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Main Category: Respiratory / Asthma Also Included In: Genetics Article Date: 08 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST While progress has been made in identifying genes associated with asthma , the disease is complex, and its development is likely dependent upon both genetics and environmental exposures, according to a leading expert presenting at the annual meeting ...

Tucson Symphony Orchestra Music Director George Hanson is among five finalists for the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra music director post being vacated by David Itkin .

L. Eduardo Caraveo arrived in this country as a young immigrant with a drive that helped transform him "from nothing to something." Caraveo, 52, one of 13 people who died in the shooting rampage Thursday in Fort Hood, Texas, arrived in the United States in his teens from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, knowing very little English, according to his son, ...

Among the amenities created during the extreme makeover of the Okvath family home in Gilbert.

A Pima County Superior Court judge is keeping alive a lawsuit that is one of the first court cases involving a state constitutional requirement for compensation for property value reduced by land-use regulations.

The latest City of Tucson election results: Democratic Councilwoman Karin Uhlich now leads Republican challenger Ben Bueher-Garcia by 246 votes.

A handyman convicted of killing an elderly Sahuarita woman in 2007 was sentenced Thursday to life in prison with release possible after 25 years.

The building at 31 E. Toole Ave. is one of several state-owned properties the Arizona Department of Transportation plans to sell.

Seoul Kitchen, a Korean restaurant specializing in barbecue, opened two weeks ago at 4851 E. Grant Road.

Ita s been more than 25 years since James Wallace called the Tucson Police Department and begged to be arrested for murdering his girlfriend and her two children and yet his punishment remains undecided.

The last of five men charged in a Tucson home invasion case are facing up to 56 1/4 years in prison after pleading guilty in the case Tuesday.

Former Tucson City Manager Mike Hein has been hired to head up the countya s Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security.

The FBI says a raid at a Tucson RV storage facility has resulted in the seizure of 68 kilograms of cocaine, $480,000 in cash and several vehicles.

The Pima County Health Department has received more H1N1 vaccine. The next clinic will be held on Tuesday, November 3rd from 1pm to 7pm.

The Navajo Generating Station, the huge coal-fired power plant outside Page, supplies a fraction of Arizona's electricity demand, but its role in moving water to the state's largest cities has thrust it into a growing battle over the cost of cleaning up air pollution.

The suspected cause of a fire that killed three dogs and two cats in a Northwest home Saturday night was lit candles in unattended Halloween jack-o-lanterns, said a Northwest Fire District spokeswoman.

A mobile hot dog cart that parks in a lot on 12th Avenue near Oklahoma in Tucson, El Sinaloense 3 is a great source of that wild and baroque local specialty, the Sonoran hot dog.

Tucson police arrested two men Tuesday in connection with a northeast side bank robbery earlier that day.

DA a de los Muertos is about life and living, not death. A quote from the Star archives, "It's a day to rejoice, not wallow in sorrow." The holiday blends pagan and Catholic rituals; its overriding purpose is to honor ancestors and celebrate family.

A former U.S. Border Patrol agent was arrested Friday and charged with accepting bribes from drug traffickers in Southern Arizona.