Tucson Region

Tucson Region headlines from the Arizona Daily Star

State wants Nogales mayor, council fined and monitored - (Found July 11, 2008 )

The Nogales mayor and five City Council members should each pay a $250 penalty and be monitored for a year to make sure they conduct the public's business in public, the Arizona Attorney General's Office proposed Wednesday.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/247681.php

Speaker wants to keep vouchers alive with House surplus funds - (Found July 11, 2008 )

PHOENIX House Speaker Jim Weiers might tap his more than $9 million in reserves to keep alive a program that pays for some parents to send their children to private and parochial schools.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/247689.php

Forest Service denies conveyor belt at Snowbowl - (Found July 11, 2008 )

FLAGSTAFF The U.S. Forest Service has denied a request from the Arizona Snowbowl ski resort to build a conveyor belt to bring beginning skiers to the top of a practice slope.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/247693.php

Arizona State Museum director Hartman Lomawaima dies at 58 - (Found July 11, 2008 )

Hartman H. Lomawaima was a man of two worlds.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/247656.php

First South Tucson slaying victim of 2008 is identified - (Found July 11, 2008 )

A man who was shot to death outside his South Tucson home Tuesday has been identified as Adam Lopez Basurto, 42.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/247682.php

Trial opens in death of 16-month-old girl - (Found July 11, 2008 )

In the hours after 16-month-old Emily Mays died, three children shared information with the police that seemed to implicate their parents.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/247675.php

Tucson Time Capsule : Saddle City Band, Version 1993 - (Found July 11, 2008 )

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/247622.php

Douglas pot seizures top 450 pounds - (Found July 11, 2008 )

More than 450 pounds of marijuana has been seized at the Douglas port of entry since the beginning of the month, an official said Wednesday.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/247684.php

Risky laundry-basket nest put kestrel clan through the wringer - (Found July 11, 2008 )

It was the kind of story that's fun to write, but was probably going to be a bummer to follow up on cute little birds today, grim Mother Nature tomorrow.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/247662.php

Court voids deadline for filers for president - (Found July 11, 2008 )

Arizona's early-June deadline for independent presidential candidates to get on the general-election ballot is illegal, a federal appellate court ruled Wednesday.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/247687.php