Headlines from the most important stories in Arizona this year.

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PHOENIX — For three weeks in August and September, drivers across the Phoenix metropolitan area were rattled by a string of shootings that hit…

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Gov. Doug Ducey tweeted "We got him!" just minutes after Merritt was arrested, but the case is far from over. Merritt's lawyers are mounting a…

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Islamic State's murderous onslaught in 2015 had multiple connections to Arizona. Kayla Mueller, an aid worker from Prescott, was kidnapped in …

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The entire world was watching Arizona on Feb. 1 when the New England Patriots squared off against the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl in Gl…

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Education returned as a hot-button political issue in 2015. The source of the fight was a lawsuit brought by schools after lawmakers slashed K…

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The longtime Maricopa County sheriff had what may have been the roughest year of his career. He was called into federal court on contempt-of-c…

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A violent flash flood tore through the polygamous towns of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, in September, sweeping away a van and SU…

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The governor called it "frightening and disturbing." Rioting and unrest broke out at a privately run prison in Kingman in July, causing nine g…

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Arizona found itself in the middle of another high-profile U.S. Supreme Court ruling with national implications in 2015. The court upheld how …

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Ducey signed a $9.1 billion budget in March that Republicans said was a fiscally responsible act that put the state on more solid financial fo…

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One week after a gunman killed nine people at a community college in Oregon in October, Northern Arizona became the site of a deadly school sh…