On Thursday, April 4 the new Phoenix Premium Outlets will open with 90 stores ready to offer discounts of 25 to 65 percent off retail prices.

Harmony Korine seems to want it both ways, all day, with "Spring Breakers," his super-stylized descent into a sunbaked hell where bikini-clad, gun-toting college babes serve as our guides.

Twenty-seven dead. Twenty of them little kids, who as President Obama said, won’t see their graduations, won’t get a job, won’t get married. Murdered in childhood.

FOUNTAIN HILLS — Sometimes it's better to dream, particularly when reality means you're not an instant multimillionaire.

The aftermath of the Aurora, Colo., shooting tragedy is grief: grief for the victims, grief for the families who lost a loved one, and grief for the parents of the killer. This kind of mass shooting affects many people including the family and friends of one of our own right here in Ahwatukee Foothills. Alex Teves, 24, died protecting his girlfriend from the gunman.

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.”

Thomas Jefferson

A Desert Vista High School alum has been confirmed to be one of the victims in the mass shooting in Aurora, Colo., last week, according to officials in that state.

“I do not mind the ‘snowbirds’ who come to the Valley. They are older and wiser than most of us. They spend their money here and help our local economy. To those of you who complain about the increased traffic, their careful driving, etc., remember that you will be old one day too. I hope people won’t mind you living where you want to and treat you with respect. Have a great summer, ‘snowbirds.’ See you in the fall!”

As a preview to Earth Day, April 22, students at Ambassador Academy in Ahwatukee Foothills went on a collecting spree of aluminum cans and plastic bottles. The goal of the crew is to make the world a little cleaner than when they found it, and it is projects like this, they say, that can make a difference.

Home sales shot up 22.3 percent in March as increasingly confident buyers rushed to snap up houses in the peak buying season.

Home sales shot up 22.3 percent in March as increasingly confident buyers rushed to snap up houses in the peak buying season.

President Obama has done us all a great favor by putting out a detailed budget proposal. He has laid down an important marker over which the next campaign will be fought.

In a recent guest commentary in the Ahwatukee Foothills News (“Guns on campus bill is misguided attempt to increase school safety,” Feb. 7), Arizona State University President Michael M. Crow stated that it is a bad idea for students on the ASU campus to be able to carry a firearm for self-defense, and hence he is in opposition to SB 1474.

Forty-three youngsters from nearby Frank Elementary School in Guadalupe, found magic and enchantment on Dec. 3 at the annual Knights' Kids Christmas Shopping Spree at the Ahwatukee JCPenney's store on Ray Road. The event provided a Christmas shopping experience for consciously-selected needy youngsters, ages 6 to 10, to shop for personal clothing.

Forty-three youngsters from nearby Frank Elementary School in Guadalupe, found magic and enchantment on Dec. 3 at the annual Knights' Kids Christmas Shopping Spree at the Ahwatukee JCPenney's store on Ray Road. The event provided a Christmas shopping experience for consciously-selected needy youngsters, ages 6 to 10, to shop for personal clothing.

The Mountain Pointe baseball program participated in its sixth annual Christmas Angels Program.

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona jury on Monday found a former construction worker guilty of killing nine people in the so-called Baseline Killer case that terrorized the Phoenix area during the summer of 2006.

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona jury on Monday found a former construction worker guilty of killing nine people in the so-called Baseline Killer case that terrorized the Phoenix area during the summer of 2006.

With "In Time," writer-director Andrew Niccol takes a clever, compelling idea - that time is currency and you can buy your way to immortality or die broke - and beats it into the ground.

Here: The Foothills Women's Club to meet Sept. 14

Four days after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Balbir Singh Sodhi was murdered in front of his Mesa gas station simply because he wore a turban.

Four days after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Balbir Singh Sodhi was murdered in front of his Mesa gas station simply because he wore a turban.

Bill Richardson