Edgerrin James didn’t need to be introduced to Antrel Rolle during his first practice with the Arizona Cardinals. A look and a nod was all it took.

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania - When 21-year-old Mwajuma Hamisi finished high school a few years ago, the only future she could envision was finding a husband as quickly as possible, to spare her family the burden of taking care of her.

BARBOURVILLE, Ky. -- Machete-wielding police officers have hacked their way through billions of dollars worth of marijuana in the country's top pot-growing states to stave off a bumper crop sprouting in the tough economy.

HAVANA - Cubans snapped up DVD players, motorbikes and pressure cookers for the first time Tuesday as Raul Castro's new government loosened controls on consumer goods and invited private farmers to plant tobacco, coffee and other crops on unused state land.

An undercover investigator for Mercy for Animals notes that nothing could prepare him for what he saw during a ten-week undercover investigation in a pig factory farm.

People have differing opinions over the ethics of the nation’s food choices.

With April 1st just around the corner, it appears that the meat industry is playing us as April Fools by hiding its violations of humane and sanitary laws.

Thanksgiving is a time for celebration, not cruelty. Here are five reasons to spare a turkey and enjoy a vegan feast instead:

As Halloween approaches, thousands of people from all over the Valley find there’s nothing better than a good fright — specifically, a good safe fright at a haunted house.

As Halloween approaches, thousands of people from all over the Valley find there’s nothing better than a good fright — specifically, a good safe fright at a haunted house.

PLAINFIELD, Iowa - A factory fire spewing what authorities initially believed was toxic smoke prompted evacuations Tuesday of homes and farms near this northern Iowa town.

What’s hot to Jane Wyatt would burn the tongues of mere mortal chili lovers.

Fairness or freedom. President Obama says that government regulation is needed to guarantee equal opportunity. But who decides what is fair? For most of history, warlords, czars and kings were sovereign over the land and the people who farmed it. In recent centuries, revolutions have been fought to wrestle ownership from kings and to give power to the people. But, in fact, it is the politicians who control the government decide what is fair. Yet, in America, the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution recognized that "We the People" have a God-given right to decide what we do with our property.

EDEN, N.Y. - The name of the place says it all: The Original Kazoo Co. And, boy, do its owners mean original.

“Despicable, unconstitutional, ridiculous, immature, idiotic, and mendacious.” And that’s just how Tennessee newspapers characterized the state’s “ag-gag” bill now awaiting governor’s signature.

A Vent submission (Dec. 3) in the Tribune paints a misleading and inaccurate picture of the work of The Humane Society of the United States.

A Vent submission (Dec. 3) in the Tribune paints a misleading and inaccurate picture of the work of The Humane Society of the United States.

The good news from the Gulf of Mexico is that the oil-spouting BP well has finally been sealed, and that the devastating impacts of the massive oil spill on beaches, wildlife habitats, and marine ecosystem are gradually abating. The bad news is that there are no immediate plans to abate a much larger, deadlier, and continuing spill smothering life in the Gulf.

SALT LAKE CITY - A judge ordered the leader of a polygamous sect and others to pay $8.8 million after they failed to respond to a lawsuit that accuses them of misconduct with church assets.

WASHINGTON - It may seem like the country that used to make everything is on the brink of making nothing.

WASHINGTON - New worries about the environment, technology advances and tax break extensions are empowering European wind energy companies to try their luck in the United States.

Grand Lux Cafe, an upscale spinoff of The Cheesecake Factory, opens its first Arizona restaurant Thursday at Scottsdale Fashion Square.

Arizona’s first commercial-scale ethanol plant began producing the alternative fuel Monday near the town of Maricopa, opening what the factory’s operators hope will be a new energy era for the state.

ANAPRA, Mexico - Ten years ago, the border slum of Anapra was a sea of shacks made of packing crates and car parts.