Hundreds came Sunday to the still-smoldering Apacheland Movie Ranch to pay homage, offer sympathy and share memories of the famed film town struck by fire.

LOS ANGELES - Joel and Ethan Coen scored their biggest opener to date by raking in $19.4 million in ticket sales for "Burn After Reading" and helping end a seven-week attendance slide at theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Stung by the veto of key elements of the Republican budget plan, Senate President Bob Burns on Thursday said Gov. Jan Brewer is incompetent.

LOS ANGELES - Just a stone's throw from Tinseltown, the Suns followed the kind of script even a Hollywood producer might find too outlandish to swallow to push their wild playoff series with the Lakers to the distance. Look for Suns-Lakers VII, opening Saturday night in Phoenix.

LOS ANGELES - Just a stone's throw from Tinseltown, the Suns followed the kind of script even a Hollywood producer might find too outlandish to swallow to push their wild playoff series with the Lakers to the distance. Look for Suns-Lakers VII, opening Saturday night in Phoenix.

State senators voted Monday to make flag burning a crime — at least in certain circumstances — despite warnings from a staff attorney that the measure is likely unconstitutional.

Wait: A young hostess tells us there is a five- to 10-minute wait at 6:30 p.m. on a Sunday. We look around and notice a handful of open tables that could seat four. The table we end up at has not been wiped down.

Losing can numb a man. He can become desensitized to the pain, his anger and frustration slowly giving way to an almost casual acceptance of the world around him.

Scottsdale-based Greenbrier Southwest Corp., Cottonwood Properties of Tucson and Ritz-Carlton said Thursday they will develop the 850-acre Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain in northwest Tucson.

Two lightning-caused wildfires burning several hundred acres in the Tonto National Forest north of Cave Creek and Carefree are expected to come under control today.

For the second time this month a Gilbert district high school is looking for a new boys basketball coach.

August 3, 2004

Cuyler Thompson completed his masterpiece 30 years ago last month. The 92-year-old Apache Junction man stood silently Wednesday in an empty church, gazing at an enormous wood-burned portrait of Jesus Christ and his disciples, which covered one wall of the chapel.

Apparently the Arizona news media have missed a major story.

Intel has announced the development of new chipsets that will add audio, video and other capabilities to personal computers previously found only on specialty PCs.

June 21, 2004

PHOENIX - A bill increasing the penalties for setting wildfires in Arizona cleared its second hurdle.

For the first time in nearly 50 years, reporters will not have work space in the state Capitol after July 1. During a news conference to announce bills to make government more transparent, Senate President Bob Burns also said Republicans will be taking over the press room in the Senate building. Senate Majority Whip Pamela Gorman, R-Anthem also defended the practice of lawmakers meeting in small groups to discuss the budget, outside the public eye.

December 22, 2004

As long as they keep making sequels to "Meet the Parents" (2001), Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) will never know peace. The best he can hope for — at least in respect to his disapproving future father-in-law (Robert De Niro) — is one short-lasting armistice after another.

A 24-year-old man police were looking for at a Phoenix home that burned down avoided trial this week by pleading guilty on charges that stem from a Gilbert car jacking and Scottsdale home invasion.

One Valley lawmaker wants to use the bulk of Arizona’s “Rainy Day Fund” to accelerate freeway construction projects in the state.

August 13, 2004

Two lightning- caused wildfires spread on Thursday to more than 650 acres north of Carefree and Scottsdale in the Tonto National Forest.