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Bike-riders use bike lanes on Mill Avenue in Tempe, Arizona, on Oct. 1, 2016

Tempe launches "bicycle box" project to boost safety

Tempe is increasing bike safety with the addition of its first bicycle box.

By Gabriella Bachara | October 3, 2016

Othman Alishaq, a freshman criminal justice major, pays for his spot in the parking lot on the corner of east Filmore street and north Central avenue on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016

5 things to know if your car gets towed

Here's what to do if your car gets towed.

By Jose Delgado | October 2, 2016

ASU graduate student Donald Santiago takes a shot during practice in the downtown Sun Devil Fitness Center in Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday, Sept. 30, 2016.

Wheeling into a new season: ASU's Wheelchair Basketball team starts preparing for the games ahead

The second year of ASU’s Wheelchair Basketball team is under way.

By Alexa Buechler | October 2, 2016

Business freshman Kinan Moufti poses in front of the BSE Building on Friday, Sept. 16, 2016.

SOS at ASU guides refugees toward a brighter future

Students Organize for Syria hopes to create a better future for Syrian refugees through education and humanitarian efforts.

By Shawna Truong | September 29, 2016

Richard Bannon, an economics major at Scottsdale Community College, gives new light saber participants tips on how to improve their fighting techniques at the ASU Light Saber club meeting held at the Secret Garden on the ASU Tempe Campus on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016.

Jedi nights: AZ Saber club lights up the evening with sci-fi combat

ASU club hones its Jedi skills by practicing with lightsabers of Star Wars fame.

By Jeff Darge | September 29, 2016

Uschi the golden retriever(left), Kristoff the black lab(middle), and Ulani the golden retriever (right) pose together at a Sparky's Service Dogs event in Sparky's Den on Thursday, Sep. 22, 2016.

Sparky's Service Dogs raise puppies on campus for a cause

Sparky's Service Dogs is a unique club on campus that gives students the opportunity to raise service dogs for people with mobility impairments, type-one diabetes and PTSD.

By Gabriella Bachara | September 29, 2016

Students ride past a memorial on Hayden Lawn on the Tempe Campus on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016. The memorial was set up to remember the 43 students who disappeared from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College in Mexico in 2014.

Hayden Lawn anonymously decorated to memorialize Nos Faltan 43 victims

ASU students anonymously erected a memorial to honor the memory of the 43 Mexican college students executed in 2014.

By Alexis Egeland | September 28, 2016

Emir Estrada's family run street vendor booth, seen in 2009 in Los Angeles.

ASU sociologist studies immigration through kids

A second-generation immigrant uses her research on family work relations to teach students at ASU.

By Alexis Egeland | September 28, 2016

Police Brutality Protest on Mill Ave Bridges

On Monday, Sept. 26, 2016, organizer Rev. Jarrett Maupin along with roughly 100 protestors took part in 'Moral Monday', in which protestors marched in the middle of the street up and down both sides of the Mill Avenue bridges, up to University, and ended up at the Tempe jail. Three protestors were detained on charges of 'blocking city thoroughfares', including Rev. Maupin, and Calvin Hollins, Dalvin Hollins' father.

By Johanna Huckeba | September 27, 2016

Ruihao Zhang engages the Rainbow Connection before they start their next activity on Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016.

Rainbow Connection uses music therapy to build community

With a core in musical therapy, this group empowers its students through various outlets from rhythmic exercises to songwriting.

By Emma Sounart | September 26, 2016

Gabriel Atwood, of Phoenix, waits to be picked up in a parking lot on the corner of First and Second streets and Washington and Jefferson streets on Monday, Sept. 26, 2016. The parking lot is the proposed site of a Fry's Foods grocery store and a high-rise residential complex.

Block 23 development may bring grocery store, housing to downtown Phoenix

Downtown Phoenix’s long-awaited grocery store may soon become a reality. A proposal to develop an empty lot in downtown Phoenix into a mixed-use, high-rise project will go before the Phoenix City Council Oct. 5.

By Emi Kamezaki | September 26, 2016

A protestor is arrested during a police-violence protest on the Mill Avenue bridge on Monday, Sept. 26, 2016.

Tempe Police: 3 protesters arrested in Mill Avenue protest identified

Tempe Police arrested three protesters Monday: Rev. Jarrett Maupin, Calvin Hollins Jr. and Michael Moynihan.

By Megan Janetsky | September 26, 2016

Rev. Jarrett Maupin is arrested during a police-violence protest on the Mill Avenue bridge on Monday, Sept. 26, 2016. Maupin was one of a few people arrested during the event.

Black Lives Matter protest shuts down Mill Avenue bridges in Tempe, 3 arrested

Three were arrested Monday at a Black Lives Matter protest that blocked the Mill Ave.

By Chris McCrory | September 26, 2016

ASU hosts TechNM to improve Mexican professors' English skills for presenting research

For some Spanish-speaking university professors in Mexico, accessing English-only research poses a problem. ASU's Global Launch hosted a program to help remedy some of these difficulties.

By Emi Kamezaki | September 25, 2016

Freshman Kelly Fox with the Sun Devil Rewards app displayed on her phone. Pictured Sept. 15, 2016.

ASU gives back with the Sun Devil Rewards app

The new Sun Devil Rewards app offers a way for students, faculty, alumni and fans to be rewarded for their engagement with the University.

By Gabriella Bachara | September 25, 2016

ASU League of Legends Club members freshmen Matthew Chau and Anthony Chau warm up by practicing before the LAN Event held in the Education C-Wing Building in Tempe, Arizona, on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2016.

A league of their own: the League of Legends Community at ASU

The League of Legends Community at ASU connects players of the Riot Games hit League of Legends.

By Jeff Darge | September 22, 2016

Graphic designed for the State Press Play podcast.

State Press Play: Episode 4

This episode features stories by Jeff Darge and Libby Allnatt. Music: Favorite Secrets - Waylon Thornton

By Alexandra Watts | September 21, 2016

A workshop in Nepal, part of the Healing Through Poetry project.

ASU alum starts Healing Through Poetry project in Nepal

An ASU alum used his work as a poet to help his native country of Nepal after a tragic earthquake struck in 2015.

By Alexis Egeland | September 21, 2016

Jeff McSpadden pays for parking in the University Center parking garage on the Downtown Phoenix campus on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016.

ASU parking garages upgraded and prices increase

What you need to know about parking price increases, where the money goes and what is being done to make parking more available to students and visitors.

By Blakely McHugh | September 21, 2016

Ariana Elise Bustos, a sophomore journalism and communications major, spends an afternoon studying at the First Amendment Forum at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication on Sept. 19, 2016.

Young and in college: two sophomores under 18 conquer the age gap

At just 16 and 17, Javier Urcuyo and Ariana Bustos are already adjusted to the college life.

By Alexa Buechler | September 21, 2016

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