A security guard admitted Tuesday he placed his protective vest against a wall and fired two shots into it in a hoax intended to make it look like he was shot at a Mesa apartment complex.

Twice married to military men, Debbie Inman said she was familiar with weapons. She knew immediately what was sticking out from under Gilbert Tuffli III’s jacket as she walked beside him in the hallway of Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn hospital Monday morning.

Raja Bell, a 6-foot-5 free agent guard, told a Salt Lake City radio station Friday that he intends sign with the Suns.

Roko Ukic likes to play fast. And he can shoot. So there’s no question he fits the Suns’ style should Phoenix draft him at No. 21 in next Tuesday’s draft.

This is a special Labor Day for Vali Iancu. The Scottsdale business owner is seeing the fruits of his labor to show his native Romania that his adopted country, the United States, "is not just good at war, we are good working at peace as well.’’

Arizona State won out for the affections and talents of San Antonio-area shooting guard Brandon Thompson, who announced a commitment to the Sun Devils on Monday afternoon.

PORTLAND – It’s been a very difficult season for Gordan Giricek. The Phoenix Suns can surely relate.

The head of the state House panel on homeland security wants to bar lawsuits against National Guard soldiers who kill or injure others while on duty.

No lead was safe. No baskets were gimmes. No style points earned. And nobody wearing green and gold cared.

BAGHDAD - Iraq has ordered hundreds of private security guards linked to Blackwater Worldwide to leave the country within seven days or face possible arrest on visa violations, the interior minister said Wednesday. The order comes in the wake of a U.S. judge's dismissal of criminal charges against five Blackwater guards who were accused in the September 2007 shooting deaths of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad.

The search for a replacement for Leandro Barbosa, out for up to 10 days with a sore left ankle, is on. The Suns are looking at players in the National Basketball Developmental League, among other minor leagues, including point guards with NBA experience such as Smush Parker (who started this season on Detroit’s roster) and Omar Cook, Suns president Bryan Colangelo said Monday.

NEW DELHI - A bodyguard for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie manhandled a British photographer as he tried to take their picture at a hotel in western India, an incident caught on video by an Indian television station.

Two gunmen remain at large after robbing an armored car guard making a deposit Thursday at a bank in Desert Ridge Marketplace.

LAS VEGAS - The Denver Nuggets need shooters, and Casey Jacobsen needs a way back into the NBA. Will they find what they need in each other?

LAS VEGAS - The Denver Nuggets need shooters, and Casey Jacobsen needs a way back into the NBA. Will they find what they need in each other?

A U.S. Army soldier who grew up in Mesa and was readying to go on a mission near Kabul, Afghanistan, was among four soldiers injured and two others killed in an incident involving a privately hired “rogue security guard” who opened fire inside their barracks with an AK-47 on Saturday.

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until it's gone, and even the Suns admit they might have outsmarted themselves two years ago when they cut loose Eddie House in hopes of getting a bigger, better backup point guard to Steve Nash.

Sometimes good just isn’t good enough.