 34-year-old man who intentionally set his 2-year-old daughter on fire in 1999 told a jury he would accept the death penalty if that is what the panel decides. Shawn Grell capped off the three-month trial Tuesday with a minutelong speech to the jury.

Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard is reconsidering his office’s opposition to allowing families of murder victims to tell their stories to juries and judges who decide the fate of defendants.

A man who burned his 2 1 /2-year-old daughter to death in 1999 will stay on death row for now after a judge determined Wednesday he is not mentally retarded.

Jury selection is under way in the death-penalty sentencing trial of a 34-year-old man who set his 2-year-old daughter on fire in 1999.

A death row inmate who admitted to killing his 2-yearold daughter by setting her on fire will get another chance to avoid execution.

A man who took his 2-yearold daughter into the desert east of Mesa and burned her to death may be spared the state’s death chamber.

All but one seeded player reached the quarterfinals of the 5A-I boys state singles tennis tournament after the completion of the second and third rounds Saturday at Paseo Racquet Center in Glendale.

Last year, Ethiopia’s Adanech Zekiros ran the P.F. Chang’s Rock ’n’ Roll Arizona Marathon in 2 hours, 31 minutes, 43 seconds to win the women’s title, but struggled the entire course thanks to record cold in the Valley.