Michael Alix, who worked at Bear Stearns for 12 years and was its senior risk manager since 2006, was named a senior vice president in the bank-supervision group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, according to an announcement

Re: the Oct. 27 guest opinion "Asking rich to pay more is the fairest way to tax" by Sheila Tobias.

Workers at General Motors Corp. and Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc., for example, could potentially lose thousands of dollars in company contributions from their retirement accounts.

Steve Nash added 12 points and 11 assists, Shaquille O'Neal had 18 points and six rebounds and Amare Stoudemire 14 points as the Suns won for the third time in four games.

A Glad you asked, because a discussion about investment risk is needed these days.

It's a matter of values. People from here are just a little bit firmer and come from a more stable background," said Belasco, 63, an electrical contractor.

Gary Vaughn's favorite is cornbread. Appropriately enough, he wins our copy of "The Cornbread Gospels" cookbook.

In the county's most contested race, Marana Unified School District incumbents Dan Post and Maribel Lopez appear headed toward re-election to two of three open seats in a race that featured eight candidates.

The dispute between the broadcast networks and the Federal Communications Commission is the court's first major broadcast-indecency case in 30 years.

In defeating Prop. 200 by a 60-40 margin, voters proved that grass-roots consensus, common sense and doing the right thing can sometimes trump special-interest dollars.

With more than half the votes counted, Zimmerman, a political consultant, was followed in voting by former Arizona Corporation Commissioner Sharon Megdal.

I had previously mentioned to him that I'm not sure if I want to be buried in Wisconsin and to please not put my name on the stone now. I always thought married couples should discuss such details before making

Buffelgrass is an African grass introduced decades ago by ranchers. Environmentalists say it poses a serious threat to the Sonoran Desert because it facilitates the spread of fires by providing continuous stretches of fuel, and the desert is not well-adapted

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Throughout Election Day, voters were uploading videos and photos of themselves pulling levels and punching holes in ballots — a practice that could be unlawful, depending on the state.

In one of the most expensive campaigns in state history, the lenders sought voter approval of Proposition 200 to permanently protect their right to operate in Arizona, but the effort was failing by a 3-2 margin.

The patient in his Duluth, Minn., clinic was not responding to antibiotics, and now the stubborn infection in his intestines threatened to kill him. Then Aas found a similar case written up in a 1950s Norwegian medical journal.

Citing the sagging economy, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Los Angeles Sunday but said it wants to preserve three of its 11 stores.

Piggybacking on the excitement level raised by presidential victor Barack Obama and his voter-registration and get-out-the-vote drives, Democrats increased their effective majority to at least 56 seats in the 100-member Senate.

Voters elected Republican Bryan Martin to the District 2 seat left open by longtime board member Sandie Smith's departure.