Scottsdale public relations agents are many, and here is a list of who they are, their titles and how to get hold of them.

SAN ANGELO, Texas - Before authorities raided their west Texas retreat, members of a secretive polygamous church spent decades holding as tightly to their intense privacy as the Scriptures guiding their way of life.

Each workday morning, Dana Arnold removes a silver angel dangling from her desk lamp and reads aloud the words written by Helen Keller etched on the angel’s back: "One can never consent to creep ... when one feels an impulse to soar."

Few principals welcome controversy. Yet they hire yearbook and newspaper advisers to teach journalism — which sometimes involves stirring up controversy.

NEW YORK - The family of Harry Houdini's widow wants to block a plan to exhume the escape artist's remains, saying a disinterment to determine whether he was murdered smacks of sensationalism.

The Mesa Police Department needs to improve the way it relates to Hispanics, many of about 25 residents said Tuesday to a committee studying whether the city should create a citizen’s police review board.

The Gilbert Town Council on Tuesday endorsed the work of its advisory commission on human relations, but the two groups avoided public discussion of alleged racial and religious discrimination and gang activity in Gilbert outlined in a commission report.

CHICAGO - Police arrested the estranged brother-in-law of Jennifer Hudson on Monday in the shooting deaths of the entertainer's mother, brother and young nephew, taking him from a prison where he had been held on a suspected parole violation.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Millions of Iraqis, from tribal sheiks to entire families with children in tow, turned out Thursday to choose a parliament in a mostly peaceful election - among the freest ever in the Arab world.

The working relationships of the Maricopa Community Colleges with three nonprofit community organizations have been the subject of banner headlines in recent weeks. Contrary to the impression created by such dramatic coverage, these relationships are not secret, nefarious, nor attempts to misuse public monies.

A 23-year-old Tempe man was shot and killed Sunday in what police believe was a gang-related incident.

A 23-year-old Tempe man was shot and killed Sunday in what police believe was a gang-related incident.

They were people whose love was interrupted by hate and whose lives were taken by a thief in the night. The words echoed through Faith Family Church in Chandler at a memorial service Thursday, where the Rev. Andy White described a family whose violent deaths Feb. 21 made national headlines.

They were people whose love was interrupted by hate and whose lives were taken by a thief in the night. The words echoed through Faith Family Church in Chandler at a memorial service Thursday, where the Rev. Andy White described a family whose violent deaths Feb. 21 made national headlines.

Arizonans without state permits will not be able to carry loaded guns under the seat of their cars.

After the high-profile shooting of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in 2010, Scott Rollefstad felt he had to do something to help keep other agents safe.

Some of the 107 candidates who received public money to run for state Legislature this year bought computers, cameras and printers that are theirs to keep and paid relatives as campaign workers and consultants, a Cronkite News review found.

A 23-year-old Tempe man was killed Sunday night in what police believe is a gang-related incident. Amadore Rodriguez was shot in the driveway of a home in the 2400 block of East Laird Street, police said. He was later pronounced dead at Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn hospital.

It was no surprise a 20-year-old man was arrested over the weekend for stabbing another man at the Country Thunder music festival in Pinal County. News reports tell of an argument escalating into violence. I’d bet excessive and criminal alcohol consumption played a part in this crime.

Scottsdale civil rights officials plan to probe whether a city contract with the all-male Charros organization to bring Major League Baseball to Scottsdale Stadium conflicts with anti-discrimination policies.

A former Arizona Department of Public Safety officer who was arrested on suspicion of supplying drugs to a prostitute was recently accused of kissing and groping another woman during a DUI stop last year, according to police records.

A decade after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Americans still have a lot to learn about their own nation’s foreign policy and the Islamic religion, according to a panel discussion hosted Thursday by the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University.

A decade after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Americans still have a lot to learn about their own nation’s foreign policy and the Islamic religion, according to a panel discussion hosted Thursday by the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University.