NEW YORK - Led by Wal-Mart Stores, discount retailers won a war with other toy stores this past holiday season. Now toy makers, a casualty in that bitter fight, have decided to make their own stand.

At 9,500 employees, Intel is Chandler’s largest employer. And it’s about to get even bigger. The computer chip manufacturer on Monday announced a $3 billion expansion of its Ocotillo campus in south Chandler.

At 9,500 employees, Intel is Chandler’s largest employer. And it’s about to get even bigger. The computer chip manufacturer on Monday announced a $3 billion expansion of its Ocotillo campus in south Chandler.

Some changes in the cellular phone industry could create the best climate ever to enact a ban on texting while driving in Arizona.

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.

A new lawsuit is raising serious questions about the safety of helicopters made in Mesa and used by law enforcement agencies around the world, including on patrols along the U.S. border.

DETROIT - Hybrids, advanced diesels and “green” alternatives are pushing aside the traditional displays of speed and chrome at this week’s Detroit auto show, a nod to a new fuel-efficient reality for car makers.

Lynn Tilton is a female competing in a man’s world, and she isn’t afraid to fight for company’s interests. Tilton is the chief executive of MD Helicopters at Falcon Field in Mesa, and also founder and CEO of Patriarch Partners, a New York-based investment firm that is MD Helicopters’ parent.

A federal judge on Wednesday permanently blocked state and local officials from prosecuting a Flagstaff man who produces and sells anti-war T-shirts with the names of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq.

TRENTON, N.J. - The makers of garden products Miracle-Gro and TerraCycle are as different as mature plants and seedlings.

Alan Sears: Whenever Planned Parenthood and The Center for Reproductive Freedom team up, something dies. Sometimes, it's a freedom. More often, it's a life. If the two organizations' respective lawsuits - one state, one federal - succeed in dismantling a new Arizona law designed to protect pregnant women and those who serve them, you'll see mortal wounds nationwide to both lives and liberty.

A New York-based beverage company finds itself in the middle of the controversy over a new immigration law, simply because it shares its name with the state where the law was enacted.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - What lasts longer than a Minnesota winter? The struggle to choose the nation's 100th senator.

House Republicans are pushing a new tax break for large manufacturers — and threatening to hold up some measures the governor wants unless she agrees.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld virtually all of President Barack Obama's historic health care overhaul, including the hotly debated core requirement that nearly every American have health insurance.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld virtually all of President Barack Obama's historic health care overhaul, including the hotly debated core requirement that nearly every American have health insurance.

With the recent Newtown tragedy we are again forced to look at the question of our current gun control legislation. We have lost count of the victims of these horrific events and yet they continue. How can we accept the approximately 30,000 deaths each year from firearms (murders, suicides and accidents) without it screaming to us that “Enough is enough”! Have we become so immune to these events that it doesn’t matter any more? That is almost the equivalent of the U.S. Vietnam dead repeated every year.

In 2002, two young girls and their parents filed a federal class-action law suit against the McDonalds Corporation. It was the claim of the plaintiffs that eating a consistent diet of Happy Meals, Big Macs, fries and shakes had led to their morbid obesity, and McDonalds was responsible for this condition.

It may become tougher to buy pseudoephedrine in the Valley this cold season, as Tempe is looking to restrict sales of this key ingredient in making methamphetamine.

It may become tougher to buy pseudoephedrine in the Valley this cold season, as Tempe is looking to restrict sales of this key ingredient in making methamphetamine.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Sony Corp. has become the latest of the video game console makers to announce parental controls in it newest machine, according to the Entertainment Software Association.

Socialism/Communism requires more bureaucrats than any other form of government because it has to control every aspect of life. The more any government does, the bigger it has to be, i.e., bigger buildings, more employees, more intrusions into the private sector. Government growth requires higher taxes to pay for higher governmental spending.