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  • Family of four displaced by fire

    A trash-can fire caused $20,000 in damage and forced a family of four out of their east-side home. The first fire crews arrived just before 10 a.m. Saturday at a home in the 10100 block of Axe Handle Court near East 22nd Street and South Houghton Road.They found flames were already spreading into the attic from a trash can outside, Capt. Chris Jurvig, spokesman for the Tucson Fire Department, ...

  • Tucson book events this week Janni Lee Simner book clubs and more

    Book events going on around Tucson for the week of May 27-June 2, 2013 include various book club meetings and author events. See below for more ...

  • Tucson kids story times this week Llama Llama Cat in the Hat and more

    Below are the various story times around Tucson for the week of May 27 - June 2, 2013, including story times at the libraries, Children's Museum Tucson, and Barnes & ...

  • May 26 Today in Arizona history

    1870: After traveling for more than two weeks from San Diego, the seven Catholic sisters of Carondelet are welcomed to Tucson by fireworks and 3,000 people. The sisters would open a girls academy, a school at Mission San Xavier del Bac and an orphanage. In 1880, the opened Arizona's first hospital -- St. Mary's -- with 12 beds.1881: The first telephone office is established in ...

  • Miley struggles again in Arizonas loss to Padres

    San Diego Padres' Jedd Gyorko forces out Arizona Diamondbacks' Josh Wilson as he turns a double play on Gerardo Parra during the seventh inning of a baseball game, Saturday, May 25, 2013, in ...


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Movie Review

Office Space

"Office Space" should have started with a brief dedication: "This film is dedicated to anyone who has ever worked in a cubicle." This film, the first live-action offering from Mike Judge, creator of "Beavis and Butt-head" and "King of the Hill," is a wry tale of vengeance against cubicle culture, and anyone who has ever worked in one will find much to laugh about. I, for one, have worked in a cubi ... ...

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  • TB skin testing available again at county clinics County resumes TB skin testing

    Pima County has resumed tuberculosis skin testing.The screenings re-started last week after a national shortage of the Tubersol solution for skin testing was resolved, Pima County Health Department officials said.Tuberculosis skin tests are conducted at the county's tuberculosis clinic, 2980 E. Ajo Way.The clinic is open 7:30 a.m. to noon Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and from noon to 4 ...

  • 10 things youll find only in todays print edition

    1. In honor of Memorial Day, meet a Tucson woman on a crusade to get World War II veterans to share their stories before it's too late.2. Were our cold snaps this winter the result of global warming? Environmental reporter Tony Davis investigates.3. We don't let our kids behave badly just because everyone else is doing it. But that seems to be working for some city employees - and that ...

  • Our weird weather may be linked to rapid melting of Arctic sea ice

    It's more than 3,600 miles from Tucson to the Arctic Circle, but researchers are starting to link some of Tucson's and the country's extreme cold and warm spells over the past few winters to the loss of Arctic sea ice that was caused by a warming climate.A handful of peer-reviewed studies have been written by researchers nationally and internationally in the past few years, ...

  • Whats closed Memorial Day

    www.tucsonaz.gov/esd County garbage and recyclingo All county landfills and transfer stations will be closed Monday. That includes the Tangerine Road, Ajo and Sahuarita landfills, and the Ryan Airfield and Catalina transfer stations. All landfills reopen Tuesday; the transfer stations will reopen Thursday. For information, call 724-7400. For recycling or waste collection in Pima County, call ...

  • Netos Tucson Pharmacist retires after serving El Rio clients for nearly 40 years

    In 1974, three years out of the University of Arizona's pharmacy college, John Arredondo took a job dispensing medicines "in a little hole."That was his description of the small pharmacy in the fledgling El Rio clinic that had opened in 1970 on the freeway frontage road near Congress Street. The pharmacy was actually in the shower room of the old Mother Higgins juvenile detention ...

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