Words struggled to exit her throat: “They let us see him. I sat there, behind the curtains and sobbed and hugged my son’s leg. I pleaded, Oh God, Oh God! How can I live without him?” Ten years ago, this month, this East Valley mother buried her only son.

Police are investigating after a Valley woman left her 4-year-old child with a stranger at a Chandler park and then passed out in her car.

Get a child’s ticket free with the purchase of an adult ticket when your child colors a coloring page for the Chandler Chamber Ostrich Festival on Friday, March 8.

It’s very rare that I’m motivated to write a follow up column, but the dangers generated by alcohol’s sacred position in our society demands more attention. Nothing is better to use as comparison than the uproar about the private ownership of guns and the dangers of both.

She’s young, tall-model-slender, beautiful and with a song bird voice. I’ll call her Annie. And, today she sits in jail, serving a lengthy term for her history with drugs. Like so many others, her road to trouble started with alcohol.

Bargain-hungry Americans will need to go on a post-Christmas spending binge to salvage this holiday shopping season.

Microsoft is making the claim that you can’t trust Google anymore because they only show search results for those that are willing to pay. Is this true?

Police in Chandler are warning women and asking for the public’s help identifying a man who has exposed himself at least a dozen times on a popular trail.

Forget Bing Crosby's classic "White Christmas." For me, Christmastime will forever be evoked by David Cassidy crooning "My Christmas Card to You," and I still have the 1972 Partridge Family holiday record album to prove it.

It's a simple matter of math: there are 24 Days of Christmas and there are hundreds of Christmas movies.

Well, the Republican Victory Fund is at it again, attacking Dr. Janie Hydrick with lies disguised as facts. They sent out a third flier calling Hydrick a “Union Boss,” even though she is just a member of the Arizona Education Association. They also repeated all of their other lies from the previous fliers. It just goes to show their disdain for the voters, treating them like gullible idiots. This time, they even pretended to back up their opinions with citations; of course, the citations were not connected in any way to their purported “facts.”

Well, the Republican Victory Fund is at it again, attacking Dr. Janie Hydrick with lies disguised as facts. They sent out a third flier calling Hydrick a “Union Boss,” even though she is just a member of the Arizona Education Association. They also repeated all of their other lies from the previous fliers. It just goes to show their disdain for the voters, treating them like gullible idiots. This time, they even pretended to back up their opinions with citations; of course, the citations were not connected in any way to their purported “facts.”

The Republican Victory Fund (read Steve Pierce, AZ Realtors, and Western Growers) has spent a lot of money to attack Dr. Janie Hydrick, candidate for state senate from Legislative District 18, with three mailers that are completely devoid of facts. All three have the same basic text, and what is her great crime? Why, she’s a member (not the leader) of the Arizona Education Association, much the way your lawyer would be a member of the American Bar Association, or your doctor, the American Medical Association. Every statement on the fliers, except the spelling of Hydrick’s name, is unverified, (and unverifiable, since they’re innuendo, not facts).

Chandler’s Haley Elementary School will host a Halloween fun run 8:45 a.m. Oct. 31 with the help of the Apex Fun Run team, which has been teaching leadership lessons and preparing students for the upcoming run.

A Chandler couple is facing child neglect-related charges after a maintenance worker found their severely disabled 8-year-old son locked inside a bathroom alone and naked in an apartment earlier this week.

Safe driving instruction on a world-class race track? Sign us up!

By pricing their energy-efficient homes aggressively, two East Valley men have developed a business partnership in combination with their friendship.

Q: I upgraded my iPhone 4S to iOS 6 and heard about all the problems with the new Maps app that Apple switched to; is there a way to get Google Maps back on my phone or something else that’s more reliable? — Samuel

Q: I upgraded my iPhone 4S to iOS 6 and heard about all the problems with the new Maps app that Apple switched to; is there a way to get Google Maps back on my phone or something else that’s more reliable? — Samuel

Performing Arts 2012-13 season preview

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Q: I heard you guys talking on your radio show about some tool that used red, green and yellow dots to alert you of dangerous websites when you are searching. I was in my car and couldn’t write it down, so could you tell me what it was called? - Gina

Before you even say it, “Bachelorette” is not the wannabe, comedic sister to last summer’s smash hit “Bridesmaids”. Instead, think of it as a raunchier, older cousin that gets polite acknowledgment at family reunions before it snorts some cocaine in the bathroom.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Is a gun like a virus, a car, tobacco or alcohol? Yes say public health experts, who in the wake of recent mass shootings are calling for a fresh look at gun violence as a social disease.