State lawmakers will debate this week whether to give live children traveling in the open bed of pickup trucks the same legal status as a dead elk.

A 66-year-old, unidentified homeless man who was attempting to walk across McDowell Road near Scottsdale's Granite Reef Senior Center was struck and killed by a pickup truck Monday night.

A school bus filled with children collided with a pickup truck in Gilbert Wednesday, one of three crashes in the area at nearly the same time.

The driver of a pickup truck who slammed into the back of a Mesa Unified School District bus on the Loop 101 freeway Tuesday was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.

March 10, 2005

APACHE JUNCTION — A woman was seriously hurt and three other people suffered minor injuries after their pickup truck went over a cliff near Tortilla Flats in the Tonto National Forest.

Over objections of legislating common sense, a House panel agreed Thursday to restrict kids riding in the back of pickup trucks.

Chandler police are investigating the death of a 50-year-old man who was found shot inside his pickup truck outside a market on Monday morning.

In the bar rooms and on the bar stools and in the school hallways and in the smokey pool halls they still talk about him.

TUCSON - Authorities have identified three people fatally shot in a Feb. 8 attack on a pickup truck filled with illegal immigrants as two Mexican nationals and a Guatemalan.

Phoenix police officers patrolling Ahwatukee Foothills have noticed a sudden, dramatic increase in the number of stolen Ford-250 and -350 pickup trucks.

Scottsdale police are investigating whether an incident involving a man trying to lure girls into a late model white pickup truck at a school bus stop at a north Scottsdale intersection Friday morning is connected to a similar one at Rio Montana Park in August.

DETROIT - Ford Motor Co. says it will soon offer wireless mobile offices in its F-series pickups, an option aimed at building contractors and others who do business on the road.

A woman walking across Main Street in Mesa was struck and killed by a pickup truck Wednesday night.

State senators on Wednesday agreed to give children in pickup trucks the same status as refrigerators: They can't be back there if there's a chance they can be bounced out.

Two Mesa men were killed and another person was severely injured early Sunday after a speeding pickup truck ran a red light and crashed into a van, police said.

A 3-year-old boy was listed in critical condition with head injuries at Maricopa County Hospital after being struck by a Dodge pickup truck driven by a Phoenix man in south Scottsdale Sunday evening.

Five Star Ford of Scottsdale, Cardinale Way Mazda at Superstition Springs in Mesa, and Big Two Toyota in Mesa offer the top three compact pickup trucks in fuel mileage. With end-of-the-year prices, now is the time to find the one that's right for you.

Change can be a pain. Even change that involves a switch in municipal trash collection from alleys to curbside. A lot of East Valley neighborhoods have experienced the change, and the pain, in recent years.

It’s tiny and eco-friendly, and it bears the Democrats’ only hope to unseat Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the fall. But is it tough? Surely you can’t be serious.