Arizona News

Monsoon storms pummel parts of Valley As storms cause flooding throughout northern Arizona, the Phoenix area braced for another wet afternoon on Friday, a day after powerful thunderstorms roiled the Valley.

The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch for virtually all of northern Arizona.

Arizona Stronghold's red and white wines, ready and waiting. - Northern Arizona isn't exactly synonymous with wine country, but Eric Glomski and Maynard Keenan would like to change this assumption.

Anti-SB1070 protesters stage a sit-in before being arrested for blocking 1st Avenue in downtown Phoenix on July 29, 2010.

Arizona Republicans Gov. Jan Brewer, left, and Sen. John McCain abruptly end a news conference in Glendale, Ariz., Friday, July 30, 2010.

If SB1070 passes, the support immigrants provide to the local economy will be lost, causing falling productivity.

Lost in the hoopla over Arizona's immigration law is the fact that state and local authorities for years have been doing their own aggressive crackdowns in the busiest illegal gateway into the country.

A delegation of Tennessee legislators will be in Phoenix on Friday, planning to meet with their Arizona counterparts and deliver a resolution supporting Arizona's new immigration law.

Immigrant-bashing rouses mouth-breathers on talk radio and is lately a staple of the Republicans' political diet, with airwaves filled with references to "illegals" and "lawbreakers" plus even an off-the-wall claim that Phoenix is America's new murder capital.

Despite a well-publicized campaign to protest Arizona's hated SB-1070 immigration law through a musician's boycott, Elton John not only played there last week, he also had a blunt message for those who refuse.

From left, Maria Duran, Maria Uribe and Giornia Sanchez march in protest in Phoenix to rally against Arizona's new immigration law, SB1070.

In the November elections, and the 2012 contests to follow, Latinos are faced with a lose-lose situation.

Hundreds in Arizona protest new law aimed at cracking down on illegal immigrants; Former state senator among those arrested Bob Christie Published on Thursday, Jul.

Arizona is preparing to ask an appeals court to lift a judge's ruling that put most of the state's immigration law on hold in a key first-round victory for the federal government in a fight that may go to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Opponents of Arizona's immigration crackdown went ahead with protests Thursday despite a judge's ruling that delayed enforcement of most the law, and dozens of people in Phoenix were arrested after peacefully confronting officers in riot gear.

An Arizona National Guard spokesman said troops will not begin bolstering security along the Arizona border this Sunday, despite what was announced by the Departments of Homeland Security and Defense 10 days ago.

Arizona's governor says she will appeal against a federal court's decision to block parts of an anti-immigration law hours before it came into effect.

Leticia Espinoza's neighbor was ready to go. The illegal immigrant from Mexico was terrified of the Arizona law set to go into effect today that would have granted police officers unprecedented powers to stem illegal immigration.

Judge Bolton, slicing up SB 1070 like a hunk of beef. Although district court Judge Susan R. Bolton did not enjoin Arizona Senate Bill 1070 in its entirety this morning, she cut the heart out of the state's discriminatory "papers, please" legislation, leaving its zombie-like corpse bloodied but still standing.

In a major victory for opponents, the statute will take effect, but without provisions that angered them the most By JACQUES BILLEAUD and AMANDA MYERS, Associated Press A judge has blocked the most controversial sections of Arizona's new immigration law from taking effect Thursday, handing a major legal victory to opponents of the crackdown.