Mesa sixth-grader Hannah Lorsch, 11, has recruited her entire school for a Make-a-Wish Foundation fund-raiser. Under Hannah’s leadership, Patterson Elementary School will launch a Make-a-Chain for Make-a-Wish event Nov. 12 during a school assembly.

The misdemeanor trial of Mountain View High School athletic director David Hines will begin 3 p.m. June 3 in Mesa Municipal Court.

If the old dictum “write what you know” could be paraphrased for filmmakers and applied to “Keeping Up With the Steins,” it seems to tell us that director Scott Marshall knows a lot about being rich, Jewish and bitterly resentful of one’s father.

September 27, 2004

LOS ANGELES - Paris Hilton better like chicken. The hotel heiress was sentenced Friday to 45 days at the Century Regional Detention Center, Los Angeles County's jailhouse for women just south of downtown in Lynwood.

LOS ANGELES — There's a little movie called "The Avengers" coming out this weekend. You might have heard something about it.

The cast of Arizona Broadway Theatre’s “Steel Magnolias” received firsthand information and instructions from their director about the ways of a beautician. Before becoming a professional actor and director, Jimmy Ferraro worked for a number of years as a hairstylist in New York.

LOS ANGELES - Disney was rolling in doubloons as "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" plundered the box office for $46.4 million in its first weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

WestValleyPreps.com asked Northwest Valley basketball coaches to analyze their teams heading into the 2008-09 season. Here are the responses from coaches as well as last year's records from schools that did not submit a response:

Day Three of Series

The racket of bells and horns that sounds from the small food cart is welcome fanfare in this west Mesa neighborhood. Heads swivel at the noise, and finally the source is

High school athletes soared to new heights — or more accurately new lengths and times — Friday night at Westwood High School in Mesa.

Here are the results of the Tribune Invitational track meet on Saturday at Mesa Westwood High School. Results of the meet were not available at press time after the meet.