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At least three businesses were evacuated after a suspicious envelope was found by a rabbi at Chabad of Scottsdale on Thursday.

The owner of several Scottsdale and Tempe restaurants and bars recently pleaded guilty to four counts of federal income-tax evasion.

A Carefree Councilman plans to launch an initiative to place a measure on the May ballot asking that voters elect their own mayor.

The wife of a California man who died after stun-gun shocks in a scuffle with deputies is suing Los Angeles County and the weapon's manufacturer.

This year, planners of the Stagecoach Village Luminaria Run revised the 4-mile course so it goes east into Carefree.

The driver of a motorcycle that slammed into a car before the cycle burst into flames died Tuesday.

Where things stand with Scottsdale inventor Chuck Ahumada and the yard-care product he called the Big Flex Dustpan.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- Three men, including a small-town police chief, were indicted Thursday on involuntary manslaughter counts in the gun-fair death of an 8-year-old who accidentally shot himself in the head with an Uzi that a prosecutor said he never should have been allowed to handle....

ALBERT LEA, Minn. (AP) -- Two teenage girls who worked at a nursing home have been charged with abuse, accused of taunting, spitting on and groping residents who suffered from Alzheimer's disease....

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- In the last months of his administration, President Lyndon Johnson voiced worry over the Vietnam peace talks and stridently suggested that associates of Richard Nixon were attempting to keep South Vietnam away from the table until after the 1968 election, recordings of telephone conversations released Thursday show....

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- If O.J. Simpson is looking for a break from the Nevada judge who will sentence him for kidnapping and armed robbery, he may be in the wrong courtroom....

DETROIT (AP) -- Federal prosecutors twice pursued a former autoworker suspected of running a multimillion-dollar drug operation. The first attempt fizzled when Clarence Carson died shortly after an indictment. The second? Blame it on the collapse of Detroit's real-estate market....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Voters' economic status and religious convictions played a greater role than race and age in determining whether they supported the Nov. 4 ballot measure outlawing same-sex marriage in California, a new poll shows....

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Six weeks after someone with HIV said dozens of students at a St. Louis high school might have been exposed to the virus, it remains unclear whether an outbreak has occurred....

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Special court-appointed investigators are seeking fines against Gov. Matt Blunt, alleging he "knowingly and purposely" violated Missouri's public-records law by denying access to e-mails....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Drivers in New York City would pay to cross the East River and companies would be taxed on their payrolls under a proposal to stanch financial bleeding at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority....

NEW YORK (AP) -- For those hard-to-please people on your holiday gift list this year, consider some unusual presents: the chance to hang out with Bill O'Reilly, sing with Aretha Franklin or tour the Capitol with Nancy Pelosi....