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March 23, 2017

Police: Mom let 2-year-old handle gun before fatal shooting

A 9-year-old boy shot in the head by his 2-year-old brother with their mother's handgun died, and their mother told police she had previously let the toddler handle the gun when it wasn't loaded, authorities said.

March 22, 2017

Police: Mom let 2-year-old handle gun before shooting

A woman arrested after her 2-year-old son picked up her loaded handgun and shot his 9-year-old brother said she previously allowed the 2-year-old to practice pulling the trigger of the gun when it was unloaded, Phoenix police said Tuesday.

March 21, 2017

Conservationists: Wild Jaguars can make US comeback

Conservationists are making another push to get federal wildlife officials to devote more resources to the re-establishment of wild jaguars in the U.S.

March 20, 2017

Artist defends anti-Trump billboard

The artist behind an anti-Trump billboard seen along a Phoenix roadway defended her illustration of the president seen in between dollar-sign shaped swastikas and mushroom clouds.

March 17, 2017

Deported killer nabbed slipping back into US from Mexico

A deported killer has been caught on the Arizona border trying to slip back into the U.S.

March 17, 2017

9th Circuit judges to Congress: Leave us alone

Three federal judges are asking Congress not to break up the vast, San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a longtime target of Republicans and a recent foe of President Donald Trump.

March 17, 2017

The Latest: Officials: Navajo officer was shot in rural area

The Latest on the fatal shooting of a Navajo Nation police officer in New Mexico (all times local): 8:45 a.m.

March 17, 2017

Navajo Nation officer dies after shooting; suspect caught

A police officer from the nation's largest American Indian reservation was killed in western New Mexico and a suspect is in custody, federal officials said.

March 17, 2017

Petrified Forest park ex-worker gets prison for fee thefts

A former National Park Service supervisor for northern Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park has been sentenced to a year in prison for stealing $313,000 in entrance fees.

March 17, 2017

APNewsBreak: Condemned Ohio man kills himself on death row

The state says an Ohio man condemned to die for the slaying of his former girlfriend has killed himself on death row.