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On January 14, 1990, at about 12:50 a.m., someone bombed Carl Ritter's car in the driveway of his Tempe home. "It sounded like someone had... More >>
On September 1, former pro basketball star turned car dealer Sidney Moncrief dropped by the Glendale City Court. Moncrief was seeking an... More >>
As the Hell's Angels back their bikes against the curb at Oakland International Airport, the squares do double takes. Their conspiratory smiles... More >>
For decades, as a truck driver and safety engineer, Joseph Onofrio worked hard for his money, and you can't blame him for wanting to hold onto it.... More >>
At the Arizona Bar Center, there are five fat accordion files bursting with complaints about nonlawyers practicing law. Most were filed by real,... More >>
As the co-chair of the Maricopa County Libertarian party, Debbie Norwitz is understandably upset when people talk about "the American two-party... More >>
Renz Jennings, chairman of the Arizona Corporation Commission, can't ignore the telephone behind his desk. "We may be the only ones in the... More >>
Talking about his role as Don Corleone in The Godfather, Marlon Brando compared the "capo de tutti capo" to the chairman of General Motors.... More >>
On the other end of the telephone that Ferd Haverly's holding, there's a photographer who wants some time with Haverly's boss, U.S. Senate hopeful... More >>
The Arizona Republic is really cashing in these days on its connection to Vice President Dan Quayle, but the newspaper's not exactly tooting its... More >>
Amid the orange groves of Mesa, the boys play catch. A dozen baseballs snap through the bright air. From their matching tee shirts and the... More >>
Bill Rathje talks trash. He makes offal puns. He's the duke of disposable debris, the garbage guru. Like Indiana Jones, Rathje is an... More >>
Hanging in a second-floor gallery of the Phoenix Art Museum is a square canvas with the words "High-Speed Gardening," in upper-case, sans-serif... More >>
He had been standing at the podium, answering a question from the Senate Government Committee chairman, when he tailed off into incoherence. He... More >>
Sarah Stannard is a candidate for Congress in the newly created 6th Congressional District. She's running as an independent candidate against a... More >>
Most politicians, inclined to remain politicians, prefer to have the future charted in terms of probabilities; before they get behind a... More >>
Scottsdale seems an unlikely place to locate a band of VISTA volunteers. What acts of selflessness might these persistent do-gooders be... More >>
In the midst of the storm about Phoenix's proposed gay rights amendment, perhaps the most unexpected thunderbolt was hurled by the... More >>
After the stunning Phoenix City Council vote on June 16 to, in effect, not vote on a controversial gay rights amendment, air horns... More >>
WITH A THROAT raw from marathon campaigning and a CNN camera crew recording his every self-deprecating head bob,Bill Clinton and his retinue... More >>
AS HE LOOKS OUT over the 2,300 plastic and chrome chairs arranged in Phoenix Civic Plaza, the Reverend Leo Godzich's face betrays only the... More >>
I'm opposed to this ordinance," Godzich admits. He begins to roll, the timbre of his voice rising and ebbing with the elastic, jazzy... More >>
Mike Page joined the Air Force when he was 17 years old. He stayed out of trouble, served his country, made his rank and saved a little... More >>
Eight floors below the conference room where Governor Fife Symington delivered his diatribe last week against "out of control" state government,... More >>
LAST THURSDAY, Governor Fife Symington toured Arizona to tout Project SLIM. Armed with a couple of easels and a few stiff-smiling aides, he... More >>
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