Eric James Coulter was found guilty of manslaughter Monday for fatally shooting his girlfriend, Monique Cota, in Chandler.

Tempe police are asking for the public's assistance in locating an AR-15 rifle that was stolen from the personal car of a SWAT officer early New Year's Day, and have launched an administrative review into the officer for any potential weapons policy violations.

You’re reading this column because, well, in part, because my film career was very short-lived.

BOUQUET to the rough-ridin’ competitors who this weekend will participate in the Cowboy Mounted Shooting competition at Rawhide Western Town and Steakhouse in Scottsdale as part of the 15th annual Bison Homes Festival of the West.

January 26, 2005

Insurance agent/gun dealer Aaron Merchant shoulders an M-16 rifle equipped with a silencer at his new shop, Merchant Firearms, southwest of Chandler Boulevard and 48th Street in Ahwatukee Foothills.

Insurance agent/gun dealer Aaron Merchant shoulders an M-16 rifle equipped with a silencer at his new shop, Merchant Firearms, southwest of Chandler Boulevard and 48th Street in Ahwatukee Foothills.

Scottsdale school leaders are calling for the review of a class assignment that resulted in a simulated shooting and kidnapping real enough that police responded and arrested three sophomores and two adults, including the 75-yearold grandmother of one of the students.

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.

JARRATT, Va.  — John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind behind the sniper attacks that left 10 dead, was executed Tuesday as relatives of the victims watched, reliving the killing spree that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area for three weeks in October 2002.

A teacher at Scottsdale’s Desert Mountain High School was placed on leave while five people, including a 75-year-old grandma and three students, were arrested for simulating a shooting and kidnapping that appeared real to a witness who called police.

A teacher at Scottsdale’s Desert Mountain High School was placed on leave while five people, including a 75-year-old grandma and three students, were arrested for simulating a shooting and kidnapping that appeared real to a witness who called police.

FORT HOOD, TEXAS - The Army training grounds here were designed to mimic the extreme conditions in Afghanistan, but Arizona’s National Guard troops expect the live fire of war will be unlike anything they’ve experienced on U.S. soil.

A couple of phone calls and a few dozen fliers handed out in the neighborhood would have done it.

A group of Desert Mountain High School students who simulated a carjacking using pellet guns — including one that looked like an M-16 assault rifle — found themselves staring into the muzzles of real guns when police showed up.

A group of Desert Mountain High School students who simulated a carjacking using pellet guns — including one that looked like an M-16 assault rifle — found themselves staring into the muzzles of real guns when police showed up.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Sunni insurgents posted their condolences over Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death on Web sites Saturday and warned Sunnis not to cooperate with the Iraqi government, apparently trying to maintain solidarity in their ranks after the terrorist leader was killed by a U.S. airstrike.

The Obama administration said this week it plans to send 1,200 troops to the border, and to ask for $500 million for law enforcement efforts, all aimed at clamping down on the flow of illegal immigrants from Mexico. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., whose home state of Arizona has famously taken the immigration issue into its own hands, quickly upped the ante and asked the president to send 6,000 Guardsmen instead. Will the show of force reduce illegal immigration? Is it a long-term solution to the problems afflicting border-states? Or is it a dog-and-pony show? Joel Mathis and Ben Boychuk, the RedBlueAmerica columnists, debate the issue.

A Desert Mountain High School assignment that calls for students to act out and videotape a mock crime will no longer be required after the staged incidents resulted in police calls the last two years.

NEW ORLEANS - Some business owners were being allowed back into the city Saturday to get a head start on opening the rollicking bars, stores and restaurants that keep the good times rolling in New Orleans. But many residents, from the cast-iron balconies of the French Quarter to the white-columned mansions of the Garden District, said it will be weeks, if not months, before they are ready again for partying till dawn.

NEW ORLEANS - The nearly 200,000 residents returning to some of New Orleans' neighborhoods beginning next week will face military checkpoints, a lack of clean tap water and a dusk-to-dawn curfew that could keep the good times from rolling for a while.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A roadside bomb explosion Monday in the Iraqi capital killed one U.S. soldier and wounded two, bringing the American death toll to nearly 500 since the start of fighting in March.

MARJAYOUN, Lebanon - Six weeks after the end of the Lebanon war, the militant Hezbollah group is facing little on-the-ground pressure to give up its weapons and disarm - despite a U.N. cease-fire resolution demanding just that.

BAGHDAD, Iraq — In the early morning sun, 12-year-old Walid Salim strides to the yard of his school, kisses Iraq’s flag and hoists it high. At a lunchtime cafe, three 18-year-old friends gather to eye girls and talk cars.