It was a lovely sight on a lovely Monday afternoon, and Shane Burcar wanted a picture.

It was a lovely sight on a lovely Monday afternoon, and Shane Burcar wanted a picture.

While the team practiced corner kicks, Xavier girls soccer coach Barb Chura would joke with defender Kellie Peay about never letting her standout defender move up to be a forward in those situations, even with Peay’s obvious header and ball-in-the-air skills.

After tinkering around awhile, St. Mary's put its foot down and held up another trophy.

Just one day after schools in Tempe were put into lockdown, Mesa’s Dobson High School was partially evacuated Friday following a bomb threat.

Police have a student in custody after a bomb threat was called in to a Mesa high school Friday.

Police said five Tempe schools were on lockdown while police search for a suspect who fired shots at a car on the freeway Thursday afternoon.

With outstretched condolences and a reignited concern for school security after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., local school districts and officials were prompted this week to reassure parents and the surrounding community that students are kept safe and staff members are prepared.

A school project provoked a Gilbert police department response and a lockdown at Williams Field High School on Friday.

This message was released Friday by the Mesa Unified School District:

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Five people were arrested Wednesday evening and a man was rushed to the hospital after a shooting and barricade in an East Valley neighborhood.

Authorities say a Mesa elementary school was on lockdown as they searched for a car theft suspect Wednesday morning.

Police have apprehended two people involved in a Gilbert home invasion Friday morning, and a third suspect remains on the loose.

A wickedly dark comic streak breaks up the vivid violence and relentless bleakness of "Dredd 3D."

A man who police say called 911 and lobbed threats against people attending a recent curriculum night at Mesa’s Las Sendas Elementary School has been arrested and is facing threatening and intimidating-related felony charges.

A 37-year-old man is in police custody after barricading himself inside a San Tan Valley home Tuesday.

Mesa police are considering charges against a man they say called 911 Thursday and made threats against people attending a curriculum night at Mesa’s Las Sendas Elementary School. According to police, the man said he had a high-powered rifle, that he would to shoot those in attendance and burn his house down.

Two men are dead after a double-shooting in Tempe’s Hollis Park neighborhood, an event believed by police to be a murder-suicide.

Prominent East Valley political figure J.T. Ready is the man police believe shot and killed four people Wednesday in a Gilbert home before taking his own life.

A teenager described as a bullied outcast at his suburban Cleveland high school opened fire in the cafeteria Monday morning, killing one student and wounding four others before being caught a short distance away, authorities said.