Gov. Jan Brewer signed a measure Monday to make it easier for schools to get rid of teachers who are not performing up to expectations.

The Senate voted 19-11 Tuesday to make it easier for schools to get rid of teachers who are not performing up to expectations.

FLORENCE — A man deported five times since 2005 has been arrested in Arizona on a probation violation and for allegedly assaulting a Pinal County Sheriff's deputy.

A former Arizona legislator will be sentenced Wednesday for felony convictions for seeking and accepting bribes while he was a Tempe city councilman and misleading donors about a scholarship fund that benefited his relatives.

A Mesa woman accused of stabbing her husband after arguing about their former lovers has been sentenced to three years' probation with domestic violence terms.

An alleged gang member has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for a carjacking and armed robbery in Mesa.

A Mesa woman accused of child abuse for allegedly leaving her daughter in a park for four hours while she had sex has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and four years of supervised probation.

As Elizabeth Johnson, the Tempe mother of missing Baby Gabriel is preparing to exchange her black and white striped jail uniform for bright orange prison garb, a Scottsdale woman connected to the case will remain free.

The Arizona Department of Liquor Licensing and Control is investigating a Tempe bar where Arizona State University student Jack Culolias was last seen during a fraternity-sponsored pledge event attended by dozens of university underclassmen.

Nearly three years after the case of missing Baby Gabriel Johnson captured national attention, his mother, Elizabeth Johnson, was sentenced on Friday to 5.25 years of prison on offenses in connection to the case.

A Mesa teenager accused of killing his girlfriend's mother has been sentenced to 22 years in prison after reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors.

Deputies discovered a 30-year-old man with a gunshot wound in front of a known drug house in Mesa Thursday afternoon, Maricopa County Sheriff's Office reports.

A onetime security guard at Tempe High School has been sentenced to jail and probation after being convicted of burglary and theft charges.

A man accused of trying to lure two young girls into his car in Tempe last year has been sentenced to lifetime probation with sex offender terms.

Just in time for Halloween, the Tempe Police Department is trying to make the city safer through a more detailed sex offender database program with real-time information now accessible to the public.

A Tempe woman awaiting sentencing for a conviction in her son's disappearance has asked a judge to release her from jail on her own recognizance.

The outcry over recent competitive imbalance could be rectified by the new parameters for the 2013-15 scheduling block.

It’s been nearly three years since 8-month-old Gabriel Johnson disappeared and the verdict against his mother is in. A jury did not find her guilty of kidnapping. They couldn’t agree on that charge.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio doubled the reward amount to $10,000 Friday for information leading to the arrest of anyone caught vandalizing his campaign signs, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.

Elizabeth Johnson, the Valley woman whose infant son vanished nearly three years ago avoided what could have been a lengthy prison term of nearly 30 years after a jury failed to reach a verdict on the most serious charge against her, instead convicting her of a lesser count of unlawful imprisonment Thursday.

A federal appeals court will hear arguments Friday of whether Arizona voters stepped over the line by denying bail to illegal immigrants charged with certain crimes.

 One of two suspects in the fatal shooting of an Arizona State University honor student in 2010 has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.

A former Tempe constable accused of burning down his home for insurance money has been sentenced to four months in jail and two years of supervised probation.

For nearly three years, most of the court proceedings involving missing Baby Gabriel Johnson have centered around his mother, Elizabeth Johnson, who has said both that she killed the boy and that she gave him to a couple she did not know when she took him to San Antonio in the midst of a custody battle.