LAS VEGAS - Brooks & Dunn, the most honored artists in the history of the Academy of Country Music's awards show, picked up a record 20th trophy Tuesday night as country music's elite gathered to perform and compete for honors.

It’s your last chance to see country music’s best-selling duo of all time perform live. Hit-makers Brooks and Dunn will perform Friday in Phoenix on their last tour before calling their twosome quits.

The powers, coaches always like to say, reload. They do not rebuild.

Two men were found guilty Wednesday of using two runaways from a Scottsdale juvenile detention center as prostitutes.

The laughs flow free and fast in “The Break-Up” — starring Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston as an estranged couple who build their own little hate-nest — and that, as they say, is the rub.

Valley Christian’s boys won four races during preliminaries on the first day of the 1A/2A/3A state swim meet Friday at Phoenix Country Day.

WASHINGTON — Arizona earned a D in a national report Wednesday that graded states on their families’ financial security in five broad categories.

Sha Brooks scored 15 of her 25 points in the second half as Florida upset No. 21 Arizona State 65-60 on Saturday to win the Lucaya Division championship of the Junkanoo Jam at Freeport, Bahamas.

Every year just before Thanksgiving, students in the East Valley Institute of Technology’s culinary arts department bake hundreds of pies, dozens of dinner rolls and pounds of turkey.

Shane Perez had never cooked a Thanksgiving turkey before this week. But by 9 a.m. Monday, the Tempe High School 16-year-old had already prepped seven turkeys for the big day.

LOS ANGELES — The mother of "The Brady Bunch," a former NFL quarterback, one of the self-proclaimed "guidos" from "Jersey Shore" and the daughter of Sarah Palin are among the celebrities who will cha-cha-cha on the 11th season of "Dancing with the Stars."

Candice Dupree scored 17 points to lead the Chicago Sky to an 89-69 victory over the Phoenix Mercury in a WNBA preseason game Wednesday night at Chicago.

Mesa Mountain View survived double overtime to top Glendale Mountain Ridge 41-38 in the Highland High School Girls Basketball Tournament on Saturday at Gilbert Highland High School.

LOS ANGELES - Toby Keith received a leading eight Academy of Country Music nominations Tuesday, including song and single of the year for "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)."

NEW YORK - Brooks & Dunn and Brad Paisley were both nominated for six Country Music Association Awards, but Ronnie Dunn emerged as the leader with seven nominations, including one for the group's inspirational song "Believe."

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Brad Paisley led the list of nominees Wednesday for the 41st Annual Academy of Country Music Awards with six nominations, including top male vocalist of the year.

November 1, 2004

It is the most elementary of exercises and a basic part of most everyone’s daily activity. Yet walking — that thing we do when we put one foot in front of the other — can be a mystery for those hoping to benefit from it.

*The team finished fifth at the NCAA Championships in Albuquerque, N.M.

Mesa Red Mountain boosted its psyche for next week’s 5A state girls basketball tournament by avenging its only two Arizona losses.

Arizona State’s Azahara Munoz shot a 3-under 69 Tuesday to help the Sun Devils to fourth place after the first day of the NCAA women’s golf tournament at Albuquerque, N.M.

Corona del Sol defeated Flagstaff Sinagua 63-38 in the third-place game of the Purple Division of the Nike Tournament of Champions II Saturday at Chandler High School.

When Tempe resident Katie O’Neill decided to take up tennis, choosing the allwomen’s tennis clinic at Kiwanis Park Recreation Center was a no-brainer.