WASHINGTON - President Bush has decided to name Trade Representative Rob Portman as the White House budget director, moving quickly to fill a vacancy created by a personnel reshuffling, a senior administration official said Tuesday.

Mesa Parks and Recreation Division director Bob White is retiring just as one of the department’s programs has come under police scrutiny over the disappearance of thousands of dollars.

Mesa Parks and Recreation Division director Bob White is retiring just as one of the department’s programs has come under police scrutiny over the disappearance of thousands of dollars.

September 26, 2004

As the Higley Unified School District figures out how to deal with state budget cuts, it will have to do so without the district's finance director.

September 8, 2004

WASHINGTON - President Bush told members of Congress on Wednesday he supports giving a new national intelligence director strong budgetary authority over much of the nation's intelligence community, a key provision in the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations.

WASHINGTON - President Bush urged creation of a national intelligence director Monday to coordinate the war on terrorism but without the sweeping powers for hiring, firing and spending at the CIA, FBI and other agencies recommended by the Sept. 11 commission.

August 3, 2004

March 11, 2005

WASHINGTON - President Bush on Thursday named John Negroponte, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and currently the administration's top representative in Iraq, to be America's first national intelligence director.

February 17, 2005

Organizers of the proposed Scottsdale Museum of the West announced Monday they have raised enough money in private donations to hire a museum director.

November 9, 2004

The woman who has led Mesa’s library system since scandal forced her predecessor out in December will keep the job for at least 18 more months.

The head of the state's health department, who had been critical of the governor's office for its handling of patient neglect at the Arizona State Veteran Home, abruptly resigned her "dream job" Thursday.

September 23, 2004

August 2, 2004

WASHINGTON - CIA Director Porter Goss resigned unexpectedly Friday, nudged from the helm of a spy agency still reeling from intelligence failures before America's worst terrorist attack and faulty information that formed the U.S. rationale for invading Iraq.

WASHINGTON - Former FEMA director Michael Brown aggressively defended his role in responding to Hurricane Katrina on Tuesday and blamed most coordination failures on Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin.

LOS ANGELES - Robert Altman, the caustic and irreverent satirist behind "M-A-S-H," "Nashville" and "The Player" who made a career out of bucking Hollywood management and story conventions, died at a Los Angeles Hospital, his Sandcastle 5 Productions Company said Tuesday. He was 81.