Saying that guns are public assets worth money, state senators voted Tuesday to close what they say are the last loopholes in the law allowing cities to destroy weapons that come into their possession.

Mesa schools would have powerful pepper spray canisters available to front office staff if the district’s chief safety officer can make it happen.

A body found early Thursday among bushes in the parking lot of the Bass Pro Shops at Mesa Riverview has been positively identified as the man who killed a company CEO and critically wounded a lawyer a day earlier, police said.

NEWTOWN, Conn. — A man opened fire Friday inside the Connecticut elementary school where his mother worked as a teacher, killing 26 people, including 20 children, as youngsters cowered in their classrooms and trembled helplessly to the sound of gunfire reverberating through the building.

After a nearly two-year investigation, Mesa Police Department has arrested five people in connection with fraudulent business practices with dozens of victims at S.W.A.T. Towing/Auto Citi Towing.

A man barricaded inside a Tempe apartment complex Tuesday has surrendered to police.

Authorities say more than 20,000 units and 50 pounds of the synthetic drug known as Spice or K2 has been seized in Phoenix and Scottsdale.

The Mesa SWAT team was called to a neighborhood about 4:30 p.m. Monday when a resident refused to come out of his home after throwing a shovel at a neighbor.

In these days when American political partisans are obsessed with making sure their political team wins, and when Justin Bieber’s hair is the subject of thousands of well-read articles on Google, politics and celebrity are momentarily overshadowed elsewhere by the tale of a brave Pakistan girl whose only wish was to go to school — and is battling for her life because of it.

As the disgusting Arpaio political ads continue to flood local airways, I can’t help but find solace in the adage that like a zebra can’t hide its stripes neither can Arpaio cover up his pink underwear.

The Mesa police SWAT team arrested a father and son with lengthy criminal histories who were wanted on outstanding warrants after a brief standoff involving criminal damage and theft offenses in connection to a city utility system on Saturday.

There are still open seats in the Gilbert Citizens Police Academy.

You've seen the buddy cop movie a million times before, especially the mismatched buddy cop movie. Having the police officers come from different racial backgrounds is an especially tried-and-true element of this genre; it allows them to make fun of each other for the way they talk, the stuff they like, the activities that take up their free time. It's good for a reliable laugh, in theory.

A man who police say called 911 and lobbed threats against people attending a recent curriculum night at Mesa’s Las Sendas Elementary School has been arrested and is facing threatening and intimidating-related felony charges.

PHOENIX — Authorities say Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies have shot and killed a man who fired an assault weapon during a standoff.

Mesa police are considering charges against a man they say called 911 Thursday and made threats against people attending a curriculum night at Mesa’s Las Sendas Elementary School. According to police, the man said he had a high-powered rifle, that he would to shoot those in attendance and burn his house down.

A Mesa woman was found Tuesday dead in her home with 31 feral cats and kittens.