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Panel looks at creating new Southern Arizona state
Some Southern Arizonans are joining forces to push for the creation of a 51st state carved out of Pima County. The new state would be called Baja Arizona. Organizers acknowledge...
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Tucson firefighter refused call to shooting scene
[caption id="attachment_33724" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="In this Jan. 10, 2011, file photo an F.B.I. agent writes down information as he looks around the area at a local Safeway in Tucson, Ariz.,...
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Transforming turn-of-the-century Tucson
9-year-old shooting victim was aspiring politician
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Suspect in attack on congresswoman acted alone
[caption id="attachment_32591" align="alignleft" width="185" caption="This March 2010 photo shows a man identified as Jared L. Loughner at the 2010 Tucson Festival of Books in Tucson, Ariz. The Arizona Daily Star,...
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Tucson lands federal grant for streetcar project
Tucson officials say the city has secured a $63 million federal grant for its modern streetcar project. Tucson has been scrambling to secure the grant money before the new Congress...
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Tucson Sector Border Patrol chief being reassigned
The chief of the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector is being reassigned just nine months after he took the post. Victor Manjarrez Jr. became the Tucson Sector chief in February. His...
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Tucson’s nymphs de pave
[caption id="attachment_31414" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Tucson’s red light district, pictured here at the turn of the century, was shaped like a thin slice of pie wedged between Congress Street and Maiden...
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Times Past: The ‘Mother of Arizona’
Gov. George W. P. Hunt called Josephine Brawley Hughes “the Mother of Arizona.” She fought for women’s suffrage and prohibition of drinking and gambling. She even fought to ban smoking...
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Scarpinato to take helm of Yellow Sheet
On September 1, Daniel Scarpinato, the Capitol correspondent for the Arizona Daily Star, will become editor of the Yellow Sheet Report, a subscription, Web-based, daily newsletter covering politics and government. “We’re...
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Goddard shot down in attempt to immediately stop Citizen closure
A federal judge on May 19 refused Attorney General Terry Goddard’s request to immediately stop the state’s oldest continually publishing newspaper from shutting down operations. In a May 15 filing,...
