For many foster parents in the East Valley, it’s a struggle to provide the children in their care with clothing. State subsidies to foster families are low and usually inadequate to meet the monthly clothing needs of growing kids. So a few years ago, Mesa United Way opened Helen’s Hope Chest, 415 N. Pasadena, a free clothing boutique for children in foster care.

The amount of money the state of Arizona pays for a foster child's basic needs is never enough, so the Mesa United Way operates Helen's Hope Chest to fill in the gaps with free clothing, school supplies, books and toys. The public is invited to an open house at the facility, 415 N. Pasadena, from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday.

United Way officials broke the seal on a new "store" chock full of free stuff for foster children and the families that raise them.

Jim Pederson pumped $1.2 million of his own money into his U.S. Senate campaign this month, according to federal campaign finance reports.

May 10 was a red-letter day for Helen’s Hope Chest, thanks to a donation from Valley charity Season for Sharing and 14 volunteers from Keller Williams Realty who participated in the company’s annual RED (Renew, Energize, Donate) Day at the clothing closet for foster children. The workers took a small mountain of laundry to local laundromats and installed plumbing and electrical for a new commercial washer and dryer purchased with the donation.

As I walked out of the neurological intensive care unit, my eyes met the eyes of the wife, the son and the daughter.

So with the addition of Johnny Damon, the Yankees immediately become the odds-on choice to win the 2006 World Series.

Campaign finance reports released last week show surprising differences between Tempe's two candidates for mayor.

Recently, I have been studying the laws and science of focus, optimism and intention, and I would like to share with you why.

Recently, I have been studying the laws and science of focus, optimism and intention, and I would like to share with you why.

September 22, 2004

After two heart attacks, Samuel Cohen prepared for his death. He paid off his mortgage, his credit cards and set up a college fund for his 10-and 11-year-old children.

Students at Pima Butte Elementary School used a bit of color and ingenuity to make the holiday brighter and more hopeful for children being treated at Phoenix Children’s Hospital.

For foster children in the East Valley, a new set of school clothes, or even an extra toy, is that much closer to a reality. In light of state funding cuts affecting foster children, Mesa United Way officials started a program called Helen's Hope Chest - set to officially open Saturday - aimed at helping to pair those children with needed supplies at no cost.

A Gilbert woman's Web-based business - SunBling.com - sells bracelets and necklaces that change color to warn wearers when the sun's ultraviolet light is particularly strong.

The mustached gent stares out from his portrait in sepia-toned astonishment. I’m at Aunt Pittypat’s Kitchen, where morning light filters through lace curtains, corn bread is plentiful and someone will announce Lee’s surrender at any moment.

The mustached gent stares out from his portrait in sepia-toned astonishment. I’m at Aunt Pittypat’s Kitchen, where morning light filters through lace curtains, corn bread is plentiful and someone will announce Lee’s surrender at any moment.

LOS ANGELES - Entertainer Bob Hope, whose one-liners poked fun at presidents, blunted the sting of combat for U.S. troops from World War II to the Gulf War, and made him the most revered of American comics, died Sunday at his Toluca Lake home.

On Tuesdays and Fridays, Eric Griego undergoes surgery to clean an open wound and change the vacuum-assisted closure dressing on his back and shoulder.

Jack Condon takes more than 30 pills a day to help control his Parkinson’s disease, and he is looking forward to the possibility of cutting down that number a little bit. “I’ve got a pretty good handful there to get me through the day,” he said. Condon, who was diagnosed with the disease in 2004, is scheduled for deep brain stimulation surgery today at Banner Boswell Medical Center. He hopes that the surgery will help him get his life back.

TAMPA - He plays football with personality and flair, as though he’s having so much fun he’d play for free.