Within the annals of a dentist-turned-35-year-high-school-basketball coaching career, here are a few things more important to Highland girls coach Miner Webster than his descent upon win No. 700 (in no particular order):

The signature play of Matt Guida’s astounding junior season looked like a split-second decision, but was actually days in the making.

If people vote with their feet, then at least a few people last year saw Arizona as a land of opportunity.

Transition is a vital part of basketball and the area teams better be good at it this year because there sure is a lot of it.

Finally — finally! — the “Twilight” franchise embraces its own innate absurdity with the gleefully over-the-top conclusion, “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2.”

This is it people, the long awaited day that Stephanie Meyer’s asinine chronicle of lame vampires, talking CGI werewolves, and the single worst female protagonist in all of fiction comes to a close. While the fandom may live on for decades, at least we’ll never have to suffer through one of these movies again.

LOS ANGELES — Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson sit side by side on a sofa at the Four Seasons hotel, discussing the end of the five-film project that made them famous and brought them together.

Team Jacob and Team Edward: it's time to unite! “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2” hits theaters in less than a week.

EDITOR'S NOTE _ An occasional look at political claims that take shortcuts with the facts or don't tell the full story

It was a pivotal game for a pair of teams who came in 4-2 and both facing tough games next week. Perry treated the home crowd to an impressive 24-0 victory over Poston Butte on Thursday night.

The tale of Friday night’s Vista Grande-Perry game might have been told on each team’s first possession.

One week after an injury-filled forfeit loss to Saguaro, Tempe rebounded with a dominating win over visiting Coronado.

The giants fell like dominoes Friday night.

LONDON (AP) — With a little British pomp and a lot of British pop, London brought the curtain down on a glorious Olympic Games on Sunday in a spectacular, technicolor pageant of landmarks, lightshows and lots of fun.

(Editor’s note: This is the first in a four-part series that takes a look into the proposed 50-mile transfer rule).

The phrase “50-mile rule” has become shorthand for the proposed legislation written to curb athletic-related transfers in Arizona.

“Locally grown and raised” is the thing to be these days, particularly for fruits, vegetables and thespians.

Memorable Moments from the 2012 Season

Numerous telescopes set up outside the Gilbert Rotary Observatory are used to view the transit of Venus across the Sun, Tuesday, June 5, 2012 in Gilbert. The next chance to see Venus transit the Sun will be 105 years from now, in the year 2117.

The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported that minority births in America have eclipsed those of whites of European ancestry. Boy, have the media been in a tizzy over that one.

On the heels of this month’s annular eclipse, the East Valley Astronomy Club and Gilbert Rotary Centennial Observatory welcomes guests to experience next week another unique astronomical event: the Venus Transit.