Cave Creek is cracking down on public speech at its Town Council meetings to curb what officials call ''personal attacks'' on town employees during recent hearings.
Members of Scottsdale's Greasepaint Youtheatre and Phoenix's Valley Youth Theatre took home a lot of hardware on Sunday in the Third Annual National Youth Theatre Awards for the Western region, held at Phoenix's Herberger Theatre Center.
A group of Scottsdale candidates filed a complaint with the county attorney's office this week alleging that the Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce violated campaign laws.
MELBOURNE, Fla. (AP) -- For a fourth weary day, Tropical Storm Fay continued its soggy march through Florida Thursday, forcing dozens more residents to flee floodwaters and even driving alligators and snakes out of their habitats and into streets....
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A student fatally shot a 16-year-old classmate during a dispute Thursday at a Knoxville high school, as other teenagers watched in horror as the victim clutched his chest and fell to the floor....
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The maker of the most widely used touch-screen voting machine in Ohio has acknowledged the machines have a programming error that led to votes being dropped in the March primary....
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) -- Two little girls from New Jersey were reunited with their father Thursday and will be returning home soon after being trapped by violence in the Republic of Georgia for two weeks....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Blocked stairwells, radio confusion and misinformation about the water supply thwarted efforts to put out a blaze at a condemned ground zero skyscraper that killed two firefighters last year, an internal report said Thursday....
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop is calling on U.S. authorities to halt mass immigration raids and says agents who refuse to participate in such raids on moral grounds deserve to be treated as conscientious objectors....
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) -- A former Marine charged with killing unarmed detainees in Iraq did what he did to save his comrades, his attorney said Thursday as opening statements in the defendant's first-of-its-kind federal trial began....
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN, Pa. (AP) -- Police arrested a man Thursday in the 1985 killing of a 13-year-old boy whose body was found months after he left home on a bicycle. The fatal beating was apparently sparked by an argument over stolen marijuana plants, authorities said....
HANCOCK, Md. (AP) -- A burglary suspect wanted in four states remained holed up Thursday in a western Maryland motel, and doctors were standing by in case a woman believed to be his pregnant girlfriend gave birth, police said....
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- A state lawmaker said he has apologized to his family for a "painful but private matter" in his marriage following the publication this week of steamy e-mails he reportedly exchanged with a woman who worked for the Legislature....