Martin Luther King III will be the keynote speaker at the 11th annual Scottsdale Community Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dinner Celebration on Jan. 10 at the Hyatt Regency Scottsdale Gainey Ranch ballroom.

While visiting a small Franciscan college last week, I toured a nearby historic chapel with the college priest, who learned that I was headed to a family funeral. While knowing I wasn't a Catholic, he offered to say a prayer for the rest of my relative's soul.

Amy Berg hasn’t yet voted in a presidential election, but she talks like a political veteran.

August 1, 2004

LOS ANGELES - Nancy Reagan was heartbroken over Charlton Heston's death. President Bush hailed him as a "strong advocate for liberty," while John McCain called Heston a devotee for civil and constitutional rights.

Jose de la Isla, guest commentary

I’ve seen folks ostentatiously get up in the middle of a sermon and walk out in disgust. Something offended them.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish leaders called Sunday for an end to Iraq's sectarian conflict and vowed to track down those responsible for the war's deadliest attack.

A politician making lemonade after being pelted by a bushel of media-chucked lemons is as familiar as red yarn on the handle of a black bag on the luggage carousel at Chicago's O'Hare airport. But few alive have seen the likes of Rod Blagojevich. Not content to stir up a nice, cold pitcher or erect a simple stand, the former Illinois governor is challenging Minute Maid's supremacy in the field of citrus concentrate. Refusing to exit the stage quietly after removed from office, he instead has gone on the offensive. Some might argue the 52-year-old Democrat has given a whole new meaning to the word "offensive."

John McCain will launch the next phase of his presidential campaign with a biographical tour across the country next month. Naturally, the tour will bring him back to Arizona, where the former Navy pilot began his career in politics decades ago.

Bands, floats and children will line the downtown streets of Mesa on Monday, Jan. 21, as part of the city’s weekend-long celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.

AMMAN, Jordan - President Bush on Wednesday sought to strengthen Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's ability to quell rising violence in Iraq amid U.S. doubts about his capacity to control sectarian warfare.

Not content to direct a mediocre historical epic, filmmaker Oliver Stone marshals all of his talent as a provocateur to direct a colossally bad one in "Alexander," starring Irishman Colin Farrell as the legendary Macedonian warlord.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a multifaceted, multidimensional and multitalented man. However, because so many fail to study the great works written about African American people, we often find ourselves the victim of 30-secons sound bites on the six o'clock news where excerpts of his omnipresent "I Have A Dream" speech are played over and over again.

An idea that has so far escaped our state’s politicians in the long and weary immigration debate has surfaced relatively early in the gun-violence debate: comprehensive reform.

The United States, perhaps unique in the world, is a nation of documents that are peculiarly significant to our identity, because we were founded on written principles that each generation must explore and amplify.

November 24, 2004

KATMANDU, Nepal - Nepali security forces opened fire and beat protesters marching toward the royal palace Saturday, as opposition leaders rejected the king's proposals for restoring democracy in the Himalayan country.

My reaction to Bill Richardson’s guest commentary of Dec. 28, “Young warriors a truly special breed,” is dismay. Although I respect his service as master police officer, and appreciate most of his contributions to the Tribune, I must comment that some of the opinions in this article are historically naive, on one hand, and disingenuous on the other.

It didn’t take long for tax-protesting suicide bomber Joseph Stack to attract a following. Shortly after he slammed his private airplane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas, on Feb. 18, white supremacists began hailing him as a hero who stood up to a tyrannical federal government.

It didn’t take long for tax-protesting suicide bomber Joseph Stack to attract a following. Shortly after he slammed his private airplane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas, on Feb. 18, white supremacists began hailing him as a hero who stood up to a tyrannical federal government.

Immigrants-rights advocates frustrated with an increasingly hostile Arizona political climate are reaching back 15 years for inspiration to change hearts and minds.

Immigrants-rights advocates frustrated with an increasingly hostile Arizona political climate are reaching back 15 years for inspiration to change hearts and minds.

Gilbert Mayor Steve Berman likes to project a politically incorrect, devilmay-care image. He believes voters like that he’s blunt and direct, and he’s probably right about that most of the time.