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  • Crews set their own fires to slow 10775-acre blaze near Patagonia

    A wildfire in the Patagonia Mountains grew to 10,775 acres Thursday, as crews set fire to grass and brush to establish a perimeter around the blaze, southwest of Patagonia.Containment, the measure of how effectively that perimeter has been established, also grew, from 15 percent to 70 percent."Most of that fire was ours," said Michelle Fidler, spokeswoman for the team fighting the ...

  • Rest of AZ lags Phx. suburbs in growth

    PHOENIX - The most far-flung suburbs of Phoenix are the new nirvana, if figures just released by the U.S. Census Bureau are any indicator. The rest of Arizona, including Tucson, not so much.Buckeye led the state with 4.1 percent growth in population between 2011 and 2012 - a figure that also ranks the rapidly sprawling community 30 miles west of downtown Phoenix as the ninth-fastest-growing in ...

  • Whats closed on Memorial Day

    www.tucsonaz.gov/esd County garbage and recyclingo All county landfills and transfer stations will be closed Monday. This 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 ...

  • Tim Steller Every leaker acts out of self-interest

    Dennis Burke, the former U.S. attorney for Arizona, tried to undermine a whistleblower in the Fast and Furious gun-trafficking case by leaking a document to a journalist, but he failed.The reason is significant: The journalist, Fox News producer Mike Levine, checked out Burke's information and declined to pursue the story.Burke's episodes of leaking information about Operation Fast and ...

  • SUV severely injures couple at Mtn. View graduation

    A couple described as elderly were struck by an SUV and critically injured while leaving Mountain View High School's graduation Thursday night.The couple's daughter was pushing her mother in a wheelchair, and her father was walking by his wife's side, as they crossed North Thornydale Road south of West Linda Vista Boulevard, said Capt. Adam Goldberg, a Northwest Fire District ...


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Movie Review

The Postman (Il Postino)

Michael Radford's "The Postman (Il Postino)" is the beautiful and moving story of an unlikely friendship between a simple man and a profound poet. The man, Mario Ruppolo (brought to life with wonderful charm and feeling by the late Massimo Troisi) is a postman on a small Italian island in the early 1950s. The island is so small and backward that everyone seems to be either an illiterate fisherman ... ...

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  • 2 struck critically injured outside Marana Mountain View graduation

    Two pedestrians were struck and critically injured outside Mountain View High School in Marana Unified School District tonight while leaving graduation ceremonies, authorities say.A woman who was in a wheelchair and a man who was with her were struck and suffered life-threatening injuries, said Capt. Adam Goldberg of the Northwest Fire District. Both are described as elderly.The woman in ...

  • Arizona jury deadlocks over Jodi Arias sentencing

    Jodi Arias addresses the jury during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona May 21, ...

  • Judge declares mistrial in penalty phase in Jodi Arias case

    PHOENIX (AP) -- Jurors have deadlocked on a verdict of life or death for Jodi Arias in the 2008 killing of her one-time boyfriend.The judge declared a mistrial in the penalty phase. Another panel will be seated and the sentencing process will begin anew in July.The jury found Arias guilty of first-degree murder May 8 and later determined the killing was cruel enough to merit consideration of the ...

  • Fitch Rates Tucson AZs Sr Lien Highway User Revs AA Outlook Stable

    Lack of Stringent U.S. CMBS Underwriting Could Affect REITs Changes in the availability, pricing, and underwriting stringency of U.S. CMBS financing could affect REITs directly and indirectly, according to Fitch Ratings. In addition, a boom-or-bust cycle for CMBS loan performance would negatively affect REITs that regularly access the CMBS ...

  • On Deck Padres visit Arizona

    The Padres were 7-2 at Chase Field last season, their best record ever at what had been a house of horrors. Going into 2012, the Padres had an all-time record of 38-83 at the Diamondbacks downtown Phoenix home. Arizona opens the weekend in a dead heat with San Francisco and Colorado for the National League West lead. The Padres won two of the first three games played against Arizona May 3-5 at ...

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