The longtime spokesman for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office has been reassigned after refusing to allow journalism students into news conferences and hurling insults at an ASU professor in an e-mail exchange.

A federal judge on Friday rejected a request that he appoint an attorney to represent the unborn who would be affected by a challenge to the state's new ban on abortions after 20 weeks.

In a year of transition for the Maricopa County Attorney's Office, Republican Bill Montgomery will be the one to transform it into what he says will be "his office" and not a clone of former county attorney Andrew Thomas.

An attorney for Republican interests argued Wednesday that maps drawn just last year for the state's 30 legislative districts are illegal and should be scrapped.

A federal judge is hoping to get the owners of one of the state's best known ski resorts to promise they won't start construction for an artificial snow system for at least another two weeks.

Cortina Elementary School will host an Internet safety parent presentation at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Higley Unified School District school, 19680 S. 188th St., Queen Creek.

In his first week on the job, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery said he's taking a slow and cautious approach to changing any of the office's policies, but already is taking a strong stand of prosecuting crimes stemming from illegal immigration and holding criminals accountable.

State lawmakers are entitled to ban abortions at 20 weeks -- or even at the point of conception -- Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery said Wednesday.

Attorneys involved in a separate challenge of Arizona’s immigration law are weighing whether — and how soon — to seek their own injunction to stop the law from taking effect.

Q. How can I silence the sounds that come from my computer when I connect to the Internet? The usual volume controls seem to have no effect and it's so noisy! Can you help? I'm using Windows 98.

Q. I'm having trouble printing Web pages. To try to track down the problem, I hooked my printer up to an old computer and everything printed okay, so I don't think the problem is with my printer. But when I try printing Web pages with my new computer, I just get partial pages or sometimes blank pages. Any idea what's going on? I'm using Internet Explorer and Windows 98.

I have been a resident of Arizona for 40-plus Years and I do not understand why the issues surrounding our current Attorney General Mr. Tom Horne have not been more actively pursued by an objective journalistic effort and brought to the public’s attention.

A Scottsdale-based dating service has agreed to pay half a million dollars in restitution and fines to settle a lawsuit filed by state Attorney General Terry Goddard.

A 51-year-old Mesa man who promised 36 percent annual returns to 250 investors, whom authorities say he bilked out of $30 million, is behind bars in an Arizona Department of Corrections prison.

Carefree Mayor Ed Morgan is off the legal hook, for now.

Carefree Mayor Ed Morgan is off the legal hook, for now.

The Arizona Attorney General's Office has been asked to conduct a criminal investigation into claims that current and former Fiesta Bowl employees made illegal campaign contributions to politicians friendly to the bowl.

It is now being reported the Boston bombing suspect was unnecessarily ‘Mirandized’ in the midst of the FBI interrogations from which the FBI was obtaining important intelligence re present and future terrorist activities. The question now is; did the attorney general’s Boston representative jump the gun by rushing a Federal Magistrate and lawyers to the suspects hospital room to ‘file a criminal complaint’ and ‘Mirandized’? By doing so it placed the suspect into civil proceedings which we find out is not a necessary decision at this time. It has effectively limited further FBI interrogation(s).

February 10, 2005

Owners of a downtown Scottsdale property filed a complaint Wednesday with Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, alleging the city violated the state Open Meetings Law in selecting a developer last week without an official vote.

Arizona State University law student Paul Coble is helping the community get free legal help. The Tempe 23-year-old is a coordinator at the Rebecca White Berch Pro Bono Center, an Arizona Attorney General satellite office at ASU’s Tempe campus.

Arizona State University law student Paul Coble is helping the community get free legal help. The Tempe 23-year-old is a coordinator at the Rebecca White Berch Pro Bono Center, an Arizona Attorney General satellite office at ASU’s Tempe campus.