Students who enrolled in an aviation-focused Gilbert high school never received what school officials promised three years ago. Flight simulators. Advanced technology.

Our military protects and defends us, but it’s a lesser known fact that they also entertain us. The United States Air Force Concert Band and the Singing Sergeants do just that with a free community performance October 25 at ASU Gammage.

Sophomore, Sarah Galvin, 16, is hard at work preparing for her oral presentation to the United States military at the national Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS), to take place next month. Galvin’s presentation of an Android application to control a robot took first place at last weekend’s state competition and she took home a $2,000 college scholarship and an all-expenses-paid invitation to the national finals.

LAHORE, Pakistan — Black-clad Pakistani commandos overpowered a group of militants who had seized a police academy, took cadets hostage and killed at least six of them Monday in a dramatic challenge to the civilian government that faces U.S. pressure to defeat Islamic extremists.

The Class of 2013 at Perry High School boasts an impressive list of accomplishments.

The Scottsdale Police Department has prepared to launch a helicopter unit in each of the last five years, but the project has never lifted off the paper its budget is printed on.

The Scottsdale Police Department has prepared to launch a helicopter unit in each of the last five years, but the project has never lifted off the paper its budget is printed on.

WASHINGTON -- The secretary for one of the world's wealthiest men and the wife of late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs are among those invited by the White House to attend the State of the Union address.

Marsha and Kevin Casey of Ahwatukee Foothills are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Shauna Lynn to James Woodall Anderson IV. Shauna is a 2008 graduate of Seton Catholic High School in Chandler. She is attending the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs and will graduate in May 2012. James, son of Carolyn and James Anderson III of Hankins, N.Y., is presently stationed in Colorado Springs and will begin pilot training at Columbus Air Force Base in Columbus, Miss. in March 2012.

Marsha and Kevin Casey of Ahwatukee Foothills are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Shauna Lynn to James Woodall Anderson IV. Shauna is a 2008 graduate of Seton Catholic High School in Chandler. She is attending the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs and will graduate in May 2012. James, son of Carolyn and James Anderson III of Hankins, N.Y., is presently stationed in Colorado Springs and will begin pilot training at Columbus Air Force Base in Columbus, Miss. in March 2012.

Marsha and Kevin Casey of Ahwatukee Foothills are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Shauna Lynn to James Woodall Anderson IV. Shauna is a 2008 graduate of Seton Catholic High School in Chandler. She is attending the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs and will graduate in May 2012. James, son of Carolyn and James Anderson III of Hankins, N.Y., is presently stationed in Colorado Springs and will begin pilot training at Columbus Air Force Base in Columbus, Miss. in March 2012.

Ahwatukee student graduates from USAFA

Ahwatukee student graduates from USAFA

Approx 750 graduates will receive diploma's from Mesa's Red Mountain High School this year.

It is interesting that you encourage people to consider not voting for Romney when he did not serve in the military, but went on a two half year LDS mission. I think you underestimate the desire for LDS young men to serve a mission. My son, graduated top of his class, worked hard in sports so he could attend the U.S. Air Force Academy. He received a $415,000 dollar scholarship to the AFA. He worked hard, he was on the dean’s list, was also in the 22 squad (Raptors) which finished first in the school and was able to stand behind President Obama at the graduation. He gave all this up to serve a mission in Chile. That is how important Mr. Romney also felt. He did this with the hope that there will be no major budget cuts to the AFA so that he may return there.

After graduating from Mountain Pointe High School in 2011, Ahwatukee resident Leighton Blankenburg received the Falcon Scholarship to Northwestern Preparatory School in Crestline, Calif. He attended the fall semester there and in the spring he was a full-time student at Arizona State University. On May 1, Leighton received his appointment letter from the United States Air Force Academy, a goal he has wanted since the sixth grade. He will be leaving on June 25 to Colorado Springs and will start basic training later that week.

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -President Bush, preparing new Air Force officers for war, cast the fight against terrorism as a struggle between freedom and tyranny similar to World War II and the Cold War.

Desert Ridge High senior Cody Sellers will be studying business finance at Northern Arizona University, thanks to $52,000 in scholarships.

Lt. Col. Ed Fox’s vision to create a free Air Force academy for teens took just nine months to become reality.

The next provost of Arizona State University Polytechnic in Mesa will be either a retired high ranking U.S. Air Force pilot, a celebrated chemist or a software consultant whose company taught people to use one of the earliest computer programming languages.

A brief look at the six Americans and Israel’s first astronaut aboard space shuttle Columbia.