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Man shooting explosive targets started 2020 fire in Redington Pass tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A 54-year-old man faces federal charges after he allegedly started a wildfire in Redington Pass in October 2020 by shooting at canisters packed with explosives.

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Sahuarita mulls new taxes to fix road shortfall, PCC bylaw changes tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Updated: Sahuarita residents may be asked to pay more for purchases if the town decides to either increase the 2 percent sales tax or impose a use tax on people who buy products online. Plus, action at the Pima College board, and what's on the lists for other local government meetings this week.

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Az Rep. Gosar back in spotlight with call for general to 'be hung' over Jan. 6 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Two years after he was formally censured for a video that appeared to espouse violence against lawmakers, Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar has again grabbed headlines by saying the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff would be hanged in a “better society.”

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Hobbs says she’s done with the AZ Senate’s 'political circus' vetting her nominees tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Saying that the Arizona Senate’s new process for confirming her cabinet appointments is a “political circus,” overly “partisan” and too slow, Gov. Katie Hobbs has withdrawn all her nominees and said she will instead pursue “other lawful means” to ensure state agencies have leaders.

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9th Circuit calls foul on UA in Title IX abuse suit tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
An en banc Ninth Circuit Court ruled the University of Arizona violated the Title IX rights of a student who sued the school in 2017, saying she was strangled and beaten by a player on its football team after the school ignored other domestic violence allegations against the player.

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Shutdown closer than ever as budget talks tread water in Congress tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Fears of a government shutdown are sure to reach a fever pitch this week as Republican leadership scrambles to hammer out a deal that would keep federal services funded through the end of the fiscal year.

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98% of Arizonans will have new elections officials in 2024 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona has lost nearly all of its experienced election officials and 98% of the state will have new officials running elections in 2024 than ran the 2020 elections, as the state has seen threats of violence towards election officials and those who help administer elections.

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Arizona-Stanford marks beginning of end for 'Conference of Champions' tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Arizona Wildcats were able to squeak out a road win over the Stanford Cardinal on Saturday, but the dramatic finish was mostly a subplot to a much bigger story - the game served as the first of many lasts for the 108-year-old Pac-12, leaving behind decades of memories.

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Media network paid by GOP groups is behind deluge of election records requests tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Local election offices across the country are struggling to manage a sharp rise in the number of public records requests, and extensive requests coming from Local Labs - part of a media network paid by GOP groups - have stymied election officials in Arizona and other states.

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Mexico agrees to deport migrants after border cities reach 'breaking point' tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Mexico will deport certain migrants from some of its northern border cities as part of an agreement with U.S. immigration officials who have reported a sharp increase of migrants attempting to cross the border in recent weeks, according to Mexico’s immigration enforcement authority.

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Kari Lake wraps up push to make Arizona voter signatures public info tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The former TV news anchor who lost Arizona’s gubernatorial election wants to get her hands on 1.3 million signatures from 2022 voters, seeking to prove Maricopa County failed to conduct signature verification and therefore anointed the wrong person governor of Arizona.

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Pima County officials urge residents to get new COVID boosters tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima County health officials are urging residents to get one of the new COVID-19 vaccine booster shots, which were approved earlier this month.

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Why is the Arizona GOP paying a company tied to a QAnon singer? tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Arizona Republican Party has paid at least $13,000 to a company connected to a legislative district chairwoman who is a full-throated QAnon evangelist, even as the party is struggling so badly to raise money that it can’t pay its bills.

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Baby girl dies at Border Patrol station in Nogales tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
An infant girl died Saturday at the Border Patrol station in Nogales after she was found with her mother in the desert near the Mariposa border crossing, said U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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Biden admin to ban medical debt from Americans’ credit scores tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Biden administration announced a major initiative to protect Americans from medical debt, outlining plans to develop federal rules barring unpaid medical bills from affecting patients’ credit scores.

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Justice Kagan says it’s time for a Supreme Court ethics code tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Justice Elena Kagan endorsed creating a code of ethics for the Supreme Court, citing benefits for justices and the public, comments that came just hours after news broke about Justice Clarence Thomas’ apparent failure to comply with federal disclosure laws.

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Immigrants urge 4th Circuit to gut law on illegal reentry into U.S. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A Fourth Circuit panel will decide whether the federal law that criminalizes illegal reentries into the United States violates the Fifth Amendment, after a lower court ruled the law has been reenacted multiple times, and the intent of racial animus had since been weakened or dissolved.

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Some 1,900 Arizona homeowners have fallen for a predatory title scheme tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A predatory title scheme known as Non-Title Recorded Agreements for Personal Services, that keeps homeowners stuck in a contract while enticing them with a quick $500 to $1000, has come under the scrutiny of attorneys general in several states, including Arizona.

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Rural Americans may be on their own during Medicaid unwinding tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
72% of people who lost Medicaid coverage since states began the unwinding process this year were disenrolled for procedural reasons - not because officials determined they are no longer eligible - and those procedural disenrollments could disproportionately affect rural people.

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