An Arizona man died and another was injured when a swarm of 800,000 angry bees escaped an attic and began attacking them.

For a brief period in the 1970s and early '80s, the U.S. tried to switch over to the metric system, despite objections from real Americans that it was "Communist" or an "Arab plot." Metrication didn't get very far, but one highway remains: Arizona's Interstate 19.

A lesbian couple at a high school in Surprise, Ariz., was denied the right to be nominated for homecoming queen and queen by school administrators, who claimed that a policy prohibits same-sex couples from winning the title.

Aw, shucks. What's four adults gotta do around here to have a little Lego fun?

An Arizona high school teacher was removed from the classroom and cited for public intoxication Wednesday after students said she was drunk and yelling at them during math class.

Joseph Rudolph Wood's execution in Arizona on Wednesday afternoon took nearly two hours after the lethal injection began. His lawyers, claiming that their client was gasping and snorting for an hour, filed an emergency appeal to have the execution stopped. Wood died before a court could act.

If you're a Republican running for Congress in Arizona, you've really got to go that extra mile to prove your cred, or at least a couple hundred feet tailing a school bus filled with migrant children as you lament the invasion of America. Just be sure they're not really summer campers from the local Y.

John Huppenthal, the Republican public schools chief in Arizona, announced yesterday that he will not quit in the face of controversy over his once-anonymous blog comments. Under the usernames Falcon9 and Thucydides, Huppenthal suggested, among other things, that Spanish language should be outlawed in the United States.

In a bizarre twist to a macabre story, Austin Flake, a son of Republican Sen. Jeff Flake, was supposed to be watching nearly 30 dogs in a sketchy-sounding Arizona canine boarding house when the AC broke down in the shed where the dogs were held, and 20 of them died from the heat.

A gamer with a popular channel on streaming site Twitch.tv was robbed early Monday morning by a man with a gun, who broke into her home while she was in the middle of a match. Her webcam caught part of the burglary, and fans quickly uploaded the video to YouTube.

You're babysitting a 3-year-old, and she poops in the bathtub. Do you A) Hold her down and make her eat own feces, or B) Literally anything else? An Arizona woman reportedly chose the first option while watching her boyfriend's kids last week.

This week Arizona's Republican governor, Jan Brewer, signed its anti-revenge-porn law onto the books. The Arizona law makes it a felony to "intentionally disclose, display, distribute, publish, advertise or offer a photograph, videotape, film or digital recording of another person in a state of nudity or engaged in specific sexual activities if the person knows or should have known that the depicted person has not consented to the disclosure."

The dog who mauled a 4-year-old boy's face in February will not be destroyed, but will rather serve an unusual sentence for his crime, a Phoenix judge has ruled.

"I have nightmares about me seeing my naked body on the Internet," Maricopa's vice mayor said, by way of explaining why he'd posted "We need more Fred Phelps in this world... May you rest in peace sir" on his Facebook wall.

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Today Arizona Governor Jan Brewer put an end to speculation by vetoing SB 1062, a bill that would allow businesses to refuse service to LGBT customers on the basis of religious beliefs.

In case you missed it, Anderson Cooper's evisceration of Arizona State Senator and gubernatorial candidate Al Melvin, a defender of the Arizona anti-gay "religious freedom" bill that is awaiting Governor Jan Brewer's signature, is pretty satisfying.

The Arizona Senate voted in favor of a measure that would allow business owners the right to refuse gays service based on religious beliefs. "This bill is not about discrimination," Sen. Steve Yarbrough said. "It's about preventing discrimination against people who are clearly living out their faith." Related.

While you were out eating dinner with your girlfriend/boyfriend — or, alternately, watching House of Cards by yourself — Andrew Dekenipp was scaling walls and fighting through razor wire at Pinal County Adult Detention Center. He had love on his mind.

1,300 fine upstanding leaders of Arizona's Republicans got together in a Tempe church Saturday and declared war on their common enemy, a "disastrous and harmful" affront to "our values": Sen. John Sidney McCain III, USN-retired.