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Welcome to the world, Weston, Addison, Brynlee and Cambria. The Cluff quadruplets arrived Wednesday, a bit early, at Banner Children’s Hospital in Mesa, with their birth beginning at 4:19 p.m. At 31 weeks of gestation, all weighed in at more than 3 pounds and are doing fine in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit.

Tiny knees to chest, tiny hand to mouth, the baby snuggles peacefully with her brothers and sister. “She has your nose, Jayne,” Jeremiah Cluff teases his wife.

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale has announced the eight finalists for the clubs' 2008 Youth of the Year, including three from Scottsdale high schools and two from the Paradise Valley Unified School District.

Puppet Works, Theater Works’ new puppet theater, will present the play “Christopher Michael Who Wouldn’t Recycle” beginning March 19. “Christopher Michael Who Wouldn’t Recycle” explores recycling and its benefits through music, poetry and puppetry.

Puppet Works, Theater Works’ new puppet theater, will present the play “Christopher Michael Who Wouldn’t Recycle” beginning March 19. “Christopher Michael Who Wouldn’t Recycle” explores recycling and its benefits through music, poetry and puppetry.

Puppet Works, Theater Works’ new puppet theater, will present the play “Christopher Michael Who Wouldn’t Recycle” beginning March 19. “Christopher Michael Who Wouldn’t Recycle” explores recycling and its benefits through music, poetry and puppetry.

June 3, 2004

SAN DIEGO - Seven Marines and a Navy corpsman could face murder, kidnapping and conspiracy charges as early as Friday in the shooting death of an Iraqi man, a defense attorney said.

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Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery is kicking off its 15^th annual partnership with local fire departments with the Fire Chief Ale limited-time-only promotion. 

Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery is kicking off its 15^th annual partnership with local fire departments with the Fire Chief Ale limited-time-only promotion. 

Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery is kicking off its 15^th annual partnership with local fire departments with the Fire Chief Ale limited-time-only promotion. 

“This is for the two different tailgaters that honked at me yesterday when I slowed for a turn: I know this is going to be hard for a mouth-breathing booger-eater to comprehend, but if you follow at a safe distance, you won’t have to slam on your brakes when the car in front slows down.”

It’s do or die. And if the Arizona Rattlers, who are five games under .500 despite a win Saturday against Austin, want to qualify for the postseason for the 14th time in 15 years, they’ll have to assume that stance the rest of the year.

Hollywood would be hard pressed to concoct a better story than the one Rattlers wide receiver Trandon Harvey is writing this season.

What to watch for during spring practice around the Pac-10:

Tribune editorial

One of Dale Hausner’s stormy marriages unraveled after he threatened to kill his wife with a shotgun, court records say. Another was darkened when his 2-year-old son died after a car in which he was riding plunged into a creek in Texas.

“Columbus traveled with five Americans,” read the first line of a section of my fifth-grade daughter’s Christopher Columbus report. I was puzzled. Where did she get such a notion?

Wouldn’t it be something if Michelle Obama, not the Rev. Jeremiah Wright or John McCain, was the reason Barack Obama loses the presidency? Instead of “change,” the First Lady-in-waiting is sticking with old hurts held closely by certain black communities, long caught in the quagmire of resentment.