Voters overwhelmingly favored approving a constitutional amendment barring criminals from suing their victims. The Crime Victims Protection Act has a lead of 80 percent to 20 percent with 90 percent of precincts counted.
Read More »Prop 114 overwhelmingly approved
Bradley unseats Antenori in LD10 Senate race 
Sen. Frank Antenori, the Republican from Tucson famous for his bluntness and his penchant for using war imagery in speeches, lost his re-election bid.
Read More »Democrats sweep Tucson legislative district 
Democratic Rep. Bruce Wheeler and political novice Stephanie Mach are pushing out Republican Rep. Ted Vogt in Tucson’s Legislative District 10.
Read More »GOP candidates stay to the right in moderate Tucson district 
On a recent Thursday night at a barbeque restaurant on Tucson’s east side, Rep. Ted Vogt sat in the front row of a PowerPoint presentation about the dangers on the U.S.-Mexico border, watching as a former Border Patrol agent clicked through slides of headless bodies that have been dismembered by drug cartels.
Read More »Candidates for CD1 turn negative in first debate 
Republican congressional candidate Jonathan Paton pointed to his military service and years served in the Legislature and his Democratic opponent Ann Kirkpatrick painted herself as a bi-partisan bridge builder. But eventually their Thursday night debate in Casa Grande for Arizona’s 1st Congressional District turned to the negative images each has been proffering about the other.
Read More »Kelly, Giffords watch Endeavour fly over Tucson
Ex-astronaut Mark Kelly and his wife, former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, were among Tucson residents who joyfully viewed a flyover by the space shuttle Endeavour on Thursday.
Read More »Tucson shooting survivors give Holder petitions calling for gun control
A dozen survivors and family members from last year’s Tucson shooting that killed six people and injured 13 met this week with Attorney General Eric Holder to urge stricter federal regulations on gun sales.
Read More »Attorney General Eric Holder meets Tucson shooting survivors
More than a dozen survivors and family members from the 2011 shootings in Tucson, Ariz., that wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords have outlined for Attorney General Eric Holder their campaign to stem gun violence.
Read More »Veteran legislator appears to hold off challenge in Tucson 
Incumbent Sen. Olivia Cajero Bedford, a veteran legislator from an influential political family, has fended off a challenge by the widow of a popular Democratic leader. Cajero Bedford holds a wide lead over Maria de la Luz Garcia, the wife ...
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