Announcing the arrests of another nine suspected illegal immigrants within Mesa city limits on Thursday, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio again criticized Mesa police Chief George Gascón by name for refusing to enforce immigration laws.

NEW YORK - The most riveting moment of Barbra Streisand's Madison Square Garden concert was one of the only unscripted ones. Streisand endured jeers as she interjected a political skit into Monday night's show, exchanging zingers with a celebrity impersonator playing George Bush as a bumbling idiot.

The Twinkies shelves are quickly emptying across Arizona after Hostess announced it was going out of business.

"Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson deployed the best ‘zinger' at the Republican presidential debate in Florida Thursday night: ‘My next door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current Obama administration.' "

“I attended my first and last Gilbert school board meeting this week. The most interesting part of the meeting was the obligatory moment of silence. I’d recommend that all school board members be required to join Toastmasters International before they hold another meeting.”

Former Diamondbacks manager Bob Melvin, as you might expect, took the high road Friday when speaking to the media about his firing.

At the risk of raising ire from fans and lovers of Hostess snacks, I have to confess: I have never been a fan of Twinkies, Ho Hos, Ding Dongs, Zingers or Suzie Q’s. And I would say, outside of eating a package of powdered-sugar doughnuts on rare occasion, I haven’t touched a Twinkie or Hostess cake in more than 30 years. They were just too sweet for me, and I never liked the taste of them.

After starting our church and being the head pastor for almost 20 years, my friend Robin decided to change jobs and focus on helping other pastors do what he did. He’s now been a part of more than two dozen new church plants around the United States and it’s awesome to see God using him in this way.

You'd have to really love birding as much as the guys here do to enjoy the strained buddy comedy "The Big Year" to its fullest potential.

An enthusiastic crowd of more than 150 Barack Obama faithful came from across the Valley to gather in a downtown Phoenix parking lot and holler for their candidate in his first debate against Republican John McCain.

Wonder if Eli Manning still feels like it was such a swell idea to engineer that 2004 draft-day escape from San Diego?

Ladislav Nagy said Thursday he was told there was a chance it could take longer than the originally estimated three to four weeks for him to recover if he opted to have surgery on his injured right knee.

Ladislav Nagy said Thursday he was told there was a chance it could take longer than the originally estimated three to four weeks for him to recover if he opted to have surgery on his injured right knee.

Let's not panic. We all know that Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Wonder bread and the rest of Hostess Brands' oddly everlasting foods aren't going away any time soon, even if the food culture that created them is gasping its last.

Each presidential primary or caucus is only for voters who live in the state where it is held.

Like the amped up comeback tour of two rockers who had their heyday sometime in the mid-'80s, Sylvester Stallone and director Walter Hill ("48 HRS.," ''The Warriors") join forces for a hard-hitting exercise in beefy, brainless fun with the New Orleans-set actioner "Bullet to the Head."

Having great-looking stars who have the added bonus of actually being able to act makes the noisy romp "This Means War" more tolerable that it ought to be.

When Mexican President Felipe Calderon went to see President Barack Obama on March 3, the Washington establishment didn't consider it of particular interest. It only made page A9 of The Washington Post. After all, Calderon had made an official state visit in May 2010, just nine months earlier.

Shockingly inept even by the standards we've come to expect from a Happy Madison production, "Grown Ups" feels as if it were made without considering whether an audience would ever actually see it.

The Wisteria Lane neighborhood has spent the past four years battling cancer, tornadoes, blindness, infidelity and attempted murder. Now the residents face the most daunting challenge of their suburban lives: aging.

LOS ANGELES - Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV's "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 84.

An audience gathers on a warm Friday evening in May inside the cramped Scottsdale studio of Arizona Women’s Theatre Company for a staged reading of new plays.

TNT thought it had a marquee matchup when it scheduled the Phoenix-Dallas game Thursday. Instead, it got the 1-4 Suns against the 0-4 Mavericks.

Things must be looking up for the U.S. Ryder Cup team. At least that is my impression two weeks before the foray takes place at Ireland’s K Club on Sept. 22-24.