September 30, 2004

The gunshots still echo in Janice Worthington’s mind.

In an effort to save more lives on Arizona’s roadways this month, the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety is partnering with the Chandler Police Department and other local law enforcement agencies to enforce Arizona’s seat belt and child safety seat laws.

Light rail was expected to be the domain of the commuters, those 9-to-5 warriors of the workplace, on Monday. Yet the trains and stations still had an amusement parklike feel, as families again came out in force during the third day of no-fare ridership.

An outlying transit center that will allow people to board a free elevated train to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport instead of dealing with road congestion will be ready to welcome passengers by December.

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Manitoba (-- Passengers aboard a Canadian bus fled in horror as a fellow traveler viciously attacked his seat mate, repeatedly stabbing him and then severing his head, witnesses said Thursday.

LOS ANGELES - The airliner circled Southern California for hours, crippled by a faulty landing gear, while inside its cabin 140 passengers watched their own life-and-death drama unfolding on live television.

A pregnant woman ticketed for driving in the carpool lane will have her day in court next month to argue that her unborn child counts as a second person in the car.

A pregnant woman ticketed for driving in the carpool lane will have her day in court next month to argue that her unborn child counts as a second person in the car.

More than half a billion dollars in construction projects are under way at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, nearly half of it a massive rental car center billed as the largest building in Arizona under one roof.

Every workday for the past two years, Nora Hermon has ridden Metro light rail to the 44th Street and Washington station and boarded a shuttle bus to get to and from her job at a Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport gift shop.

A man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of fondling a sleeping passenger on a light-rail car in Mesa.

As the summer driving season gets under way, AAA Arizona is encouraging parents and teens to focus on safety during what they say is the deadliest time of year for teen drivers and their passengers.

Did you know that law-abiding parents may not be doing all they can to properly protect their child passengers? That's because the current child passenger safety law contains a loophole that provides parents of children over the age of 5 with bad, outdated advice. This law allows children to transition from a child safety seat to an adult seat belt at age 5, resulting in many parents and caregivers unknowingly placing their children in harm's way.

Did you know that law-abiding parents may not be doing all they can to properly protect their child passengers? That's because the current child passenger safety law contains a loophole that provides parents of children over the age of 5 with bad, outdated advice. This law allows children to transition from a child safety seat to an adult seat belt at age 5, resulting in many parents and caregivers unknowingly placing their children in harm's way.

A statewide rail plan that would start by linking Tucson and Phoenix is a step toward giving Arizona residents a transportation option that would relieve traffic congestion and improve air quality, an interest group contends.

ATLANTA - Delta Air Lines, trying to fight its low-cost competitors, is renewing its focus on one of its strengths of the past: Customer service.

A Mesa bait car enticed another thief Friday, court records show.

A Jeep with three people inside flipped into a canal in Chandler Thursday.

Three armed men stole a car early Friday morning from a driver and passenger who had just parked the vehicle at 100 W. Ninth Place.

A car crash at an intersection sent two 16-year-olds to the hospital on Tuesday evening.