PHOENIX — Evan Mecham, the only Arizona governor to be impeached, tried and ejected from office, died late Thursday at the Arizona State Veteran Home after a lengthy illness. The 83-year-old ...

That was the year voters elected Evan Mecham as governor. Eventually, Lane, as House speaker, launched an investigation of allegations against Mecham, including misuse of state funds.

When Warren H. Stewart Sr. first came to Phoenix nearly 50 years ago from New York City, his plan was to stay for a few years ...

Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham is impeached and ousted by the Senate. He had been indicted by a state grand jury on allegations that he had failed to report a loan from a developer, but he would later ...

The argument got particularly nasty in Arizona, where the governor, Evan Mecham, rescinded the holiday, claiming it was approved illegally by his predecessor.

Mecham, who was 83, had been in deteriorating health with symptoms of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases for years. Survivors include his wife, Florence, seven children, three brothers and a sister.

Klekamp, 65, and Huckman, 63, met in Arizona, when they were covering the impeachment of a cartoonishly awful governor named Evan Mecham who once said he kept radios on at his home and office to ...

GLENDALE — Memorial services will be held Saturday for former Gov. Evan Mecham. The funeral is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4901 W. Union Hills ...

Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham took office in January 1987 after running on the promise that he would rescind MLK Jr. Day, which he did. "You folks don't need another holiday," Mecham once famously said ...

Then in 1987, Gov. Evan Mecham rescinded his predecessor’s executive order enacting a state holiday in Arizona. “He said ‘Black people don’t need a holiday.