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Police sprang a surprise truck-safety inspection on commercial truck drivers Wednesday in Scottsdale.

As urban sprawl permeates the Valley's fringes, equestrian-friendly Cave Creek is often an exception. Or is it?

The Lost Boys of Sudan joined in the production of a Lionel Martin-directed music video, made in Scottsdale, to raise awareness of Darfur.

The Scottsdale City Council is expected to consider on Jan. 27 planning requests that could mean moving a controversial electrical substation to 68th Street and Indian School Road.

The Paradise Valley Planning Commission will hold a public hearing Dec. 2 on a request by the developer of the Ritz-Carlton, Paradise Valley Resort to reduce the number of its resort patio homes.

For the first time since Scottsdale became a city, a challenger has defeated an incumbent mayor.

Don Hooton and former MLB player Kevin Young talked with Scottsdale high school students about the dangers of steroid abuse.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Authorities count hundreds of Amber Alert cases across the country as success stories when they start explaining why the media-friendly and politically popular bulletins are so important....

CHICAGO (AP) -- As far as Miguel Garcia is concerned, Chicago already has a gay high school. Jones College Prep, where the 16-year-old is a junior, has the city's largest Gay Straight Alliance, an organization of more than 100 students that he and other members say wields considerable influence at their downtown campus....

HOUSTON (AP) -- Astronauts vowed to double-check, even triple-check, to make sure a bag of tools is properly tied down during a spacewalk Thursday so it doesn't float away like one did earlier this week....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- California's highest court agreed Wednesday to hear several legal challenges to the state's new ban on same-sex marriage but refused to allow gay couples to resume marrying before it rules....

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas (AP) -- A Texas judge has set a Friday arraignment for Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and others named in indictments accusing them of responsibility for prisoner abuse in a federal detention center....

GLENSHAW, Pa. (AP) -- An FBI agent trying to arrest a cocaine-dealing suspect at a home near Pittsburgh was killed Wednesday by the man's wife, who might have thought she was shooting an intruder, authorities said....

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- David Wang is a young man who's clearly going places. The Princeton University sophomore is gifted with a brilliant mind, a movie-star smile and an understated self-confidence....

MANCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- A man whose car slid off a snowy road and into a 12-foot-deep pond saved the two sons he had been driving home but could not save himself, police said....

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- A 30-day age limit in the Nebraska safe-haven law appears headed for final approval. The state Legislature voted 41-6 Wednesday to give second-round approval to the limit. A final vote is expected Friday and then the bill will go to Gov. Dave Heineman, who has said he would support a 30-day age limit....

MALIBU, Calif. (AP) -- "Sewer" has always been a dirty word in this celebrity-studded community, which has avoided the sprawl that pervades much of the Southern California coast in part because it has refused to install the plumbing for it....