Commissioner Gary Bettman announced Monday night that a preliminary deal had been reached to sell the Phoenix Coyotes. The N.H.L. bought the Coyotes out of bankruptcy in 2009 for about $140 million and plans to sell the team to a group led by Greg Jamison, who previously ran the San Jose Sharks. League officials were in Glendale, Ariz., to meet...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. WHAT: A 2009 house with three bedrooms and two and a half baths HOW MUCH: $340,000 SIZE: 2,575 square feet PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT: $132.04 SETTING: This house is in the Cotswold neighborhood, about 10 minutes from the central business district. The neighborhood was developed in the 1950s as a suburb, and still has many houses from...
A police sergeant in the Phoenix suburb of Peoria will be demoted and suspended for two weeks without pay for posting a photo of a bullet-riddled image of President Obama on Facebook. Peoria officials said Tuesday that the sergeant, Pat Shearer, will be demoted to the rank of officer, which means a reduction in pay. Mr. Shearer has 10 days to...
Phoenix er en amerikansk by og hovedstad i delstaten Arizona siden 1889. Det er samtidig delstatens største by med 1,3 millioner indbyggere, hvilket gør byen til USA's 6. største. Medregnes hele Phoenix metropolområdet når indbyggertallet op på 3,3 millioner.
Phoenix er hovedsæde for Maricopa County, beliggende ved Salt River i statens centrale del.
For cirka 2.000 år siden immigrerede indianere fra Mexico og dannede et samfund i området, hvor Phoenix ligger i dag. Samfundet er i dag kendt som Hohokam (på Pima indianersprog: "den forsvundne"). Her byggede indianerne kanaler, dyrkede korn, bønner, meloner og bomuld, lavede lerpotter, vævede kurve og lavede smykker. De trivedes i det varme klima.
Indianerne forsvandt ca. 1350, ingen ved hvorfor. Først mere end 500 år senere begyndte en ny by at tage form på stedet. Fold ud