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| STAR INVESTIGATION: Schools promote students despite widespread failure |
| Wildfire near Kitt Peak grows to 1,000 acres A wildfire burning in the Baboquivari Mountains Saturday expanded to 1,000 acres, a State Forestry Division official said. |
| Mike D'Antoni leaves Suns to become Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni has agreed to coach the New York Knicks, bringing his entertaining offensive style from the Phoenix Suns to a team coming off one of the worst seasons in franchise history. |
| Omaha man uses steak knife to perform self tracheotomy — again The 55-year-old Omaha man who performed a tracheotomy on himself with a steak knife says he did the same thing to himself two years ago. |
| Reports: Dad of 'Idol's' David Archuleta loses backstage access Backstage meddling has caught up “American Idol” favorite David Archuleta’s dad, who’s been banned from rehearsals, a person working for the TV talent contest said Friday. |
| NASA Mission: Tucson catching Mars fever Two weeks from Sunday, NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander is scheduled to touch down on the red planet. The event is significant in Tucson because the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Lab team is leading the mission’s science and built some of the instruments. |
| Artificial reef near Miami is cemetery, diving attraction About 45 feet beneath the ocean’s surface lies a cemetery with gates, pathways, plaques and even benches. |
| Phoenix man kills ex-girlfirend's new boyfriend, then himself Phoenix police say two men are dead in an apparent murder-suicide that happened after one man confronted his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend. |
| Stamp prices go up Monday The cost of mailing a letter goes up a penny to 42 cents on Monday, the latest in what are expected to be annual price adjustments by the Postal Service. |
| Anti-illegal immigration group wants San Diego highway sign When members of an anti-illegal immigration group offered to sponsor litter cleanup on local roads, they never imagined California officials would offer them an Adopt-a-Highway stretch near a Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 5, the main artery carrying illegal migrants north from the U.S.-Mexico border. |
| Slump data: Phoenix faring better than Tucson A report released this week by Moody's Economy.com said Tucson is not only in a recession, but it's in worse shape than Phoenix. The housing slump is creating bigger ripples in Tucson than in other parts of the state, said Rebecca Seweryn, senior economist at Economy.com. Migration from California, a major source of population growth for Tucson, also has slowed, she said. |
| Cost of TUSD meals, activities may rise Parents could pay more for school meals and after-school activities while small schools may be asked to share principals to help the Tucson Unified School District get into the black. |
| City eyes plans to back solar power for residents Tucson is looking for a way to finance the upfront cost of residential solar power with long-term, low-interest loans paid back in property tax bills. |
| 2 entrants report sexual assaults Two female illegal immigrants from Guatemala said Thursday that they had been raped earlier this week by a group of armed drug smugglers. |
| Political Notebook by Daniel Scarpinato : Poky lawmakers have to live on less Remember when your parents would cut your allowance for slacking off on your chores? |
| Governor drops builders from tax plan PHOENIX — Gov. Janet Napolitano agreed to take home builders off the financial hook for paying for new roads in exchange for a $100,000 donation to a campaign to persuade voters to boost their own taxes. |
| Psychiatrist was passionate about desert and people Taking a seat in Dr. Mary Ann Coady Weinand's office was like settling into the cozy living room for a chat with a good friend. |
| Prescribed burn set next week in Redington Pass An 11,000-acre, two-day prescribed burn is scheduled for next week in Redington Pass, said Forest Service officials. |
| Fire restrictions in place next week Fire restrictions will go into effect Wednesday for Arizona State Trust Lands in Gila, La Paz, Maricopa, Yavapai and Yuma counties. |
| Federal, state, tribal firefighters join to battle Baboquivari blaze A wildfire is burning in the Baboquivari Mountains southwest of Tucson. |
| Tucson Time Capsule : Tucson counts on the count |
| Mother's Day gifts brighten holiday for women in shelters Joy Subrin and Martha McKibben want to ensure that Mother's Day is not just another day for women living in shelters operated by Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse. |
| Get involved Browse hundreds of volunteer opportunities at the Volunteer Center of Southern Arizona's Web site, www.volunteersoaz.org. |
| Arrested again, rapper now faces drug, cruelty charges PHOENIX — Rapper DMX was arrested for the second time in a week Friday, this time after he was indicted on felony drug possession and misdemeanor animal cruelty charges. |
| Ariz. GOP to choose delegates; McCain's critics are in running PHOENIX — More than 1,100 GOP activists will gather today at the Arizona Republican Convention in Mesa to pick delegates to the party's national convention. |
| Boeing to put 2nd 'virtual fence' on border, citing success of 1st TUCSON — A Boeing Co. official in charge of the government's heavily criticized "virtual fence" project said a second section is planned on the Arizona-Mexico border, and a third could be tested near Detroit by the end of the year. |
| Seven suspected smugglers arrested in rival's death PHOENIX — Seven people believed to be immigrant smugglers were arrested in the investigation of another suspected human trafficker whose body was set afire in an alley in south Phoenix. |
| 2 die in crash of small plane PHOENIX — The Federal Aviation Administration said two people died when a single-engine plane they were riding in crashed several miles east of Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. |
| Ex-teacher gets 6 months for sex with student, 16 PHOENIX — A former teacher at Paradise Valley High School was sentenced Friday to six months in jail for a sexual relationship with one of her students. |
| Man found guilty in '07 stabbings, one fatal A Tucson man was convicted Friday of first-degree murder and aggravated assault in the stabbing of two Barrio Hollywood residents. |
| New leader selected for Fox Theatre Jim Williams has been appointed the new executive director of the Fox Theatre, an official said Friday. |
| No Ben's Bellings The weekly feature will return next Saturday. |
| Man in jail for refusing to take TB meds is freed A 50-year-old man who had been jailed since November for refusing to take his tuberculosis medication was released Friday. |
| Police look into death of baby boy Tucson police are investigating the death of a 3-month-old boy who died while in the care of a baby sitter on Thursday. |
| Mexican national gets 10 years in prison in hostage-taking case A Mexican man involved in human smuggling was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Friday for holding some of his clients hostage at a Tucson home. |
| Look for lane restrictions and closures Utility work near the Grant and Craycroft intersection will affect traffic there today. |
| Blood Donations The American Red Cross will be seeking blood donors at these times and places next week. To schedule your appointment, call 1-800-448-3543. |
| Deaths The deceased are from Tucson unless otherwise noted. Occupations are stated when available. |
| Jimmy's forecast The trough of low pressure that passed through on Friday kicking up the winds and dropping a few drops of rain has moved off to the east today. Skies will be mostly sunny today and there will be a few high clouds Monday with temperatures running 3 to 5 degrees above normal for this time of year. |
| Thorns & Flowers A flower to one of our favorite Old Pueblo traditions — Tucson Pops Orchestra's "Music Under the Stars." |
| Around the nation FLORIDA |
| Dodge-Naylor idea merits real consideration The Tucson Unified School District needs innovations that improve schools and make better use of existing resources. A proposal to open a branch of one of the district's top middle schools on the campus of one of its most troubled middle schools is an example of hitting both targets. |
| Old term 'political science' is taking on a new meaning WASHINGTON — Daniel Suson has a doctorate in astrophysics and has worked on the Superconducting Super Collider and a forthcoming NASA probe. Now he's heading back to school to take on an even trickier task — getting elected to public office. |
| Obama now nearly even with rival in super- delegates WASHINGTON — Barack Obama all but erased Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead among national convention superdelegates on Friday and won fresh labor backing as elements of the Democratic Party began coalescing around the Illinois senator for the fall campaign. |
| Obama, McCain need 'Hillary Dems' WASHINGTON — With the racially tinged Democratic race drawing to an awkward close, Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain face the challenge of winning over "Hillary Democrats" — the white, working-class voters who favored the former first lady over Obama's historic candidacy. |
| A whopper of a Mother's Day for 17 kids' mom (1 on the way) LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Mother's Day draws a crowd in the home of an Arkansas woman — she is pregnant with her 18th child. |
| Bush-nuptials action eludes hometown CRAWFORD, Texas — So close and yet so far: Tiny Crawford is sort of like a bridesmaid at arm's length from Jenna Bush's wedding Saturday. |
| Slayings of top cops in Mexico acts of retaliation Mexico's top police officers are being targeted and killed as drug traffickers retaliate for arrests and record seizures stemming from President Felipe Calderón's crackdown on narcotics gangs. |
| Around the world Russia |
| Myanmar junta accepting cyclone aid — on its terms YANGON, Myanmar — More aid is on the way to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar — but so is the heavy rain. |
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