Douglas News

The monsoon rains are predicted to decrease for Thursday and Friday, but are expected to return with full force by the weekend, the National Weather Service said.

Cochise County residents will soon be able to use a county prescription card that allows a 15 to 35 percent savings on some drugs for themselves and even their pets in certain circumstances.

Man and Woman of the Year were announced during the annual Douglas Chamber of Commerce banquet.

He says, it is cheaper for all of them if they travel together.Meanwhile, Don Kimble a cowboy from Douglas, Arizona says he could not car pool because he doesn't know anyone who competes in rodeos where he's ...

City crew continue with the improvements for waste water systems. Waste water improvements continue on 4th and 5th Street on Dolores Avenue.

According to the Cochise College Center for Economic Research's latest biweekly survey of gas prices, conducted during the week of July 14, the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in Cochise ...

A family business is a successful business. In July El Chef Restaurant was named the Small Business of the Year by the Douglas Chamber of Commerce.

A Douglas man was arrested Monday in connection with the aggravated assault of Oscar Sodari, who was left beaten and unconscious on the street at Sunspots trailer park.

As the call center continues to expand, the Douglas City Council on Wednesday passed a motion to buy a parking lot for the call center.

When the governor's office calls, you answer even if you're Mayor Larry Nelson and you're in the middle of a Yuma City Council session.

Gunmen killed 16 people, including a police chief, in a spate of separate shootouts across Mexico, which is grappling with a spike in drug-related violence, local officials said Thursday.

Lorraine Rivera reports Samurai murder suspects found in Mexico Two Korean men continue to sit in the Cochise County Jail as they fight extradition to California.

Ten police officers in a Mexican border town have quit after a fellow patrolman was gunned down.

By Tim Gaynor

DOUGLAS, Ariz (Reuters) - Walls get tagged with graffiti. Cars get shot up in drive-by shootings. Youngsters flash gang signs and battle with bricks, sticks, bats and pipes in the local park over turf.

Once a sleepy smelter town on the Mexico border, Douglas is one of several cities in southern Arizona that are being transformed into urban battlefields as warring street gangs muscle in from southern California, police say.

A sun-baked backwater of broad streets and bungalows set in vast, high desert ranchland, Douglas is now a patchwork of territories held by the East Side Torrance and the South Side Harbor City, both Los Angeles-area street gangs, as well as lesser home-grown gangs.

Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies collaborated on "Operation Falcon," a one-week fugitive round-up at the end of June, arresting more than 300 fugitives, authorities said.

With treatment-center beds so hard to come by, judges hand pregnant women jail sentences to provide them at least with safety and some prenatal care.... Salt Lake City Weekly How One Ginseng Farmer is Rolling ...

Two men have been charged with beating and stabbing to death a NASA engineer, a woman and two children whose charred bodies were found in a burned Antelope Valley home.

Two men sought in the deaths of 4 people near Palmdale, Calif., are being held on million-dollar cash bonds in Cochise County awaiting extradition.

In the early 1900s, Phelps Dodge selected the Douglas area as the site for its copper smelting activity.

On StarNet: Find an interactive feature explaining the science behind the monsoon and areas to avoid in Tucson during a thunderstorm at azstarnet.com/monsoon. On StarNet: Have you taken a good lightning photo? ...