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| Officer on life support after crosstown pursuit A Tucson police officer was on life support and "very unlikely to live" after he was shot in the head Sunday during an hour-long, cross-town shooting spree, Tucson Police Chief Richard Miranda said. |
| County back to drawing board County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry asked county department heads to prepare for a possible 5 percent cut in department budgets just days after the Board of Supervisors adopted a tentative budget May 20 requiring cuts of slightly more than 2 percent. |
| Mars lander's shovel sees its first action The shovel on the Phoenix Mars spacecraft's robotic arm has successfully touched down on the red planet. |
| Lander is on Mars, so now what? Now that the Phoenix has landed, what's next on Mars? |
| Well-known activists leave for new role When activists Rick and Kitty Ufford-Chase left Tucson Sunday for a 2,400-mile move to New York, they also left behind their mark — and a big hole, say colleagues who share their passions. |
| Tax credits for solar up in the air Solar tax credits run out at the end of this year — better get those panels on your roof before they do. |
| Road Runner by Andrea Kelly : Summer: the season for hard-core Zonies Ahhhh, the reprieve. It's safe to say it's officially summer in Tucson. All the signs are here. The hummm of freshly oiled evaporative coolers. The crack of the ice breaking on the Santa Cruz River. Fewer drivers jamming up the streets of Tucson. |
| TEP expands devices on rebate program The biggest savings in renewable energy come from your utility company, and Tucson Electric Power is about to extend its rebate program to a larger array of devices, under an agreement it reached with the Arizona Corporation Commission. |
| Lottery Drawings for Saturday, May 31 |
| Photo: Pool season has arrived |
| $20K from Conquistadores puts fund over top Thanks to Star readers, the Arizona Daily Star's Sportsmen's Fund Send a Kid to Camp program has met its goal of raising $200,000 to send at least 720 children to camp this summer. |
| Suspected people-smuggler on loose The Fugitive: Jose Gerardo Canez-Cienfuegos |
| Dead motorcyclist, his passenger ID'd A man who died after a motorcycle accident in Arivaca Saturday has been identified, as has the woman who was injured in the crash. |
| Pilot dies in crash of home- built plane A man died Sunday when his single-engine, homemade plane crashed west of Marana in a remote desert area. |
| Prescott man airbrushes himself to fame PRESCOTT — Charles Armstrong never met Korczak Ziolkowski, but both artists have depicted legendary Sioux warrior Crazy Horse. |
| Climate Score Card The Star offers a monthly score card of how our 2008 weather compares with the norm. |
| Mint to unveil quarter coin featuring Arizona PHOENIX — A big party has been planned to welcome Arizona's new state quarter, part of the U.S. Mint's 50 State Quarters program. |
| Tucson Time Capsule: Circus in miniature, circa 1978 |
| Swiss voters reject anti-immigration initiative GENEVA — Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected an anti-immigrant initiative that would have made it harder for foreigners to gain citizenship, according to referendum results released Sunday. |
| Letters to the editor Age limits needed for candidates |
| Can video games improve the health of user? WASHINGTON — Why fight the proliferation of video games if you can use them to improve the nation's health? |
| Conference seeks clues on autism increase Fearing that a hospital birth might increase her son's chances of developing autism, Nicole Mytels decided to have her baby at home. For the same reason, she skipped vaccinations commonly given to newborns. |
| Data puzzle: Kids' cancer highest in Northeast CHICAGO — Surprising research suggests that childhood cancer is most common in the Northeast, results that caught even experts off-guard. But some specialists say it could just reflect differences in reporting. |
| Clinton takes Puerto Rico; still lags Obama count SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hillary Rodham Clinton won a lopsided, but largely symbolic, victory Sunday in Puerto Rico's presidential primary, the final act in a weekend of tumult that pushed Barack Obama tantalizingly close to the Democratic presidential nomination. |
| High gas prices are changing our behavior The future is here and it looks like it's going to be hybrid, subcompact, electric or two-wheeled. |
| Around the nation IOWA |
| U.S. Senate girds for fight on energy bill WASHINGTON — From higher electric bills to more expensive gasoline, the possible economic cost of tackling global warming is driving the debate as climate change takes center stage in Congress. |
| PRO: Motorists should blame the Bush administration for its 'pump pain' By Amy Isaacs |
| Drivers putting less gas in tank, then running out Brent Saba had just dropped a church group off at Philadelphia International Airport on Sunday morning and was heading north on Interstate 95 when it happened: His 15-passenger van ran out of gas. |
| Neighbors briefs NORTHWEST SIDE |
| Discovery wing edges get quick inspection CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Lacking the proper laser tools, shuttle Discovery's astronauts performed a cursory wing inspection Sunday as they zoomed ever closer to the international space station. |
| Massive fire destroys sets, video archives at Universal (with video) UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — One of Hollywood's largest movie studios starred in a disastrous sequel Sunday as a fire ripped through a lot at Universal Studios, destroying a set from "Back to the Future," a King Kong exhibit and a streetscape seen frequently in movies and TV shows. |
| 'Disruptive' autistic teen legally barred from church BERTHA, Minn. — Carol Race thinks it's important for her 13-year-old son to be in church on Sundays for Catholic Mass. |
| Iraq at odds with U.S. in talks; Aussie force leaving BAGHDAD — Iraq's chief spokesman acknowledged differences with the United States over a proposed long-term security agreement and pledged on Sunday that the government will protect Iraqi sovereignty in ongoing talks with the Americans. |
| South Africa starts moving foreigners to refugee camps JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — South African authorities on Sunday started moving nearly 10,000 foreigners displaced by xenophobic violence into organized camps in the Johannesburg area. |
| Prime minister's party wins Macedonia parliamentary vote SKOPJE, Macedonia — Macedonia's prime minister declared victory Sunday in the Balkan country's parliamentary election after a vote that was marred by gunbattles that left one person dead and eight wounded. |
| Israel frees Hezbollah spy, receives body parts JERUSALEM — Israel handed over a convicted Hezbollah spy to Lebanon on Sunday, and in a surprise move the Islamic guerrilla group turned over what it said were the body parts of Israeli soldiers killed in a 2006 war. |
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| Robot film, Depp share 'popcorn' at MTV event (with slide show) UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — The "Transformers" have another chunk of metal to add to their collection. |
| Majority of Mexicans believe government losing war against drug cartels, poll says MEXICO CITY — A majority of Mexicans believe the government is losing its escalating battle against drug gangs, according to a poll published Sunday. |
| McClellan: Bush should have fired Rove WASHINGTON — President Bush broke his promise to the country by refusing to fire aide Karl Rove for leaking a CIA agent's identity, said Scott McClellan, the president's chief spokesman for almost three years. |
| End in sight on cleanup of WWII nuclear fuel plant OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Building the world's first full-scale uranium enrichment factory — a 45-acre monster that was the biggest industrial structure in the world at the time — took 18 months amid the race for the first atomic bomb. |
| Man goes on trial in killings of wife, infant WOBURN, Mass. — The young woman and her baby girl were snuggled together in bed, the infant nestled in her mother's arms, tucked under a thick comforter in the master bedroom of their home outside Boston. |
| Black marchers protest St. Louis crime, violence ST. LOUIS — Throngs of ministers, Black Panthers and other black men hungry for change marched through a historically black St. Louis neighborhood Sunday to protest violence, with women cheering them from the sidelines. |
| Kuwait hardliners walk out of parliament KUWAIT CITY — Muslim hardliners in Kuwait's parliament walked out of the body's inaugural meeting on Sunday to protest two female Cabinet ministers who were not wearing headscarves. |
| Kentucky, Ohio battle over boulder pulled from river SOUTH SHORE, Ky. — It's an 8-ton boulder that for decades sat, mostly forgotten, in the middle of the river that separates Ohio and Kentucky. It was a navigation marker for boaters that became the canvas for such fine art as a stick figure-like face with two dots for eyes and a dot for a nose chiseled into it. |
| Neil Young feels driven to work on electric car WICHITA, Kan. — Neil Young, the rocker who provided some of the soundtrack to Vietnam-era protests, is trying to change the world again — with his car. |
| Mr. Rogers' memory lives on in scholarships LOS ANGELES — The man in the cardigan himself would've been glad to welcome the Fred Rogers Memorial Scholarship winners to his neighborhood, his widow said. |
| Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent dies at 71 PARIS — Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent, who reworked the rules of fashion by putting women into elegant pantsuits that came to define how modern women dressed, died Sunday evening, a longtime friend and associate said. He was 71. |
| Study shows young adults hit by 'news fatigue' On the Net |
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