On Nov. 2 I urge you to stand up for a Mesa tradition by voting yes on Proposition 420 to keep the Chicago Cubs in Mesa.

Proposition 420 is providing Mesa voters the opportunity to determine whether or not to fund a new stadium and baseball training complex for the Chicago Cubs. As I pondered which position to take, the movie title, “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” jumped into my mind.

Primavera Online High School held its fall 2011 commencement on Dec. 15 at Grand Canyon University Arena. This semester, 420 students graduated, with 200 participating in the ceremony

JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank operating in Arizona with more than 9,000 workers, is preparing to transfer 420 customer-service telephone jobs from the Valley.

MILWAUKEE - The news for the housing industry continued to sour Tuesday as mortgage insurer MGIC Investment Corp. announced it's boosting its public offering by 20 percent amid a climate of rising defaults.

Alexa Thorell's two-out single in the top of the fourth inning was all the scoring Chaparral would need, as pitcher Dallas McBride shut out Xavier, 1-0, on Friday.

 Notre Dame Prep was victorious in Friday night's 4A-I football semi-final game against Greenway.

PRESCOTT - A human-caused wildfire near Prescott is now 40 percent contained.

Parents can receive a free at-home drug test Thursday through a donation and partnership with notmykid.org.

Mesa police arrested Robert Foster on Friday after responding to a call about an attempted carjacking in the parking lot of Walgreens, 420 S. Sossman Road.

Mesa residents frustrated with animal problems in their neighborhoods can attend a free event to explore effective ways of handling barking dogs, feral cats and pigeons. The Jan. 10 event includes a panel of experts, a problem-solving workshop and dinner. It’s scheduled from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Mesa’s Public Safety Training Facility, 3260 N. 40th St. To register, contact The Leadership Centre at www.theleadershipcentre.org or call (480) 420-8521. 

Finalize your Super Bowl plans yet? Kickoff is scheduled for approximately 4:20 p.m. Sunday. If you’re planning to go to a sports bar, they’re recommending you get there around 2 p.m. to get a seat. Of course, not just sports bars are getting into the act.

NEW YORK - Wall Street stormed higher Tuesday as investors, optimistic following stronger-than-expected earnings from two big investment banks, were also galvanized by the Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point. The Dow Jones industrial average soared 420 points, its biggest one-day point gain in more than five years.

The roof at University of Phoenix Stadium will be open for Super Bowl XXLI on Feb. 3 unless the weather forecast takes a turn for the worse, a Cardinals’ spokesman said Friday.

The dead body of an elderly woman was discovered along an east Mesa road on Friday afternoon.

Arizona State first baseman Brett Wallace was named the District IX Player of the Year Friday by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.

A man died Monday afternoon when his Cadillac sedan collided with an Apache Junction Unified School District bus about 4:20 p.m. near Superstition Boulevard and Apache Trail, fire officials said.