Hundreds of people gathered Sunday night in Guadalupe to call for peace in the wake of the death of a teenager, shot and killed by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has identified a man  killed in a deputy-involved shooting in Guadalupe Thursday morning.

For the East Valley election season which ended Tuesday, experience proved to be no virtue. To no one’s surprise, Scott Smith won his first election by easily defeating former City Councilman Rex Griswold in Mesa’s mayoral race, inheriting a city budget that’s $16 million in the red and 460,000 constituents divided on how to tackle it.

Today Mesa and Tempe voters are getting a dress rehearsal for November, as they come to the climax for pivotal elections with ramifications far beyond their cities' own borders.

Voters in Mesa and Tempe will head to the polls today to decide several top city leadership positions.

Last year, the House ethics committee admonished House Republican leader Tom DeLay three times for unacceptable conduct. Back in Texas, a grand jury was closing in on some of the GOP leader’s close associates.

The House Republican leadership has done Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., no favors. Speaker Dennis Hastert last week made Hastings the new chairman of the House ethics committee, the panel charged with investigating members who may have violated House rules. And Hastert went by the book. The former chairman, Rep. Joel Hefley, R-Colo., had served the prescribed two terms and Hastings was next in line in seniority.

Four Apache Junction police officers were placed on administrative leave during an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation within the police department, it was announced Tuesday.

Four Apache Junction police officers were placed on administrative leave during an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation within the police department, it was announced Tuesday.

Former Arizona Cardinals running back Michael Pittman formally denied Wednesday that he has violated his probation in a domestic violence case.

Rod Graves won’t name names, but the Cardinals’ vice president of football operations admitted the purge of some players from last year’s roster has changed his outlook of training camp.

TORONTO - Movies featuring Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Kate Beckinsale, Edward Norton and Colin Farrell and a documentary about Paris Hilton have joined the lineup for the Toronto International Film Festival.

SALT LAKE CITY — Tens of thousands of the Mormon faithful are descending on Utah's largest city for their church's semi-annual general conference to hear gospel-centered talks about faith, family and mission work from senior church leaders.

NEW YORK - Grandmaster Flash brings the turntables as hip-hop's first entrant into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday. Patti Smith and the dysfunctional Van Halen - some of the band, anyway - as well as R.E.M. and the Ronettes were slated for induction in the annual ceremony, too. It was being streamed on the Web and televised live on VH1 Classic for the first time.

FLAGSTAFF - Levar Fisher hears James Hodgins’ name and laughs.

NEW YORK — Michael Vick was conditionally reinstated by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday and could play in regular season games as early as October.

New Kansas City Chiefs coach Todd Haley has hired two members of the Cardinals staff on which he served last season.

Voter turnout in today's Mesa election is expected to be among the highest in city history.

The hero of the story is a murderous anarchist. The setting is a dark, futuristic London ruled with an iron fist by a totalitarian government that controls its citizens through fear and terror. Minorities are jailed.

When the "young punk" drove off with his son’s battered motorized scooter Sunday morning, Gilbert resident Joel Mendoza didn’t hesitate. He jumped in his truck and chased the thief.

The Apache Junction City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved Police Chief Robert Warner’s resignation, effective Dec. 26.

Parents rallying in support of an embattled Scottsdale principal said they hope to question Superintendent Barbara Erwin and address the governing board during two meetings today.