The Shelter celebrated its one-year anniversary on Feb. 2. Kathryn Bulman felt hesitant when she first came to the Prescott Area Women's Shelter.

Last week the Prescott High girls soccer team proved it could play someone else's game, mixing it up with Tucson Sabino to earn a hard-fought, 1-0 victory. This week, the third-seeded Badgers can get back to what they know and love: finesse soccer.

Mayer firefighters put out a fire that started at 5:28 p.m. Monday in a bicycle storage and repair shed at the Orme School. "School employees saw the fire and called us. When we arrived at the scene, the shed was fully engulfed in flame," said Glenn Brown, fire chief for the Mayer Fire Department.

A bill pending in the state Senate that would give elected county officials such as the sheriff and treasurer their own budgets and control over personnel and other policies has drawn fire from county supervisors statewide including those at the helm of Yavapai County government.

PRESCOTT - Claims of censorship continued to surface this week during the Prescott City Council's efforts to streamline city business. A former city councilman and a frequent speaker at council meetings both contended on Tuesday that the meeting-rule changes that the council was considering would stymie discussion by members of the public.

Kathryn Bulman felt hesitant when she first came to the Prescott Area Women's Shelter. "I was scared at first, but after a while I loved it," Bulman said. "They helped me get started on my GED and find work."

Imagine for a second that the worst happens: You come upon your child, spouse, relative, friend or someone you do not even know, and the person in distress is unresponsive and doesn't appear to be breathing. It could be, for example, because the person was choking, pulled from the bottom of a pool or had suffered a heart attack. What do you do?

Attorneys for a motivational speaker charged in the deaths of three people during a Sedona sweat lodge ceremony wasted no time going on the offensive after his arrest last week.

Corrections Corporation of America is no longer considering land off Fain Road for a proposed private prison because of opposition from the Town Council, spokeswoman Louise Grant said Tuesday morning. However, she said, "We certainly remain interested in Prescott Valley. We do believe there is a very strong group of individuals who are supportive."

Prescott police arrested a man Sunday after he shot a round from a revolver into the air inside city limits to scare two javelinas away from his dog, a spokesman said.

Courtesy photo "I wanted to give back to this community that is very dear to me," said Alfredo Rolando Ortiz, who brings his harp to the YC campus this Thursday.

"Save my kids," a Katrina Baudek yelled as rushing waters in a flash flood swept her downstream from the pickup truck where her husband, daughter and young son tried to hang on. Sadly, the waters took Jacob Baudek, 6, from his father's grasp and the child did not survive the raging flood. David, Katrina and Dezera Baudek, their emotions still raw, attended a fundraiser Sunday at Smokin' Harley's Bar and Grill at Creekside Lodge.

Cynthia Boutin remembers printing out birthday cards for her students at Lake Valley Elementary School on Wednesday, Nov. 18. The speech pathologist aide stood up to get the cards off the desk behind her and, with no warning, her heart stopped beating and she fell to the floor.

The usually dry Agua Fria River is a mighty force that ignores boundaries when rains cause it to jump its banks. Headlines from the past prove the horror that this river can become: December 1978 - "Flood waters swept away two Interstate 17 bridges and six persons were killed when their car plunged into the ragtag Agua Fria River ..."

These bottles were collected several years ago from the building where the Eagle Drug Store was located at the northwest corner of Gurley and Cortez streets.

PRESCOTT - Collin Covault wasn't too keen on football as a child, but that all changed after he watched the dynamic Peyton Manning play quarterback for the University of Tennessee in the late 1990s. When the Indianapolis Colts drafted the 6-foot-5, 230-pound Manning as the first overall pick in the league's annual draft in 1998, Covault kept a close eye on No. 18 and has been hooked on the pigskin ever since.

PRESCOTT - For months, city officials have been deferring hot-button issues such as financing for the Big Chino Water Ranch and necessary sewer improvements to the upcoming City Council goal-setting retreat. This week, those issues will be front and center during the annual all-day meeting.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs celebrates National Salute to Veterans Week this year from Monday through Sunday, Feb. 14, at the Bob Stump Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Prescott with entertainment in the wards, speeches by elected officials, a veterans art show, local celebrities, youth groups, a sold-out concert and more.

Acclaimed harpist Alfredo Rolando Ortiz will bring his unique repertoire to town Feb. 11 in a special Valentine's Day performance to benefit Prescott Meals on Wheels. The celebration begins at 7 p.m. at the Rowle P. Simmons Community Center and promises "a romantic evening with a champagne and sweets reception" after Ortiz plays his music.

BLACK CANYON CITY - U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick spent two hours surveying the flood damage in Black Canyon City Friday, saying her first-hand knowledge would help her efforts to get federal help for the community's residents.