Tucson News

Arizona authorities are accusing a major payday loan company of engaging in deceptive practices by filing collections lawsuits in courts far from where debtors live or took out the loans.

Austrian police have arrested an American woman sought in connection with the killing of her ex-husband, who died when a pipe bomb exploded in his car more than a decade ago, law enforcement officials said Friday.

U.S. Border Patrol agents found a male backpacker who was shot to death near Amado, south of Tucson, Thursday.

Click here for a free download of the latest Adobe Flash Player. Posted on December 2, 2009 at 10:38 AM Updated today at 11:15 AM Fifteen people held hostage were rescued Tuesday morning at a drop house on Tucson's south side.

Tucson police are looking for two sisters who disappeared Tuesday, police said. Marissa Padilla, 11, and Marina Padilla, 13 were last seen at Pistor Middle School, 2840 W. Canada St.

The Tucson Fire Department is investigating a fatal fire Thursday morning in the midtown area.

This March 2008 booking photograph shows John Arthur Drusts, who is facing prison time after pleading guilty to failing to register as a sex offender.

Immigrants who have been arrested in zero-tolerance zones along the Mexican border must not be tried at mass criminal immigration hearings because the proceedings violate federal rules, an appeals court ruled Wednesday.

Tucson police determined the deaths of three people found inside a residence Monday was a murder-suicide. The three are identified as 35-year-old Mario Morales Sr., his wife, 34-year-old Stephanie Morales and their 16-year-old son Dario Morales.

At least four men have been arrested following an armed standoff at an illegal immigrant drop house south of Tucson International Airport, police said.

A 19-year-old Tucson man who stabbed one officer and shot another is facing between 31 1/2 and 60 years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to four counts of aggravated assault on a police officer.

A cat and a smoke detector are being credited with saving a Tucson man from his burning home.

Police say three people have been found dead inside a Tucson home. Police say the victims are two males and one female but no other information is not immediately available.

Enjoy the warmth today and early Saturday ... then get ready for some potentially damp and frigid nights.

Crews with the Tucson Fire Department and Pima County Facilities are investigating the cause of a water leak inside the Superior Court Building.

Grease and oil from hundreds of fried Thanksgiving turkeys will be recycled into biofuel after being donated by Tucson residents during the city's grease recycling campaign.

A 27-year-old Tucson man has been indicted on federal currency smuggling charges for trying to smuggle $204,000 out of the country.

Michael Wray, winner of Fox television's first season of "Hell's Kitchen," is teaching cooking classes over the next few weeks at Cochise College Center for Lifelong Learning.

By Kimberly Matas A Labrador retriever that was shot with an arrow two months ago is healthy and ready to go home Friday with an adoptive family.

A Tucson woman who stabbed her son to death in July 2008 was sentenced to a no-parole life sentence Wednesday in Pima County Superior Court.