The Ahwatukee Republican Women's Club Marjorie Miner Scholarship shall be awarded each year to a graduating senior from an Ahwatukee certified high school, whose application has been approved by the ARW Executive Committee. The Ahwatukee Republican Women's Club Marjorie Miner Scholarship shall be awarded each year to a graduating senior from an Ahwatukee certified high school, whose application has been approved by the ARW Executive Committee. Applications must be received no later than April 1st of each year. The ARW Marjorie Miner Scholarship will be presented to the winner at an appropriate time in May of the same year. Ahwatukee Republican Women will fund no less than $250.00 of the scholarship to be awarded. Marjorie and Gordon Miner have offered to match this amount to make the scholarship amount $500.00. Donations to the scholarship fund are acceptable. Visit www.azfrw.org/clubs/arw.htm for information and the application.

HUNTINGTON, Utah - The desperate underground drive to reach six trapped miners was suspended indefinitely Friday after a cave-in killed three rescuers inside a mountainside mine.

Peoria police are dealing with a trend they have dubbed “urban mining.”

Police said Thursday thieves are resorting to extreme measures to obtain metal throughout the city and that involves crooks stealing air-conditioning units and copper wiring and plumbing from vacant homes or strip malls.

HUNTINGTON, Utah - Drill rigs perched on a steep mountain cut through sandstone Thursday to within a few hundred feet of where six coal miners caught in a collapse 1,500 feet underground are believed to be, one of the mine's co-owners said.

BARTON, Md. - Workers found the bodies of two miners in the cabs of heavy machinery Friday, three days after they were buried when a wall section collapsed in an open-pit coal mine.

BUCKHANNON, W.Va. - Federal regulators are scrambling to reassure the nation's 42,000 coal miners that the air packs they rely on in an emergency will work, even though the sole survivor of the Sago Mine disaster says four of his crew's devices malfunctioned.

ESTERHAZY, Saskatchewan - Rescuers retrieved 67 western Canadian potash miners who had been trapped underground by a fire, but several more miners were still in subterranean emergency chambers Monday waiting for help.

TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. - Tom Toler identified the body of his youngest brother. And then he was handed a message from the dead man. In wobbly printing, written in ink on the back of an insurance application, 51-year-old miner Martin Toler Jr. said goodbye. For now.

The Mesa Miners lost their first game of the season, falling to the Yuma Scorpions 9-5 Saturday at Hohokam Park.

September 3, 2004

On opening night of the 2004 Arizona State football season, two unsung players emerged as stars.

The 27 stone tubs at the Buckhorn Mineral Wells and Wildlife Museum haven't provided relief to those weary of life's aches and pains since 1999, but there's much more to the northwest corner of Main Street and Recker Road.