Speeches and Mariachi music flavored the opening of the Pro's Ranch Market Wednesday in Mesa, with long lines forming outside the Hispanic grocery and cars overflowing onto neighborhood side streets.

Dawn Farmer of Washington, D.C. dragged her bags to the back of Southwest Airline's e-ticket check-in queue at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Friday.

Rumor of a rupture in the fuel pipeline from Tucson touched off fears of another gas crisis Wednesday, sending alarmed Valley motorists racing to the nearest pump.

Getting in to see an emergency-room doctor on Monday afternoon at east Mesa’s Banner Baywood Medical Center was treated like a lottery win.

Gene and Emily Hurd of Mesa took their 22-month-old daughter to receive an H1N1 vaccination Saturday morning, hoping to get on with the rest of their day in a reasonable amount of time. After two hours of waiting in line, the couple still wasn't in the building.

Joe’s Real BBQ held its annual Customer Appreciation Day today, handing out thousands of free barbecue meals. During the dinner hour, the line was estimated at 850 people. How long is that?

View Tribune's graphic designer Gabe Utasi's comic about elections.

CHICAGO - Long lines have formed as polls open in Eastern states as John McCain is counting on a narrow path to an upset victory today while Barack Obama pinned his hopes for becoming the nation's first black president on a ground organization designed to swell precincts with voters across the country.