LOS ANGELES - It promises to be a colorful Academy Awards season when films featuring Richard Nixon and Batman could go toe-to-toe for best picture.

LOS ANGELES - Movie crowds kept up their holiday spirit as Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn's comedy "Four Christmases" rang up $18.2 million to lead the box office for a second-straight weekend.

Few teams were hit as hard by graduation as defending 5A champion Highland this past offseason. Yet, despite the loss of nine players from last year’s team, the Hawks are heading back to the girls state semifinals for the 10th time in 11 years.

NEW YORK - He's played Beldar Conehead, Elwood Blues and Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute. But this Saturday, you can call Dan Aykroyd host.

Remember a year ago, when the circus came to TV?

"Tin soldiers and Nixon coming. We're finally on our own own. This summer I hear the drumming. Four dead in Ohio."

Retired Army pilot Fred Ferguson won’t be with his comrades this week when they travel to Washington, D.C., to commemorate the first National Medal of Honor Day on March 25.

From towns and cities thought the Valley, hundreds of people appeared at a public viewing Wednesday night to say goodbye to Arizona statesman John J. Rhodes Jr.

WASHINGTON - Eyewitnesses to history, Americans paraded through the Capitol on Sunday to pay their final respects to Gerald R. Ford, with parents seeking to convey to their children the significance of the 38th president's short tenure.

WASHINGTON -- In a state funeral for the president who only wanted to be speaker of the House, Gerald R. Ford's casket will return to the Congress he served on his historic journey to an unelected presidency.

Jose de la Isla: Unless the Republican Party chooses to become a permanent minority party, it would be smart to heed the path set by President Richard Nixon in 1969 to expand the electoral base.

“Paul Ryan told so many lies in his speech at the Republican National Convention, he’s going to make Richard Nixon eligible for Saint-hood. Mitt Romney cant tell the truth either. He’s telling Americans that they aren’t any better off than they were four years ago. Excuse me!? The American executives at AIG, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Exxon Mobil are much better off than they were four years ago thanks to President Obama, and the grueling hours put in by the GOP in congress. Who says they can’t work together?”

Who: Barb Like, 55, of Mesa, a sales associate at Dillard’s.

SAN FRANCISCO - W. Mark Felt, the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as "Deep Throat" 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president, has died. He was 95.

October 10, 2004

Upper Deck has signed an exclusive, multi-year deal to become the official trading card of Little League Baseball.

John Jacob Rhodes Jr. was remembered as an American patriot who helped preserve the Constitution in a time of national crisis, and as a humble man who never lost his love for Arizona, during a funeral service Thursday in Mesa.

John Jacob Rhodes Jr. was remembered as an American patriot who helped preserve the Constitution in a time of national crisis, and as a humble man who never lost his love for Arizona, during a funeral service Thursday in Mesa.

We’re hastily approaching the countdown to both political parties’ National Conventions. The Republicans will meet in Tampa, Fla. on Aug. 27-30 and the Democrats gather on Sept. 3-6 in Charlotte, N.C. I’m thrilled, excited and honored to be attending the DNC in Charlotte as one of Arizona’s 76 Democratic Delegates as we join with delegates from across America to nominate current sitting President Barack Obama.

August 12, 2004

An exhibit nearly canceled for being too anti-Bush will open as scheduled Aug. 31 at Arizona State University’s Art Museum, officials announced Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES - Country took its turn in the Grammy week spotlight with LeAnn Rimes, Marty Stuart, Charley Pride and Porter Wagoner among the stars calling attention to efforts to preserve vintage country audio and video performances.

John J. Rhodes Jr., the last member of an elite class of Arizona politicians who shaped the state and nation in Congress, died Sunday night at his home with his wife at his side. He was 86.

Marian Sellers is blind in one eye and can only walk a short distance with two canes. But the 96-year-old Mesa widow is not dead. It’s been difficult, however, proving that to the government.