Mark Sheridan

1 week ago | azfamily.com | Mark Sheridan

PEORIA, AZ (AZFamily) — It’s not uncommon for things to get ugly when two people divorce. But that’s not the case for Cindy and Roger. Even though the two split up years ago, they remained good friends, and Roger credits Cindy for saving his life several years ago. He had a stroke in 2017. At the time, he was living in a Salvation Army shelter and was unable to return when he got out of the hospital.

2 weeks ago | azfamily.com | Mark Sheridan

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Sometimes, when people see a news camera pointing at them, the instinct is to turn and walk the other way. But if you’re in a Fry’s Supermarket and see Arizona’s Family’s Gibby Parra headed your way, you may want to see what he has to say. That was the case when he and the Surprise Squad team showed up at Fry’s on 35th Avenue and Thunderbird Road. He had five $200 gift cards from the Valley Toyota Dealers that he wanted to give away to some lucky shoppers.

Nov 26, 2024 | ttu.edu | Jacob Gordon |Mark Sheridan

CREATORS While other kids may have grown up dreaming about hitting a game-winning shot or singing to millions of adoring fans, Micah LaPointe dreamed of being a scientist. “Ever since I was little, I knew I wanted to get a Ph.D.,” said LaPointe, an electrical engineering doctoral student in Texas Tech University’s Graduate School.

Oct 22, 2024 | ttu.edu | Jacob Gordon |Mark Sheridan |Kristi Gaines

CREATORS Texas Tech University’s Graduate School hosted its annual Three Minute Thesis competition during the first week of October. This year’s first-place winners were Mollie Green, a second-year animal and food sciences doctoral student in the Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, and Kelly Elliott, a second-year kinesiology and sport management master’s student in the College of Arts & Sciences.

Sep 16, 2024 | ttu.edu | Jacob Gordon |Mark Sheridan

CREATORS For some, reading tea leaves is a practice of divination, interpreting patterns and shapes to predict the future or offer advice. Devi Khajishvili, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History in the College of Arts & Sciences, researches tea to uncover a small portion of the Soviet-era past of Georgia and to help re-establish the country’s modern identity. Devi was born in Georgia as the Soviet Union was dissolving in 1991.