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Too early to tell if Giffords can attend shuttle launch
It's too early to tell whether Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords could attend her husband's space launch in two months, her doctor said Tuesday, as many in Arizona paused to mark one-month since a gunman's deadly ambush of her supermarket meet-and-greet.
Arizona bill would ban large-capacity magazines
Legislation to ban large-capacity gun magazines like the one used in the Jan. 8 mass shooting in Tucson has been introduced in the Arizona Legislature.
Wounds remain fresh one month after Tucson shooting
A month after a lone gunman shot U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others, the southern Arizona city and those whose lives were changed by what happened outside that Tucson grocery store are still reeling from the shockwaves that the massacre sent throughout the country.
Huppenthal wants more time on TUSD ethnic studies
State Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal is extending the time his office will investigate the Tucson Unified School District's Mexican-American Studies program.
Politeness in politics is OK, but candor is indispensable
Tucson – like Dallas before it, and Columbine, and Virginia Tech, and … the list is as endless as the tears those names evoke – has become more than just the site of senseless slaughter. It has become a rallying cry, a cause. In the weeks since the Jan. 8 mass shooting, many politicians and other well-intentioned people have seized upon Tucson to teach the entire population of the United [...]
Board to oversee solar installation in southern AZ
Pima County has given the OK to set up a solar energy standards board.
Gilmore and Salisbury’s ‘custom’ smelter
Benson was established in June 1880 by the Southern Pacific and became an important maintenance center for the railroad and the shipping point for the Bisbee and Tombstone mines, neither of which was served by rail. The town was less than three months old when, according to the Tucson Citizen, “the first shipment of copper bullion from Bisbee (arrived) in Benson, where it (was) shipped to San Fr[...]
Heinz: Continuing education for nurses would benefit patients
Requiring continuing education for nurses would improve patient safety in Arizona, a Tucson lawmaker said.
Rallies for, against Pima Co. Sheriff Friday
Rallies for and against Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik are planned Friday at the Sheriff's Department headquarters in Tucson.
Pot-firing catapult found at Arizona-Mexico border
Drug smugglers trying to get marijuana across the Arizona-Mexico border apparently are trying a new approach a�� a catapult.
Doctors: Rep. Giffords ready to start full rehab
Doctors treating Rep. Gabrielle Giffords say they plan to put a speaking valve in her breathing tube to help her speak.
Pima County Dems don’t want counter-protest
A group is planning a protest rally Friday against Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik over his comments about the shooting rampage in Tucson.
