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The FBI is now offering a $200,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a man sought for a 2004 Ahwatukee Foothills robbery in which an armored car guard was killed.
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading directly to the arrest of Jason Derek Brown. Brown is wanted for murder and armed robbery in Ahwatukee. During November of 2004, Brown allegedly shot and killed an armored car guard outside a movie theater and then fled with the money. [Age enhanced photographs courtesy of the FBI]
My guns are for the purpose of protecting innocent life from deadly violence should the occasion arise in which I have the opportunity to intervene. It is my simple moral responsibility to the assailant’s targets in that instant and later and indeed to the common good and to gentle civilization itself that I do so if I am able. If that occasion arose, and if I failed for not having carried my gun, my life would become a living hell of remorse and guilt.
Calling it a compromise between extremes, Attorney General Tom Horne on Wednesday proposed training and arming the principal or other top administrator at every public school.
A one-time Salt Lake City resident sought in the fatal shooting of an armored truck courier in Ahwatukee Foothills could be taking advantage of philanthropic Mormon church members, the FBI’s lead agent on the case said.
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading directly to the arrest of Jason Derek Brown. Brown is wanted for murder and armed robbery in Ahwatukee. During November of 2004, Brown allegedly shot and killed an armored car guard outside a movie theater and then fled with the money. [Age enhanced photographs courtesy of the FBI]
The Haywood family left an imprint in Desert Vista’s big win over Mesquite last week.
LOS ANGELES — Charlize Theron's evil queen costumes for "Snow White and the Huntsman" called for hundreds of hand-cut rooster feathers, thousands of iridescent beetle wings from Thailand and one particularly imposing crown.
BAE Systems has been awarded a four-year U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) contract to produce tactical vests equipped with soft body armor for men and women of the armed services who serve in harm’s way. The vests hold hard-armor plates and soft-armor ballistic inserts, which provide soldiers with advanced protection. The Improved Outer Tactical Vests offer Soldiers lighter-weight equipment with advanced features and increased mobility in the field.
A year has passed. The outrage has subsided. The public outcry for change has faded. But the slain are still deceased; the wounded are still trying to recover and lives and families have been damaged forever.
A year has passed. The outrage has subsided. The public outcry for change has faded. But the slain are still deceased; the wounded are still trying to recover and lives and families have been damaged forever.
I just returned from New York City on a business trip, and I am writing to share with you an experience I had over three days talking to a woman from China who owns a delicatessen on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, near the hotel I stayed in.
I just returned from New York City on a business trip, and I am writing to share with you an experience I had over three days talking to a woman from China who owns a delicatessen on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, near the hotel I stayed in.
The Coalition of Blacks Against Breast Cancer is taking strides to educate and increase awareness about breast cancer in the African-American community.
The Coalition of Blacks Against Breast Cancer is taking strides to educate and increase awareness about breast cancer in the African-American community.
His charitable organization started off strong more than 17 years ago but the momentum has slowed in recent years. Now, Ahwatukee Foothills resident Dr. Duane Wooten hopes a golf tournament this weekend will be the first step in getting the organization back on track.
Once upon a time there was a little boy who loved baseball. Before long he had joined a little league team. The practices and the games were so fun, but the boy felt sad because his dad was never there to watch him play.
Once upon a time there was a little boy who loved baseball. Before long he had joined a little league team. The practices and the games were so fun, but the boy felt sad because his dad was never there to watch him play.
It's cliche to say that comics aren't just for kids anymore, but sometimes neither are superhero cartoons.
Case in point is "Batman: The Brave and the Bold," now in its third and last season. Maybe its impending demise has emboldened the creators to take the gauntlets off, but recent episodes have been a huge Easter-egg hunt for comics fans.
"B&B" takes the square-jawed, campy Batman of the 1960s and teams him up with other DC characters, which was the format of "The Brave and The Bold" comic book from 1966 to 1983. Some other characters are also from the 1960s, like Green Arrow, who is presented as the Batman knockoff he was before 1969 (a competition that is played for laughs).
But "Brave and Bold" is more than just an exercise in nostalgia. Batman existed before the '60s, and continues to exist 40-odd years later, and "B&B" isn't afraid to lift from any of it. It's like a mix tape of Batman's 70-year history, with other characters sprinkled in for spice.
Take, for example, the first episode of season three, "Battle of the Superheroes," which debuted March 25. This is the first episode to co-star Superman, which is significant, because Batman co-starred with Superman in "World's Finest Comics" in nearly every issue from 1954 to 1986. Even before the team-up was formalized, the two first co-starred in a 1952 story where they (gasp!) revealed their secret identities to each other, which was unheard of in 1950s superhero circles.
In "Battle," Superman and Batman are pals, until red kryptonite (provided by Lex Luthor) turns the Man of Steel into -- in the words of Jimmy Olsen -- a "Super-jerk!" Batman has to keep his friend busy, and non-lethal, until the red K wears off.
It's an amusing story for kids, but what's amazing for adult fans is the execution. In one scene, Mr. Mxyzptlk shows up, and runs Jimmy Olsen through a series of bizarre transformations in seconds -- all of which first appeared in "Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen" comics from 1952 to 1974. Running down the list, I can practically hear comics fans whooping with joy: Blimp Jimmy, Genie Jimmy, Werewolf Jimmy, Porcupine Jimmy, Future-Boy Jimmy and -- of course -- Giant Turtle Man Jimmy. Those transformations were all the subject of eight- or 10-page stories decades ago -- but I think they still work as eight- or 10-second sight gags today.
Superman is old-school as well, a squinty-eyed hero (1940s) who changes in a Daily Planet supply closet (1960s) and whose famous 1950s TV theme ("faster than a speeding bullet") is incorporated into the dialogue. The computer villain Brainiac shows up, and wants to steal Metropolis "to repopulate my home planet"-- a confusing line, unless you know that's exactly how he was portrayed in his first appearance, in 1958 (he's changed a bit since then). Lois Lane has brief daydreams that mirror "Imaginary Stories" from her book in the '60s, the Metropolis mayor is named for longtime Superman artist Curt Swan and Luthor's lair is modeled on those depicted when Swan was drawing the books.
But we also get the 1970s Metallo, and Bat-armor straight out of the best-selling 1986 graphic novel "Dark Knight Returns." Batman says to Luthor, "You diseased maniac!" -- a line from 1978's "Superman: The Movie." The "World's Finest" team -- yes, a newspaper headline calls them that -- defeats Luthor with the same identity-switching trick they used in that first team-up in 1952.
I could go on, but then I wouldn't get to talk about episode two, "Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases!" Bat-Mite -- a '50s magical imp similar to Mxyzptlk -- speaks directly to the viewer from his Bat-Museum full of genuine Batman toys and costumes. This episode doesn't just break the fourth wall -- it chews it up, along with all the other scenery.
First we see an adaptation of the famous "Bat-Boy and Rubin" parody from "Mad" No. 8 (1954). Then we see an adaptation of a 1960s Japanese Batman comic book that was itself adapted from an American comic book. Then the "Super Friends" version of the Dynamic Duo meets the Scooby Doo gang.
This maddening ouroboros of self-reference is almost enough to make your head hurt -- until you realize you're laughing too hard.
It's hard to believe that armor made just on the other side of the mountain is being used to protect U.S. troops around the world from bombs, bullets and even AK 47 rifles, but that's just what BAE Systems has been doing for 13 years.
There are plenty of things, besides ostriches, that draw about 300,000 people to Chandler’s Ostrich Festival each year.
There are plenty of things, besides ostriches, that draw about 300,000 people to Chandler’s Ostrich Festival each year.
For the first time in slightly more than 67 years, Laurence Dennis soon will have the gift of returning to a job he last worked in November 1943 on what now is considered a relic from World War II.
Jan Gleeson may have passed on, but people who knew and worked with her say her memory and passion for education is still being felt everyday at Horizon Community Learning Center.
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