Peoria News

A Peoria family hit by burglars are pleading with the thieves to return a shiny box containing a baby's ashes.

The recession and housing collapse have halted four decades of double-digit growth for nearly half of the nation's biggest rapidly expanding suburbs.

Blackstone Country Club at Vistancia will host Golf Fun Day on Nov. 30, to benefit Embrace Teachers Angel Tree, a charity that provides Christmas gifts for less fortunate children in the Peoria Unified School District.

Peoria is hosting a Catholic Charities presentation Wednesday Nov. 18 on the influx of refugees coming to Arizona as part of the Diversity Committee's luncheon speaker series.

The Peoria Fire Department and the Peoria Firefighter Charities have joined together for the 2009 Christmas for Underprivileged Children Toy Drive and Holiday Party.

About 100 people lined up early Tuesday morning for the grand opening of the new Krispy Kreme shop in Peoria.

Guests lined up for goodies at the grand opening of a Krispy Kreme shop in Peoria Tuesday.

The National Christmas Tree made its first West Valley stop Thursday in Peoria at Rio Vista Community Park before traveling to Murphy Park in downtown Glendale.

The Sundance Elementary School cafeteria was turned into an immunization clinic Tuesday as the Peoria Unified School District and Mollen Immunization Clinics started offering H1N1 vaccinations to students and staff.

Rio Vista Community Park will host a fun walk for adults 50 years and older Nov.

A home believed to belong to the family at the center of a high profile murder investigation caught fire early Friday.

Iraq _a>, who'd lived in Phoenix since she was a young girl, wanted her hair and makeup to be perfect, her clothes to be fashionable.

Jim Davis, principal at Centennial High School, was awarded $25,000 when he was named the National Milken Educator by the Milken Family Foundation.

Bernard Scheer was 13 when Nazi forces invaded his hometown in Poland. He was sent to the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp.

Arizona municipalities will sue to challenge state budget legislation that local government officials contend went astray.

A Glendale man was sentenced to 28 years in prison Friday for the 2007 beating death of an Air Force veteran.

Noor Faleh Almaleki just wanted to be a normal American woman. The striking 20-year-old from Iraq, who'd lived in Phoenix since she was a young girl, wanted her hair and makeup to be perfect, her clothes to be fashionable.

Two children who suffered first and second-degree burns from throwing aerosol cans in a backyard fire Monday are recovering at home, officials said Wednesday.

A convicted sex offender has moved into a Peoria neighborhood, police said Wednesday.

An Iraqi immigrant accused of slaying his own daughter for becoming "too Westernized" will be arraigned in Maricopa County Superior Court on Thursday morning.