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Nearly two decades after rebels burned their home on Africa's western coast, a Liberian family leads a quieter life in Litchfield Park, running an organic farm they started with the help of a refugee program. The Golos are among 1,190 resettled Liberian refugees in the state.

Two years ago the Peace Corps sought volunteers who could bring more skills and experience. Those recruiting efforts resulted in a 44 percent increase in applications from people older than 50.

Whenever someone with a legacy as lasting as Walter Cronkite's passes on, the call goes out almost immediately to look for someone to replace him, to look for the ''next'' Cronkite.

Could start caring for teen prostitutes, abandoned refugee children or address other welfare needs.

Adults will be recorded in state's shot registry.

In the rolling hills off Leupp Road east of Flagstaff, model airplane pilots are gathering for the 16th Annual "Beat the Heat" event with the Flagstaff Flyers.

ROAD CONSTRUCTION, TRAFFIC RESTRICTIONS MONDAY-FRIDAY RE-PAVING PROJECTS: City of Flagstaff will resume re-paving Switzer Canyon Drive, Lone Tree Road, High Country Trail and Lance Road. Lane closures and delays should be anticipated in these areas. Questions can be directed to Dan Holmes, Project Manager at 779-7685, Ext. 7235.

From 1884 -- The news of the horse and saddle thief of a couple of weeks ago was telegraphed all around the Territory and he was apprehended this past week at Fort Thomas. No word if the horse and saddle were recovered.

It's Game On for student athletes in Flagstaff Unified School District.

Fire crews contained a human-caused fire atop Mount Elden to 5 acres Friday.

Jim Hartzler's competition could be as stiff as the handlebars of his white mustache come mid-morning Saturday.

With a heat wave causing an around-the-clock ordeal outside, it’s a wonder that so many across the Valley are venturing outdoors. A conservatively reported 5,000 people — likely more — visited a regional attraction at the Phoenix Zoo Saturday that boasted more than 60 tons of processed snow. Slideshow: Winter in July

U.S. Border Patrol agents recovered the bodies of two illegal immigrants and rescued four others near Gila Bend on Thursday in a search started by a 911 call - an increasingly common occurrence.

It was an event that was one giant leap ahead of its time, a technical achievement so incredible that it would be considered major even if it happened today. But man’s first walk on the moon took place 40 years ago Monday. Video: Motorola and the moon

Queen Creek’s foreclosure rate rose slightly over the past month. However, more homes have pending sales than they did last month, which town officials say is a positive sign.

GLENDALE – The body of a man found in a Phoenix home on Friday has been identified.

PHOENIX - A Valley apartment complex was seized by the bank in a foreclosure that caught tenants by surprise.

UPDATE: 6 p.m. The 2-year-old girl was found safe and in good condition. Police say she was found about a mile away from her home and was taken to the Apache Junction Police Department.

PHOENIX – A Valley mother goes from murder suspect to murder victim all within a matter of weeks.

MESA – A charter school has been robbed and vandalized four times and police say the crooks that did it are part of a notorious street gang.

A judge rules in an ongoing dispute involving a polygamous church property trust in Utah and Colorado City, Ariz.

A 2-year-old girl who disappeared Friday night from the mobile home park where she lives in Apache Junction has been found.

Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Scott Schoeneweis asks the courts to keep the cause of his wife's death secret.

Valley police need the public's help collecting any clues that would shed light a man's mysterious death.

A man suspected of robbing a home and attacking the homeowner was fatally shot as he tried to leave, Tucson officers say.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities in San Francisco say they don't want a repeat of a collision between two light-rail trains that left several dozen people hurt.

WELLINGTON, Fla. (AP) — The baby of a pregnant Florida woman with swine flu has died after hospital officials say doctors tried to deliver the child. A press release from the Wellington Regional Medical Center says the mother, Aubrey Opdyke, remains in critical condition.

Neighbors said six houses have been hit in their neighborhood in the past couple of months.

PHOENIX -- Investigators are working to figure out what sparked a fire at a popular central Phoenix restaurant Friday afternoon. Richardson's at Bethany Home Road and 16th Street is being called a total loss.

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A woman was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving Saturday after she crashed into another vehicle head on, Scottsdale police said. Two elderly women suffered life-threatening injuries, police said.

An 18 hour nightmare came to an end Saturday evening for an East Valley mother whose child went missing. An Apache Junction man has been arrested for the 2 and half year old’s disappearance.

Depending on where you're at in the Southeast Valley, you can probably see a large dust cloud slowly creeping north, according to the National Weather service in Phoenix.

TUCSON, Ariz. - Authorities in Tucson say a man suspected of robbing a home and attacking the homeowner was fatally shot as he tried to leave. s Deputy Dawn M. Barkman says a neighbor called police as three men broke into a home Friday and pistol-whipped the homeowner.

An excessive heat warning continues today through 8 p.m. Sunday in the Greater Phoenix area. The National Weather Service forecasts near record daytime highs and overnight lows this weekend.

More than 150 Army Reserve soldiers from the Valley are heading back to Afghanistan.

A dust storm is passing through Phoenix, and visibility has been reduced to a quarter-mile. The large dust storm is covering most of the southeast Valley.

One day after a fire destroys Richardson's, one of the most well-known restaurants in the Valley, the owner says reality is starting to sink in.

Patients at Coronado Care Center say the air conditioning went out a few days ago.

A 36-year-old man has been found dead inside a Valley apartment, and now his car is missing.

In this May 20, 2009 photo, Tom Romero packs one-eighth-ounce bags of medical marijuana at The Green Door dispensary in San Francisco.

YUMA, Ariz. - Officials say Yuma's parks and recreation areas have seen a spike of vandalism in the past month. Toilets are getting smashed, trees have been cut down, playground equipment is being taken apart and even drinking fountains are being destroyed.

The Arizona Department of Economic Security is warning some clients of potential identity theft after 10,000 letters sent to notify people about just that problem were returned as undeliverable.

TUCSON, Ariz. - Authorities in Tucson say a man suspected of robbing a home and attacking the homeowner was fatally shot as he tried to leave. Pima County Sheriff Authorities say one suspect was shot as the neighbor's son returned fire.

PHOENIX - Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will need federal approval to conduct future immigration sweeps and have to accept tighter controls on the release of information to news reporters about such operations.

Forty years ago this month, a generation of TV viewers were glued to their black-and-white TVs, listening as CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite described in detail the first moon landing. It was a historic broadcast by an iconic newsman.

Everspin Technologies will be putting its nonvolatile memory onto single-board computers made by Emerson Network Power in a deal announced this week.

Solar providers planning to sell power may end up being regulated by the Arizona Corporation Commission.

Aide Solar has signed a distribution agreement with Green Fuel Solar in an effort to expand its reach in the U.S.

The city of Phoenix will get more than $829,000 to help reduce diesel emissions on city-owned equipment through a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.