Jacques Billeaud, Associated Press

The Arizona Supreme Court has denied Attorney General Kris Mayes' appeal of an order that the state’s fake elector case over the 2020 presidential election be sent back to a grand jury.

The sole person charged in the 2021 disappearance of Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay received a five-year federal prison sentence. The unsolved case underscores the disproportionate violence Native Americans face.

A man charged in the disappearance of Ella Mae Begay, a Navajo grandmother and weaver, has pleaded guilty to robbery as part of a second plea agreement.