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Former Phoenix Suns star Charles Barkley took a leave of absence from TNT following a charge of drunken driving, according to USA Today.

Like other Valley municipalities, Fountain Hills faces serious spending cuts that threaten its well-to-do lifestyle.

Paradise Valley has implemented a hiring freeze and most likely will have to lay off employees because of a decline in town revenues.

They await their place in the spotlight at the Barrett-Jackson auction, which starts this weekend.

A Carefree initiative asking voters if they want to elect their own mayor could face legal opposition if it passes, a town attorney said.

An estimated 80 percent of businesses do not re-open after a fire, Fountain Hills Fire Chief Scott LaGreca said.

Scottsdale traffic restrictions and street closures.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The Illinois House voted overwhelmingly Friday to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich, setting up an unprecedented trial in the state Senate on whether he should be thrown out for abuse of power, including allegations that he tried to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat....

STEVENSON, Ala. (AP) -- A retention pond at a Tennessee Valley Authority coal-burning power plant leaked waste into a northeast Alabama creek Friday, putting more pressure on utility officials who are already trying to clean up a major coal ash spill from last month in Tennessee....

BOSTON (AP) -- A Boston Fire Department ladder truck coming down a hill plowed through an intersection Friday and crashed into a high-rise apartment building, killing one firefighter and injuring several other people....

CHICAGO (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says Roland Burris won't be accepted as President-elect Barack Obama's replacement in Senate without the Illinois secretary of state's signature....

HEATHSVILLE, Va. (AP) -- An eastern Virginia couple arrested after their 6-year-old son crashed the family car while trying to drive himself to school appeared in court Friday on child-endangerment charges....

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- A blond girl heads from a playground into a women's restroom. A scruffy man, lurking outside, darts in behind her. "Your City Commission Made This Legal," the words on the TV screen read. And it's true, sort of....

CHOKE CANYON, Texas (AP) -- Birders with binoculars and cameras are flocking to a remote state park in search of a small yellow-chested bird that apparently crossed the U.S. border for the first time from its high-mountain habitat to the south....

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A South Carolina pawn shop owner accused by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg of recklessly selling a rifle to an ex-convict pleaded guilty Friday to a federal weapons charge....

MIAMI (AP) -- Charles McArthur Emmanuel, the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor and head of a savage paramilitary unit known as the "Demon Forces," was sentenced Friday to 97 years in prison for torture overseas in the first U.S. case of its kind....

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Democratic Party leaders across New York say Gov. David Paterson has kept them out of the loop in his process to pick Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's successor - and that's just fine with them....