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A truck driver plowed into a group of bicyclists during a race event in eastern Arizona, and police said Saturday that an officer shot the suspected driver, who had fled the scene in their vehicle. The Show Low Police Department said that at approximately 7:25 a.m., a black Super Duty Ford F150 struck multiple bicyclists during a "Bike the Bluff" race event. Six victims were taken to the hospital with with injuries — four of whom were in critical condition, while two were "critical but stable," police said. Police said at least two other "walk-in" victims at Summit Healthcare were...

Once again, the members of AZCDL have made a difference! Last June, the White Mountain Shooters Association (WMSA), based in Show Low, asked for your assistance in convincing the U. S. Forest Service to allow a shooting range on Forest Service controlled property. You responded with e-mails and letters of support for the project. We have been informed by WMSA that the Special Use Permit for the range has been authorized! The positive response to the Forest Service was so overwhelming that the usual 45 day appeal period was not required and the project will proceed. Located just 5 miles...

Wednesday, June 26, 2002NewsMax.com - PHOENIX – Self-described "environmentalists" have opposed forest management programs that could have prevented wildfires such as those burning thousands of acres in Arizona and Colorado, the new chairman of the Western Governors Association said Tuesday.President Bush also made a mocking reference Tuesday to the extremist so-called Greens, who would better be dubbed Grays, in "honor" of the ashen color of the land where pine forests once thrived.Speaking to reporters after an association meeting, Gov. Judy Martz, R-Mont., said as incoming chairman, her priority would be reducing the threat of wildfires to communities and the environment....

<p>SHOW LOW - Two huge wildfires raging through northeastern Arizona have exploded to a total of nearly 300,000 acres, fire officials said Sunday morning, with the larger blaze expected to hit Show Low by Sunday afternoon or Monday morning.</p> <p>Noting the shifting winds and the intensity of the inferno, operations section chief Buck Wickham cautioned, "That's a projection, and this fire has done nothing that we've projected yet."</p>

SHOW LOW, Ariz., Jun 30, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- A man was arrested Saturday night for allegedly causing the first of two wildfires that merged into the blaze that destroyed more than 400 homes in eastern Arizona, an official said. Pete Pierce, a spokesman for the agencies investigating the cause of the largest wildfire ever in Arizona, didn't release the man's name or any details about the circumstances that led to his arrest. Pierce said the man was to be arraigned Sunday morning before a federal magistrate. The Arizona Republic, citing a federal source it didn't identify, reported...

Arizona Town Besieged by Raging Wildfire Sun Jun 23,10:07 PM ET PHOENIX (Reuters) - Two raging wildfires converged on Sunday into the biggest fire in Arizona's 90-year history, licking at the edges of a mountain town as firefighters battled to save hundreds of homes. The fire, which has charred more than 322,000 acres, was steadily gaining on the town of Show Low, about 150 miles northeast of Phoenix, said Dorman McGann, spokesman for the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest. By late Sunday afternoon, the fire reached the edge of Show Low in Arizona's eastern high country and claimed its first casualty...

A few minutes ago the fire entered the west part of town with several houses on fire..pray UPDATES BEING POSTED HERE