Sunrise Mountain baseball star Austin Byler broke to an early lead in the voting for West Valley Preps Boys Athlete of the Year, garnering 10 of the first 14 ballots.

Sunrise Mountain baseball star Austin Byler broke to an early lead in the voting for West Valley Preps Boys Athlete of the Year, garnering 10 of the first 14 ballots.

JACKSON, Mich. - Austin Nichols, who portrayed the title character in HBO's "John From Cincinnati," has pleaded guilty to impaired driving and paid a $1,000 fine.

Some people say I don’t get out much. And, yes, I’m busy, constantly juggling work and family — just like lots of people in the East Valley.

The dream had finally become reality, an idea transferred to pavement from paper. There, parked behind the ropes at the 1952 London Motor show was Donald Healey’s very own Healey Hundred sports car. The sleek prototype – made even sleeker with its rakish fold-down windscreen – stunned show-goers with its sheer beauty. Also impressive was the fact that the roadster had been tested by Donald Healey himself at speeds above 100 m.p.h. (hence the Healey Hundred name).

Mesquite senior running back/linebacker Austin Curtis (wearing white)  ran for 300 yards and four scores behind starter Anthony Lopez in 2010. Before he hits the field in 2011, he talked about his Cardinal hero and a disdain for dairy.

Did Arizona’s employer sanctions law claim its first business victim?

I know I should have posted something on Sonu Munshi’s Q&A with the candidates when it was published days ago, but I’ve been ill and just couldn’t get around to it, so I figured doing it one week before the election might catch the 50 or so likely voters in northeast Mesa who haven’t already done so by mail.

Some of Arizona’s most powerful business leaders are trying to weaken, if not obliterate, Arizona’s tough new law that punishes those who employ illegal immigrants.

Thank God for whistleblowers. And for a free press. They both seem to be the means by which we now know of a colossal security failure at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

My Friday was busy. A power walk around the neighborhood at 3:45 a.m. — then a non-stop flurry of media interviews, writing deadlines, meetings and talk radio, until 6 p.m. Then I went to visit Allen.