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  • Native Americans mined variety of minerals early on

    Arizona has a rich history involving aboriginal mining, sometimes digging for minerals and other times scouring the Earth's surface.The state's earliest known mines date to the latter centuries of the Aboriginal Period, between A.D. 1000 and the middle of the 16th century with the arrival of the Spanish.The Hohokam - known as the prehistoric people of the Southwest or the ...

  • Fund seeks $80000 as summer approaches

    The Arizona Daily Star's Sportsmen's Fund Send a Kid to Camp program raises money so children from low-income households and military families can attend overnight YMCA, Boy Scout and Girl Scout and Camp Courage burn camps.Our goal is to raise $170,000 to send 770 kids to weeklong overnight camps this summer. So far we have received 992 donations totaling $90,299 with the summer camp ...

  • Museum retiring two aging cougars

    Two aging, arthritic mountain lions have been retired from exhibit at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum - and a mountain lion cub will go on exhibit in their place today."The two lions are about 13 years of age, and it was becoming hard for them to get up and down the rather steep slope of the exhibit space," said Craig Ivanyi, executive director of the museum west of Tucson."They ...

  • Moon Field at Grijalva Park will honor fallen US soldier

    As children play in a multi-use field at Grijalva Park, they will be connected to an athlete and hero who grew up and played in the Midvale Park subdivision.The field at the park is being dedicated at 8:15 a.m. today in honor of Army Spc. Christopher J. Moon, who died in July 2010 as a result of wounds he suffered from a roadside bomb while serving in Afghanistan.The public is invited to the ...

  • Single-vehicle crash in Tucson kills woman

    A single-vehicle crash on the southeast-side Saturday killed a woman driving a Mazda truck.The identity of the woman was not released, pending notification of relatives, said Deputy Jesus Bauelos, a Pima County Sheriff's Department spokesman.Deputies were dispatched at 5:30 p.m. to the 4900 block of South Swan Road, near East Irvington Road where they found the truck on its side, and the ...


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Movie Review

The Rocky Horror Picture Show [Blu-Ray]

The Rocky Horror Picture Show [Blu-Ray]

There had never been--and, since its release, never has been--a movie like The Rocky Horror Picture Show. In terms of both the successfully over-the-top mixture of horror, camp, rocknroll, science fiction, sexual transgression, and purposefully bad B-movie dialog ... ...

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  • MLB Miami 2 Arizona 1

    Marcell Ozuna delivered a two-run double Sunday and the Miami Marlins survived a late Arizona rally to edge the Diamondbacks 2-1. Ozuna doubled home Adeiny Hechavarria and Derek Dietrich with two out in the sixth inning, providing Miami's only ...

  • May 19 Today in Arizona history

    1892: A stage coach line is established between Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon.1916: Private citizens of Arizona let the contract for a solid silver service be presented to the battleship Arizona. The price was approximately ...

  • Record $590.5 million Powerball jackpot won by single Florida ticket

    One ticket has won the largest Powerball jackpot in history -- $590.5 million -- bought at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., a lottery official said. The ticket had the winning numbers of 22, 10, 13, 14, 52 and Powerball number 11, said David Bishop, deputy secretary of Florida Lottery. Saturday's jackpot was the largest in Powerball history, surpassing a $587.6 million jackpot ...

  • 10 things youll find only in print today

    1. Meet a border priest whose daily duties include baptizing babies, trying to convince migrants not to cross the border illegally - and negotiating with drug cartels to secure the release of migrants being held for more money.2. Find out why train whistles through downtown Tucson may soon be a thing of the past.3. Learn about the planned expansion of Saguaro National Park.4. Columnist Tim ...

  • Cancer patients others get help by the bagful

    A former teacher, Sherri Romanoski, is toasting 10 years as a bag lady.It is a distinction she is proud to claim since it has empowered more than 45,000 patients and their families as they navigate their medical treatments and battle cancer.Romanoski is the founder of Bag It, a nonprofit dedicated to providing information and education to newly diagnosed individuals and their ...

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