Less than a mile downstream from one of the nation’s best-known engineering marvels, the Hoover Dam, a second is taking shape.

The Arizona House plans Thursday to consider Gov. Jan Brewer’s proposed sales tax increase and other budget-balancing legislation approved by the Senate, with concerns over a separate bill on business tax relief helping put the outcome in question.

The lead story on KPHO-TV’s evening news last April 1 had bombshell potential. With a mug shot of a sullen-looking African-American man looming in the background, Channel 5’s anchor opened the newscast with: “It’s a new face on the most notorious crime spree in Valley history.

On Friday, shortly before 4:30pm, reports say Daniel Greene, 27, drove his car through the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport at a high rate of speed before undressing in the terminal.

Detectives from Phoenix police and the Department of Public Safety teamed up for “Operation CRIPpled Blues,” a year-long effort to identify and arrest gang members who are habitual criminals in south Phoenix.

The Phoenix Herpetological Society is now caring for nearly 600 creatures rescued from an exotic import-export company in Arlington, Texas.