Optimum News 12 Newsday.com MSG Varsity Explore LI AM New York Optimum Autos Optimum Homes

Phoenix, AZ

201205311058 On the Scene: Phoenix Comicon as seen by a librarian and her 10 year old daughter

Newsday's coverage

  • Review: A mapping contender emerges in MapQuest

    four free services that provide driving directions -- Google , Yahoo , AOL 's MapQuest and Microsoft 's Bing. I made it from Phoenix 's airport to a friend's wedding outside Tucson without getting lost, and I made several sightseeing stops along the way with 9:43 AM Read more »

  • Agency renews efforts to guard Ariz. monuments

    say illegal immigrants have left acres of trash and abandoned cars.Conservation groups, however, have criticized the BLM for putting up steel barriers that they say ruin the landscape.___Information from: The Arizona Republic, http://www.azcentral.com   Read more »

  • Police: 5 dead in shooting in Phoenix-area home

    in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert say a man shot and killed four people, including a toddler, before killing himself.Gilbert police Lt. John Lyle told The Arizona Republic that authorities aren't looking for a suspect in Wednesday afternoon's shooting at a   Read more »

  • Flash of light across Phoenix skies a mystery

    like an explosion was captured by a traffic camera on Interstate 17 around 4:45 a.m. Thursday and happened to be broadcast by KSAZ-TV when the station showed footage of the roadway during a report on the morning's commute.The two electric utilities that serve   Read more »

  • Ariz. governor blasts feds over immigration woes

    the names of a slain rancher and Border Patrol agent on Tuesday at a major border-security expo being held in downtown Phoenix .Speaking to a room of law enforcement officers and those in the border technology industry, Brewer said the immigration issue isn't   Read more »

Around the web

More from around the web »

About Phoenix, AZ

The City of Phoenix, Arizona /ˈfiːˌnɪks/ is the capital and the most populous city of the State of Arizona and the county seat of Maricopa County. It was incorporated as a city on February 25, 1881 and is called Hoozdo, or "the place is hot", in the Navajo language and Fiinigis in the Western Apache language.

from Wikipedia