If a jury finds Jodi Arias eligible for, and then gives her, the death penalty, she will join only a handful of women on Arizona’s death row.
Three of the 124 inmates on death row are women, and one of them, Debra Milke, recently saw her conviction overturned. A female hasn’t been executed in Arizona since 1930. And that execution didn’t go very well. Eva Dugan, convicted of killing a Tucson chicken farmer, was hanged and accidentally decapitated.

College was not on Danielle Bailey’s radar.
Her parents didn’t go. And she didn’t see the value.

The man from Minnesota had something that model-train enthusiast Wayne Wesolowski deeply desired.
The Minnesota man inherited a window frame from the historic train car that carried President Abraham Lincoln’s body back to his hometown in Springfield, Ill., after the 1865 assassination.

A 21-year-old lawsuit over the education of Arizona students who are learning English isn’t over yet.
Last month’s federal court decision that upheld the state’s English Language Learner programs is being appealed.

Arizona State University freshman Yadira Arellano wasn’t a big fan of the new Sparky costumed mascot unveiled in March. She was hardly alone.
Students and alumni took to Facebook and Twitter to protest the big-eyed, beefed-up Sun Devil mascot, a sign that the Sparky’s appeal extends well beyond sports.

When nearly an inch of rain fell in Tempe on a Friday in early March, Arizona State University roofing supervisor Bob Backus and his full-time crew of three felt like they were in a game of Whac-A-Mole.
Plug a leak here. Fix a drainpipe there. In all they got 30 calls about problems on the sprawling campus, which has 154 roofs of varying ages, many of which have been patched repeatedly or should have been replaced years ago.

TUCSON – Students at Arizona State University and University of Arizona will pay 3 percent more in tuition and fees this fall, bringing in-state rates for freshmen to $10,000 a year for the first time at ASU.
The Arizona Board of Regents approved the increases Thursday, and the new rates will go into effect for the 2013-14 school year.

Donald Johanson’s colleagues at Arizona State University call him a pack rat. The man who discovered the Lucy fossil admits he has amassed a lot of stuff during his four-decade career.
He has drawers and boxes filled with personal correspondence, scientific papers, diaries, photographs and notes. Now, the research group he founded in 1981, the Institute of Human Origins at ASU, is laying the groundwork to preserve the material. An initial grant from the Institute for Humanities Research is helping to evaluate and create a plan to archive the collection.

Public-school students in Arizona who are learning to speak English must spend four hours a day in special language classes. Some educators say that, as a result, those students fall behind in other subjects.
But in a ruling in an ongoing legal battle that has spanned two decades, U.S. District Judge Raner Collins determined that the state’s English Language Learner programs do not violate federal civil-rights laws, upholding the four hours of daily instruction.

The new Sparky is out already. Instead, Arizona State University’s costumed mascot will get a Mr. Potato Head-style makeover.
An online program is being developed to allow fans to choose features for the new Sparky head and face. They will be able to pick from a variety of eyes, face shapes, mustaches and goatees. They will get to select maroon or black horns.

Arizona State and the University of Arizona proposed tuition hikes again Friday, but the 3 percent requests would be the lowest increases in a decade.
Last year, under pressure from families and state legislators, the regents froze tuition for the first time in 20 years.

The latest Mars rover discovery shows that the Red Planet once contained water similar to what is found in lakes or ponds on Earth, advancing the possibility that it could have sustained life, an Arizona State University scientist working on the project said Tuesday.
Previous findings by other rovers also detected water, but that was highly acidic and would be a difficult place for life to thrive, said professor Jim Bell, who is on the camera team for the Curiosity rover.

Who knew a devil could have so many friends?
Barely a week after Arizona State University unveiled a modern version of its costumed mascot, a growing chorus of students and alumni is demanding the old Sparky back.