J.T. Gray transferred to Basha over the weekend, and if the Coolidge district so chooses, it can quietly let the issue die.

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Go with what works, as pitching has for Val Kaff since age 6.

Two new restaurants have opened in recent months on the opposite side of Gilbert Road, both hawking tacos and more to the growing downtown Gilbert dining crowd.

Two new restaurants have opened in recent months on the opposite side of Gilbert Road, both hawking tacos and more to the growing downtown Gilbert dining crowd.

There was a time when conservative Republicans could get whatever they wanted through the Arizona Legislature.

Garmin has spent more than four years as a Chandler renter. Now, the company plans to build its own home and become a permanent resident.

My son Gideon (age nine) assures me that he will be a good father someday, but will that be an empty accomplishment? In another 20 years or so will there even be a Father's Day?

Voters who have seen how medical marijuana works in Arizona may get a chance to extend the ability to use the drug to all other adults.

State lawmakers were moving toward finally adjourning their 151-day session late Thursday -- but not before setting the stage for constituents to have to start paying taxes on what they buy from catalogs and on the World Wide Web.

As the economy continues to recover, competition is intense in virtually every industry. The auto insurance providers slug it out for market share. The cell phone service carriers fight tooth and nail for subscribers. Even universities battle it out to attract students, not to mention benefactors and research dollars.

It started with a headline in the New York Times. Bob Barr, 88, picked up his newspaper to find an article about the closure of a fully-automated Japanese factory.

After five years as a renter, Garmin announced it will build a 60,000 sq. foot facility of its own in the Chandler Corporate Center.

Here’s something fun for fans of TV cooking competitions like “Top Chef” and “Chopped.”

The Academy Drum and Bugle Corps are going through intensive rehearsals before they go on a summer-long tour which they hope will end in Indianapolis at the Drum Corps International World Championships in August.

In April, Hudson Blake became the first Brophy tennis player to win the singles state championship in 16 years.

After all the submarine sandwiches we’ve downed over the years, we think we’re a pretty good judge of a winning sandwich. But we’ve got nothing on the judges who will be evaluating everything, from the visual appeal to the correct number of olives, on the sandwiches at Subway Restaurants of Arizona’s annual statewide Subjammers contest on Saturday, June 8.

D.J. Peterson will be home from college soon, and little brother Dustin will be there waiting with a smile on his face and a paddle in his hand.

Arizona public schools again had some of the lowest per-pupil spending in the nation in 2011, ahead of only Oklahoma, Idaho and Utah, according to a recent Census Bureau report.

Twelve-year-old Alana Smith of Mesa took home a silver medal at X Games Barcelona earlier this month, becoming the youngest competitor in event history to receive a medal.

Mesa's Angela Zhang, a student at Mountain View High School, has been named one of six finalists for the National Forensic League Student of the Year Award.

Pat Herrera, who resigned last week after an ultra-successful stint coaching baseball at Desert Ridge, has been hired at Skyline.

Stephen Rayleigh and Matt Lyon thought they were done with careers in drones after they left the Army in 2010 and enrolled at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott.

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