December 9, 2004

Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson was arrested Tuesday on accusations he jumped on the hood of a car outside of a Scottsdale nightclub late last month, causing $1,400 in damage, police said.

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Mickey Spillane, the macho mystery writer who wowed millions of readers with the shoot-'em-up sex and violence of gumshoe Mike Hammer, died Monday. He was 88.

LOS ANGELES — The waxing, the thongs, the perils of topless typecasting: Playing strippers taught the men of "Magic Mike" something about women.

Forget those nauseating TV spots drenched in the sugary pop songs of Rihanna and Maroon 5, with images of shirtless men parading down the beach. If you come to “Magic Mike” expecting the senseless ladies’ night out the advertisements promise, you might be dissatisfied. Although stripping plays a key role, it is merely a jumping off point for a much darker, bleaker film.

Mike Weir had a strange finish to his “regular season,” getting bounced out of the FedEx Cup early and then bouncing back to upend the No. 1 player in the world, Tiger Woods, in the Presidents Cup.

 It is a special brand of tragic timing that took Studs Terkel and Barack Obama’s grandmother away as the whole world tuned in to America’s big election.

A man arrested in northern Arizona on suspicion of robbing banks confessed to two recent holdups in Pinal County, police said Monday.

A 19-year-old Mesa man accused of firing gunshots at police while he was barricaded inside his apartment earlier this month was charged Monday in connection with the incident.

A 67-year-old Scottsdale man was robbed by a man with a knife who demanded his wallet Thursday morning in the parking lot of a Circle K store in south Scottsdale, police said.

A 61-year-old Scottsdale man who was reported missing early Sunday by his family, has been found safe, according to Scottsdale police.

A man accused of sexually assaulting a woman and tying up her disabled boyfriend was indicted on sexual assault and kidnapping-related charges on Tuesday, the Maricopa County Attorney's Office said.

A man was stabbed in the face and side after he gave his two robbers $1.80 during a robbery in Mesa late Saturday.

A man robbed a bank in a Chandler supermarket over the weekend.

A California man died Monday morning after a twovehicle crash.

A 21-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of robbery after police say he hit a Target cashier in the face and tried to steal $362 from her register on Sunday afternoon.

A man in a wheelchair was treated and released from Chandler Regional Medical Center after police say a 26-year-old man beat him over the head with his fists and a piece of the wheelchair before two bystanders detained him on Saturday.

A man was hospitalized with nonlife-threatening injuries at Banner Gateway Medical Center after he told police he was stabbed in the chest Sunday by a man demanding all of his money.

Police arrested a Chandler resident in connection with a shooting that injured a 20-year-old man early Sunday.

Scottsdale police arrested a man in connection with the stabbing death of an elderly man after an altercation inside a home in north Scottsdale’s exclusive Grayhawk neighborhood Tuesday evening, authorities said.

Nearly 20 months after a man was shot dead on an east Mesa street, police believe they have arrested his killer.