http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/local tucsoncitizen.com -- More Breaking News en-us Jul 18 4:56:31 PM 5 http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/071806_hail The National Weather Service has issued a dust storm warning, in effect until 6 today in northern Pima and southeast Pinal counties. Portions of http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/071806_hail The National Weather Service has issued a dust storm warning, in effect until 6 today in northern Pima and southeast Pinal counties. Portions of http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/071806_stormnew The National Weather Service has issued a dust storm warning until 6 this evening in northern Pima and southeast Pinal counties. Portions of Tucson http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/040406florida INDIANAPOLIS â€" Apparently, it was Florida with all the "D.'' That's D as in defense, dunks, and domination as the Gators rolled over UCLA to win http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/033006budblog Arizona basketball signee Chase Budinger showed he could pass, shoot and handle the ball in the McDonald's All-American Game. That's why he was http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032806_homicide_update Tucson police have identified the man slain in his Southside home before dawn today as Steven R. Anaya, 42. Anaya was shot to death when a number of http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032806AZ_Immigration_Demonstration PHOENIX - Hundreds of high school students left classes in Phoenix on Tuesday in what police believed to be demonstrations tied to the ongoing http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032806Charity_Dominatrix NEW YORK - A charity foundation's former accountant, accused of embezzling heart disease research funds to pay a dominatrix to beat him, pleaded http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032806Interest_Rates WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve on Tuesday boosted a key interest rate to the highest level in five years as new Chairman Ben Bernanke followed the http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032806Fake_Deployment NEW YORK - A high school teacher was arrested Tuesday for telling school officials he was being deployed to assist with Hurricane Katrina relief http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032806Attacks_Remains NEW YORK - Construction workers cleaning toxic waste from a vacant skyscraper near the World Trade Center site have found more bone fragments and http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032806Immigration_Rallies LOS ANGELES - Rain and campus lockdowns didn't prevent a second day of student walkouts Tuesday to protest immigration law changes. Several hundred http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032806Global_Technology GENEVA - The United States has overtaken Singapore and regained the lead in exploiting information and communication technology, according to a study http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032806humanorgans SHANGHAI, China - China's Health Ministry has explicitly banned sales of human organs in an apparent attempt to clean up the country's lucrative but http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032806Mozart_Vandal VIENNA, Austria - Two men who painted part of an avant-garde sculpture of Mozart and stuck feathers on it because they considered it pornographic http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032806_homicide One man is dead and two other people are in police custody in the aftermath of a shooting death this morning on Tucson's South Side, a Tucson police http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032806_am_traffic Tucson police this morning were working a collision with unknown injuries at East Golf Links Road and South Pantano Parkway. Motorists are advised to http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032806israel JERUSALEM - Israelis voted today in a historic election billed as a referendum on the future of the West Bank, with the leading candidate, acting http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032806iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb exploded today as police exchanged fire with two attackers outside a police station south of Baghdad, wounding at least a http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032806nasa LOS ANGELES - Just weeks after NASA killed a spacecraft mission to two of the solar system's largest asteroids, the space agency reversed course and http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032706afganchristian KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan man who had faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity quickly vanished today after he was http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032706uawomen_stabbing University of Arizona women's basketball signee Marie McGee is in satisfactory condition in a Texas hospital after she and her mother were stabbed, http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032706_twodeaths Two people were found dead this afternoon in the 1800 block of North Whispering Bells Drive, on the west side of Tucson. At 3:45 p.m. a friend of a http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032706guest_workers MEXICO CITY - Heartened by huge marches across the United States and President Bush's support for a guest-worker program, Mexico remains optimistic http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032706dbacks_drew TUCSON - Shortstop Stephen Drew was among seven players sent to the minor league camp by the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday. Drew, younger brother of http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032706AZ_Demonstration PHOENIX - Two hundred students walked out of their high school Monday and marched to the Arizona Capitol to voice their support for government http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032706Graceland_Landmark MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The home of the King of Rock 'n' Roll joined the homes of presidents past and present in becoming a National Historic Landmark http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032706Road_Collapse NEW YORK - A city street collapsed under a sports utility vehicle early Monday, leaving the vehicle nose down into a deep sinkhole that officials http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032706fec_internet WASHINGTON - Regulators brought Internet political advertising under the nation's campaign finance law Monday but declared that all other political http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032706_fires Two people were killed in fires since last night - one about midnight and the other about 8:30 a.m. today, a Tucson Fire Department spokesman said. http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032706Obit_Lem WARSAW, Poland - Stanislaw Lem, a popular science fiction writer whose novel "Solaris" was filmed twice, died Monday in his native Poland, his http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032706_illegal U.S. Border Patrol agents captured 28 suspected illegal immigrants, including one suspected people smuggler, south of Tucson on Sunday night, a http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032706EU_US_Aviation BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union hopes to get a preliminary "open skies" air services agreement with the United States in the first half of the http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032706_am_traffic Area law enforcement agencies going into rush hour Monday reported no major road tie-ups on city or county streets or on the area's interstates. An http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032706scotus WASHINGTON - As states have gotten tougher on crime, prisons have cracked down on disruptive inmates by creating high-security segregation units with http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032706iraq2 BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein's chief deputy, who has eluded capture since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq three years ago, purportedly called for http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032706oilprice VIENNA, Austria - Crude-oil prices slipped under $64 a barrel today after the release of three foreign hostages by Nigerian militants eased concerns http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032706arab GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The Palestinian Authority's incoming premier said today his Hamas-led government was ready to hold talks with international http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032706niger WARRI, Nigeria - Militants demanding control of revenues from Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta released their last remaining foreign hostages today - http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032706ukrain KIEV, Ukraine - The fractious parties that once joined to carry out Ukraine's Orange Revolution faced a dilemma today: What to do about the comeback http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032706iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide bomber attacked a joint U.S.-Iraqi military base in northern Iraq today, killing at least 15 people and wounding as many as http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032606ncaa_florida MINNEAPOLIS -- Joakim Noah and the rest of Florida's sophomores were simply too strong for the last No. 1 seed standing. With a 75-62 win over top- http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032606nascar BRISTOL, Tenn. -- Kurt Busch's friend and former teammate was in his way. So Busch banged Matt Kenseth aside -- the first of two hard shoves Kenseth http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032606_pro_golf The Associated Press PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Stephen Ames went from making fun of Tiger Woods to winning like him. Ames delivered a major http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032606ncaa_georgemason WASHINGTON -- George Mason is no longer the cute little underdog. The Patriots, by golly, are going to the Final Four. The suburban commuter school http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032606ncaa_georgemason WASHINGTON -- George Mason is no longer the cute little underdog. The Patriots, by golly, are going to the Final Four. The suburban commuter school http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032606irl_death HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Driver Paul Dana died after a two-car crash Sunday during the warmup for the season-opening IRL IndyCar Series race at Homestead- http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032606indydeath HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Driver Paul Dana died after a two-car crash Sunday during the warmup for the season-opening IRL IndyCar Series race at Homestead- http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032606ravegunman SEATTLE - The private party following a "zombie rave" was winding down when a man walked out, returned to the house wearing bandoliers of shotgun http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032606afghan KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan court on Sunday dismissed a case against a man who converted from Islam to Christianity because of a lack of evidence http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032506ucla OAKLAND, Calif. - The most storied program in college basketball is back in the Final Four. Arron Afflalo, coach Ben Howland and the rest of the http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032506seattle_shooting SEATTLE - Six young people were shot to death early Saturday at a home, and the alleged gunman then committed suicide when confronted by police, http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032506myspace_arrests BOULDER, Colo. - Detectives used profiles posted on the MySpace social networking Web site to identify six suspects in a rape and robbery that began http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032506mccain_iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq - As a gunbattle raged south of Baghdad Saturday, two key U.S. senators told Iraqi leaders that American patience was growing thin and http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032506belarus MINSK, Belarus - Riot police armed with clubs clashed with a crowd of protesters demonstrating Saturday against the disputed election that returned http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032506obit_owens LOS ANGELES - Singer Buck Owens, the flashy rhinestone cowboy who shaped the sound of country music with hits like "Act Naturally" and brought the http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032506afghanistan KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Afghan and U.S. troops backed by American aircraft fought suspected Taliban Saturday in southern Afghanistan, leaving one U.S. http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032506memorial_vandalized CHESHIRE, Mass. - The family of a Green Beret who was one of the nation's first casualties in the war on terror in Afghanistan was outraged after http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032406dbacks_brewers TUCSON - Milwaukee's Doug Davis pitched like an opening day starter, Arizona's Brandon Webb didn't. Both are scheduled to take the mound in their http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032406heredia_released TUCSON - The Arizona Diamondbacks released left-hander Felix Heredia on Friday, saying they wanted to allow the pitcher to talk to other clubs. http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032406colorado_bombs DENVER - At least three crude bombs exploded and two others were disarmed Friday at the homes of people who work for an FAA contractor in Grand http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032406wallstreetwrapup NEW YORK - Wall Street closed out the week with modest gains Friday, though trading was erratic as encouraging signs of a cooling housing market http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032406snowbound_warrant ASHLAND, Ore. - Arizona authorities have issued a warrant on drug-related and weapons charges for a couple who were among a family of six rescued http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032406immigration_march PHOENIX - Thousands of supporters of immigrant rights marched to the office of U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl Friday, rallying in a call for more humane reform of http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032406belarus_sanctions WASHINGTON - The United States joined European nations Friday in imposing sanctions on Belarus in retaliation for a crackdown on political protesters http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032406tracy_dbacks TUCSON - Chad Tracy is a prospect no more. Comfortably back at third base with the Arizona Diamondbacks, he enters his third big league season http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032406couple ASHLAND, Ore. - Arizona authorities have issued a warrant on drug-related charges for two of the six people rescued from a snowbound motor home this http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032406vp WASHINGTON - It doesn't take much to make Dick Cheney at home on the road: Diet Sprite, a pot of coffee - both sans caffeine - and a TV tuned to Fox http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032406abortion SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Opponents of South Dakota's new ban on nearly all abortions began a petition drive today to let voters decide its fate. The law, http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032406son NEW YORK - A police officer rescued an 8-month-old boy from the frigid waters off Staten Island after he saw the baby's father jumping with him into http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032406_cheney_gone Vice President Dick Cheney left Tucson without incident this morning. His flight took off from Tucson International Airport some time between 6:30 http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032406_am_traffic Tucson police were working six collisions this morning and motorists are advised to avoid the areas as there may be traffic delays. The collisions, http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032406_chaney Seeing a lot more cops out this morning? Vice President Dick Cheney is headed out of town early this morning, prompting a greater police presence http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032406_mars1 By ERIC SAGARA esagara@tucsoncitizen.com The camera worked. Shadows from a sun rising over a Martian landscape greeted scientists and engineers http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032406helona CALCUTTA, India - One of the world's oldest creatures, a giant tortoise believed to have been about 250 years old, has died in the Calcutta zoo where http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032406asean YANGON, Myanmar - Malaysia's foreign minister cut short a democracy monitoring trip to Myanmar after a brief meeting with the prime minister of the http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032406bulgariabases SOFIA, Bulgaria - Bulgaria and the United States have reached an agreement allowing the U.S. military to use several military bases in Bulgaria, http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032406mesaimmigration COSTA MESA, Calif. - A new city policy that would give police the authority to enforce federal immigration law is hurting local businesses even http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032406belorus BRUSSELS, Belgium - European Union leaders slapped expanded sanctions on Belarus today and condemned a crackdown against opposition protesters in http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032306ncaa_ucla OAKLAND, Calif. -- Luc Richard Mbah a Moute provided a shocking ending to Adam Morrison's amazing season. Mbah a Moute scored underneath with 10 http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032306ncaa_texas ATLANTA -- Kenton Paulino beat West Virginia at its own game, hitting a 3-pointer as time expired to give Texas a 74-71 victory over the Mountaineers http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032306ncaa_lsu ATLANTA -- No need for LSU and "Big Baby" to cry in this NCAA Tournament. Glen "Big Baby" Davis and the rest of the Tigers are one win away from the http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032306ncaa_memphis OAKLAND, Calif. -- Rodney Carney kept No. 1 seed Memphis from becoming another victim of Bradley's surprising NCAA Tournament run. Carney contributed http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032306wallstreetwrapup NEW YORK - Wall Street had a renewed case of interest rate anxiety Thursday, with stocks falling on strong economic news and a jump in oil prices http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032306line-item PHOENIX - The Arizona Supreme Court said Thursday it will decide May 23 whether to consider the Republican-led Legislature's lawsuit challenging a http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032306grandcanyon PHOENIX - More people will be able to raft down the Colorado River each year, but visitors will be spread out over a longer period of time and will http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032306mitchell_congress PHOENIX - State Sen. Harry Mitchell, the Senate's second-ranking Democratic leader and a longtime Tempe mayor, resigned Thursday from the Arizona http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032306google_stock SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.'s stock will be added to the Standard & Poor's 500 index, a long-anticipated rite of passage that gave the company's http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032306english_official PHOENIX - The Arizona House on Thursday approved a proposed ballot measure that would make English the state's official language and require that http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032306warming We're getting warmer, scientists including those at the University of Arizona declare in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science. Melting ice sheets http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032306_pedestria_hurt A teenager pushing a toddler in a stroller shoved the child to safety shortly before she was hit by a car, according to police. The girl, 16 or 17 http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032306cruize MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica - Fire broke out on a cruise ship in the Caribbean early today, killing one person and injuring 11 others before the crew http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032306rebock WASHINGTON - Reebok is recalling 300,000 children's charm bracelets because a 4-year-old died from lead poisoning after swallowing a piece of the http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032306_trafficbrf2 A two-car collision that delayed traffic this morning at East Benson Highway and South Kino Parkway at the beginning of rush hour today has been http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032306pastor SELMER, Tenn. - A church minister was found shot to death in his parsonage, and authorities were searching for his missing wife and three young http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032306_trafficbrf Tucson police this morning were investigating a collision shortly before 6 a.m. at East Benson Highway and South Kino Parkway. By 7 a.m. officers http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032306christians BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two Canadians and a Briton held hostage for nearly four months were freed earlier today by U.S. and Iraqi forces, the British Embassy http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032306gold JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia's government today threatened legal action against U.S. mining company Freeport unless the company improved the http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032306afghan QUETTA, Pakistan - Pakistan lodged a "strong protest" with Afghanistan today over the killing by Afghan soldiers of at least 14 Pakistanis, the http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032206obrador_campaign MEXICO CITY - Leftist presidential front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced Wednesday that the president's former chief of staff has joined http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032206wallstreetwrapup NEW YORK - Stocks rose Wednesday on upbeat news from big companies: a patent settlement by Bristol-Myers Squibb, strong earnings from Morgan Stanley http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032206ell_fines PHOENIX - The state Superintendent of Public Instruction has appealed a federal judge's order that $21 million in fines be immediately distributed to http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032206leg_veto_suit PHOENIX - The Republican-majority Arizona Legislature filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging a line-item veto by Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano, http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032206frye_knee NEW YORK - New York Knicks rookie Channing Frye will miss the rest of the season because of a sprained left knee ligament. An MRI exam in New York on http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032206stoudemire_suns PHOENIX - Phoenix Suns forward Amare Stoudemire is close to returning from a knee injury that has sidelined him all season. After participating in 5- http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032206keytoss A 47-year-old man learned the key to foiling a carjacking can be a good pitching arm and straight aim. In a brief report released by police this http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032206apartmentfire A fire today did $100,000 damage to an apartment near Stone Avenue and Forth Lowell Road, fire officials said. They were trying to determine the http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032206moussaoui ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Two of the pilot-hijackers from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks abandoned a small airplane on a taxiway of Miami International Airport http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032206basques VITORIA, Spain - The Basque separatist group ETA announced a permanent cease-fire Wednesday, ending a decades-long campaign of violence and closing http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032206scotus_searches WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police without a warrant cannot search a home when one resident says to come in but another tells http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032206eu_ban BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union on Wednesday banned 92 airlines, most of them based in Africa, from landing at European airports, declaring http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032206anglicans LONDON - The archbishop of Canterbury, the leader of the world's Anglicans, says he is opposed to teaching creationism in schools. "And that's http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032206mex_immig MEXICO CITY- Mexico said Wednesday it is optimistic that a major breakthrough granting legal status to some of the millions of its undocumented http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032206ny_coyote NEW YORK - A wily coyote led sharpshooters armed with tranquilizer guns on a merry chase through Central Park for two days before it was finally http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/032206cat SUMMERVILLE, S.C. - The family of Piper the cat, who fell 80 feet from a tree and lived to meow about it, says they thought Piper had cashed in her