CENTRAL PHOENIX - Biltmore Fashion Park is on track to show off its modern makeover in mid-November, just in time for the holiday crowds. But shoppers and pedestrianswill have to wait until spring to use the Camelback Road underpass that will make it easier to get to the center.
It took more than 100 firefighters four hours to get the7-alarm  blaze under control. Most of the rooms where at least 25 families were living in were completely destroyed.
SPRING CREEK — The Spring Creek girls soccer team is on a roll in its league games. The Lady Spartans just can’t seem to lose. That trend continued on Saturday when Spring Creek (6-4-3, 5-0-1) stomped on Fernley 6-1.
Stradbroke Handicap winner La Montagna is out of the Melbourne spring carnival after being badly injured in a sand roll accident at Flemington. Trainer Barry Baldwin said La Montagna panicked and tried to jump a gate near the Flemington sand roll on Saturday afternoon.
SPRING HILL — A tough task awaited Spring Hill for its homecoming game on Friday night and visiting David Lipscomb did little to dispel that it will be one of the team’s expected to be in the hunt for a state championship at the season’s end.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Now the idea seems daft. But in the spring of 1972, the dumping of a million or so tires offshore here looked like ecological enlightenment.
Occasionally these days the Blue Ox Jazz Babies can be heard playing Jelly Roll Morton's "Wolverine Blues," which isn't a blues tune, in the band's home town, Mankato, which is a misspelling of Mahkato, the Dakota word for "greenish-blue earth." The city is located at the confluence of the Minnesota and Blue Earth rivers, the latter named by a Frenchman for the color of clay found in its banks.
Following last week's Milan shows, where futurism was one of the key themes for next spring/summer and many designers turned the catwalk into a "moon walk", their French counterparts appear to have caught the space bug, too.
Five West Bladen High School students and two East Bladen High School students were recently recognized for academic success by being inducted into the Spring 2005 National Honor Roll.
