Provides the latest RSS feeds for Tucson News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Arizona Herald.com http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/cat/a548abef580c2494/ en-us Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:51:06 -0400 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:51:06 -0400 30 Captain Forrest Smith of the Mesa Fire and Medical Department said. One man was found dead under the debris. Another worker was injured and taken to a hospital for treatment, Smith said. The cause of the collapse was unknown. (Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Scott Malone and Gerald E. ... http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215297658/scat/a548abef580c2494 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:34:14 -0400 http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215297658/scat/a548abef580c2494 By Henry Austin, NBC News contributor Hundreds of people were evacuated in Arizona on Tuesday after a wind-whipped wildfire spread across 5,000 acres in just seven hours.More than 300 firefighters, along with multiple helicopters and aircraft, moved in to tackle the "extreme" blaze which started in "remote, rugged terrain" on the east side of Granite Mountain near Prescott, ... http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215292119/scat/a548abef580c2494 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:27:48 -0400 http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215292119/scat/a548abef580c2494 PHOENIX (AP) -- Ending a six-month legislative session, Arizona lawmakers endorsed a key element of President Barack Obama's health care law in a huge political victory for Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, after a lengthy fight over Medicaid expansion that divided the state's Republican ... http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215291791/scat/a548abef580c2494 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:02:37 -0400 http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215291791/scat/a548abef580c2494 A wildfire that began Tuesday has scorched nearly eight square miles in Northern Arizona. The fire was within 400 yards of some homes by Tuesday ... http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215291253/scat/a548abef580c2494 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:40:21 -0400 http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215291253/scat/a548abef580c2494 The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned an Arizona law that superimposed citizenship proof on the state's voters as a condition of exercising the ... http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215290313/scat/a548abef580c2494 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:07:37 -0400 http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215290313/scat/a548abef580c2494 "Our dream is to have a place for girls," says Debbie Rich, CEO of Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona.The Girl Scouts have taken the first step in making that dream a reality by purchasing the property that once housed the 5 & Diner restaurant at 4330 E. Broadway to make way for a future resource center.Demolition of the run-down diner began Tuesday morning, with a ceremony that ... http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215290314/scat/a548abef580c2494 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:03:16 -0400 http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215290314/scat/a548abef580c2494 A Rio Rico man trying to protect his mother is facing charges of aggravated assault for shooting a man who was attacking her, the Santa Cruz County sheriff said.Raul Vega, 20, was jailed on $50,000 bond in the shooting of a 35-year-old man in the chest with a small-caliber rifle Monday. The shooting occurred at a home in the 500 block of Camino Kansas in Rio Rico."This started out as a ... http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215290315/scat/a548abef580c2494 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:03:15 -0400 http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215290315/scat/a548abef580c2494 Zamzam Hirsi, one of 26 refugee youths who became U.S. citizens at a ceremony Tuesday, had a simple message for her peers."One way or another, you have not succeeded all by yourself. Appreciate everyone who has helped you little or big," she said to a crowd of a few dozen people gathered at the Tucson High Magnet School auditorium for an event honoring World Refugee Day.Hirsi expressed ... http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215290317/scat/a548abef580c2494 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:03:14 -0400 http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215290317/scat/a548abef580c2494 A 58-year-old Tucson woman was arrested in the shooting death of her husband.Susan Thacker called 911 just after 9 p.m. Monday to report that she shot her husband, Gregory Thacker, 58, Sgt. Maria Hawke, spokeswoman for the Tucson Police Department, said in a news release."The couple engaged in a verbal argument, which escalated to a lengthy confrontation, lasting a few hours," before ... http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215290316/scat/a548abef580c2494 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:03:14 -0400 http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215290316/scat/a548abef580c2494 Embrace the carpetbaggers. That's the message sent last night by the boards of Tucson's two biggest school districts, both of whom made new commitments to superintendents.The Tucson Unified School District board approved hiring H.T. Sanchez by a 4-1 vote.The Sunnyside Unified School District board approved extending Superintendent Manuel Isquierdo's contract by two years, through ... http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215290318/scat/a548abef580c2494 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:03:13 -0400 http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215290318/scat/a548abef580c2494 H.T. Sanchez views himself as a simple guy who prefers a T-shirt, jeans and cowboy boots to the suit and tie he's had to wear each day as ... http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215290319/scat/a548abef580c2494 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:03:12 -0400 http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215290319/scat/a548abef580c2494 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 | 10:22 p.m. The Las Vegas 51s were defeated 5-2 Tuesday at the Tucson Padres in the first game of a four-game road series. Tucson scored three runs in the seventh inning to break a 2-all tie and take the lead for good. Zach Lutz doubled and scored on an RBI single from Juan Centeno in the second inning for the first Las Vegas run. In the sixth, Ike Davis singled home Brian ... http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215288539/scat/a548abef580c2494 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:21:06 -0400 http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215288539/scat/a548abef580c2494 Paul Goldschmidt homered in the bottom of the ninth Tuesday to lift the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 3-2 win over the Miami Marlins. Goldschmidt sent the second pitch ... http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215288560/scat/a548abef580c2494 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:52:34 -0400 http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215288560/scat/a548abef580c2494 Arizona Diamondbacks' Paul Goldschmidt watches his walk off home run take flight against the Miami Marlins during the ninth inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, in Phoenix. The Diamondbacks won 3-2. (AP Photo/Matt ... http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215287584/scat/a548abef580c2494 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:22:06 -0400 http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215287584/scat/a548abef580c2494 Search under way in Arizona for a nineteen year old woman missing after a night out drinking Adrian Salinas was headed to her boyfriend's house and -- -- but never made it. Her car was blown out ... http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215279936/scat/a548abef580c2494 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:15:05 -0400 http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215279936/scat/a548abef580c2494 may not require documentary proof of citizenship from people seeking to vote in federal elections, reported the New York Times. According to the Times, the decision affirms the "dominant role of the national government in regulating immigration and voting." Federal law, according to the ... http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215280064/scat/a548abef580c2494 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:14:26 -0400 http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215280064/scat/a548abef580c2494 A Kansas City man supported a “nascent” plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, an FBI official said Tuesday at a Washington D.C. hearing. Deputy FBI Director Sean Joyce said federal investigators used secret surveillance warrants to identify Khalid Ouazzani, who is awaiting sentencing in Missouri on terrorism-related charges, as part of the ... http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215278140/scat/a548abef580c2494 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:26:16 -0400 http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215278140/scat/a548abef580c2494 Over the weekend, a group of immigration reform supporters held a rally in front of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s home. It is in situations like this that make him grateful he ... http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215274028/scat/a548abef580c2494 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:55:09 -0400 http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215274028/scat/a548abef580c2494 SALEM, Mass. -- A sergeant in the Arizona National Guard who served in Iraq has been sentenced to three years in a Massachusetts prison after pleading guilty to his role in a scheme to move $1 million worth of cocaine from Mexico to Canada.Gerardo Flores of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced Monday in Salem Superior Court on drug charges.The 29-year-old Flores was one of three men arrested at a Peabody ... http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215270946/scat/a548abef580c2494 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:28:57 -0400 http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215270946/scat/a548abef580c2494 This is a medium sized shrike, the only one of its kind living here. The upperparts are dark gray, with lighter gray on the underside. They wear a black mask and have a white throat. The beak is large and slightly hooked. The black wings have white patches, while the tail is black, long and edged in white. The Loggerhead Shrike is decreasing in numbers, and no one is quite sure why. It is ... http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215269777/scat/a548abef580c2494 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:43:48 -0400 http://www.arizonaherald.com/index.php/sid/215269777/scat/a548abef580c2494