NEW YORK - John Brunious flew in from an evacuation center in Arkansas, wearing donated clothes and carrying a borrowed trumpet, his voice shot from swallowing polluted floodwater.

Alan Christopher, the father suspected of shooting and killing his two sons before killing himself Friday, was scheduled to host a bingo event that night at Desert Shadows Elementary School where one of his sons attended.

East Valley tourism leaders are cheering a couple of big wins in the Legislature.

Ahwatukee Foothills parent Rae Waters ran for the Kyrene school board seven years ago as an act of volunteerism that she considered a community good deed.

Mesa’s Mountain View High School Toros marching band is the Arizona honor band for the 2010 Fiesta Bowl National Band Championship.

Mesa’s Mountain View High School marching band has been to many places across the country and across the world. There is one place they have not been. But come Jan. 1, they’ll be able to mark that one off the list too.

October 1, 2004

Mesa will host a celebration of the year and an honoring of city leaders during a reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Jan. 8.

An unusual lineup will take the stage Saturday at Mesa Arts Center.

The newly appointed superintendent of the Kyrene Elementary School District wants to unify the governing board and the community. “I’m very committed to the concept of ‘one team,’ “ said David Schauer, who was appointed Tuesday to replace retiring Maria Menconi.

The newly appointed superintendent of the Kyrene Elementary School District wants to unify the governing board and the community. “I’m very committed to the concept of ‘one team,’ “ said David Schauer, who was appointed Tuesday to replace retiring Maria Menconi.

GUADALAJARA, Mexico - A Mexican beauty queen arrested in a truck filled with weapons was dating a suspected leader in the powerful Juarez drug cartel, police said Wednesday.

On Robert Shelton’s first day as president of the University of Arizona, he placed a foot squarely on Arizona State University’s turf.

Ravi Coltrane probably didn't have to pay his dues. The son of John Coltrane, he was jazz royalty from birth, able to avoid slogging away as a sideman before trying to make it on his own.

NEW YORK — The idea of a rock band playing their own instruments on their own album might seem like a given, but when Chris Daughtry made that a condition for the recording of Daughtry’s sophomore CD, producer Howard Benson was wary.

They are the Catholics few seem to know about.

The only performer to top “American Idol” winner Jordin Sparks in the last 12 months was back in action Saturday at Arizona Mills mall in Tempe.

About an hour after the school day ends, Mountain View High School Principal Craig Luketich leaves a meeting to take a walk around the Mesa campus. He doesn’t get two steps outside the main office doors when he stops to chat with a handful of young men. He then waves to a few other students, says hello to a parent coming on campus, and makes his way into the center of the large school.

On a recent visit to Italy, President Vladimir Putin was asked about a Russian newspaper report that he was divorcing his wife of many years to marry a 24-year-old rhythmic gymnast famous in Russia for her lithe beauty.

CRAWFORD, Texas — President Bush has turned his remote ranch into a stage for down-home diplomacy, where a barbecue grill and a pickup truck have become his favorite tools for dealing with world leaders.

Until recently, the Mesa City Band could not charge admission to any of its performances — it was written into its bylaws.

NEW YORK - Dan Fogelberg, the singer and songwriter whose hits "Leader of the Band" and "Same Old Lang Syne" helped define the soft-rock era, died Sunday at his home in Maine after battling prostate cancer. He was 56.