With eight seconds remaining in the game, 3A Fountain Hills' Alex Bunk made the game-winning layup as the Falcons defeated 5A Division I Glendale Mountain Ridge, 52-51, in Paradise Valley Invitational boys basketball pool play at Paradise Valley High Wednesday night.

Carrie Beaumont had 24 points, eight assists, seven rebounds and seven steals to lead visiting Horizon over Mountain View 79-76 in overtime Wednesday night in the Coca-Cola Classic at Desert Ridge High. Cody Gahan added 19 points for the Huskies (2-0).

SALEM, Mass. - Welcomed by many - including the mayor and some city councilors - but reviled by others, a statue of 1960s TV icon Samantha Stephens of "Bewitched" was unveiled amid a puff of smoke in Salem on Wednesday.

Hundreds of teachers at religious schools around the state could soon be at risk of being laid off with no prospect of collecting jobless benefits.

As of Tuesday

Ike Davis, Greg Abram and Austin Yount combined on a no-hitter as Chaparral (4-1) crushed visiting Highland 15-0 Saturday in the Scottsdale Quarterback Club Invitational.

Top-seeded Scottsdale Chaparral defeated Nogales 5-0 to advance to the quarterfinals of the 4A Division I boys tournament.

November 23, 2004

Horizon came back from a 12-point deficit at halftime and beat 5A-I top-ranked Desert Vista, 71-70 Wednesday in the McClintock Holiday Shootout boys basketball tournament at McClintock High School in Tempe.

Britney Spears’ family gets the honor of the year for providing disturbing teaching moments through their predictable meltdown.

Maybe it was destiny for Scottsdale Saguaro to play 10 games on Saturday.

Anna Murkowicz hit a game-winning RBI double in the top of the eighth inning as Horizon downed host Desert Vista, 9-7, in 5A Division I nonregion softball play on Tuesday.

Scottsdale Christian's Kevin Coble, the 2004-05 Tribune 4A-2A Player of the Year, poured in 36 points and had 15 rebounds as the defending 2A state champion Eagles beat defending 3A state champion Fountain Hills, 73-63, Friday night in a boys basketball game at Fountain Hills.

Erica Bailey (16-2) recorded her sixth no-hitter of the season as Chaparral (16-9, 11-0) blanked Desert Ridge 11-0 Tuesday in a 4A East Sky Region softball game called after five innings.

Sitting through so many terrible movies is the one major downside to this otherwise wonderful job. But at least all that laborious work pays off when I write my annual list of the year's absolute worst films. It's time to scrape the bottom of the barrel that consists of unattractive CGI robots, glittering vampires, and the Antichrist himself, Adam Sandler. 

Sitting through so many terrible movies is the one major downside to this otherwise wonderful job. But at least all that laborious work pays off when I write my annual list of the year's absolute worst films. It's time to scrape the bottom of the barrel that consists of unattractive CGI robots, glittering vampires, and the Antichrist himself, Adam Sandler. 

James Cameron launched his science-fiction epic "Avatar" into a safe orbit as the costly film soared to No. 1 with $73 million domestically and $159.2 million overseas, for a $232.2 million worldwide total.

Danielle Shorts scored her 21st goal of the season to tie Gilbert Highland’s single-season mark in the team’s 6-0 victory over visiting Phoenix Maryvale on Wednesday in the first round of the 5A Division I girls state soccer tournament.

Hollywood might be telling its own life story this fall, presenting a lineup of liars, phonies, smooth talkers, bloodsuckers and greedy old men.

There's a moment early on in "Men in Black 3" when Will Smith's Agent J sits down next to his longtime partner, Tommy Lee Jones' Agent K, and bemoans the fact that he's too old for this sort of thing — for running around New York in matching dark suits, chasing down aliens and zapping them with their shiny metal weapony doo-hickeys.

DENVER — The Christian book business, optimistic that a little literary escapism might be an antidote for readers in hard times, is turning to bonnets, buggies and bloodsuckers.

Scottsdale Chaparral earned a berth in the boys state team golf tournament after shooting an overall score of 603 to finish second behind Cave Creek Cactus Shadows (587) in the 4A-I Desert Sky Region Tournament on Wednesday at Dove Valley Ranch Golf in Cave Creek.

The best word to describe the red-carpet fashion at the Academy Awards: red. Katherine Heigl, Helen Mirren, Miley Cyrus, Ruby Dee, Anne Hathaway and Heidi Klum were among the stars in red gowns Sunday night at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. Shades of plum were worn by Cate Blanchett and Jessica Alba.