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Feb 5, 2008

The rainfall from this season is leaving nothing to chance when it comes to filling Roosevelt Lake. Arizona was inundated in many areas with copious rainfall over several weekends, which saw Rosy rise from 62% on January 27 to 65%…

Feb 5, 2008

Put new line on your fishing reels this is shaping up to be one of the better fishing seasons in the past 15 years. Storms in early December saturated the soil, especially in central Arizona. Those storms also resulted in…

Jan 28, 2008

An F-16 Fighting Falcon sits ready to deploy at a moment's notice at the 162nd Fighter Wing's Alert Detachment at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. Arizona Air National Guardsmen from Tucson will fly this aircraft and others to secure the…

Jan 16, 2008

Charlotte, NC FBI has joined the Onslow County Sheriffs Office, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Department of Homeland Securitys Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and the U.S. Marshals Service in the search…

Jan 15, 2008

What a weekend it was! The NFL playoffs leading to Superbowl XLII on Sunday, February 3 in Glendale, Arizona promise even more excitement. On Saturday, January 12, the New England Patriots beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 31-20 at Gillette Stadium while…

Jan 15, 2008

(STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX) The Arizona Senate and House Appropriation committee chairs, and JLBC staff have been working the past few weeks to analyze the budget problem and prepare a starting point for the appropriation committees to address and resolve the…

Jan 3, 2008

WASHINGTON Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced that a former public official was sentenced Thursday for his role in a widespread bribery and extortion conspiracy, which operated from January 2002 through March 2004. The defendant,…

Jan 1, 2008

PHOENIX - A $12.1 million civil environmental settlement, the largest in state history, has been jointly announced by Arizona Department of Environmental Quality Director Steve Owens and Attorney General Terry Goddard. The settlement resolves a 2005 lawsuit brought against land…

Jan 1, 2008

Air Quality Violations in Gila, Pima and Yuma Counties PHOENIX --Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) Director Steve Owens announced that United Metro Materials, Inc. and Tanner Companies (Yuma), Inc., doing business as Rinker Materials, will pay a $175,000 civil…

Dec 27, 2007

Following eight weeks of trial, a federal jury in Central Islip, New York, today returned a verdict convicting Colombo organized crime family acting boss Alphonse "Allie Boy" Persico and administration member John "Jackie" DeRoss of murder in aid of racketeering…