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The drawn-out mayor's race ended this week when Mayor Mary Manross conceded to Jim Lane.

Bob Lord says District 3 poses challenges that few Democrats could overcome - especially when an incumbent is running in a presidential year with a favorite son on the ballot.

Dos Gringos and Upper Deck Sports Grill gained Scottsdale City Council approval this week for patio dining right along the street.

Scottsdale's largest event - the FBR Open golf tournament - raised a record $8.65 million for charity, the largest donation on the PGA tour.

The U.S. Commerce Department opened an office in SkySong this week to help small and mid-size businesses boost their exports.

Councilman Wayne Ecton has served on the Scottsdale City Council since 2002 and was re-elected to a second term in 2006.

Basketball season is about to begin. It will be hard to replicate Scottsdale's success in football, but these teams are all hungry to win playoff games come February.

In 2006, Alaska desperately needed cash to complete a museum featuring a mummified bison and other natural wonders of the frozen north. So the state dipped into its share of the landmark 1998 tobacco settlement....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A judge denied bail on Thursday for a woman accused of killing an FBI agent during a drug raid that led to her husband's arrest on cocaine-dealing charges....

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- City and state police have closed their investigations into last summer's shooting of Arkansas' Democratic Party chairman without offering an explanation of why the attack occurred....

DALLAS (AP) -- Retired Dallas police detective Jim Leavelle still gets letters from strangers because of that 1963 photo of him standing next to Lee Harvey Oswald....

MALIBU, Calif. (AP) -- Water regulators have voted to ban septic tanks in the heart of Malibu, Calif., after a prolonged battle over bacterial pollution leaching into the ocean at some of the state's most popular beaches....

RIALTO, Calif. (AP) -- A commuter train collided with a freight train Thursday in Southern California, producing no serious injuries but bringing back memories of a deadly commuter-train wreck in the region just two months ago....

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) -- Cookie Smith was surprised to learn the fake lawn that earned her a home-beautification award violated a city ban on artificial grass....

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- A former Army cook convicted of multiple rapes and murders is set to die next month in what would be the U.S. military's first execution in nearly 50 years....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The mother of a Missouri girl who committed suicide after being targeted by an Internet hoax testified Thursday that she was unaware that her daughter had posed as an 18-year-old while allegedly trying to chat online with boys....