Students at Chandler’s Conley Elementary School are participating Thursday in their first Young Author’s Day.  On this day, the principal, nurse, custodian and all teachers will stop their normal activities to present literacy rich lessons to the students throughout the day.  Television producers, magazine editors, authors, and even Chandler Unified School District personnel will share their talents as well.

The Chandler Chamber of Commerce has named Chalene Baxter of Santan Elementary School the educator of the Year, Riggs Elementary School Principal Jan Weyenberg the administrator of the year and Hamilton High School custodian Chris Debb the support staff employee of the year.

Earl Macneil, 80, of Scottsdale works long hours as a helping hand and custodian, at the Conoco gas station on the southeast corner of Power and Baseline roads in Mesa.

A Mesa High School custodian was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of stealing 31 laptop computers from the school's Biotechnology Academy and trying to sell each one for $100, officials said.

A Mesa High School custodian was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of stealing 31 laptop computers from the school's Biotechnology Academy and trying to sell each one for $100, officials said.

Maricopa County Attorney Richard Romley plans on forming a new unit by early summer that specializes in identity theft.

The Mesa Unified School District governing board was expected to vote Tuesday night on the rehiring of classified staff in the district. Classified staff includes secretaries, instructional aides, clerks, custodians and more.

Chandler police arrested a 57-year-old man Thursday on allegations he sexually molested a teenage girl for almost three years.

Looks like we have another Jimmy Carter President in the White House. Barack Hussein Obama has been kissing up to the Muslim world since he became president. Could it be from his Muslim childhood in Indonesia? He hardly had a “Yankee Doodle Dandy” childhood. His parents met at a Russian language class in the 1960s at the University of Hawaii (now who studied Russian back in those days, Marxists maybe?). On one of his first overseas trips as president he meets the King of Saudi Arabia (Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques) and gives him a full bow from the waist. No other president has bowed down to any head of state in our history. Then Obama apologizes to the Muslim world for America’s past “transgressions” at the University of Cairo. Yes, Cairo, where our U.S. Embassy was overrun. What does the Obama Administration do? It issues another “apology.” “The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts of misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims...”

January 8, 2005

Their work is rarely noticed by students, but Friday afternoon custodial, maintenance and security staff at Scottsdale’s Desert Mountain High School were given a heartfelt thank-you and their own personal day.

BRAINTREE, Mass. -- Meet Geraldine Williams, a retired custodian and cleaning woman who will no longer have to mop her own floors or dust her own furniture.

TUCSON - A strain of the dangerous and drug resistant bacteria known as MRSA has been confirmed at Tucson's Desert View High School.

Who would hide a bomb under an Arizona flag at a rest stop?

The mystery of the missing giraffe signs has been solved. Irida Sangemino, co-owner of Irida’s Giraffe Museum in Chandler, contacted the Tribune in March asking for help.

Quick-thinking, fast-acting staff members at Red Mountain High School averted a large-scale fire when they put out a burning curtain in the school's auditorium Thursday.

A Kyrene Elementary School District committee — whose recommendations to cut back the arts set off a recall effort — is preparing to meet again.

Scottsdale school district officials need to consider taking a much more active role in screening private-sector contract workers, particularly those employed in long-term positions on school campuses.

Voters in the Tempe high school district defeated two multi-million-dollar measures, while it was too soon to tell if Apache Junction voters would renew or reject a similar funding question for their schools.

Jim Stevens stepped back out of the gun locker in the evidence room of the Apache Junction Police Department. It was nearly empty. “When I came in here, it was loaded as high as the lights,” he said, pointing to the ceiling. The spotless gun locker was the result of a monumental effort, Stevens said.

Jim Stevens stepped back out of the gun locker in the evidence room of the Apache Junction Police Department. It was nearly empty. “When I came in here, it was loaded as high as the lights,” he said, pointing to the ceiling. The spotless gun locker was the result of a monumental effort, Stevens said.

Apache Junction city leaders have taken the first steps toward a policy that would regulate the disposal of firearms confiscated by police.

Apache Junction city leaders have taken the first steps toward a policy that would regulate the disposal of firearms confiscated by police.