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| County to study if richer neighborhoods get cleaner grocery stores The Pima County Health Department is going to take a closer look at grocery chains in coming months to find out if there’s a cleanliness disparity between stores in poorer areas when compared with those in more affluent communities. |
| McCain's health plan: A threat to employer plans? There’s a great unknown about Sen. John McCain’s health plan: How many employers would drop insurance coverage for their workers because of his tax policies? |
| Tucson police radar van location schedule for today The city’s police radar van is scheduled to snap photos of speeders at these locations today, according to the Tucson Police Department’s Web site. |
| TV's 'The Bachelor' weds in California Andrew Firestone, star of the ABC-TV reality show, married Serbian model and actress Ivana Bozilovic Saturday, Firestone’s publicist Alisha Mahon told The Associated Press. |
| Get your fall performance listed in the Star We’ve an earlier than usual deadline for our fall performing-arts preview — scheduled to run in early September. So, please e-mail us your information by July 25. |
| Two fires raging along Calif.’s Central Coast Weary firefighters got no Independence Day reprieve from a pair of out-of-control wildfires that roared along California’s central coast, chewing through opposite ends of an arid forest in the Los Padres National Forest. |
| Rosemont mine may be hard to block Is the Rosemont copper mine a done deal? |
| County: U.S. needs to look far afield to assess mine impact When considering the impact of the proposed copper mine at Rosemont Ranch, the U.S. Forest Service needs to look far beyond the 4,000-acre mine site, Pima County officials say. |
| TUSD plans to swap parcels with developers for new school sites The Tucson Unified School District is poised to play its own version of Let's-Make-a-Deal with local developers, proposing a swap of some of its vacant land in exchange for land that can be used to build new Southwest Side schools. |
| Drivers becoming riders Gas prices have gotten higher by the month this year, and more people are boarding a Sun Tran bus to save money. |
| Gas-card 'deal' on radio may be no deal at all It's hard to imagine gas at $2.49 a gallon being too good to be true, but then again, these are dire economic times. |
| Care home probed after reported sexual assault The state is investigating a Tucson assisted-living home where a co-owner is accused of sexually assaulting a female resident. |
| Fire officials: Humans, not nature, spark most blazes CROWN KING — Playing with matches, being careless with a campfire, even burning a letter from an estranged husband: Some of the most devastating wildfires in the country's recent history have been started by people. |
| Some spots soak; some are high and dry Buckets of rain fell across much of the Tucson area Saturday, with the heaviest thunderstorms concentrated on some Northwest Side locations that received well over an inch of rain in less than an hour and 50 mph winds. |
| Students from Iraq set for UA program The UA will train college-age Iraqi students this summer on how to help rebuild their war-torn country and lead it to stability. |
| Calls flood shelter for pets scared by fireworks The annual rush to find Rover — spooked by fireworks and lighting Friday night — has workers at the Humane Society of Southern Arizona hopping. |
| Where police radar van will lie in wait for you The city's police radar van is scheduled to snap photos of speeders at these locations today, according to the Tucson Police Department's Web site: |
| Layoff will take 'his' kids away from D-M school crossing guard For Dick Hughes, his seven-year stint as a crossing guard at Borman Elementary School was about much more than the $8.41 an hour he received for the couple hours of work he put in every day. |
| Neto's Tucson by Ernesto Portillo Jr.: Architect wants his hometown to look the best it can When it comes to designing buildings in town, it gets personal for Tucson architect Rob Paulus. |
| Lottery Drawings for Saturday, July 5 |
| F-16 pilot blacked out before crash, probe finds PHOENIX — An Air Force investigation board has determined that an Ohio Air National Guard pilot who died when his F-16 crashed in western Arizona in March lost consciousness during a dogfighting maneuver. |
| Tucson Time Capsule: Tucsonan set pole-sitting record |
| Neighbors briefs Sahaurita and Santa Cruz Valley teens 13 to 17 are invited to theater-arts classes on Tuesdays in July at the Conrad Joyner-Green Valley Library, 601 N. La Cañada Drive, Green Valley. |
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| On the agenda Oro Valley Town Council — The council usually meets at 7 p.m. on the first and third Wednesday of each month at Oro Valley Town Hall,11000 N. La Cañada Drive. Live Internet broadcast can be heard at www.orovalleyaz.gov. Call 229-4700 to confirm meeting times, dates and places. The council will hold a 5:30 p.m. study session Wednesday to discuss possible adoption of development impact fees to benefit the areas of library and general government. |
| Leal wants to take second look at plans for courts complex The 18-month hold on constructing the joint city/county courts complex Downtown is an opportunity to re-examine the entire project, City Councilman Steve Leal said. |
| Here is this week's list of I-10 area traffic challenges After a holiday weekend of no closures in the Interstate 10 widening area in Tucson, crews will be back at work on the frontage roads and bridges this week. |
| Sedona-Oak Creek road upgrade leaves the area as mellow as ever A $100 million project to widen Arizona Highway 179 to improve access to Sedona is getting high marks for balancing needs of drivers while maintaining the quaint charm of the popular tourist destination. |
| Baby Boot Camp targets new moms |
| Public can add pro, con views to ballot items PHOENIX — Got an opinion on one of the items on the November ballot? |
| Deaths The deceased are from Tucson unless otherwise noted. Occupations are stated when available. |
| Jimmy's forecast The circulation around an area of high pressure to the north of Arizona will... |
| South Americans angry as EU gets tough on illegals LIMA, Peru — For years, South Americans have flocked to European embassies for visas that would let them migrate and escape their poverty. |
| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Hot issues: From June 28 to July 4, the Star received three letters supporting the Rosemont mine (three opposed). Five letters opposed an Arizona bill favoring speeders (zero supported). One letter favored lower speed limits (one favored an increase). |
| 'I feel like a chemical factory,' and other stops along the treatment trail |
| Salmonella outbreak continues to grow WASHINGTON — The government on Saturday increased the number of people reported being sickened in a salmonella outbreak in which tomatoes are the leading suspect, although investigators are testing other types of fresh produce. |
| Backlash in poor areas vs. potency pills RALEIGH, N.C. — Scan a gas-station or corner-market shelf, and there, alongside the Slim Jims, hangs a package of pills that neighbors buy like bubble gum or hate like sin. |
| One man's cancer journey A clarity arrived with my cancer. • The infinity of time and life that cradles youth slipped away. I discovered my boundaries. |
| Obama exhorts faithful to help fix U.S. ills ST. LOUIS — Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far beyond them. |
| Candidates offer plans to forestall foreclosure WASHINGTON — Home foreclosures will keep rising next year no matter who is elected president in November. |
| Polls, team strength, cash say it all: McCain is facing tough slog ahead WASHINGTON — John McCain calls himself an underdog. That may be an understatement. |
| More letters: Would Tucson benefit from an auditor? The following letters are in response to the June 28 article "City weighs referee to head off disputes" and the July 2 article "Unanimous City Council keeps Hein." |
| If you build it, they don't always use it to commute Q Given projected population growth rates in Tucson and increasing gas prices, should we not be more vigorously promoting and creating facilities for increased bicycle and transit use? If a large fraction of people in — and projected to be in — cars were moved onto bikes or into buses, road-maintenance costs could be reduced, congestion mitigated and air quality improved. Yet there appear to be no serious efforts made in this area. Why? |
| SEEN AND HEARD AT THE OLYMPIC TRACK & FIELD TRIALS EUGENE, Ore. — While former UA standout thrower Doug Reynolds competed in the discus preliminaries on Thursday, he was also in the dual role of coach. |
| Gail MarksJarvis: Brutal stretch leaves few places to hide Sam Stovall, the chief investment strategist for Standard & Poor's, said it all when he titled his second-quarter stock market report "A Summary of the Slaughter." |
| Youth-to-Youth program is rescuer The graffiti on the wall of SER, a job assistance agency in South Tucson, was hardly noticeable. Even SER director Ernie Urias didn't realize the 15-year-old mural at the corner of South Seventh Avenue and West 28th Street had been tagged. |
| Opinion by Bonnie Henry : It seems that ladies still need to dress their men Sock creep. We were in Costco, where all the fashionable hang out, when I first noticed it. |
| Iraq chief declares victory vs. terror BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister said Saturday that the government has defeated terrorism in the country, a sign of growing confidence after recent crackdowns against Sunni extremists and Shiite militias. |
| Oregon man pilots his lawn chair 200 miles via balloons BEND, Ore. — A man flying across Oregon in a green lawn chair rigged with a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled balloons has reached his destination. |
| California wildfires strain state's resources LOS ANGELES — A wildfire threatening thousands of homes in Southern California spread slowly through scenic canyonlands Saturday, straining resources as crews struggled to contain hundreds of other blazes around the state. |
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