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Apparently Lady Gaga will not be outdone by Justin Bieber. She vomited onstage during a concert over the weekend in Barcelona, one week after Bieber did the same thing when his tour opened in Phoenix. Unlike the Biebs, Gaga booted and rallied during “Edge of Glory” without leaving the stage even once. She also tweeted the YouTube video of the incident, and referred to herself as Lady PukeGA. Note to Rihanna and/or Taylor Swift: it’s up to you now to do this a third time and make it a legitimate trend.

After 49 years behind bars, the nation's longest-serving female inmate is free. Betty Smithey, 69, whose prison term began following her conviction for the murder of a 15-month-old Phoenix girl in 1963, appeared at a parole hearing Monday morning and by that afternoon walked, with the aid of a cane, out of the gates of the Perryville state prison.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer says President Obama was "somewhat thin-skinned" and "tense" in a testy greeting caught on camera on a Phoenix-area tarmac.

An airplane that crashed Wednesday evening into a rugged mountain east of Phoenix was carrying three children on a Thanksgiving trip, authorities said. The aircraft, a Rockwell AC 69, crashed about 6:30 p.m. in the Superstition Mountains near Apache Junction, said Pinal County Sheriff's spokesman Elias Johnson .

Fliers have been posted on storefronts. Detectives have gone door to door. An Amber alert has been issued to sound the alarm that a girl is missing. The disappearance of 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley from this Phoenix suburb on Oct. 11 has, in some ways, stuck to the script of what occurs coast to coast when children cannot be found. But the case of little Jhessye, whose name is pronounced Jessie and who was last seen wearing blue jean shorts, a white T-shirt and pink flip flops, has troubling elements all its own.

It's not a done deal yet, but a Phoenix radio station has offered a job to Bristol Palin. We told you yesterday that Palin was going to meet with KXMP-FM, and she did.

A plane has crashed into a building near an airport runway in Phoenix, Arizona, a Phoenix fire department dispatcher said Wednesday.

For the first time, regular nonstop air travel would expand from National Airport to L.A., San Francisco, Phoenix and other distant cities.

Phoenix may be on the verge of losing hotel and convention center business worth about $90 million over the next five years because ...

Arodi Berrelleza isn't one of the targets of Arizona's new law cracking down on illegal immigration - he's a U.S. citizen, a high school student from Phoenix....