The Arizona Daily Star Send a Kid to Camp program kicked off its annual summer camp drive last month with a goal of raising $200,000 to send at least 700 local children to camp.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s allies in the Senate have voted down a challenge by Sen. John McCain to his budget plan.

PHOENIX — An initiative to put about a half-million acres of state trust land off-limits to development, the largest share of it in Pima County, does not have enough valid signatures to make the ballot, Secretary of State Jan Brewer concluded Friday.

FLAGSTAFF – An 8-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting his father and another man is shown in a video calmly telling law enforcement officers that he found the men lying in his home after returning from school on the day of the shootings.

The city’s police radar van is to snap photos of speeders at these locations today, according to the Tucson Police Department’s Web site:

Salpointe Catholic High School senior Nikolas Ramos knows he wants a career in medicine. He just isn’t sure what it will be.

October 30, 2008, 8:46 p.m. B. POOLE Tucson Citizen A Tucson man arrested Thursday in a Wednesday double homicide had been released from the Pima County Jail on Monday.

A memorial billboard in honor of Tucson police Officer Erik Hite will be installed this morning at the southeast corner of South Kolb and East Golf Links roads.

A former Flowing Wells High School student with “bad grades and a bad attitude” is Arizona’s 2009 Teacher of the Year.

Sabino High School is one of six schools nationally to win the 2008 Intel Schools of Distinction Award.