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Attorney argues religious freedom laws protect Tucson Raytheon protestors from prosecution tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Four people arrested during a November protest at the University of Arizona's Tech Park argued trespassing charges should dismissed because they were exercising their sincere beliefs and are protected under a federal law intended to protect religious freedom.

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Attorney argues religious freedom laws protect Tucson Raytheon protestors from prosecution tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Four people arrested during a November protest at the University of Arizona's Tech Park argued trespassing charges should dismissed because they were exercising their sincere beliefs and are protected under a federal law intended to protect religious freedom.

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TikTok fears point to larger problem: Poor media literacy in the social media age tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The proposed legislation to ban the video social media app TikTok was motivated by a set of national security concerns - but some of the arguments are stronger than others.

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‘We’re not in this alone’: How an Arizona program gives support, mentorship to dads tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
With the help of the Arizona Department of Child Safety’s Office of Prevention, the Dads Together program officially began in 2021, and now offers one-on-one mentoring and a 13-week course called Nurturing Fathers, that teaches dads the fundamentals of parenting and nurturing.

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Normally quiet Az legislative proceedings were anything but last week tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives devised and executed a plan on April 17 to block Democrats’ efforts to repeal the state’s 1864 abortion ban, scores of opponents of abortion rights looked on from the gallery above them, eagerly cheering them on.

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Kings, queens of Catalina Foothills High tennis seek another crown tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The 2024 AIA Division II Team Championship tennis playoffs begin Tuesday, and schools will be trying to do something team has done in years: take down the tennis juggernaut that is Catalina Foothills High School.

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Arizona Vintage Base Ball League celebrates sport’s history in yearly Bisbee tournament tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Arizona Vintage Base Ball League - a local league with teams ranging from Tucson to Yuma to Mesa - that plays baseball using rules from 1863, culminates the season in Bisbee with the two-day Copper City Classic Vintage Base Ball Tournament at the 115-year old Warren Ballpark.

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Pima men's distance runner Conroy sets qualifier in 3,000 steeplechase at Mesa Invitational tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College men’s track & field team competed in their final regular season meet on Friday at the Mesa Invitational held at Mesa Community College.

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Fontes & Mayes say Hamadeh should be fined more than $50k for his latest failed election challenge tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republican Abraham Hamadeh should be fined more than $50,000 for filing a groundless lawsuit to overturn his 2022 defeat, say Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, who were forced to go to court to defend the election results.

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Arizona groundwater regulation weaknesses exploited by industrial-scale agriculture tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Douglas basin has seen agricultural development explode in recent years, and despite attempts to limit groundwater usage, the increase in pumping - at an intensity not previously - is largely under industrial-scale owners who have consolidated the land into massive operations.

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'Fair chance hiring' of formerly incarcerated is 'common sense,' says County Atty Conover tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima County Attorney Laura Conover joined a panel of local business owners, along with the co-founder of Second Chance Tucson, to encourage companies to hire people who were previously behind bars.

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Trial of Southern Az rancher accused of murdering migrant ends with hung jury tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
After more than two days of jury deliberations, a Superior Court judge declared a mistrial in the case of George Alan Kelly, the Kino Springs man charged with the second-degree murder of Mexican citizen Gabriel Cuen Buitimea.

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Federal judge denies Louis Taylor expungement request in Pioneer Hotel arson tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A federal judge reversed course in the decade-old legal challenge to the conviction of Louis Taylor, accused of starting the deadly 1970 Pioneer Hotel Fire in Tucson, denying his request to expunge his murder conviction.

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Other states, like Arizona, could resurrect laws that have been lying dormant for more than 100 years tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The decision by Arizona that an 1864 abortion ban should be enforced is an example of zombie laws - old state laws that are neither enforced nor repealed - but the recent Arizona abortion ban shows the consequences of assuming that old laws will always remain dormant.

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Arizona abortion-rights advocates, opponents continue to spar, with eye on fall ballot tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
While lawmakers inside the Arizona Capitol were jockeying over efforts to repeal a near-total abortion ban from 1864, advocates on both sides of the issue who gathered outside the Capitol were looking forward to fights at the ballot box this fall.

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Bruce Bigger cites new DNA tech in request for re-trial in 2004 murder of Dr. Brian Stidham tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Attorneys for Bruce Bigger, who was convicted in 2007 in the 2004 Tucson stabbing death of Dr. Brian Stidham, are asking for a new trial based on contemporary software for analyzing DNA.

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Passover is a Jewish holiday remembering sorrowful events & celebrating hope for a better future tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Jewish families will gather for Passover this year in circumstances that will, like the celebration itself, reflect on dark times while looking ahead toward better ones to come.

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U.S. Supreme Court won’t take up Kari Lake’s bid to ban ballot counting machines tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The U.S. Supreme Court has shot down Kari Lake’s request to take up her ballot tabulator case that aimed to stop the use of the machines to count millions of Arizona ballots.

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Climate activists aren’t just young people – dispelling 3 big myths for Earth Day tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Climate activists around the world are planning rallies and other events for Earth Day 2024, and exploring the truth about three of the big myths being told about climate activism and the climate movement prevents getting caught up in the myths.

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Soldiers charged with violent crimes will now face more scrutiny before they can leave Army tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Under the new rule, the U.S. Army, the country’s largest military branch, will no longer allow military commanders to decide on their own whether soldiers accused of certain serious crimes can leave the service rather than go on trial.

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