LOS ANGELES - Gidget the Chihuahua, the bug-eyed, big-eared star of 1990s Taco Bell commercials who was a diva on and off the screen, has died. She was 15. Gidget suffered a massive stroke late Tuesday night at her trainer's home in Santa Clarita and had to be euthanized, said Karin McElhatton, owner of Studio Animal Services in Castaic, which owned the dog. 

A robber got away with cash at a Taco Bell drive-through Sunday. According to Mesa police, two men in an older model 4-door sedan pulled up to the pay window at 1125 S. Dobson Road and pointed a gun that was larger than a pistol but shorter than a rifle at the cashier.

NEW YORK - Rapper 50 Cent is facing a challenge to his street cred - from Taco Bell.

LOUISVILLE, KY. - KFC’s fried chicken buckets soon will be stamped with a health message along with the famous likeness of its founder, Colonel Harland Sanders. The banner proclaims that its chicken has zero grams of trans fat per serving.

A new Taco Bell restaurant at the northeast corner of Country Club Drive and Main Street was a sight for sore eyes for many who live or work in downtown Mesa.

Despite living in cardboard boxes between stays at long-term and short-term shelters as a child, Ramona “Mona” Dixon of Tempe is two years through her undergraduate education at Arizona State University.

It looks like Mesa will replace a Chevron with a Taco Bell on a prime intersection that serves as the western gateway to downtown.

Many Americans were hoping for a World Series home run Tuesday that would have scored them a free meal at Taco Bell. But Suns guard Raja Bell couldn't have cared less.

Many Americans were hoping for a World Series home run Tuesday that would have scored them a free meal at Taco Bell. But Suns guard Raja Bell couldn't have cared less.

Louisville, Ky. -  Yo quiero Taco Bell breakfast burrito!

Louisville, Ky. -  Yo quiero Taco Bell breakfast burrito!

Jim Ripley: The sunshine is cheerful and warming and seems out of step with what happened here. Crime tape forms a crude trapezoid in a parking lot flanked by MidFirst Bank on the north and a Taco Bell on the west at the Lakeview Shopping Center on Baseline Road at the corner of Val Vista Drive. Slideshow: Memorial site

Fans are able to purchase ticket strips for 2011 Major League Baseball All-Star events at allstargame.com and dbacks.com/asg or by calling the D-backs ticket line at (602) 514-8400.

Fans are able to purchase ticket strips for 2011 Major League Baseball All-Star events at allstargame.com and dbacks.com/asg or by calling the D-backs ticket line at (602) 514-8400.

The Mesa Police Department is offering a free self-defense class for women 18 years and older. Six, three-course sessions are available this year, and participants must attend all classes.

Thank you, to the Good Samaritans: The couple who stopped traffic in the middle of Chandler Boulevard at 40th Street; Dr. Russ Roberge, DDS, who got out of his car to help with the two other gentlemen who came out of the Taco Bell to push Alyssa's car! It stalled in the middle of the intersection in the middle of rush hour on March 2 at about 5:30 pm. I wish I knew all your names. I'm so grateful to you for stopping what you were doing to lend a helping hand. Your efforts got her and her car safely out of traffic to the nearby parking lot.

Thank you, to the Good Samaritans: The couple who stopped traffic in the middle of Chandler Boulevard at 40th Street; Dr. Russ Roberge, DDS, who got out of his car to help with the two other gentlemen who came out of the Taco Bell to push Alyssa's car! It stalled in the middle of the intersection in the middle of rush hour on March 2 at about 5:30 pm. I wish I knew all your names. I'm so grateful to you for stopping what you were doing to lend a helping hand. Your efforts got her and her car safely out of traffic to the nearby parking lot.

Unlike Tigers pitcher Kenny Rogers, we admit that this column is routinely written with the aid of pine tar, an Emory board, Vaseline and whatever we could find in Shawne Merriman’s medicine cabinet.

Registration for the opportunity to purchase 2011 MLB All-Star ticket strips for the general public is now taking place at allstargame.com and dbacks.com/asg.

OMAHA, Neb. - A police officer and his family have won $40,000 in their lawsuit against a restaurant that had served them food tainted by an employee's spit and urine.