Scottsdale

Police Chief John Robertson is one of five finalists for the top police spot in Scottsdale, Ariz., city officials there said. Robertson, 38, who has served on the Garden Grove force for 16 years, was among 115 people from 27 states who applied. Scottsdale and Garden Grove each have about 135,000 residents, but the similarities end there.

A running of the bulls, modeled after the famous annual celebration in Pamplona, Spain, is coming to Scottsdale, Ariz., next month. The event, complete with a charging herd of 1,000-pound rodeo bulls, will be run eight times as part of Cinco de Mayo weekend at Rawhide Wild West Town. Promoter Phil Immordino hopes to make the Rawhide running an annual tradition.

Camarillo and the Scottsdale (Ariz.) A's were both victorious in the second round of pool play in the Gene Waid Memorial tournament at Rio Mesa High on Saturday, assuring each a berth in Monday's championship game. Camarillo, powered by solo home runs from Chris Sorich, Juan Cuellar, Kenny Knight and Gil Valencia, defeated Culver City, 8-5. Scottsdale hit three home runs in an 11-6 victory over Westlake. The victories improved both teams to 2-0 in pool play.

THE baseball fan in my life was thrilled to be staying at the Hotel Valley Ho. Ted Williams slept there when the Red Sox trained in Scottsdale in the 1950s. So did my stars -- Bing, Humphrey and Cary. We drove from L.A. earlier this month to check out their hangout after the Valley Ho's $80-million redo and Dec. 20 reopening. We found a swanky Jetsons look, with little nod to its illustrious past guests.

Steve Lowery shot a six-under-par 65 in the morning and Alex Cejka matched it at nightfall to share the first-round lead at the FBR Open on Thursday in Scottsdale, Ariz. Lowery, winner of two PGA Tour events but none since 2000, ran off a string of birdies on the 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th holes on a par-71, 7,216-yard Tournament Players Championship course hardened by a record 106 days without rain.

Scottsdale, Ariz., is the land of vast desert resorts, a place to unwind in winter under fair skies. It's also an area where many of Major League Baseball's spring training games are played. Montelucia Resort & Spa in Scottsdale offers a package that gives baseball fans (and anyone else) a fourth night free for a three-night stay. The deal: Prices aren't cheap at this luxury resort with almost 300 rooms and within driving distance of the 10 Cactus League baseball stadiums.

The court-appointed manager of a bankrupt Reseda nursing home that abruptly evicted its 63 residents Friday night had failed in last-minute negotiations to sell the facility and contends that there was not enough cash to run it even one more day, authorities said Saturday. Two other nursing homes owned by the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Phoenix Health Group, in Alta Loma and Long Beach, could face closures this week, depending on the outcome of a Monday morning hearing in U.S.

Paolo Soleri, an Italian-born architect who created a visionary prototype for a new kind of ecologically sensitive city in the remote Arizona desert four decades ago, only to watch the suburban sprawl he detested begin to creep near it in recent years, has died. He was 93. Soleri died of natural causes Tuesday at his home in Paradise Valley, Ariz., according to an official with the architect's foundation . PHOTOS: Paolo Soleri | 1919-2013 A onetime apprentice at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West compound on the edge of Scottsdale, Ariz., Soleri founded his own desert settlement, called Arcosanti, in 1970 at a site roughly 70 miles north of downtown Phoenix.

Grigor Dimitrov stunned Novak Djokovic in the second round of the Madrid Open on Tuesday, beating the top-ranked Serb, 7-6 (6), 6-7 (8), 6-3, for the biggest win of his career. The 28th-ranked Bulgarian saved three set points in the first before taking the lead, and Djokovic then appeared to hurt his right ankle while trailing 4-2 in the second. Djokovic, who ended Rafael Nadal's eight-year winning streak at the Monte Carlo Masters last month, said the loss had more to do with poor preparation than an injury.

A Van Nuys company that sells pills that it claims make dieters "dream away" unwanted pounds while sleeping agreed Wednesday to halt sales in California and pay a $162,500 penalty to settle a false advertising suit filed by Ventura County. In a consent decree in which they admitted no wrongdoing, officials of the Nutri-Marketing Co. promised not to sell or advertise their product in California.