BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho man charged with murdering his wife and his girlfriend’s two youngest children was driven to commit the crimes by money, power and sex, a prosecutor told jurors during closing arguments on Wednesday.

Officials in America’s hottest big metro are working to better protect people amid temperatures already hitting the triple digits this spring. That's after a year that saw a staggering record 645 heat-related deaths despite scores of cooling centers and other measures in Maricopa County, Arizona. This year, some of the centers will extend their hours. At least two will operate all night so that people can sit in air conditioning and have chilled water. Bilingual health workers are staffing a call center to help fill the centers.

PHOENIX — Priscilla Orr, 75, was living in her old white Kia in a supermarket parking lot last summer after telling her family she lost her money and home to a romance scam.

PHOENIX — It’s taken seven years, but Arizona schools are finally going to get their day in court — well, actually more like a month — in their bid to convince a judge the state is not living up to its constitutional obligation to adequately fund education.

TUCSON — A new federal initiative will rely on University of Arizona research and scholarship to help communities across the U.S. create policies and take action to mitigate and manage extreme heat. The university’s involvement in a new Center for Heat Resilient Communities, which the U.S. D…