PRESCOTT VALLEY – It was hard to take it all in at times.

“I’ll always have part of my heart there,” director Sam French says, discussing his move back to Los Angeles after working for nearly five years in Kabul, Afghanistan. It’s a Wednesday afternoon and French is swamped with interviews following the recent Oscar nomination for his live-action short film “Buzkashi Boys,” a portrait of two young teenagers living in modern-day Afghanistan who dream of playing the dangerous blood sport “buzkashi.”

After months of preparation, and with a curious community ready for the doors to unlock, FlipSide — a new multi-dimensional family entertainment center in south Gilbert — recently welcomed crowds of fun-hungry visitors inside a full three weeks before the facility’s official grand opening.

Fire officials say a small helicopter made an emergency landing Tuesday afternoon in a Mesa neighborhood.

He might as well have said, “Ahead, warp factor one, Mister Sulu,” so familiar was the voice at the other end of the line. Instead, it was, “Hello, this is Bill Shatner,” a friendly greeting from “Star Trek’s” once and always Capt. James T. Kirk.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — It's a few days before the Golden Globes, and the Beverly Hilton International Ballroom is having a little work done.

Something new is bubbling up in the world of cocktails as canny mixologists skip the soda and turn to sparkling wine as their new go-to mixer.

Sara Goheen, a junior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, often folds placemats or straw wrappers into interesting shapes while she's waiting at a restaurant for the food to arrive.

In an announcement that a Chicago Cubs official said took the team by surprise, the Cubs and Arizona State University baseball officials have agreed to disagree.

The ruling of a judge in a case involving Tom Horne’s 2010 campaign could open the door for smear campaigns against candidates by groups that don’t have to disclose who is funding them.

Construction cranes looming over Intel Corp.’s Ocotillo campus helping assemble a $5.2 billion chip-fabrication plant will employ 1,000 people.

A judge has ruled that Arizona campaign finance laws requiring political committees to register and report their spending and fundraising are unconstitutional.

Speaking to a crowd of more than 220 people at a Chandler Chamber of Commerce dinner recognizing the city’s top 100 businesses and stakeholders on Tuesday, Chandler Mayor Jay Tibshraeny said he was stung by a scorpion a few weeks ago, an incident that became a story in a local newspaper.

Authorities are looking for a large commercial truck carrying a crane that damaged an overpass on Interstate 17 near downtown Phoenix.

Some new family fun will be open in entertainment-starved southern Gilbert at the corner of Queen Creek Road and Val Vista Drive by the end of the year.

If you figure you know Matt LeBlanc now based on playing a version of himself on "Episodes," well, you'd be wrong.

Summer already is a month old, and one of Mesa’s leading ladies has not been able to take a dip into the pool, much less do what she’s best known for — take a dive.

The commitment to build a $5.3 billion chip fabrication facility in Chandler’s Ocotillo region — expanding on an already significant presence in one of the East Valley’s benchmark cities — has certainly brought Intel its fair share of global and national recognition over the past year.

An impromptu gathering of hundreds took place Tuesday afternoon in south Gilbert.