SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Computer Inc. introduced on Tuesday its first computer mouse with multiple buttons, including four sensors and a tiny scroll ball.

With the Mercury having to wait until the end of training camp for most of their top players to report, there were concerns over a possible lack of cohesiveness in the first few weeks of the season.

All guys own blenders. That’s not the proper name for it. But for the purposes of a family newspaper, let’s just say that blender possession is a male prerequisite and leave it at that.

LPGA commissioner Carolyn Bivens is the Wizard of Odd. And in just two weeks, the beleaguered boss of women’s golf will descend on the East Valley for the Safeway International.

NEW YORK - David Fincher spent five years making the soon-to-be released, Oscar-hyped film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," but he had little use for the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story on which it is based.

Q. Some of the sites I visit ask for Adobe Flash Player in order to run any videos, etc. I have gone to the link as well as Adobe and downloaded the player, but it doesn't seem to be found by the Web sites when I try to run a video. What am I doing wrong? - Kathy

Q. Some of the sites I visit ask for Adobe Flash Player in order to run any videos, etc. I have gone to the link as well as Adobe and downloaded the player, but it doesn’t seem to be found by the Web sites when I try to run a video. What am I doing wrong? — Kathy

There’s a lot of “Gump” in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” This meandering parable about a man born old who ages into adulthood, then youth and finally infancy, is a film that meditates on love, aging, death, each to its season. Since it was written by the same fellow (Eric Roth) who adapted “Forrest Gump,” “Button” has many “Gump” characteristics.

"George Washington Slept Here"?

If you’re like most people, you probably recall your family holidays not only by memorable gifts and heartwarming traditions, but by the snide comments your passiveaggressive mother made on Christmas Eve 1998 or last year’s infamous sisters-in-law brawl that landed your beautiful, basted bird on the dining room floor.

At their best, the Suns are a high-octane, sharpshooting team that dictates the pace and wills the opposition to adapt.

At their best, the Suns are a high-octane, sharpshooting team that dictates the pace and wills the opposition to adapt.

Hold it! Despite Wednesday’s 167.5-point drop by the Dow Jones industrial average to close below 13,000, this is not the time for investors to change their investment strategy in a panic, according to local financial experts.

Hold it! Despite Wednesday’s 167.5-point drop by the Dow Jones industrial average to close below 13,000, this is not the time for investors to change their investment strategy in a panic, according to local financial experts.

Today, buttons are glorified doorstops. Like bureaucrats or congressmen, they act as dull place-keepers on the fabric of society — until their thread snaps and they vanish into the carpet. But members of the Arizona State Button Society will tell you this wasn’t always so.

When the doors to the Diamondbacks’ clubhouse opened after their 15-1 loss to the Oakland A’s Tuesday, catcher Chris Snyder was the only player in front of his locker. Brandon Webb left the building without talking to reporters after allowing seven earned runs in 3 1/3 innings.

Arizona lawmakers have brought a number of education bills to the Legislature this year.

Six of seven City Council members said Thursday that they are likely to vote no on a request to locate a body piercing studio in west Mesa.

Super Bowl Sunday is upon us, and — as inconceivable as it may seem — a segment of Arizona’s population couldn’t give a rat’s patootie.

See, here’s the thing about the Phoenix Suns: They’re like little children. They hear what everybody is saying about them. But they’re not listening. They’re too young? Their style won’t work in the playoffs? It’s not their time? In one ear and out the other.

When they open their wallets for congressional and presidential candidates, professors, administrators and staff at Arizona’s public universities and colleges are far more likely to donate to Democrats than Republicans, a Cronkite News review found.

An Australian movie theater chain that offers gourmet meals, fine wines and reclining armchair seats plans to make its Arizona debut at under-construction upscale shopping center Scottsdale Quarter in spring 2010.

NEW YORK - At New York Fashion Week on Wednesday, the designers weren't just looking to their muses for inspiration - they were raiding the muses' closets.

January 17, 2005