A family of five, driving in their SUV, crashed into a lake in suburban Phoenix early on Sunday. Two children and their parents are dead. A third child is in critical condition.

A cache of complaints against United States Customs and Border Protection newly released to the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona has an unsurprising implication: America’s border patrol officers act just as recklessly, and with just as little punishment as its cops.

America’s self-styled “Toughest Sheriff” has a bit of a problem with authority, according to his ex-lawyer.

Arizona police say motorists should be “hyper vigilant” on a Phoenix highway, where a presumed sniper has been shooting at drivers almost daily for the last two weeks.

Over the 4th of July weekend, riots broke out at a private state prison near Kingman, Arizona. Special forces were called in to restore order. Now, a new report says that the government’s response may have been worse than the riots themselves.

Damn, dude: Acting on a bad Facebook tip, an Arizona bail bondsmen and his team surrounded the home of Phoenix Police Chief Joseph Yahner on Tuesday, believing a fugitive to be inside, Reuters reports.

An Arizona woman says she plans to sue her local police department after an officer illegally forced his way into her home and arrested her while she was nude—all without charging her with any crime, KPHO reports.

An alleged horse fetishist was arrested in Phoenix Friday night after flying from Pennsylvania to meet a horse owner who’d agreed to let him have sex with a miniature horse and to make sure his clothes got soaked in fragrant horse piss. But the planned romantic rendezvous was not to be: the horse owner was an undercover sheriff’s deputy conducting a sting operation.

In a 5-4 decision handed down today, the Supreme Court decided the existence of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission—a panel created by Arizona voters in 2000 to reduce partisan interference in the state’s drawing of congressional districts—is in fact constitutional.

A US Military F-16 fighter jet seemed to “fall out of the sky” Wednesday night near the Mexican border, exploding and sparking a large fire.

Five relatives were found dead in an Arizona home Thursday as the result of an apparent family dispute, the AP reports.

Two 18-month-old twin brothers drowned in Arizona on Friday in a strange and tragic accident that began with an attacking bee, The Washington Post reports.

On Friday, authorities in Arizona released a video showing a chaotic brawl between police and a family of Christian street performers, an incident that left one man dead in a Walmart parking lot last month.

Tyler Kost, who is accused of sexually assaulting 13 girls, appeared in Arizona court Monday where his attorney, citing logs of Facebook chats, claimed that the alleged victims—ages 13 to 17—were inspired to frame Kost as a rapist by the movie John Tucker Must Die.

On Monday, a judge formally dismissed the case against Debra Milke, who spent 22 years on death row after being convicted of conspiring to murder her 4-year-old son, The Associated Press reports. The case relied heavily on the work of a detective who has since been discredited. Prosecutors lost their final appeal last week.

Community colleges are the most democratic forms of higher education, and, you could argue, the most important. Don't tell that to the state of Arizona.

Why is every single person in your office gathered around computer monitors, laughing and having a great time without you right now? Because there's a high-speed wild llama chase through suburban Arizona in action, and they're all watching the live stream. Breathe a sigh of relief and take a peek below.

Yesterday brought a new report on the awful solitary confinement practices of the state of Texas. Today, let us share another recent report on solitary confinement in the state of Arizona, and its "decaying and detrimental effect on human beings."

On Tuesday, the Phoenix Police Department named 30-year-old Mark Rine as the killer of Rumain Brisbon, an unarmed black man who was gunned down last week after the officer reportedly mistook a pill bottle for a gun.

An Arabian stallion named Stormy, who has free reign of his owner's property, somehow managed to walk into the backyard swimming pool Saturday and found himself unable to escape. As Stormy panicked and thrashed against the deck, his owner's grandson called 911.