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| TUSD school closures: Vote expected tonight The TUSD Governing Board will vote tonight on whether to mothball any of four elementary schools slated for closure. |
| Photo: Art museum's mural in peril |
| Wider immigration role for cops vetoed PHOENIX — Gov. Janet Napolitano vetoed legislation Monday to require police departments and sheriff's deputies to do more to crack down on illegal immigration. |
| Arizona law called debatable PHOENIX — Monday's U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding voter ID requirements in Indiana doesn't necessarily erase the legal questions about a similar Arizona law. |
| Brush fire contained near Oracle |
| Hopes are to save a popular artwork The clock is ticking for the colorful but fading and cracking mural that hangs on the north face of the Tucson Museum of Art building. |
| Classroom at SW Side school is vandalized Vandals hit a Southwest Side elementary school over the weekend, pouring navy blue paint all over a kindergarten classroom, damaging three computers and stealing two of the students' pet turtles, an official said. |
| Teed off by golf-reservation system Complaints about outsourcing typically involve discontent over manufacturing jobs moving to countries such as China or India. |
| A day of good deeds by Border Patrol U.S. Border Patrol agents made a number of rescues of illegal immigrants Sunday but were unable to prevent a woman from having a miscarriage. |
| 8 years in prison for seller of meth A Gila Bend woman was sentenced Monday to more than 8 years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine on the Tohono O'odham Nation. |
| Checkpoint delivers 15 DUI suspects Tucson police stopped more than 1,000 motorists and arrested 15 drivers on suspicion of drunken driving at a sobriety checkpoint this weekend, according to a news release. |
| Man hit below heart in drive-by shooting Sunday on South Side A shooting on the South Side late Sunday left a man in the hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest, an official said Monday. |
| Man with pot gets 11 years; tried to run down agent A Mexican man who attempted to hit a Border Patrol agent as he fled in a truck has been sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison, an official said. |
| Stretch of Silverbell to close in Marana A section of Silverbell Road will close this week for six months, leaving drivers with yet another detour in a corridor of construction. |
| 7 local seniors are Merit honorees Seven local high school seniors are among 2,500 students across the country who have been awarded $2,500 National Merit Scholarships. |
| Girl, 10, dies a day after SW Side collision A 10-year-old girl died of injuries suffered when a driver ran a red light at a Southwest Side intersection Saturday and slammed into the car she was in, an official said. |
| Tucson man wins Pick, will receive $1.1M A Tucson man became an instant millionaire after he claimed his $2.7 million prize from Saturday's drawing of The Pick, Arizona Lottery officials said. |
| Man given 16 years in prison in girlfriend's fatal stabbing A Tucson man who continues to proclaim his innocence was sentenced to 16 years in prison Monday for murdering his girlfriend. |
| Two brothers face charges in killing Authorities are investigating the death of a 62-year-old man who was beaten to death last week likely because he was homeless, an official said Monday. |
| Agents search for driver in rollover that killed 4 Federal agents are looking for a man they have identified as the possible driver in a rollover that occurred northwest of Tucson Sunday and killed four suspected illegal immigrants. |
| 115 more donations are made to send boys, girls to camp The Arizona Daily Star Sportsmen's Fund Send a Kid to Camp program is proud to thank another 115 individuals, organizations and businesses for donating $10,739 to help send kids to camp. |
| Tucson Time Capsule : Desert Museum wolf |
| Bill to require state review of railroad projects advances By Paul Davenport |
| Sanctions-law revision would bar retroactivity PHOENIX — State lawmakers gave final approval Monday to changes in the state's 4-month-old employer sanctions law. |
| Deaths The deceased are from Tucson unless otherwise noted. Occupations are stated when available . |
| Photo: Vietnam remembrance in Phoenix |
| 2 of 4 schools on TUSD's list should be closed --The Tucson Unified School District Governing Board will meet tonight to decide the fate of four elementary schools — Rogers, Wrightstown, Ochoa and Corbett — that the administration recommended be closed before school starts in the fall. |
| Letters to the editor Union boss doesn't speak for all police |
| Police-union leader is wrong about TUSD The president of the Tucson Police Officers Association should apologize to the Tucson Unified School District for taking an unprofessional and uninformed cheap shot at the district. |
| Don't close Corbett Elementary You have to wonder what TUSD was thinking when it chose Corbett Elementary School for possible closure. |
| Graduating students, consider teaching career My Sunday morning routine; coffee, a bagel and a quick read of the Arizona Daily Star, was extended to late afternoon on April 20 as I read with great interest the Senior Class Achievers 2008 supplement. |
| Crunch course on ab work Sucking in your gut can become a way of life. |
| Learn how to exercise safely in the heat of summer Sweet words to savor: "Free fitness help." |
| Ask Dr. Weil by Andrew Weil Q Is it better to steam or boil vegetables? |
| 'Fit and fat' study: Heavy women who exercise still face heart risk CHICAGO — New research challenges the notion that you can be fat and fit, finding that being active can lower but not eliminate heart risks faced by heavy women. |
| Idaho lab develops a quicker way to catch a thief IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — Federal researchers say they've developed a human identification test that's faster and possibly cheaper than DNA testing. |
| Lasik worries? Some may see better with alternatives WASHINGTON — Frightened by headlines about Lasik side effects? Lasik gets all the advertising, but there are half a dozen alternate eye surgeries — from a simpler laser approach to implantable lenses — that might solve your squint. |
| Latest AP poll shows Clinton leading McCain WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton now leads John McCain by 9 points in a head-to-head presidential matchup, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll that bolsters her argument that she is more electable than Democratic rival Barack Obama. |
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| 31 girls held by Texas are pregnant or have kids SAN ANTONIO — More than half the teenage girls taken from a polygamist compound in west Texas have children or are pregnant, state officials said Monday. |
| Few states keep broad oversight of ID data MADISON, Wis. — Tax forms were sent out to thousands of people in Wisconsin with their Social Security numbers on the mailing labels. A vendor hired by the state of Georgia lost a computer disk with the names and Social Security numbers of 2.9 million people. A disk with similar information disappeared in Rhode Island. |
| Three tornadoes rip up Virginia areas SUFFOLK, Va. — Three tornadoes carved through central and southeastern Virginia on Monday, destroying homes, tossing cars and injuring more than 200 people. |
| Four U.S. soldiers killed; Shiite militants shell Green Zone BAGHDAD — Bombardments by suspected militants killed four U.S. soldiers Monday as troops tried to push Shiite fighters farther from the U.S.-protected Green Zone and out of range of their rockets and mortars. |
| Q&A on the News Question: Is it true that the Vatican supported capital punishment until the late 1960s? |
| Requiring photo ID to vote upheld WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday upheld state requirements that voters show photo identification cards before casting ballots. |
| Corrections ● The story on how to perform abdominal exercises properly appears in Accent on E1 today. A promotion for the story on D1 Monday gave the wrong run day for the story. |
| Arizona rates a B on disclosure of worst child abuse NEW YORK — Many states often fail to release adequate information about fatal and near-fatal child-abuse cases, placing confidentiality above disclosure to a degree that thwarts needed reforms, two child advocacy groups say in a new report. |
| Customers flocking to Forever stamps WASHINGTON — With a postal rate increase just two weeks away, Americans are buying 30 million Forever stamps a day. |
| 2-train crash kills 70, hurts 420 in China ZIBO, China — Some passengers were sleeping, but others were standing in the aisle waiting to get off when their high-speed train derailed, toppling into a ditch "like a roller coaster" and slamming into another train. At least 70 people died, and 420 were injured. |
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