Looking for some help in the garden? Many of nature's most useful critters lie literally at our feet, underappreciated and ignored despite their ability to eliminate insects, condition soils and pollinate plants.

More than $13,000 was raised at the 11th-annual Tempe Empty Bowls event Feb. 24-25 to benefit United Food Bank, Tempe Community Action Agency, and Escalante Community Garden.

West Valley residents are providing a steady stream of work for tax preparers, who anticipate staying busy until the April 18 filing deadline. The Sun City Taxpayers Association is finishing up the second week of its yearly tax preparation program, and executive director Marv Worthen said the office has been bustling as expected.

The protagonists in movies like Salt are always escaping capture by the skin of their teeth. There's a scene early on when the title character is sealed off in a building with the authorities just behind her. You'd never think that somebody would be able to get away under these circumstances. But Angelina Jolie's Evelyn Salt still manages to cook up an escape plan in an inventive and riveting fashion. Salt is full of on edge moments like that as the audience contemplates how this character will break free. Then when Salt finally devises a way out she does not disappoint.

The protagonists in movies like Salt are always escaping capture by the skin of their teeth. There's a scene early on when the title character is sealed off in a building with the authorities just behind her. You'd never think that somebody would be able to get away under these circumstances. But Angelina Jolie's Evelyn Salt still manages to cook up an escape plan in an inventive and riveting fashion. Salt is full of on edge moments like that as the audience contemplates how this character will break free. Then when Salt finally devises a way out she does not disappoint.

Stereotypical, out-of-control rock star Aldous Snow brings his outrageous band Infant Sorrow back to the big screen in "Get Him to the Greek."

Drew Brees turns 31 on Friday and is the youngest of four quarterbacks in the over-30 club whose teams are still playing. At 40, Brett Favre is the oldest, followed by Kurt Warner, 38, and Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, 33.

Austin Hill: Where did the swine flu vaccinations go? They went the way of the “stimulus money” — that is to say, they were sent here, and shipped there. And, of course, they were “administered” and “disbursed” and “distributed” by high-ranking officials in our U.S. government. But nobody can say how many flu shots there are, or where they are, or where they might be headed.

The era of the weather balloon, both a decadesold useful scientific tool and a convenient out for government officials to explain an unidentified flying object, may be coming to an end.

In a small bedroom in the Ahwatukee Foothills home of Gloria Newman, a very pregnant Brooke Osheel stands in her underwear. She holds completely still as Newman dips long strands of gauze into warm water and places them over her belly and breasts. Her skin is protected by a layer of petroleum jelly and a sheet of thin, transparent plastic.

A piece of paper is taped to the back of 6-year-old Nadia Luke’s dining room seat. On it, the word “chair” is spelled out. Below that are three Ukrainian symbols. They spell chair in Ukrainian.

A piece of paper is taped to the back of 6-year-old Nadia Luke’s dining room seat. On it, the word “chair” is spelled out. Below that are three Ukrainian symbols. They spell chair in Ukrainian.

On Christmas morning, children will tear into packages bearing everything from Bratz dolls to board games, from remote-control cars to MP3 players.