Ike Parrish of Mesa will spending his 100th birthday doing the same thing he's done the last 68 years - attend a Rotary Club meeting.

Stephen Hays Russell, guest commentary

Her son and daughter-in-law were having trouble deciding on the perfect present because, really, how often do 100-year birthdays roll around?

The Arizona Republic made another round of layoffs Thursday as part of Gannett Co.'s overall cut of 1,400 jobs at its newspapers.

Search the top 100 highest paid public employees list in Maricopa and Pinal county. *Elected officials are not included.

The country’s economic downturn and the rising cost to do business have forced a local grocer to bag approximately 100 employees.

Mao Xedong’s austere brand of communism long gone, the Chinese have stampeded to embrace worldly goods — especially the car. Thus, The New York Times recently reported, the residents of Shanghai "have displayed an American-style passion for the automobile."

ST. LOUIS - Cross-marketing and multimedia weren’t the buzzwords they are now when, 100 years ago, a suburban St. Louis shoe company took a chance and bought licensing rights to a comic strip character.

Casey Fossum is spending the weekend at Bank One Ballpark, throwing a bullpen session under the watch of Diamondbacks coaches and having his surgically repaired shoulder checked out by team doctors.

DEARBORN, Mich. - Henry Ford invented neither the automobile nor the assembly line, but his influence on those and other innovations laid the foundation for a company that, in a sense, put the world in motion and changed America forever.

The Tribune recently reported on the resurgence of the budget-priced Pabst Blue Ribbon (about $12 a case) as the drink of choice for the twentysomething set.

During the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouting, they are celebrating the impact Girl Scouts has made since 1912. On Dec. 1, Girl Scouts Arizona Cactus-Pine Council (GSACPC) invites the community to the Women & Young Women of Distinction Awards ceremony, where they will acknowledge how they empower girls to reach their full potential. At the ceremony, Leadership, Visionary and Courage Awards will be given to three women and three young women, characterizing their impact on the community.