| 2008-12-16 2 Nogales tunnels found; group of 17 Bolivians halted (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271867.php Two tunnels were discovered in Nogales over the weekend by Nogales police officers, making a four-day total of three tunnels found in the border city. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 2nd man in fatal '07 drive-by shooting gets 15+ years (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271836.php The second of two men involved in a fatal drive-by shooting was sentenced Monday to 15 3/4 years in prison. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Arizona's 10 electoral votes cast for McCain (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/105189.php Presidential electors formally cast Arizona's 10 electoral votes for John McCain during a ceremony Monday at the state Capitol. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Change in governor could mean new chance for abortion restrictions in Arizona (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/105219.php PHOENIX - During the last legislative session, Rep. Andy Tobin, R-Paulden, sponsored a bill that among other things would have increased penalties for those who perform a type of late-term abortion sometimes characterized as "partial birth." | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Child-porn charges face Pinal sheriff's deputy (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271834.php A Pinal County Sheriff's deputy was indicted last week on charges of possessing and distributing child pornography. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 City on verge of deal for 75 acres Downtown (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271841.php The City Council is poised to turn 75 acres of East Downtown over to private developers today in the hope their investment will help to buoy Rio Nuevo. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Colo. senator reported as choice for Interior (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271870.php A Colorado senator appears to be on the verge of being chosen Interior secretary over U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva of Tucson. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Dartmouth student with local ties dies in fall (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271863.php A student who died in a fall from a university residence hall in Scotland lived for a time in Tucson and had relatives in Southern Arizona. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Deaths (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271798.php The deceased are from Tucson unless otherwise noted. Occupations are stated when available. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Denogean: Angry residents try to blind Az's highway eyes (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/105249.php It didn't take long for the increasingly ubiquitous traffic enforcement cameras to send someone over the edge. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Enrollment rising at state's charter schools (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/105211.php Since the first Arizona charter school opened in 1995, charters have seen a steady enrollment boom as parents seek alternative choices to the traditional public-school district. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Free spaying, neutering for pets in 14 neighborhoods (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271873.php Attention pet owners — now is the time to spay and neuter Fluffy and Fido. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Game and Fish Commission cuts costs by meeting only in Phoenix (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/105205.php PHOENIX - Arizona's budget crisis is prompting the Game and Fish Commission to scrap its practice of holding its monthly meetings at various locations around the state. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Hard job: Tracing missing immigrants (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/105209.php Jorge Solchaga has the grim job of locating missing Mexican immigrants and notifying families of their fate. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 I-10 bypass west of Tucson to be considered Friday (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/105214.php State transportation officials meet in Tucson Friday to consider an Interstate 10 bypass route west of the city. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Letters won't halt trial in kids' deaths (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271835.php The case against Christopher Payne, who is accused of killing two of his children, will move forward despite his defense attorneys' objections about prosecution tactics. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Life on northern part of Mars? Not now, but maybe later scientists say (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/105217.php The northern arctic region recently explored by the Phoenix Mars Lander mission cannot currently support life, scientists said Monday. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Man gets 19 yrs. in death of tot he was caring for (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271862.php A 25-year-old Tucson man has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for his involvement in the death of his girlfriend's toddler. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Man gets 19-year sentence for killing (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271850.php A Tucson man who used a shotgun to kill his former girlfriend's boyfriend was sentenced to 19 years in prison Monday. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Memorial service for homeless at North Side cemetery Friday (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271844.php Tucson's Primavera Foundation will join with several other local community groups to hold its annual Homeless Memorial at a North Side cemetery Friday. The public is welcome to attend. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Mexican drug smugglers pose top crime threat (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/105221.php WASHINGTON — Mexican drug traffickers who pair up with gangs and use a sophisticated network to smuggle drugs across the border have become the biggest organized crime threat to the United States, the Justice Department reported Monday. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 New tower hotel design should be daring, architects told (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/105261.php A man new to Tucson sparked applause when he challenged architects for the planned Sheraton Tucson Convention Center Hotel to be imaginative with their design. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Off-duty march ends in GI's death (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271828.php Grief counselors are on duty at a Southern Arizona Army post after a 29-year-soldier collapsed during a predawn march on Sunday and died a short time later. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Officials tout Luke to Air Force for F-35 (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/105210.php Peoria Mayor Bob Barrett and Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard are urging Air Force leaders to make Luke Air Force Base the future home of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Panel: Go ahead with $1B Pima bond vote (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271857.php Many members of a citizens advisory group want the county to push ahead with plans for a 2009 bond election, saying it could serve as an important local economic stimulus. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Pima County inmate found hanged in shower at Arizona prison (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/105212.php PHOENIX - A convicted child sex offender was found dead at the state prison in Florence. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Pima County offers free pet sterilizations for residents of designated areas (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/105222.php Pima County will spay or neuter pets whose owners live in some neighborhoods for free if the owners bring their animals to a clinic by Dec. 31. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Plea may net 1 of 4 men 30 years in drug slaying (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271843.php One of four men suspected of killing a 20-year-old Tucson man in an apparent drug rip-off could receive more than 30 years in prison after entering a plea agreement. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Pothole that could swallow a tire gapes despite three calls to city (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271837.php As Elizabeth Encinas drives to work on South Cherry Avenue, there's the pothole that everyone avoids. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Radar van sites (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271796.php The city's police radar van is scheduled to snap photographs of speeders at these locations today, according to the Tucson Police Department's Web site: | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Retiring TUSD board member Ireland battled to end desegregation orders, boost workers' pay (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/105255.php Joel T. Ireland departs from the Tucson Unified School District board Dec. 31, after 20 years of service. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 S. Arizona's clout expected to plunge in new Legislature (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271858.php PHOENIX — For the last two years, Southern Arizona lawmakers have enjoyed a prominent — though rare — seat at the negotiating table here at the state Capitol. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Sentencing rescheduled for ex-power plant engineer (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/105206.php PHOENIX - A federal judge on Monday decided to reschedule the sentencing of an Iranian engineer convicted of transporting software from the nation's largest nuclear power plant to his home country. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Student of the Week: Michelle Renee Fierro (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271871.php Age: 12 | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Toy drives in trouble (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271819.php There are only nine shopping days left until Christmas. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Tucson ACORN director arrested in Maricopa County (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/105226.php Four demonstrators, including one from Tucson, were arrested outside a Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meeting on Monday morning after they refused to leave the area. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Tucson Time Capsule : Village got electricity (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271795.php | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Tucson man gets 19 years in prison for infant's death (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/105216.php A Tucson man was sentenced to 19 years in prison for child abuse in the death of his girlfriend's 13-month-old son. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Tucson man sentenced to 19 years in shooting death (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/105223.php A 25-year-old Tucson man was sentenced Monday to 19 years in prison for shooting and killing his ex-girlfriend's boyfriend. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Videos of deployed military (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271831.php There's nothing like being home for the holidays, but for many Americans serving oversees, that's an impossibility. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 Vit. E, selenium don't cut risk of prostate cancer, big study finds (starnet-local) http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/271832.php Two natural supplements that have been promoted as possibly helping prevent prostate cancer actually have no effect, according to a national study that included University of Arizona researchers at the Arizona Cancer Center. | add comment |
| 2008-12-16 YWCA of Tucson honors 17 women for leadership and achievement (citizen-local) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/105244.php Advocates of K-12 arts education, Sonoran Desert conservation, literacy, gays and lesbians, and refugees were among the 12 women honored by the YWCA of Tucson at the 27th annual Women on the Move awards Sunday night. | add comment |
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