The vote to expel New York Republican George Santos from the U.S. House of Representatives split Arizona’s Congressional delegation.

Goodyear police say Pedro Quintana-Lujan, 26, was driving a pickup truck hauling a trailer on Feb. 25 when the vehicle crashed into a group of bicyclists on the Cotton Lane Bridge, a busy highway in Goodyear.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is in Texas this week for a meeting with border officers in Uvalde as that city and others along the U.S.-Mexico border are seeing a sharp rise in the number of migrants apprehended.

An Arizona state grand jury indicted Supervisors Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd in rural Cochise County for refusing to meet a state deadline to certify the county’s 2022 election results.

CBP data shows the Tucson Sector has had the highest number of apprehensions border-wide for the last several months. Some 750 people were waiting for processing on Tuesday morning along the border in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
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The FBI is investigating a now former officer of a northern Arizona police department who was arrested Friday on numerous assault and reckless driving charges. He is accused of fatally striking a pedestrian, then fleeing the scene.

Santa Cruz County is slated to get a higher reimbursement rate for housing federal detainees in its county jail. The county’s Board of Supervisors voted to increase the rate from about $60 to about $85 per federal inmate.

The restrictions are part of a larger effort by the U.S. government to tamp down migration through Latin American countries.

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, was stabbed by another inmate and seriously injured Friday at a federal prison in Arizona, a person familiar with the matter told the Associated Press.