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  • Tucson museums participating in the 2013 Blue Star Museum Initiative

    The Blue Star Museum Initiative is back for the 2013 summer season. The initiative allows active duty military and their families to visit participating museums for free between Memorial Day (May 27, 2013) and Labor Day (September 2, 2013). Below are the museums in Tucson participating this ...

  • May 21 Today in Arizona history

    1931: Border patrolmen discover the skeleton of a 25,000-year-old mammoth near Hereford.1937: Amelia Earhart lands in Tucson, the first stop on her fateful journey across the globe. Her plane is lost en route to Howland Island in July 1937, then she is declared legally dead on Jan. 5, 1939, after an extensive search of the area between Lae, New Guinea, and Howland Island in the South ...

  • Police to release more than 300 photos from Tucson rampage aftermath

    TUCSON, Ariz. – Authorities are set to release more than 300 photos on Tuesday that investigators took in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others. The Pima County Sheriff's Department says many photos show the parking lot of the shopping center where the shooting took place in January 2011. The ...

  • Pics From Tucson Shooting to be Released

    Authorities are set to release more than 300 photos on Tuesday that investigators took in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others. The Pima County Sheriff's Department says many photos show the parking lot of the shopping center where the shooting took place in January 2011. The photos also include ...

  • Release set for police photos from Tucson rampage

    TUCSON, Ariz. -; Authorities are set to release more than 300 photos on Tuesday that investigators took in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 ...


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Movie Review

Breaking the Waves

"Breaking the Waves" is a complex and disturbing look at what one woman would do for the sake of love, and how her desire to be her husband's salvation runs head-to-head with the moral tenants of her strict Christian upbringing. It is at once a religious allegory and an attack on Christian fundamentalism, wrapped up in art house pretension and grainy, hand-held camerawork. The first English-langua ... ...

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  • New federal ruling casts doubt on Oodham plan for Glendale-area casino plans

    PHOENIX - A federal appeals court gave opponents of a casino near Glendale new hope it might be legally blocked.In a ruling Monday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it may very well be that the site owned by the Tohono O'odham Nation, while in an unincorporated area, is "within the corporate limits of any city or town." That's because the parcel is on a county ...

  • Street Smarts Once member of Confederate army Drachman prospered as tobacconist

    Street Smarts: Tucson road named for ancient people shrouded in mystery Makohoh Trail, south of East Snyder Road and east of North Soldier Trail, is named for the Makohoh ...

  • Stabbing brutal end to life just beginning

    One week before Erick Bridges was stabbed while working a graveyard shift at an east-side convenience market, he and his sister sat on her backyard patio celebrating her graduation from PCC's nursing program."We spent hours looking at our baby pictures and talking about what he wanted to do with his life," Jennifer Speese, 27, recalled on Monday."I was helping him get ...

  • Arizonas Corbin Improves to 7-0 With Win Over Colorado

    (Reuters) - Arizona's Patrick Corbin delivered a dominant nine innings to lead the Diamondbacks to a 5-1 win over Colorado and improve his unbeaten start to 7-0 on Monday. The 23-year-old struck out 10 and allowed just three hits during his complete game, while Didi Gregorius went 3-for-5 with two RBIs to help keep Arizona top of the National League West. Corbin is now one of five ...

  • Navajo Nation opens casino in northern Arizona

    The Navajo Nation opened its first casino in the state Monday, the Twin Arrows Navajo Casino Resort, just off Interstate 40 near Flagstaff. According to AZFamily.com, the tribe hoping the casino will boost its economy and spur development in the ...

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