Pima County News

A Tucson man involved in a fatal car crash last August was convicted of manslaughter and a variety of other charges in Pima County Superior Court Friday.

State police awarded a contract for photo enforcement of traffic laws that pays the successful bidder based on the number of people who pay their tickets.

Arizona continued to lose jobs last month, driving unemployment up four-tenths of a percentage point to a seasonally adjusted 4.8 percent, according to figures released Thursday by the state Department of ...

The Pima County public defender assigned to represent Christopher Payne in his death-penalty murder trial was sanctioned $250 Thursday morning for missing one deadline and given 48 hours to make another, ...

This afternoon Tucson police released the jail booking mug shot of Rickey F. Russell, suspected in last week's machete attack on two teen girls, as well as two unrelated attacks Saturday.

Tucson police have arrested one man on suspicion of robbing an East Side bank on Tuesday and were questioning another man in a second, unrelated bank robbery.

An Arizona man has unearthed possible human remains in his own front yard. Pima County Sheriff's investigators say the man recently moved into a home in Tucson, Arizona.

In the hours after 16-month-old Emily Mays died, three children shared information with the police that seemed to implicate their parents.

The Pima County Sheriff's Department is holding a Shred-A-Thon this morning so people can discard any documents with private information that could be used by identity thieves.

Tucson health officials say a coordinated county, state and federal response to a measles outbreak in southern Arizona succeeded in curtailing what potentially could have been more than 22 cases at most.

Deputy Pima County Attorney Teresa Godoy has been selected to replace Pima County Superior Court Judge Pro Tempore Barbara Sattler, who retired last week.

A coordinated county, state and federal response to a measles outbreak in Southern Arizona succeeded in curtailing what potentially could have been more than 22 cases at most.

Authorities in Tucson said they have seized two tons of marijuana and arrested two men who were allegedly planning to sell the drug.

It's one of the basic elements of democracy: the people vote. But some people are now saying that two years ago, your vote on one local issue didn't count as you intended.

Take a weaker winter tourist season, add the seasonal summer slowdown, throw in high gas prices and airfares, and you have a recipe for summer deals.

State officials are investigating an assisted-living home in Tucson following accusations that a co-owner of the facility sexually assaulted a female resident.

Ranch owners in Southeastern Arizona discovered the decomposed body of a suspected illegal immigrant Saturday.

Citing poor quality of care and lack of contract compliance, Pima County will drop Correctional Medical Services as its medical-care provider at the Pima County jail.

A Tucson man was sentenced to four years in prison Monday for negligent homicide in the July 2007 death of another man.

Pima County has been working to make sure its election procedures result in an accurate, timely, transparent vote count, but once again, some of its plans are generating heat.