If Michael Moore called the sky blue, you can be fairly certain a mass e-mail would be dispatched the next day by any number of conservative watchdog groups, providing sound and compelling evidence to the contrary.

I've been writing columns since 1999 and have written on a wide variety of issues, controversies and noteworthy stories. This is one of two that I've struggled with; the other one was when I lost my hero, my mother, in 2002.

Mesa schools would have powerful pepper spray canisters available to front office staff if the district’s chief safety officer can make it happen.

WASHINGTON - A conservative group asked federal election officials on Thursday to investigate whether television ads for director Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" violate campaign finance law regulating when commercials may feature a presidential candidate.

BRICK to Michael Moore, the Leni Riefenstahl wannabe whose "Farenheit 9/11" opened at theaters in the Islamic Republic of Iran to coincide with the third anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 atrocity, according to the Web site www.middle-eastonline.com.

“Hopefully Sandy’s decision to occupy Wall St. Will have a bigger effect on Congress and the president’s numerous requests to address infrastructure than the 99 percent did. Sandy could be the E.F. Hutton of the 21st century: When Sandy speaks everyone listens.”

Two men are now in Maricopa County Jail, accused of forcing their way into a Mesa elementary school with a crowbar before ransacking rooms and offices resulting in thousands of dollars in damage and stolen property.

Two men are now in Maricopa County Jail, accused of forcing their way into a Mesa elementary school with a crowbar before ransacking rooms and offices resulting in thousands of dollars in damage and stolen property.

Two men are now in Maricopa County Jail, accused of forcing their way into a Mesa elementary school with a crowbar before ransacking rooms and offices resulting in thousands of dollars in damage and stolen property.

Safety at Mesa schools could be improved by adding fencing, replacing chainlink fences with wrought iron fences and relocating offices to the exteriors of campus, the district’s security director told the governing board Tuesday night.

Pinnacle ran into a buzz saw in the second half of its 4A Division I semifinal. A goal in the second minute of the second half seemed to take all the wind out of the Pioneers’ sails in a 5-0 loss Tuesday night to No. 2 seed Tucson Catalina Foothills in the state boys’ soccer tournament at Tempe Sports Complex.

Like most people born and raised in Biloxi, Miss., theologian Russell Moore grew up about 10 minutes from the Gulf of Mexico.

February 26, 2005

Explosive growth in the south East Valley has not only increased the amount of homes, traffic and road construction, but has also brought along an increase in dynamite blasting.

Mason Crandell has a school-record 13 field goals in his two-year career at Mesa High. None were bigger than the one he hit Friday night to end the regular season and clinch a 5A-I playoff berth for the Jackrabbits.

It is not like the Marcos de Niza football team did not have success on the road since it won its first three games of the season.

John Goodie: It's time for the Mesa Jackrabbits to "Carry On."

NEW YORK - Sen. John McCain called the war in Iraq a "necessary, achievable and noble" mission during an unapologetic tribute to President Bush on Monday, the opening day of the Republican National Convention.

WASHINGTON - Roll out the red carpet! Paparazzi, ready your cameras! Hollywood and rock stars are bringing their own razzle-dazzle to President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration.

Let us, for the duration of the holidays, banish this talk of a war on Christmas. Americans have always squabbled over Christmas, its meaning, its proper celebration, going back to the Puritans who banned it.

CASABLANCA, Morocco - Suicide attackers set off a string of explosions in the heart of Casablanca, killing at least 40 people at a Jewish community center, the Belgian consulate, a Spanish social club and a major hotel.

November 26, 2004

BAGHDAD - Britain's prime minister announced Wednesday that his country's soldiers will leave Iraq by the end of May, a move that will force the U.S. to send troops into the Shiite south to secure supply lines to the much larger American force.

The worn boxing gloves and yellowed punching bags tell only part of the story.