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.
The nonprofit Classic Cooking Academy will begin offering a six-month course teaching 20 students to meld Native American food with French and other cuisines.
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....
ATLANTA (AP) -- Measles cases in the U.S. are at the highest level in more than a decade, with nearly half of those involving children whose parents rejected vaccination, health officials reported Thursday....
BARROW, Alaska (AP) -- Rapidly melting ice on Alaska's Arctic is opening up a new navigable ocean in the extreme north, allowing oil tankers, fishing vessels and even cruise ships to venture into a realm once trolled mostly by indigenous hunters....
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A student fatally shot a 15-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....
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....
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 could be returning home within a few days after being trapped by violence in the Republic of Georgia for two weeks....
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....
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- The widow of slain state Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney will fill his spot at the Democratic National Convention in Denver next week, the governor said Thursday....
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