Chris Pickard just got done finishing with the second-fastest time in state history in the 200-meter freestyle, and he didn’t even win a state title.

It took a near drowning off the coast of Malibu in 1977 for Cat Stevens to take a hard look at his life and to get his priorities in order.

Mesa police are looking for a teenager who went missing from her home almost two weeks ago and might be in danger.

The $450,000 Gila River Classic will be played as scheduled next month, even though the Nationwide Tour has yet to replace the tournament’s sponsor and host charity, a spokesman for the PGA Tour said Wednesday.

A freshman southern Arizona lawmaker is leading the effort to strip Arizona voters of the right to nominate U.S. senators.

With Chandler defensive back Harold Bernard’s prior commitment to Stanford still intact this week, East Valley high schools have at least 11 athletes headed to Pac-10 schools next fall.

Why are the American people being fed nothing but lies about the Benghazi, Libya Embassy Attack and the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens? Obama’s UN Ambassador Susan Rice was all over the news programs spouting the Administration’s lie about the Benghazi Embassy attack being “spontaneous,” brought about “solely” to protest the latest anti-Islam “home movie.”

The 4A-II All-State Boys Soccer team, as determined by Arizona high school coaches:

Former City Councilwoman Susan Bitter Smith is convinced it’s time for Scottsdale to switch to a district form of government.

Roadrunners Roster

Whitney Lopus of Sun Devil Aquatics won one of three finals of the 100-meter butterfly with a time of 1:00.52 at the U.S. national swimming championships Thursday in Indianapolis.

Chandler will put its stalled speed-on-green photo enforcement program into gear this weekend.

Chandler will put its stalled speed-on-green photo enforcement program into gear this weekend. The city will switch on the first of 12 cameras designed to catch red-light runners and speeders Sunday.

After months of discussion, Arizona State University officials on Wednesday chose Chris Callahan to be founding dean of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

April 28, 2005

East Valley boys soccer players to watch this season (based on returned preseason surveys from coaches). Feel free to add players in the comments section below:

A couple of Maricopa County Sheriff’s Posse members helped subdue a combatant airline passenger while soaring toward their Florida vacation Thursday.

If you grew up in the early nineties, you probably remember an animated feature from 20th Century Fox called “FernGully: The Last Rainforest.” It was the environmentally conscious movie every 90s kid saw and, yet, nobody really liked. The film’s intentions might have been good, but even the youngest children seemed to find its blatant "green" message overly preachy. The fact that “FernGully” was lacking in any interesting characters or magic didn’t help.

It was the first relay of the day. Carley Stevens stepped up on platform, and her Arcadia teammates were trailing.

For Childsplay’s debut at the new $66.5 million Tempe Center for the Arts, the nationally renowned theater for young audiences is getting some help from a few old friends.

Amateur champion Tina Huiskamp, former Southwest Section PGA president Mack McCarley and former AGA president William “Bill” Rodie have been selected as the 2007 inductees into the Arizona Golf Hall of Fame and will be formally inducted in a ceremony that will take place on Jan. 14 at Arizona Country Club in Phoenix.

Gilbert Highland boys basketball coach Jon Shaw has resigned his coaching position after three seasons guiding the Hawks, district athletic director Mark Cisterna confirmed.