Along with the United States Armed Forces, the Glendale Police Department will play host at an awards and farewell reception formally recognizing and honoring John Engstrom at 2 p.m. July 25.

The Mesa City Council is scheduled to decide Tuesday if police can spend nearly $163,000 to buy more than 150 Tasers for plainclothes detectives.

WASHINGTON - A B-52 bomber was mistakenly armed with six nuclear warheads and flown for more than three hours across several states last week, prompting an Air Force investigation and the firing of one commander, Pentagon officials said Wednesday.

NEW YORK - If the United States charges into war with Iraq, U.S. forces are expected to unsheathe several new weapons and tactics, including devices still under development.

ISLAMABAD - Authorities in a Pakistani border province plan to arm villagers with 30,000 rifles and set up an elite police unit to protect a region increasingly besieged by Taliban and al-Qaida militants, an official said Sunday.

The Scottsdale Police Department has prepared to launch a helicopter unit in each of the last five years, but the project has never lifted off the paper its budget is printed on.

The Scottsdale Police Department has prepared to launch a helicopter unit in each of the last five years, but the project has never lifted off the paper its budget is printed on.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Suicide bombers killed 67 people at Pakistan's largest arms factory Thursday in one of the country's deadliest terror attacks, adding to turmoil from political squabbling that is threatening to tear apart the ruling coalition now that Pervez Musharraf has quit as president.

The Mesquite baseball team is leaning on several different pitchers this season, mostly out of necessity.

Secretary Powell's Remarks to United Nations

WASHINGTON - The United States has "credible intelligence from multiple sources" that al-Qaida is determined to launch an attack in the United States in the next few months that could be linked to events such as an upcoming international economic summit and the summer political conventions, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Wednesday.

The Department of Homeland Security has postponed training eight Pinal County deputies and detention officers as the federal agency reassesses the program that allows local police to enforce immigration law.

WASHINGTON - President Bush on Monday called for quick deployment of an international force to help uphold the fragile cease-fire in Lebanon. "The need is urgent," Bush said. At a White House news conference, Bush also conceded that the war in Iraq, with daily bombings and U.S. casualties now standing at more than 2,600 was "straining the psyche of our country."

NAJAF, Iraq - American tanks firing shells and heavy machine guns made their deepest incursion yet Friday into this stronghold of a radical cleric.

MEXICO CITY - Confronting a Mexican drug war that is "sowing chaos in our communities," President Barack Obama signaled Thursday he will not seek renewal of a U.S. assault weapons ban but instead will step up enforcement of laws banning the transfer of such guns across the border.

WASHINGTON - President Bush insisted Monday that Baghdad had a program to manufacture weapons of mass destruction, seeking to rebut critics who say his administration's credibility is at stake in the search for illicit arms.

State lawmakers took the first steps Tuesday to letting teachers legally carry weapons in at least some public schools.

DOHA, Qatar - President Bush defended the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on Thursday and pledged that "we'll reveal the truth" on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.

WASHINGTON - President Bush said Wednesday that he and other world leaders will not tolerate nuclear weapons in Iran and he urged Tehran to treat protesters seeking the ouster of the Islamic government with "the utmost of respect."

WASHINGTON - The United States plans to set up an international military force in three regions of Iraq, with Poland and Britain controlling two zones and U.S. forces the third, a senior Bush administration official says.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Suffer from a bad case of acne? That could disqualify you from joining the Army National Guard. Too many speeding tickets? In today's slimmer, smarter Guard, that could keep you out, too.