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.

The top positions at the University of Arizona’s two medical school campuses will remain unfilled, officials finalizing the details of a hiring freeze have announced.

Pest removal and extermination is one of those spring cleaning jobs that home owners wish they didn’t have to worry about.

PHOENIX – Republican Gov. Jan Brewer on Wednesday proposed a $1 billion temporary tax increase “as a very last resort” along with similar amounts of spending cuts and use of federal stimulus money to close a budget shortfall that is one of the largest in the nation.

A proposal to change overtime rules for municipal workers in Tucson, shot down by the city council Wednesday.
The panel decided to continue to allow labor unions to manage overtime and furlough policy. Police and fire union leaders promised to strictly monitor employee time sheets and discipline employees who abuse policy.

Acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma and folk-pop singer Art Garfunkel are among the artists scheduled to perform with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra next season.

YUMA – Yuma is being sued by a church that was denied a permit to turn an old J.C. Penney Co. department store building downtown into a worship center.

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