When tragic stories of mass killing emerge, like the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut, the effects on weapons sales and legislation are well-publicized by news organizations and pundits, but there are other weapons-themed businesses like VIP Airsoft in Gilbert.

Bryan and Kelley Bijonowski’s Gilbert business has seen a lot in nine years.

The new film Dredd 3D follows a day-in-the-life of the post-apocalyptic Mega City One’s most famous judge, jury and executioner - Judge Dredd. But the new movie is more of a gritty re-envisioning of the comic-book source material and a direct remake of Sylvester Stallone’s Judge Dredd from 1995.

This season, you won't see the Scottsdale Saguaro baseball team complaining much about the complexity of hitting a curveball or a bad call by an umpire.

A television pilot for Spike TV is being filmed in Mesa and neighboring parts of the Valley.

A Desert Mountain High School assignment that calls for students to act out and videotape a mock crime will no longer be required after the staged incidents resulted in police calls the last two years.

Scottsdale school leaders are calling for the review of a class assignment that resulted in a simulated shooting and kidnapping real enough that police responded and arrested three sophomores and two adults, including the 75-yearold grandmother of one of the students.

A teacher at Scottsdale’s Desert Mountain High School was placed on leave while five people, including a 75-year-old grandma and three students, were arrested for simulating a shooting and kidnapping that appeared real to a witness who called police.

A teacher at Scottsdale’s Desert Mountain High School was placed on leave while five people, including a 75-year-old grandma and three students, were arrested for simulating a shooting and kidnapping that appeared real to a witness who called police.

A group of Desert Mountain High School students who simulated a carjacking using pellet guns — including one that looked like an M-16 assault rifle — found themselves staring into the muzzles of real guns when police showed up.

A group of Desert Mountain High School students who simulated a carjacking using pellet guns — including one that looked like an M-16 assault rifle — found themselves staring into the muzzles of real guns when police showed up.

February 26, 2005

Scottsdale’s Desert Mountain High School and Mountainside Middle School were locked down for roughly 90 minutes Friday morning after two high school students waved air guns in the high school’s parking lot.