It started with a headline in the New York Times. Bob Barr, 88, picked up his newspaper to find an article about the closure of a fully-automated Japanese factory.

AMC Theatres has released plans to renovate the former 37,645 square-foot Harkins Theatres movie theater at Centerpoint on Mill Avenue in Downtown Tempe.

The Town of Queen Creek's Trash & Recycling Division will kick off a scavenger hunt contest for residents this Saturday, June 8 at the Town's Ice Cream Social at the Queen Creek Library, Zane Grey Room, 21802 S. Ellsworth Rd.

AMC Theatres announced Friday morning the downtown Tempe area will soon get a new movie theater, dining options, offices and shopping.

AMC Theatres will be renovating the old Harkins and MADCAP cinema at Centerpoint on Mill Avenue.

After all the submarine sandwiches we’ve downed over the years, we think we’re a pretty good judge of a winning sandwich. But we’ve got nothing on the judges who will be evaluating everything, from the visual appeal to the correct number of olives, on the sandwiches at Subway Restaurants of Arizona’s annual statewide Subjammers contest on Saturday, June 8.

Rising from the ashes of the 1990s Mill Avenue band “Bedspins,” Prehab brings a realism acquired through life experience to their music. The band includes Chris Kay on vocals, keyboard and guitar, Jason Kay on vocals and guitar, Chris Cantu on bass, and Philip Rhodes, formerly with Gin Blossoms, on drums. They perform in support of their new EP, “I Haven’t Been Completely Honest.”

D.J. Peterson will be home from college soon, and little brother Dustin will be there waiting with a smile on his face and a paddle in his hand.

News last month that State Farm will be the anchor tenant in a 2 million square foot multi-use development being constructed in Tempe is only part of the story, State Farm spokesman Robert Villegas said.

Gov. Jan Brewer said Friday that Arizona no longer needs its 1-cent sales tax surcharge even though state spending, while below 2009 levels, still exceeds ongoing revenues.

Tempe has announced a $600 million office development deal to be built near Tempe Town Lake.

NEW YORK — Thomas Sohmers, 17, of Hudson, Mass., has been working at a research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since he was 13, developing projects ranging from augmented reality eyewear to laser communications systems. This spring, his mom, Penny Mills, let him drop out of 11th grade. She says she "could see how much of the work he was doing at school wasn't relevant to what he wanted to learn."

Sea Life Aquarium at Arizona Mills is giving kids and adults a sneak peek into the life of a sea creature with no brain and no heart — jellyfish.

Douglas W. Coleman, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), announced Thursday that Arizonans turned in 60 percent more pills than last year's Take-Back event, demonstrating the public’s continued appreciation and need for the opportunity to discard unwanted, unused and expired prescription drugs from medicine cabinets, bedside tables and kitchen drawers.

Hard rocker Tom Keifer would be among the first to say that life doesn’t go as planned. The long-time musician, best known for his lead role in the band Cinderella, released his first solo album – ”The Way Life Goes” – April 30 after a 10-year process and a long struggle with partial vocal chord paralysis — the ruination of many music careers.

The multi-platinum entertainer comes to Tempe along with his new back-up band 3RDEYEGIRL.

Devon Ryan had the game winning infield hit in the top of the 12th inning as No. 17 Perry beat No. 16 Corona del Sol in the first round of the Division I state softball tournament.

Did you catch The Rev. Jesse Jackson the other night on CNN demanding a Senate hearing into why regulators never cracked down on that gruesome abortion clinic in Philadelphia?

They may be so commonplace they’re unappreciated, so simple they fail to activate the saliva glands at first sight, but in our book it’s hard to go wrong with chips and salsa.