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Brian Roehrich, 39, owns several popular restaurants and nightclubs in Tempe and Scottsdale.

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.

Where things stand with Scottsdale entrepreneur Gloria Mecca and her Heavenly Hug dolls.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- A police chief was among three men indicted on involuntary manslaughter charges in the death of an 8-year-old boy who accidentally shot himself in the head with an Uzi at a gun show....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison on Thursday took the first step toward a run for governor, setting the stage for a contentious challenge in 2010 against fellow Republican Rick Perry, the longest-serving leader in state history....

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 (AP) -- The LBJ Library in Austin has released the final batch of recordings of private telephone conversations by former President Lyndon Johnson....

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....

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....