Timothy Ogle, superintendent of schools in one of Indiana's fastest growing school districts, will take over Feb. 6 as the executive director for the Arizona School Boards Association.

May 19, 2004

Friends and business associates were shocked by the death Monday of Scott Coles, president and chief executive of Mortgages Ltd., the state's largest private mortgage bank involved in financing many high-profile Valley projects.

State and federal courts on Wednesday denied requests by inmate Donald Beaty to block his scheduled execution because of a last-minute replacement of one of three execution drugs.

Executives at two of Arizona’s largest private school scholarship charities have used state income tax dollars to give themselves luxury cars, expensive real estate, jobs for relatives and friends, and extra cash hidden in the nonprofits’ balance sheets.

Brendan Herron spends his overseeing acquisitions Pathlore Software Corp., a developer. As vice for strategic devel-, Herron works long , travels a lot and attends countless meetings.

Arizona School Boards Association Executive Director Panfilo Contreras has retired. The board announced his retirement earlier this month. Panfilo served the board for 13 years in various positions, including president and executive director.

Gov. Jan Brewer has named Ignacio “Nacho” Escalante as the director of trade and investment for the Arizona-Mexico Commission’s office in Hermosillo, Mexico.

Denise Martinez, one of Arizona's first female directors of golf at such prestigious clubs as Forest Highlands in Flagstaff and Silverleaf in Scottsdale, was killed Sept. 18 in a motor-scooter crash in Truckee, Calif. Martinez was 46.

The Arizona Interscholastic Association is not admitting that the current power point system has a flaw, but it will present local engineer John Carrieres' formula to the AIA Executive Board for analysis on Feb. 21.

A new company aimed at creating jobs for retired and soon-to-be-retired business executives in the East Valley is about to adopt its official name and home.

PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona Supreme Court has halted the planned execution of inmate Donald Beaty, who was scheduled to be given a lethal injection Wednesday morning for the rape and murder of a 13-year-old Tempe girl in 1984.

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona officials said Tuesday they will replace one of three drugs to be used in an execution scheduled Wednesday because federal officials contended the state failed to fill out a form to import the drug being swapped out.

NEW YORK - It doesn’t seem to matter that more than a thousand companies have restated earnings in recent years. Most of their executives are still holding on to bonus pay that it turns out they technically didn’t earn.

NEW YORK - A new Associated Press calculation shows that compensation for America’s top CEOs has skyrocketed into the stratospheric heights of pro athletes and movie stars: Half make more than $8.3 million a year, and some make much, much more.

Mesa parks and recreation director Rhett Evans is leaving to join the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America as its chief operating officer.

Arizona Interscholastic Association executive director Harold Slemmer has been diagnosed with what doctors believe is early stage prostate cancer.

The Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce is ready to begin a new year with a new board of directors for 2012.

The Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce is ready to begin a new year with a new board of directors for 2012.

The Maricopa County Community College District began proceedings to fire the director of its leading business and international program on Thursday over concerns that she misused taxpayer dollars.

Rabbi Maynard Bell, the spiritual leader for 25 years at Temple Solel in Paradise Valley, has been appointed executive director of the Arizona chapter of the American Jewish Committee.

Six-year-old Steve Nash woke up every morning eager to turn on the TV to see where Terry was.

Teri Traaen’s tumultuous tenure as Scottsdale’s human resources leader officially came to an end last week.

WASHINGTON - Tens of thousands of elderly poor people may have had trouble getting their medicine during the first two weeks of the government’s prescription drug benefit, and about 20 states have been forced to step in to help them, the top Medicare official acknowledges.