CASA GRANDE — A Casa Grande man who is a former U.S. Border Patrol agent created and patented a video game controller for people with severe spinal cord injuries.

It took Max Scherzer 14 starts to gain his first major league victory. Now he has three wins in five starts after pitching the Arizona Diamondbacks over the San Francisco Giants 2-1 on Thursday.

George Allen’s Alzheimer’s disease left him crying uncontrollably all day and pacing all night. After several medications failed to stop the 74-year-old’s tears or continuous walks, a caregiver at his assisted living home in Mesa found the magic bullet: Zoloft, the nation’s most prescribed antidepressant drug, made by Pfizer Inc.

The Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Resort is part of a billion dollar spat that could result in takeover giant and hotel-casino owner Carl Icahn at the helm.

Scottsdale has changed course in its hunt to find a new spring training home for the San Francisco Giants.

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During the pre-Super Bowl media swirl, Michael Strahan admitted to a wish – to get close enough to Tom Brady that the only thing that separated them “was a facemask.”

PARIS - Suez SA and state-owned Gaz de France plan to form a global energy giant that they say will be better placed to compete against players such as Russia's OAO Gazprom.

TOKYO - The giant squid can be found in books and in myths, but for the first time, a team of Japanese scientists has captured on film one of the most mysterious creatures of the deep sea in its natural habitat.

A wealthy businessman who gave Scottsdale the land for the Coronado Golf Course said deed restrictions would prohibit the city from transforming the course into a baseball complex for the San Francisco Giants.

GLENDALE - The Arizona Cardinals are a much improved football team, but they still have some work to do to join the NFL’s elite.

A Carefree developer’s plan to buy Rawhide sank because of flood control issues.

 WASHINGTON - The Bush administration seized control Sunday of troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, aiming to stabilize the housing market turmoil that is threatening financial markets and the overall economy.

BAGHDAD - The biggest Shiite party in Iraq once appeared to hold all the political sway: control of the heartland, the backing of influential clerics and a foot in the government with ambitions to take full control.

WASHINGTON - A federal rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could cost taxpayers $25 billion, congressional budget experts said Tuesday, as lawmakers put finishing touches on legislation that would tap the troubled mortgage giants’ profits to help save homeowners from foreclosure.

WHAT HAPPENED: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke urged Congress on Tuesday to bolster regulation of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and suggested limiting their massive holdings to guard against any danger their debt poses to the overall economy.

SAN FRANCISCO - No need to see an optometrist. That was, in fact, Russ Ortiz walking off the mound at AT&T Park to a standing ovation. On Friday the Giants got the Ortiz performance Arizona thought it was getting in 2005 when the Diamondbacks plopped down $33 million for four years for his services.

SAN FRANCISCO - A giant vulnerability in the Internet’s design is allowing criminals to silently redirect traffic to Web sites under their control. The problem is being fixed, but its extent remains unknown and many people are still at risk.

The giant is no longer sleeping. The Arizona State softball team, mostly a fair-to-middling program over the years, set in an area where you would expect a juggernaut, has come alive this spring.

The giant is no longer sleeping. The Arizona State softball team, mostly a fair-to-middling program over the years, set in an area where you would expect a juggernaut, has come alive this spring.

Is there going to be a post-Thanksgiving coma having nothing to do with turkey, in-laws or tryptophan?

The Scottsdale City Council is injecting itself into the Desert Discovery Center debate with hope of identifying who will oversee the planning for the future gateway to the McDowell Sonoran Preserve.