Tucson Arizona

The first month of a statewide ban on indoor smoking drew 182 complaints in Pima County and 1,395 statewide, a report says.

Please join the Arizona Daily Star in helping local children. Today’s Star includes an envelope that you can use to mail checks so children from low-income or military families can go to camp.

PHOENIX (AP) — Amid continued differences with Gov. Jan Brewer, key legislators are preparing plans for possible legislative action during a contemplated fall special session to tackle at least part of Arizona’s growing midyear budget shortfall.
The lawmakers said Monday the plans still being drafted would start with restoring spending cuts and other budget-balancing provisions that [...]

School districts across Tucson have given pink slips to hundreds of employees in recent days as administrators struggle to cope with state budget cuts.

Click here for a free download of the latest Adobe Flash Player. Posted on December 2, 2009 at 10:38 AM Updated today at 11:15 AM Fifteen people held hostage were rescued Tuesday morning at a drop house on Tucson’s south side.

Border Patrol agents seized more than 1,600 pounds of marijuana Tuesday after watching an SUV veer from the road at the sight of the agents.

Sheriff’s investigators believe a dead woman found on a Southeast Side street Wednesday night was slain.

ST. JOHNS, Ariz. (AP) — The sentencing of a 9-year-old St. Johns boy who killed his father’s roommate has been scheduled for next year.
Sentencing has been delayed for months while experts evaluated the boy and attorneys figured out how to secure treatment outlined in a plea deal.
During a hearing Thursday in St. Johns, a new [...]

The recipient of this week’s Ben’s Bell is Ben Matiella, a longtime public library employee who makes story time special, especially for some students from the Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind.

The Oro Valley woman found in her apartment Tuesday night was strangled during a domestic dispute, a police spokeswoman said Thursday.