A handful of East Valley volunteers left last week to aid Florida residents pounded by hurricanes.

TAMPA, Fla. - The first named storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season strengthened slightly in the Gulf of Mexico early Monday, prompting tropical storm warnings for the dry Florida coast.

INDIANAPOLIS - Oh, Baby, can UCLA play defense. Throw some offense in there on the same night and not even LSU and its gigantic star, Glen "Big Baby" Davis, had a chance. The Bruins shut him down Saturday en route to a 59-45 victory over the Tigers that put them one win away from their 12th national title.

Olli Jokinen had a goal and an assist against his former Florida teammates in the Phoenix Coyotes’ 4-1 win over the Panthers on Saturday night. Jokinen was traded from Florida to Phoenix for defensemen Keith Ballard and Nick Boynton during the offseason.

Everybody is following Florida these days.

NEW YORK — New York prosecutors say they've indicted 38 people in two sports gambling rings that spanned from Arizona to New York and Costa Rica and made $178 million.

The Suns probably will invite Gabe Pruitt and Finland’s Petteri Koponen, among others, for second looks in preparation for next week’s NBA draft.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Richard Hatch has been sent to a federal prison in Oklahoma as he serves a 51-month sentence for failing to pay taxes on the $1 million he won on the debut season of "Survivor."

LEBANON, Ohio (AP) — As he sat in the doctor's office, ex-boxer and weightlifter Gerald Dixon explained that years of sports had left him in pain, especially his hands, and he was looking for relief.

KEY WEST, Fla. - Rain began falling Tuesday morning as residents hurried to make last-minute preparations for Tropical Storm Ernesto, expected to strengthen before striking the vulnerable Florida Keys and populous South Florida.

Jake Schlander and Richard Nisbet opened the fourth inning with back-to-back solo home runs as the Arizona Firebirds beat the Jack Cust Diamond Jacks 9-1 Saturday in their first game at the Connie Mack World Series in Farmington, N.M.

Mark Scarp: A long-ago observation attributed to baseball great Yogi Berra about a restaurant could have been about the East Valley: “That place is so crowded,” Berra supposedly had said, “nobody goes there anymore.”

ANAHEIM, Calif. - Just down the road from the Magic Kingdom, major league teams toyed with trades and focused on free agents as the winter meetings began Friday.

Four members of the Arizona Corporation Commission have asked the fifth, Jim Irvin, to resign.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The fate of Anna Nicole Smith's body was in the hands of three appeals court judges Tuesday who will decide whether to overturn a trial court ruling that meant the Playboy model would be buried in the Bahamas.

MIAMI - Elona Kaplan moved to Florida 2 1/2 years ago after going through a divorce. She bought a $178,000 bayfront condo in Sunny Isles Beach, just north of here, where she hoped to start a new life.

Target has decided to copy Wal-Mart’s plan to sell $4 generics — a move that experts say is likely to create a completely new and cheaper pricing structure for America’s off-patent medicines.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A Florida appeals court issued a stay Monday in the dispute over Anna Nicole Smith's body, ruling that her remains cannot be moved to the Bahamas until the judges hear a challenge from the starlet's estranged mother.

January 28, 2005

Careful, East Valley. With apologies to Marty McFly, that forming line many think is leading to recovery instead is into an economic time machine that’s once again taking us back to the future.

BRUNSWICK, Ga. - Tropical Storm Tammy turned subdivisions into lagoons and soaked this port city with more than 4 inches of rain before weakening to a tropical depression Thursday.

July 22, 2004