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Associated Press - November 20, 2009 5:34 PM ET
PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona legislators are still struggling to conclude their current special session on the state's budget troubles, but they're already talking about another one. Legislative leaders are discussing ideas for possible action in a special session that could be held in December, mostly to do more to close the state's $2 billion midyear shortfall.
PHOENIX (AP) - One person has died and three others were injured in a mobile home fire this morning in the Pinal County community of Maricopa south of Phoenix. A fire department spokesman says a 1-year-old girl with facial burns and a 28-year-old woman with burns over 70 percent of her body were taken by helicopter to the Maricopa Medical Center Burn Unit in Phoenix.
ST. JOHNS, Ariz. (AP) - A new judge has been assigned to hear the case of a 9-year-old eastern Arizona boy awaiting sentencing in the shooting death of his father's roommate. Greenlee County Superior Court Judge Monica Stauffer now will oversee the case. Apache County Superior Court Judge Michael Roca was removed after the boy's attorney contended Roca was biased.
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) - Arizona Republican Congressman Jeff Flake predicts that President Barack Obama's administration will chart a more centrist course. He told the Arizona Tax Research Association today that both the Democratic president and the Democratic-controlled Congress have overreached.
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