With national unemployment topping 10 percent, a lot of Arizonans could use some extra cash, and the Internal Revenue Service might just be the ticket.

A House panel looking at Arizona Private School Tuition Tax Credits will allow public comment during its next meeting from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday at the state capitol in Phoenix.

A Mesa police officer shot and killed a 22-year-old man who allegedly pulled a knife on officers Friday.

A segment of McQueen Road in south Chandler will be closed for more than a month beginning Tuesday while city crews widen a concrete bridge that crosses the Consolidated Canal just north of Appleby Road.

The organization that represents cities around the state voted Friday to sue to overturn some provisions in the state budget approved by lawmakers.

Gilbert police are searching for a woman who made almost 50 purchases in June using a forged credit card in the East Valley and other Arizona towns.

Ken Brague, a medical salesman with five children in the district, was chosen Friday as the Queen Creek Unified School District nominee for the governing board vacancy.

The economy is hitting everyone hard. But it's affecting men in a particular way because some aren't able to provide for their families for the first time and are coping by retreating into themselves, say two men planning a support group in Queen Creek.

A Mesa police officer shot and killed a 22-year-old man who allegedly pulled a knife on officers Friday.

A segment of McQueen Road in south Chandler will be closed for more than a month beginning Tuesday while city crews widen a concrete bridge that crosses the Consolidated Canal just north of Appleby Road.

The eastbound Red Mountain Freeway section of Loop 202 will be reduced to two lanes between 32nd and 40th streets from 10 p.m. Friday to 7 a.m. Saturday; from 10 p.m. Saturday to 9 a.m. Sunday and from 9 p.m. Sunday to 5 a.m. Monday.

It doesn't quite feel like November yet, not during the day anyway.

A House panel looking at Arizona Private School Tuition Tax Credits will allow public comment during its next meeting from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday at the state capitol in Phoenix.

The Mesa Unified School District is considering closing Powell Junior High School to open a community center, adding ninth-graders to three high schools and creating an Advanced Studies Academy on the west side of the district.

The unemployment rate has hit double digits for the first time since 1983 - and is likely to go higher. The 10.2 percent jobless rate for October shows how weak the economy remains even though it is growing. The rising jobless rate could threaten the recovery if it saps consumers' confidence and makes them more cautious about spending as the holiday season approaches.

Cigna Medical Group CareToday clinics on Thursday received H1N1 vaccines. The East Valley location, at 2483 S. Market St., Suite 103, in Gilbert, is open 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekends. No appointments are necessary. Both the injection and nasal inhalant forms of the vaccine are available on a first-come, first-served basis to those most vulnerable: children 6 months to 18 years old, people who care for children younger than 6 months, pregnant women, health care and emergency personnel and people between 25 and 64 with chronic health disorders or compromised immune systems.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama scored two major endorsements for his health overhaul push Thursday and trumpeted the news as House Democratic leaders pushed toward a vote Saturday on far-reaching legislation remaking the U.S. health care system.