Scottsdale comedian Mark Cordes will pay tribute to man’s best friend Wednesday during the annual Comedy for Canines. The fundraiser will benefit the Animal Rescue Center and Agnes Fund for Pets, which helps pet owners with HIV care for themselves and their pets.

COLUMBUS, N.M. - Illegal immigrants armed with torches, hacksaws, ladders and even bungee cords are making it around a section of the border fence hailed as the most efficient way to stop them.

Freckle-faced Brandyn Orr thinks a lot about his future. At age 12, he would like to be a computer programmer, or a repairman, or maybe even an artist. While his three younger brothers defy gravity on the trampoline at the family’s Mesa home, Brandyn sits at an old picnic table in the front yard, rattling off all the things he knows about fixing cars and patching up homes.

Freckle-faced Brandyn Orr thinks a lot about his future. At age 12, he would like to be a computer programmer, or a repairman, or maybe even an artist. While his three younger brothers defy gravity on the trampoline at the family’s Mesa home, Brandyn sits at an old picnic table in the front yard, rattling off all the things he knows about fixing cars and patching up homes.

With more than $1.36 million in grants to 178 different charitable organizations throughout Arizona this year, Phoenix Suns Charities marks a milestone of more than $11.6 million in donations since its 1988 inception.

With more than $1.36 million in grants to 178 different charitable organizations throughout Arizona this year, Phoenix Suns Charities marks a milestone of more than $11.6 million in donations since its 1988 inception.

With more than $1.36 million in grants to 178 different charitable organizations throughout Arizona this year, Phoenix Suns Charities marks a milestone of more than $11.6 million in donations since its 1988 inception.

Mark Cordes finds plenty to laugh about regarding marriage and middle age in the audience-influenced comedy show, The Spouse Whisperer.

As temperatures start to cool down, we are reminded that it will soon be time to turn on heaters in our homes. As stores begin to fill with costumes and candies for Halloween, it is a sign that the holidays are approaching and it's only a matter of time before the lights start to sparkle on people's homes. And while holiday celebrations are on our minds, safety isn't always top of mind during this busy time of the year.

Police found a man dead in his Mesa apartment with an electrical cord wrapped around his throat after his naked and distraught wife called to say she had killed him Friday night, a Mesa police official said.

Mesa Morning Live, the Mesa Chamber of Commerce’s late-night-style talk show — albeit taped in front of a live audience one Friday morning each month — hosted its largest audience in the last two years last week, according to Chamber officials.

Visiting Highland held off previously-undefeated Desert Mountain, 34-32, even after a high-scoring and wild fourth quarter.

Santa Claus won’t be coming to town next year. The golf tournament that bears his name retired its red-and-white costumes Tuesday after 10 years of putting toys and goodies in the sleigh for needy kids throughout the Valley.

The barbs, insults and punch lines flew Saturday night at Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, but all for a good cause.

LEOLA, PA. - Police arrested a man Thursday in the gruesome killing of six relatives in his grandmother's home, where four of the bodies were found wrapped in blankets in the basement, and blood, bone fragments and a hammer were discovered upstairs, authorities said.

A collection of the best individual performances in the East Valley in Week 7:

‘They told me the window for my recovery had closed.”

CASA GRANDE — A Casa Grande man who is a former U.S. Border Patrol agent created and patented a video game controller for people with severe spinal cord injuries.

A pregnant woman assaulted the president of Mothers Against Illegal Aliens at an immigration protest near a Phoenix furniture store on Saturday, police said.

April 28, 2005

The south East Valley real estate market continued to astound observers Wednesday when it took less than 10 minutes for 175 acres of stateowned land in east Mesa to be auctioned off for $42 million — almost twice the asking price.

Two years ago, Mary and Mark Smith attended a marriage counseling session to lend support to their son and his wife. They found out it was their own marriage that benefited.