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Eight-year-old Satsay Singpradith and his brothers and sisters huddled around their mom and dad shortly before going to sleep. But this was not just another bedtime story. The fa...
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On the day after the earth moved and moved again under the feet of northern Californians, Yellowjackets bass player Jimmy Haslip worried for the families of his fellow band ...
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Let's condemn the Cards. And own the team ourselves.
Hell, we could run it as well as Bill Bidwill.
And the day may come when, if we want pro football here, w...
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No one would accuse Billy Squier of being a ground-breaking artist, or even one who swam against the tide of radio excessiveness. But the guitarist who reopened the Top 40 d...
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In a Sunnyslope bedroom, beneath a map of the intended targets, the gruesome crime unfolded. As Michael Bloom plotted, his partner Carl Schall listened.
The plan was t...
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Lillian and Al Jones were always proud that their teen-age son, Fred, was such a good Catholic. "I never had to fight him to go to Mass," Lillian says. Fred, a student at a Catholi...
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It wasn't the voice of, well, rapture that you'd expect. From Deborah Harry's tired, borderline cranky tone during the first few minutes of a phone call from her San Francisco ho...
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Louie Jones has been a force on the Phoenix fine-dining scene for what seems like forever. Previous associations with such posh and prestigious places as The Orangerie, La C...
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The road dips into rocky washes, winds through forests of saguaros and climbs up a windswept hill to a toppled wooden cross that marks the entrance to Father George Bredemann's twe...
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This Halloween, my son is demanding to be outfitted like his favorite two-bit Japanese creature-feature star, Ghidrah the Three-Headed Monster, and his expectations are high...
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For a while, David Letterman would randomly run on his show the portion of Stevie Nicks' 1986 "Talk to Me" video where she spins with incredible velocity and abandon, perche...
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Joe Lessard was already in his thirties when he started training to become a priest in the Phoenix diocese. He already had a master's degree in psychology and had been honorably di...
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Mary Jo West kidnaped? . . . Yeah, right.
After the first reports of the alleged abduction, the buzz on the street was that Mary Jo faked the crime.
First of all, she wa...
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Everyone around the old Bisbee courthouse expected former Maricopa County Attorney Tom Collins to have a cakewalk in his first trial as rural Cochise County's first full-tim...
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It was the kind of press conference reporters show up for even when they're not working.
They put on their best suits and get their shoes shined. They make sure they have fre...
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The long, lean black man takes a break from tinkering with a car beneath the South Phoenix sun. Drenched with sweat, he falls onto a tattered couch under a paloverde tree.
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Please, somebody, make our sportscasters stick to reading scores. Please. On Sunday , CHANNEL 12 sportsmouth BILL DENNEY hosted a so-called "debate" on the PROP ONE sta...
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Angelo Ianuzzi has opened another restaurant in the Valley and this provokes a deep urge to exhume the past. Isn't this the guy who so brazenly fingered the tastes of the lo...
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There's a story about the late Gilbert Cady, ASU's long-time finance wizard, that helps explain why the campus looks the way it does today. Rudy Turk, director of the Unive...
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There are two ways to search for a good, reliable baby sitter.
One. You can run a help-wanted ad, interview dozens of prospects, and discover you wouldn't trust any of 'em w...
