It is interesting that you encourage people to consider not voting for Romney when he did not serve in the military, but went on a two half year LDS mission. I think you underestimate the desire for LDS young men to serve a mission. My son, graduated top of his class, worked hard in sports so he could attend the U.S. Air Force Academy. He received a $415,000 dollar scholarship to the AFA. He worked hard, he was on the dean’s list, was also in the 22 squad (Raptors) which finished first in the school and was able to stand behind President Obama at the graduation. He gave all this up to serve a mission in Chile. That is how important Mr. Romney also felt. He did this with the hope that there will be no major budget cuts to the AFA so that he may return there.

As one election cycle concludes and another begins, some critical facts cannot be forgotten: Five years after 9/11, American soldiers are fighting and dying in Iraq, Afghanistan is far from pacified and the next terrorist act is a question of when, not if.

At just their second retreat in a series of many, leaders of the Maricopa Unified School District threw ideas at a PowerPoint slide and found two that stuck.

A little less auteur does a franchise good in J.J. Abrams’ stripped-down, torqued-up “Mission: Impossible III,” the most stylistically spare of the popular spy thrillers and, not coincidentally, the most emotionally propulsive.

WASHINGTON - President Bush named conservative Rep. Christopher Cox to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday, a day after William Donaldson announced he was stepping down after 28 months.

PROVO, Utah — Mikaela Merrill was in the middle of her fall semester at Brigham Young University when she abruptly altered her college plans and signed up for a Mormon mission.

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Two principals in the Gilbert Unified School District have asked that their schools not be listed as participants in the National Day of Silence by an organization opposing the event.

SPACE CENTER, Houston - NASA told space shuttle Discovery's astronauts Thursday that a spacewalk to repair a torn thermal blanket will not be necessary.

The chief executive of the Chandler Chamber of Commerce resigned Wednesday. Jerry Bustamante held the position since May 2008.

The chief executive of the Chandler Chamber of Commerce resigned Wednesday.

Jordan Bachynski must have been quite the sight.

Jordan Bachynski must have been quite the sight.

A Valley band may soon have the distinct privilege of waking up astronauts in space with their music.

Cpl. Thomas Gifford always knew he would be a Marine. With two older brothers already serving in the Corps, it was all he wanted to do too.

There was great dismay in the astronomy community and among space buffs generally when NASA announced in January that the agency would be forced to let the Hubble space telescope die of old age, probably around 2007.

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Chad Hardy wants the public to know that underneath their short-sleeved white dress shirts and muted ties, Mormon missionaries are the same as everyone else.

NEW YORK - Nicole Kidman says her divorce from Tom Cruise was a "major shock" - and, she still loves him. "That was a major shock," the 38-year-old actress says in an interview in the June issue of Ladies' Home Journal, on newsstands Tuesday.

NEW YORK - Nicole Kidman says her divorce from Tom Cruise was a "major shock" - and, she still loves him. "That was a major shock," the 38-year-old actress says in an interview in the June issue of Ladies' Home Journal, on newsstands Tuesday.

The Air Force is moving to give Luke Air Force Base a new lease in life, choosing the installation in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale as its preferred training base for the new F-35 fighter, officials said Thursday.

They walk through urban slums in sweltering heat, struggle with native languages to try to be understood, and explain the teachings of a religion some have never heard of.