Let’s call this The Miracle of 2012.

NEW YORK — North Carolina and UConn are lending some serious star power to the NIT.

In January, we presented a list of 10 entities — nine companies and an American Indian community — in the East Valley to keep your eye on. Our 10 to Watch didn’t disappoint. All were major newsmakers in 2004.

COLUMBIANA, Ala. - Five men dead in an apartment. In a county that might see five homicides in an entire year, the call over the sheriff's radio revealed little about what awaited law enforcement at a sprawling apartment complex.

COLUMBIANA, Ala. - Five men dead in an apartment. In a county that might see five homicides in an entire year, the call over the sheriff's radio revealed little about what awaited law enforcement at a sprawling apartment complex.

COLUMBIANA, Ala. - Five men dead in an apartment. In a county that might see five homicides in an entire year, the call over the sheriff's radio revealed little about what awaited law enforcement at a sprawling apartment complex.

All the orcs have been killed, all the Matrices hacked, and 2003 — the year of the superfranchise — is but a fading memory.