A tiff over turf is about to be resolved in neighborhoods where artificial grass has been prohibited by homeowners associations thanks to a new state law.
Holiday Buddies benefits Crockett Elementary, an inner-city Phoenix school attended primarily by homeless and refugee children, 100 percent of whom qualify for free and reduced-price meals.
Once so down on his luck as an unemployed drug addict that he lived on the street, Ron Ackerman gives thanks that he now has a job, a home and the return of family that once shunned him.