Mesa police are warning the public to be on the lookout for “hooded bandits” who are robbing stores and restaurants in East Mesa.

A short walk up Tempe’s Hayden Butte offers hikers a close-up view of manmade symbols that include one giant “A,” 500 ancient petroglyphs — and a seemingly endless amount graffiti.

After standing a half-century, the pale blue water tower at Mesa’s Falcon Field is faded and no longer holds any water.

For more than a decade, the rich history of Tempe’s Hayden Flour Mill has been overshadowed by its deteriorating state and a fence that kept the public at bay.

I was waiting to see how long it would take for another driver to notice something was wrong at Loop 101 and Broadway Road between Tempe and Mesa.

Jim Polan dug into the ground where his son died nearly three years ago.

So, what did this Guinness World Record holder drive way back in his university days?

So, what did this Guinness World Record holder drive way back in his university days?

Retail may be in a drought, but for many garden supply stores, it's been a green season in more ways than one. We're paying a lot more attention to beautifying our own backyards, perhaps because we're traveling less.

Why are some window boxes so beautiful while others are so blah? It's all about design, according to Sonia Uyterhoeven, the gardener for public education at The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx.

ABERDEEN, Wash. -Kurt Cobain and his band, Nirvana, spent only three years in the public eye, and they released only three studio albums. But what he accomplished before committing suicide 10 years ago Monday at age 27 - deciding it was "better to burn out than fade away," as he quoted Neil Young in his suicide note - was remarkable.

LOS ANGELES - Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died. He was 86.

Phoenix and Memphis haven't played during the first 56 games of the season, but former Suns assistant Marc Iavaroni knows his Grizzlies aren't very popular in the Valley these days.

As he was being poked and prodded by the Suns’ medical staff Wednesday, Shaquille O’Neal glanced up at a TV screen and pointed at the results of a nationwide fan poll gauging opinion of the Phoenix-Miami trade.

Forty thousand dollars for an AMX? Is that correct? Yup, that’s what an Arizona dealer was recently asking for a fully loaded 1969 model in reportedly pristine condition. It’s a far cry from nearly 40 years ago, when a lack of buyers for the AMX over its three-year lifespan kept quantities to a trickle.

Compared to many other hot cars on the street, the AMX was tame, but for AMC it was a walk on the wild side.

He stakes out children’s homes, waits for their parents to leave, then attacks. With no one home to help them, girls are raped in their bedrooms and foyers.

MACAU - Chinese businessman Cao Yanglin let his lunch of slow-cooked beef rib with truffle puree and lemon cream sauce go cold as he talked about his gambling spree the night before at the baccarat tables in Macau — the world’s new epicenter for gambling.

WASHINGTON — Middle East violence is shaking up a presidential race that otherwise looks stubbornly stable, and tight. President Barack Obama holds a tiny edge, Republican Mitt Romney is seeking a breakthrough message, and three debates are ahead in the campaign's final seven weeks.

IWO JIMA, Japan - The tunnels of Iwo Jima snake deep beneath the volcanic rock and soil, their entrances camouflaged by a dense tangle of vines and tall grasses.

When the Apache Junction football team embarked on its 600-mile, 19-hour round trip to Page on the Arizona-Utah border last Friday, the Tribune went along for the ride.

When the Apache Junction football team embarked on its 600-mile, 19-hour round trip to Page on the Arizona-Utah border last Friday, the Tribune went along for the ride.