Arizona official seeks trial delay in human trafficking case

The Arizona official who is accused of running an adoption-fraud scheme involving smuggling women from a country in the Pacific asked an Arkansas court to delay his trail for 10 months, arguing the defense has already received hundreds of documents related to charges.Prosecutors say Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen paid pregnant women from the Marshall Islands, a string of islands about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) west of Hawaii, to give up their babies for adoption in the U.S. He faces