May 9, 2005

When is “dirty money” a good thing? When the business that hosts the annual Tough Mudder event in east Mesa gives a hefty chunk of the proceeds to Mesa United Way.

Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market, a chain of small grocery stores that recently opened in the Valley, is exceeding sales expectations set by its parent company – United Kingdom’s Tesco grocery store chain.

Vinayak Muralidhar, a Chandler student who attends the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has earned a Marshall Scholarship from the United Kingdom.

The Republican party wants us to believe that the unemployment rate of 8.2 percent reflects negatively on Obama’s economic policies. My question is compared to what?

A $700 million merger announced Friday with a California storage company is expected to bring broader national and international markets to Tempe-based Mobile Mini, and it will help offset weak housing sales affecting the company, executives said.

East Valley Hospice, a transitional care organization focusing on providing care and comfort while fulfilling a patient’s end-of-life wishes, is seeking volunteers in the East Mesa area.

TUCSON — The British are coming to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.

Gilbert Mayor Steve Berman flew to Northern Ireland on Wednesday to serve as a dignitary in the 50th anniversary of the town’s sister city Newtownabbey.

LONDON - Apple Computer launched its highly anticipated iTunes Music Store in Europe on Tuesday, expanding the popular digital music service to users in Britain, France and Germany.

Last week, food safety officials in United Kingdom, France, and Sweden found traces of horse meat in ground beef sold across Europe. Massive recalls and lawsuits are ensuing.

FleetMatics, a privately-owned company that provides live tracking of commercial fleet vehicles via the Global Positioning System, has opened a West Coast headquarters in Tempe. The GPS tracking is designed to give real-time operations visibility, decrease fuel waste and document how long vehicles are at various locations. The Tempe facility joins others in the U.S., United Kingdom and Ireland. FleetMatics counts about 13,000 customers and tracks about 160,000 vehicles.

Straight out of the United Kingdom, Ceroc is the biggest dance club in the world with a style that is a mixture of swing and salsa but without any complicated troublesome footwork.

MINNEAPOLIS - Twin Cities rockers Quietdrive will head overseas to play for U.S. troops in the Mideast.

The Brits are getting graphic and gruesome in their fight against cigarette smoking.

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York Gov. David Paterson is granting a full and unconditional pardon to rapper Ricky "Slick Rick" Walters for the attempted murders of two men in 1991.

From its racy commercials to its penchant for signing female athletes as spokeswomen, Scottsdale-based GoDaddy knows how to grab attention. On Tuesday, the local Web domain peddler snagged a couple of hours of Britain’s Prince Andrew’s short single-day stopover in Arizona to pitch its product.