The Gilbert Unified School District governing board plans to create a committee structure next week to look at how to expand the popular Gilbert Classical Academy after plans to move it to Gilbert Junior High School’s campus were dropped.

Cleveland Yarrow Cook made it easy for police and prosecutors by turning himself in and pleading guilty to a March 21, 2005, murder in Mesa. But that still didn’t make it easy for anyone in Maricopa County Superior Court in Mesa, where a judge sentenced the Mesa man Friday to life in prison with the chance of parole after 25 years.

Cleveland Yarrow Cook made it easy for police and prosecutors by turning himself in and pleading guilty to a March 21, 2005, murder in Mesa. But that still didn’t make it easy for anyone in Maricopa County Superior Court in Mesa, where a judge sentenced the Mesa man Friday to life in prison with the chance of parole after 25 years.

The case of a Tempe man who admitted suffocating his baby son with a pillow starts from scratch again this week after a judge rejected a plea agreement calling for a 10-year prison sentence.

Spin outweighs truth in the campaign literature being used by Mayor Mary Manross and Councilman Jim Lane in their race for the city's top seat. We'll start with Manross, analyzing the four claims she is making in her latest campaign literature.

Kat McDonald scored in overtime and the 11th-seeded Phoenix Mountain Pointe girls soccer team pulled off another upset with a 3-2 victory over third-seeded Mesa Red Mountain in the quarterfinals of the 5A Division I state soccer tournament Saturday at the Tempe Sports Complex.

NEW YORK - The man who's molding Logo, the new network for gays and lesbians, grew up in rural Illinois, attended Oral Roberts University and counted that cheesy keyboard solo on "Freeze Frame" as his big moment during gigs with his college band the Ozones.

The leading hitters and pitchers in prep baseball:

A rundown of prep baseball's top hitters and pitchers.