Police received a call at 11:45 am that a man had fallen from his tube in the Salt River and hadn’t come up.

Maricopa County divers were searching for the man who disappeaed near the Blue Point Bridge.

A 4-6 foot long alligator is on the loose at the bottom of an apartment pond in Mesa. Police believe someone abandoned the critter there recently.

Area ducks have been disappearing at the Valencia apartment complex.

AzCentral article.

A 68-year-old East Valley man was arrested yesterday for running a prostitution ring out of his home. An undercover female detective met Eugene Lau at a Tempe Burger King where the detective was supposedly apply for a position as a hooker.

Lau proposed that he be her first customer in order to show her what men liked.

“The system worked like this: A client who saw an ad online or in a publication would contact the call center in Phoenix to arrange for a prostitute. Then, the call center operator would send the client to a specific location where he or she would place another call to the center. At that point, the client would be directed to an apartment where a woman would be waiting for him.

Once the client arrived, the meet-and-greet would take place. If the prostitute felt comfortable with the client, she would contact the call center to say she was taking a customer. Forty minutes into the sex acts, the call center would call to check on the woman. At the end of the service she would call back.”

From the East Valley Tribune.

More information from AzCentral.com.

Authorities think fleas from prairie dogs gave a Winona cat the bubonic plague.

Check out this Wikipedia article on bubonic plague for more information on the disease.

On his girlfriend talking in her sleep.

On Ovaltine.