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 can drink water and stay inside to protect themselves from the killer heat. But household pets are at the mercy of their owners.

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

WASHINGTON —

The Phoenix Animal Care Coalition will partner with the Franciscan Renewal Center - The Casa in Paradise Valley to host the St. Francis Festival, Blessing of the Animals and Pet Adopt A Thon from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 22-23. PetSmart Charities is sponsoring the event at the center, 5302 E. Lincoln Drive.

About half of the Higley High School Knights wrestling team delivered donated baby dolls, miniature cars, stuffed animals and diapers Wednesday to the Gilbert area’s only pediatric unit at Mercy Gilbert Medical Center.

“The sergeant is very upset about this,” a Chandler police spokesman said in Tuesday’s Tribune, about the death of a police dog named Bandit left in a department-issue SUV for 13 hours Saturday.

Chandler has dispatched 11 firefighters and two fire engines to Southern California to help battle blazes that have forced more than 500,000 residents out of their homes and caused approximately $1 billion worth of damage.

Winnie the Pooh tends to amble unhurriedly through his days, enjoying his life and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood at his own pace. But "Winnie the Pooh," the movie, couldn't have come along at a better time.

A jury sentenced a man to life in prison Wednesday for his role in a series of random nighttime shootings that unnerved metropolitan Phoenix in 2005 and 2006.

Sometimes, reacting to a movie is all about the expectations you bring with you walking into it. "We Bought a Zoo" is about a family that . buys a zoo. It's as high-concept as you can get, outside of maybe "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" or "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry," and it's equally straightforward in wearing its heart on its sleeve.

After several weeks of consideration, Dan Dunn has decided to resign as Mesa Community College’s football coach. Mike Jacobs, who joined the MCC staff last year, has been named interim head coach.

A Scottsdale man who pleaded guilty to a carjacking and home invasion this summer in connection with a case in which Gilbert police burned down a Valley home, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday.

“Part one, am I the only one that feels if you know there are coyotes in your area to never leave your small pets outside at night? Part two, why do people think the answer to an animal problem is to just start killing them?”

"Why does our governor want more new residents? Does she realize the water situation? This Arizona native wishes she would wake up to this serious situation. And no new developers, either. We want no more destruction of our beautiful desert. It’s all disappearing.”

July 15, 2004

Should Arizona legitimize assisted suicide?

Twenty years ago, Chandler needed a festival."We were looking for a signature event to bring people in to the city," Joan Saba explains.

If it were a television series, it would be called “Defying the Odds.”

November 3, 2004

Review: Esther is unfailingly polite, a sensitive painter and pianist, a vision of traditional feminine charm in her prim dresses and bows. But this 9-year-old also has a way with a hammer and a handgun and knows a thing or two about arson and destruction of evidence.

NEW ORLEANS - High on the seventh floor of Memorial Medical Center, some of the city's sickest patients lay in wet, sweaty sheets, drifting in and out of consciousness.