It took awhile, but Westwood finally has a new football coach.

As a matter of artistic policy, filmmaker Terrence Malick is more interested in what his characters are feeling than doing, which explains how Malick's “The Thin Red Line” (1999) — billed as a war epic — could so fatally digress into an open-mic poetry jam.

Nine Mesa Community College football players signed national letters of intent with universities this week. All-American wide receiver Kenny Mahone signed with Northern Arizona and Marko Mitchell, another wide receiver, will be going to the University of Nevada-Reno.

The Scottsdale Firebirds survived six errors Monday to beat Lewiston, Idaho, 4-3 and improve to 2-1 in pool play in the Babe Ruth World Series at Jamestown, N.Y.

The Scottsdale Firebirds hit throughout their lineup and received strong performances from three pitchers to limit South Gibson, Ind., to five hits in a 10-2 victory Sunday at the Babe Ruth World Series in Jamestown, N.Y.

FLORISSANT, Mo. - A man recently divorced from his wife of more than 20 years shot and killed her inside a suburban St. Louis mall on Wednesday before committing suicide, police said.

Mesa Community College men’s basketball assistant Mike Grothaus will be the next coach at Basha.

New Westwood coach Spencer Stowers may be 26 years old, but he deemed himself ready to take on the challenge of rebuilding the Warriors after a couple years of tuteledge with Queen Creek coach Joe Germaine.

WORKER TREATED

The Arizona Diamondbacks have added Matt Williams as first base coach and Bo Porter as third base coach while Glenn Sherlock agreed to remain with the club as the bullpen and catching coach for the 2010 season under manager A.J. Hinch.

JAMESTOWN, N.Y. - Mid-Atlantic champion Montgomery, N.J., pounded 17 hits off six pitchers and scored in all five innings to defeat the Scottsdale Firebirds, 16-6, Saturday in the Babe Ruth 13-year-old World Series opener, which was shortened by two innings because of the 10-run rule.

José Leal’s RBI single in the bottom of the sixth inning lifted the Scottsdale Firebirds to a 6-5 win over La Crescenta, Calif., in the championship game of the Babe Ruth (13-year-olds) Pacific Southwest Regional in Richfield, Utah.

Every sitcom star through the ages owes a debt to one of the originals: Lucille Ball.

The Coyotes signed former Chicago Blackhawks goalie Steve Passmore to a one-year contract Friday.

Marcos de Niza guard Dubois Williams is starting to receive the kind of recruiting attention that was expected before he broke his foot seven games into his senior prep basketball season.

Five liberal arts university presidents took part in a roundtable meeting Friday to discuss the feasibility of Surprise establishing a four-year college or university and the importance of more higher education options as students decide their futures.

May 13, 2004

Most Americans know the story of Squanto and how he helped the Pilgrims of Plymouth, Mass., survive the winter of 1621 by showing them how to adapt to their new home. School children everywhere still celebrate the great tidings with cornucopias and pilgrim hats and turkeys drawn by tracing a hand and coloring in the fingers like feathers. The thumb is always the turkey’s head.

One would think, after seven months and nearly 3,000 miles of walking across America, that Rory Fanning could get a small break. Not yet.                                                                               

It seems certain that 2005 will be remembered as something less than a red-letter year for Hollywood. Ticket sales took a well-documented nose dive, and for every visionary gem such as "Sin City," the major studios released karats upon karats of fool’s gold ("The Honeymooners," "The Dukes of Hazzard," "Bewitched").

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.

AUBURN, Wash. - Past the fireworks stands plastered with colorful flags and homemade murals, down the road from the backhoe working on a new smoke shop, the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe has staked out its corner in the next generation of American Indian business.

Arizona Department of Public Safety officer Jarom Lewis said he was sure the man with the "crazed look" in his eyes was going to shoot him.