Here's where local high school football players have decided to go to college

Five players with ties to the East Valley have qualified through sectional play for next week’s U.S. Open.

BISMARCK, N.D. - Crews on Tuesday gradually reopened major highways that had been closed by the Plains' first blizzard of the season, stranding post-Thanksgiving travelers. Thousands of people remained without electricity.

Nearly 300 people — many wearing yellow ribbons with a white feather — gathered Wednesday at Arizona State University to remember Lori Piestewa of Tuba City, the first American servicewoman to die in the Iraq war.

ATLANTA  — The Big Chill turned into the Big Dig on Saturday for many Southerners — the Americans who least expect to open their doors to see up to a foot of snow.

Wednesday’s national signing day served as a reminder of how rare an opportunity it is for a player to reach the marquee level of college football.

Find out where athletes from the East Valley have signed to play college sports.

The tables on the stage at Desert Vista's Dr. Joe McDonald's Auditorium seemed to go on forever.

The tables on the stage at Desert Vista's Dr. Joe McDonald's Auditorium seemed to go on forever.

Gilbert High girls basketball coach Tom Bunger won the 500th game of his career last week when the Tigers defeated Chandler Hamilton. Bunger has collected his wins at Prescott High, Mesa Mountain View and Gilbert.

Arizona men’s basketball coach Lute Olson named Mike Dunlap as an assistant coach Thursday.

Waris boiling thousands of miles away, but the family on the home front needs to eat, so what to make for dinner? How about some Ladies’ Aid Salad with Limas Fort McArthur? Or maybe a Victory Vegetable Plate, with some War Cake for dessert?

Here are the local athletes expected to sign Letters of Intent with colleges beginning Wednesday. For additions, email varsity@evtrib.com and include the athlete's name, high school, sport and college of choice.

Just what kind of weird stuff from the Lone Star state can be packed into a little Honda?

Two-story stucco houses, green parks and shopping centers surround Desert Vista High School in Ahwatukee Foothills.

May 8, 2005

The end result involves a pen, a letter of intent, enough handshakes that a bottle of Purell best be handy and posing for a lot of pictures.

Pedro Guzman has been an American citizen all his life. Yet in 2007, the 31-year-old Los Angeles native - in jail for a misdemeanor, mentally ill and never able to read or write - signed a waiver agreeing to leave the country without a hearing and was deported to Mexico as an illegal immigrant.

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Mickey Spillane, the macho mystery writer who wowed millions of readers with the shoot-'em-up sex and violence of gumshoe Mike Hammer, died Monday. He was 88.

Howdy there, pardner. You might have noticed that the urban cowboy is alive and well here in the East Valley. Even desk jockeys get a hankering to kick up their heels line dancing and eating slabs of steak.

The Republican presidential primary race is quickly approaching its conclusion, Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., predicted before headlining a campaign rally for presidential candidate John McCain at an American Legion hall in Phoenix on Friday.

Turning the calendar to October means two things in the East Valley: cooler weather and pumpkin festivals.

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