January 12, 2005

Twelve short works by local and national playwrights and a group of Phoenix students will be performed this month at ASU West and the state Capitol.

2A Arizona Football Coaches Association All-State football team

Ahwatukee Foothills resident and playwright James E. Garcia delivered a statement during the AZ Centennial celebration at the State Capitol asking the Legislature to repeal HB 2281, which led to the shutdown of the Mexican American Studies program in the Tucson Unified School District last month.

While “American Idol” scrambles to fill judges table seats vacated by Simon Cowell and Ellen DeGeneres, the top 10 contestants of the show’s latest season — Didi Benami, Crystal Bowersox, Andrew Garcia, Casey James, Aaron Kelly, Michael Lynche, Siobhan Magnus, Katie Stevens, Tim Urban and winner Lee DeWyze — are touring the country. They stop this week in Phoenix.

Two Scottsdale men convicted in May of assaulting two Scottsdale police officers were each sentenced to one year probation Wednesday.

June 17, 2004

The college roommate of Colin Fisk said he doesn’t know the man who, according to police, confessed to emptying his gun on two longtime friends after taking two hits of crystal methamphetamine.

LOS ANGELES - Police are investigating reports that James Blunt ran over someone's foot as he was leaving a party, then drove off, authorities said Tuesday. The alleged victim told police his foot was injured at a party Saturday around 1:50 a.m., police spokeswoman Martha Garcia said.

It seems so simple, yet Hogan’s words never rang more true than in the aftermath of last week’s British Open at Carnoustie, the crusty old Scottish course that “The Hawk’’ helped make famous.

A study released Tuesday indicates Arizona might not have the nation’s worst high school dropout rate after all — a finding educators and business leaders say could have a significant impact on economic development.

Opponents of Arizona's landmark immigration law took note of the measure's third anniversary Tuesday by urging lawmakers to repeal the legislation that sparked a national debate over border security and immigrants' rights.

Two drug dealers held a gun to a potential customer’s throat on Thanksgiving and demanded additional money, Mesa police said.

April 28, 2005

The Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Tempe Chamber of Commerce will co-host a forum Aug. 1 on business and the economy featuring the candidates for the newly created Congressional District 9.

“Diversity in Performance Arts – Theater in the Valley” is the topic of the free Faces of Diversity Brown Bag series at noon on Friday, June 15, at the Phoenix City Council Chambers, 200 W. Jefferson St.

“Diversity in Performance Arts – Theater in the Valley” is the topic of the free Faces of Diversity Brown Bag series at noon on Friday, June 15, at the Phoenix City Council Chambers, 200 W. Jefferson St.

Arizona Ethnic Studies Network, founded by educators from across the state, will gather at the State Capitol on Wednesday to protest the decision by a Tucson school district that prohibits the teaching of dozens of books used in the now banned Mexican American studies program.

A Hispanic Heritage Celebration featuring music, dance and performances is slated for 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday in downtown Chandler.

Chandler's free Hispanic Heritage Celebration, featuring music and other performances, is scheduled for Sept. 19 in Dr. A.J. Chandler Park downtown.

Liberty was in the same shoes Shadow Ridge finds itself in this year.

Mesa’s East Valley Institute of Technology agreed Monday to back off a policy that bans cosmetology students from speaking Spanish among themselves in the classroom.

As the state’s fastest-growing demographic group, Hispanics also are the fastest-growing market for Arizona businesses.