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9th Circuit stays out of Louis Taylor's move to expunge Pioneer Hotel fire conviction, for now tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The 9th Circuit declined Monday to interfere in a decade-old wrongful arrest and racial discrimination case seeking to expunge the record of Louis Taylor, who was convicted of starting the 1970 Pioneer Hotel Fire in Tucson that killed 29 people over 50 years ago.

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7 apply for vacant Tucson City Council seat tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Updated: More than a half-dozen Ward 6 residents have applied to finish the term of Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik, who stepped down from job on March 31. The deadline to indicate interest in the appointment is April 15.

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Curtiss moves to 2nd in Pima school history in high jump; Madrigal-Diaz & Crane earn nat'l qualifiers at Triton Invitational tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The No. 3-ranked Pima Community College men’s and women’s track & field teams competed at the Triton Invitational on Friday and Saturday at the University of California San Diego in La Jolla, Calif.

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States want to make it harder for health insurers to deny care, but firms might evade enforcement tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
In recent years, insurers have ratcheted up their use of prior authorization, causing delays and denials of care that are harming or even killing people, and mmore than two dozen states - including Arizona - have considered legislation designed to minimize delays and denials.

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Backed by Mike Lindell & mysterious benefactors, push to hand-count ballots picks up speed tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Disciples of Mike Lindell and other big-name election influencers have been spreading the hand-count gospel around the country since 2020, and the push to hand-count ballots is ramping up, albeit with spotty success, as the 2024 election nears.

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The IRS is testing a free method to directly file taxes - but not everyone is thrilled tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Many U.S. taxpayers in a dozen states for the first time can electronically file their federal returns directly to the Internal Revenue Service for free — but critics insist the new federal benefit is not needed and will even harm both users and states.

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Fontes seeks attorney fees in Hamadeh’s 2022 Az election challenge tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes is seeking $36,820 in attorney fees from Abraham Hamadeh, after the Republican’s latest attempt to take the office he lost two years ago was thrown out of court.

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Water & power collide in proposed $100 million Colorado River deal tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A taxpayer-funded agency has agreed to pay $98.5 million on rights to the water that flows through Colorado's Shoshone facility, a culmination of a decades-long effort to keep Shoshone’s water on the west side of Colorado’s mountains.

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Low-income hearing health care expanded to all three Arizona universities tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A partnership among the Arizona Commission for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing and the state's three universities provides free hearing health care for low-income adults 21 or older with an income at or below 150% of the poverty level.

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Zylinski-Wrobel has 6 RBIs as Pima softball rallies and run-rules Az Western for 20th straight win tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College softball team (29-8, 16-2 in ACCAC) has produced the longest Aztec winning streak of the last 20 years as they picked up a big sweep over Arizona Western College (23-13, 15-5) in a doubleheader between two ACCAC Division I programs.

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Senior has 4 RBIs, Hicks shines in relief as Pima baseball sweeps Eastern Arizona tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College baseball team (34-10, 20-8 in ACCAC) secured 20 ACCAC conference wins for the fifth straight year (excluding the 2020 COVID season) on Saturday as they swept Eastern Arizona College.

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Tucson theatre titan Barclay Goldsmith brought politics to the stage tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Every theatre-lover in Tucson knows that Barclay Goldsmith, who died this week at age 87, was a giant. With Teatro Libertad and then Borderlands Theater, he produced more than a hundred shows.

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End of Internet subsidies for low-income households threatens telehealth access tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
More than 23 million households are enrolled in the federal discount program Congress created in 2021 to bridge the nation’s digital connectivity gap - but the program is expected to soon run out of money, threatening telehealth access for rural and tribal communities.

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PACC shelter at 142% capacity, dogs in critical need of homes, fosters tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Pima Animal Care Center was "hit hard" after a stormy weekend. Those who adopt a dog or choose to provide a two-week foster stay will receive $50 credit at the Central Pet store as officials seek to relieve the overcrowding.

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Swing states see newcomers as Americans move from blue to red counties tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
In recent years, millions of people have moved from Democratic cities to Republican suburbs, complicating the politics of swing states - and in Arizona, the biggest people magnets have been slightly Democratic cities that are expected to be hotly contested.

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PCC golfer Myranda Moreno shoots a season-best 79, earns medalist honors at SMCC Invitational tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College women’s golf team competed in their fifth tournament of the season on Tuesday and Wednesday at the South Mountain CC Invitational held at the Cave Creek Golf Course in Phoenix.

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Caysen Wright earns 3rd medal in 5 tournaments as Pima men's golf takes 5th at SMCC Invitational tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College men’s golf team closed out their fifth regular season tournament on Wednesday at the South Mountain CC Invitational held at the Aguila Golf Course in Laveen Village.

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Pima softball matches school record with 18 straight wins as they sweep Mesa tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College softball team (27-8, 14-2 in ACCAC) rallied in both games on Thursday at the West Campus Aztec Field against Mesa Community College (2-18, 1-15).

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Az Republicans investigate AG Mayes over water policy inquiry tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republican members of the Arizona Committee on Executive Oversight, created less than two weeks ago, say that Attorney General Kris Mayes is operating outside of her authority by investigating megafarms, a claim she says is a distraction from her "fake elector" investigation.

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Governor’s office partners with RIP Medical Debt to forgive billions in medical debt for some Arizonans tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs announced the state is partnering with RIP Medical Debt, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to clearing Americans’ medical debt, to cancel the debt of up to 1 million Arizonans.

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