With our weakened economy, many people have lost there jobs, and the loss not only affects employees, but employers as well. A Tucson business has found a way around full-time layoffs to keep important employees. Patio Pools employees 221 people, and 82 of them were nearly let go due to the economy. Full Story »
Despite this weeks storm many residents and visitors made their way up to Mount Lemmon to enjoy some fun in the snow. Full Story »
Tis' the season for holiday shopping and thieves. That's why Tucson Police department beefs up their holiday patrols to keep you safe. Sgt. Paul Tosca and his bike unit are making their rounds at the shopping malls. Full Story »
Tucson Police abruptly canceled a scheduled press conference about two young girls missing since last week, and pulled down the reward being offered to find them. Full Story »
WASHINGTON (AP) - When he accepts his Nobel Peace Prize tomorrow, President Barack Obama plans to talk about what it means to wage war. Full Story »
The Tucson Unified School District is offering schools incentives to operate two campuses under one roof. Full Story »
Nearly a million dollars for Arizona's two major universities to study ants made U.S. Sen. John McCain's top 100 list of questionable projects in the federal government's $787 billion stimulus package. Full Story »
PHOENIX — Changes in attitude and ownership in the cellular phone industry could create the best climate ever to enact a ban on texting while driving in Arizona. Full Story »
A former beauty queen and UA law school student accused of orchestrating the kidnapping of her former boyfriend will spend the next two years in prison. Full Story »
Pima County will make an offer to purchase the Coronado Hotel this week, competing with at least five other bidders who want to buy the property. Full Story »
Adele Crouch (Creations by Crouch L.L.C.) is a self-taught artist, working in acrylics, oils, colored pencils, graphite and charcoal. She has been selling her work for more than 40 years. During the last 30 years, Adele has sold and displayed her work in galleries and other businesses in northern and southern California, Washington, Idaho, Tennessee, Arkansas, New Mexico and Arizona. Full Story »
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The Willcox School Board voted 4-1 last Tuesday to change the district's schedule to a four-day week at the start of the 2010-2011 school year. Board Vice President Lucille Seney voted against the measure. Full Story »
Court mandate to shut down heifer-feeding pen is next step Full Story »
BISBEE - A man was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Thursday in Cochise County Superior Court for fatally stabbing his girlfriend near Willcox in 2001. Full Story »
Oro Valley has crowned two residents as volunteers of the year. Doug McKee and Marlene Anderson are the 2009 honorees. The town has given the award for the past three years. Full Story »
Face it, plants and people go together. Almost every holiday on earth is celebrated with plants or plant products (food), and the current festivities are no exception. Full Story »
courtesy photo, Sara Evans presents her Christmas show this Thursday, Dec. 10, at the Desert Diamond Casino. Full Story »
A pair of unidentified assailants robbed the UPS Store at 12995 N. Oracle Road in Oro Valley on Tuesday, Dec. 1. The men entered the store at 6:15 p.m. through an unlocked back door. Full Story »
J.D. Fitzgerald/Special to the Explorer, Roadrunner Elementary School student Hope Luckenbill, 8, tries on a jacket at JC Penney, while Arlene DesJardins from the Catalina Mountain Elks Lodge looks on Saturday morning. Full Story »
Thelma Grimes/San Pedro Valley News-Sun Police closed off the Benson Post Office for several hours Monday because a package was ticking. Full Story »
Thelma Grimes/San Pedro Valley News-Sun Rose Weston, legal director for the Southeastern Arizona Behavioral Health Services, Inc. (SEABHS), defended the non-profit's 119-car fleet that has been criticized by board members following termination of the company's CEO. Full Story »
Thelma Grimes/San Pedro Valley News-Sun The trial is now continued until March in the case against Benson resident Alger Hellard, who has been charged with second-degree murder, without premeditation, a class one felony, for the shooting death of his wife. Full Story »
Filming for "The Gundown" began Nov. 30 at Gammons Gulch just north of Pomerene. The motion picture, described as a "shoot 'em up Western," stars Peter Coyote as Thomas Morgan, Sheree J. Wilson as Sarah Morgan, William Shockley as Travis McCain and Veronica Diaz as Dulce De La Rosa. Full Story »
Thelma Grimes/San Pedro Valley News-Sun Bond was set at $250,000 for Mexican nationals who entered the country with border-crossing passes and were caught near Benson with about 217 pounds of marijuana. Full Story »
The 60-vote requirement that U.S. Senate Democrats keep bemoaning? It's a ritual, not a rule by Dennis Myers Some of the most polarizing issues of the era have been approved by narrow votes in the U.S. Senate. The war over Kuwait was authorized by the Senate in 1991 on a 52-47 vote. Clarence Thomas' nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court was approved 52-48 that same year. Two years later ... Full Story »
Borderlands' merry 'Pastorela' once again reflects the spirit of Tucson by Nathan Christensen In this age of big-budget movies and streaming video, it's easy to question the value of live theater. A movie ticket is cheap, and theater certainly can't compare in terms of pyrotechnics or CGI. Is there, in fact, anything you can do onstage that can't be done better on film? The answer is a ... Full Story »
'Invictus' starts out strong, but then devolves into a mediocre sports movie by Bob Grimm Morgan Freeman delivers an astoundingly good performance as Nelson Mandela in Invictus, from director Clint Eastwood. The film seems like it's on its way to greatness in the beginning, with Mandela dealing with the difficulties of being South Africa's first black president. Unfortunately, the film goes off ... Full Story »
by Amanda Portillo Heavenly Harmony "Harps and Angels" 7:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 11 UA Steve Eller Dance Theatre 1713 E. University Blvd. 621-1162; arizona.tix.com There are some things that little girls love: princesses, horses and ... harps? Well, maybe little girls don't love the harps themselves, but they love what harps conjure: The melodies that come from harp strings seem to flit and fly ... Full Story »
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Museum sold for for a fraction of its asking price a day before it was to head to the auction block. Full Story »
No one was living in the home except for the animal, which died in the fire. Full Story »
Interstate 40 near Flagstaff was closed Wednesday due to a serious injury accident involving a commercial vehicle, officials said. Full Story »
Alex Craig Johnston was the driver in a July 2008 accident that killed John McDaniel, 17. Full Story »
About 50 residences around the Valley remained without power Wednesday from the storm that took down trees and damaged power lines causing power outages throughout the state. Full Story »
The blizzard left its mark all over Flagstaff. Daily Sun staff captured these images early Tuesday morning. Full Story »
When a winter blast blanketed northern Arizona Tuesday, volunteers from the Grand Canyon Chapter of the Red Cross opened a shelter for people who were stranded in Flagstaff. Full Story »
A Tempe firefighter was killed by a falling tree during severe winds Monday evening. Full Story »
Members of the DeMiguel Rabid prepare their robot for competition in the First Lego League Smart Move Challenge at Coconino High School on Saturday. In the competition, teams program robots for various terrain, routes, narrow bridges and crash tests. More than 300 local children took part in the event. (Josh Biggs/Arizona Daily Sun/Order this photo at http://photos.azdailysun.com ... Full Story »
An ongoing political battle pitting the president of the vast Navajo Nation against the majority of the tribal council has left ordinary Navajos concerned that the politicians have become too engrossed in petty fights to do the work they were elected to do. Full Story »
Christmas came early for a Mesa police officer and his family at the Red Mountain District police station on Wednesday. Full Story »
Arizona Regional Medical Center is racing to open its second hospital - Apache Junction's first - before health care reform legislation could restrict expansion by for-profit hospitals. Full Story »
A 17-year-old boy charged in the shooting death of his 18-year-old friend on Sunday was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the incident, according to a Maricopa County Superior Court document. Full Story »
In its fourth gang crackdown of the year, the Mesa Police Department and the FBI made 187 arrests in a 20-day operation last month. The crackdown, “Operation Fall Freeze,” lasted from Nov. 2-21, and raised the total number of gang-related arrests for the year to 585, Mesa police announced during a press conference on Wednesday. Full Story »
The Metro board has announced its decision to offer the mass transit service's top position to Stephen Banta, currently in a senior position at TriMet, the transit authority for the Portland, Ore., metropolitan region. Full Story »
BUCKEYE – A member of the Buckeye Town Council has been accused of sending explicit text messages to a town employee. Public records show Councilman Dave Rioux is accused by a female employee of sending her multiple messages of a sexual nature. They include requests to join him in his hot tub. That employee told supervisors she was afraid she would be forced to have sex with Rioux in order to ... Full Story »
EL MIRAGE - El Mirage police arrested a man accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl. According to police on Saturday around 2'45 a.m. El Mirage officers spotted three people in the park near Valentine and El Frio, a 13-year-old, a 17-year old and the suspect Rene Martinez, 25. Police noticed a 13-year-old girl was passed out, vomited and has her pants partially pulled down. A 17-year ... Full Story »
PRESCOTT – A man is behind bars after a woman was repeatedly assaulted in a hotel room in Prescott Valley. The 48-year-old victim told police she was friends with the suspect, identified as 50-year-old Angelo Tornambe. The woman had reportedly agreed to help the suspect move some of his belonging out of his home on December 7. Tornambe was planning to stay one night at the Days Inn in Prescott ... Full Story »
SCOTTSDALE - Scottsdale Police arrest burglary suspect after short foot chase. Wednesday morning around 3'45 a.m. the victim came home to find Alexander Pardo, 20, inside his home near 83rd Street and Jackrabbit. Pardo was attempting to take the victim's items. When officers arrived Pardo fled out of the back of the home. Pardo was booked on one count of burglary and possession of marijuana. Full Story »
PHOENIX -- Two pit bulls attacked a 73-year-old woman and her small dog Wednesday morning. Phoenix police Detective James Holmes said the woman was walking her 11-year-old dog, Rusty, in her apartment complex parking lot near Cave Creek and Mountain View roads at approximately 8'30 a.m. Holmes said two loose pit bulls attacked the mixed-breed dog and the woman was bitten and knocked to the ... Full Story »
Christmas decorations illuminate Berlin's main shopping streets. AP Photo/Franka Bruns
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