The process for rezoning the empty, west Ahwatukee lot for a new Rosewood Home development has made it one step further.

Sometimes it really is the little things that make the biggest difference.

A standing-room only crowd of more than 150 Corona del Sol football parents waited dubiously on Monday night for Zane Zamenski to explain himself.

Rookie forward Willnett Crockett, who started in the season opener for the Mercury but quickly fell out of the rotation, was released on Sunday.

Herb Sendek's recruiting class continues to grow in stature and national reach. The first-year Arizona State men's basketball coach received a verbal commitment Wednesday from 6-foot-8, 210-pound forward Kraidon Woods of Hill School in Pottstown, Pa., a source familiar with the situation confirmed.

Herb Sendek's recruiting class continues to grow in stature and national reach. The first-year Arizona State men's basketball coach received a verbal commitment Wednesday from 6-foot-8, 210-pound forward Kraidon Woods of Hill School in Pottstown, Pa., a source familiar with the situation confirmed.

May 3, 2005

Alot of public attention and resources have been directed in recent years toward eradicating the tragic problem of child abuse and neglect. And more recently several Valley officials have been targeting another tragic problem: the abuse and neglect of animals.

The Super Bowl has become a routine success, year after year the most-watched television event in America. So where might the National Football League be looking next for new fields to conquer? Try China.

October 23, 2004

How well will Arizona State bounce back from the drubbing it received from top-ranked USC last week?

December 22, 2004

HOUSTON - It was one of the more spectacular corporate bankruptcies ever: Enron Corp., once the seventh-largest company in the country, felled by intricate and illegal accounting tricks.

January 6, 2005

Here are the final two paragraphs of a column I wrote last January:

The Higley Unified School District governing board approved a plan this week to move forward with two middle schools next school year by leasing property.

Forty some years ago I was in a small town on the Fourth of July. There was the usual kind of celebrating going on but there was also a group of men passing out fliers. On one side was a peace symbol and, in large block letters, “Footprint of the American Chicken.” The war in Vietnam was still on and still dividing at home.

Forty some years ago I was in a small town on the Fourth of July. There was the usual kind of celebrating going on but there was also a group of men passing out fliers. On one side was a peace symbol and, in large block letters, “Footprint of the American Chicken.” The war in Vietnam was still on and still dividing at home.

WASHINGTON — Pleading for unity in a newly divided government, President Barack Obama implored Democratic and Republican lawmakers to rally behind his vision of economic revival for an anxious nation, declaring in his State of the Union address Tuesday night: "We will move forward together or not at all."

Last weekend my friends and I were on our way up to Show Low for a wedding. My friend wanted a coffee from Starbucks so we stopped there for her to get something along the way. She ordered and when the lady gave us her coffee at the drive-thru window she went to pay and the lady said, “There is no charge for the coffee today. The lady in front of you that just left paid for the next four customers.” My friend was of course ecstatic, but it got me really thinking about the true affect “paying it forward” can really have on other people that goes way beyond just coffee.