Leticia Ryan’s 27 students at Montessori Education Centre, a Mesa charter school, have 27 different reasons for liking their teacher. “She’s taught me algebra and long division — and I’m only in fourth grade,” Kelcie Seely said Thursday.

Leticia Ryan’s 27 students at Montessori Education Centre, a Mesa charter school, have 27 different reasons for liking their teacher. “She’s taught me algebra and long division — and I’m only in fourth grade,” Kelcie Seely said Thursday.

Hundreds of tiny chairs and tables are sitting in a Mesa warehouse, ready to fill new kindergarten classrooms in the Mesa Unified School District.

A woman who police discovered dead inside her Mesa home was a longtime and well-loved retired Mesa teacher who spent her life helping friends and family and worthwhile causes, a school district spokeswoman and former colleague said.

Mesa Mountain View High athletic director David Hines has about five weeks of work left before his 30-year tenure as a teacher, coach and administrator for the district comes to a close.

Things do happen in threes. In Mesa Mountain View’s case in athletics — specifically track and field/cross country — another retiree is on the way.

When Bill Keller landed a store manager’s job with Dillard’s department store in the Valley 34 years ago, his wife, Dianne, said she wasn’t excited about moving to Arizona, much less Mesa — from Minneapolis.

GUINSAUGON, Philippines - Rescue workers searched a sea of mud in vain Saturday for survivors of a landslide that killed up to 1,800 people. People fled nearby villages, heeding warnings that the disaster threatened to repeat itself.

MANILA, Philippines - A rain-soaked mountainside disintegrated into a torrent of mud in the eastern Philippines on Friday, swallowing hundreds of houses and an elementary school in sludge three stories high.

When Bill Keller landed a store manager’s job with Dillard’s department store in the Valley 34 years ago, his wife, Dianne, said she wasn’t excited about moving to Arizona, much less Mesa — from Minneapolis.