Pima County News

Tucson Medical Center has filed suit against a nurse-staffing agency, claiming the company didn't do a proper background check on a nurse who treated a TMC patient in the hours before she died.

It's been more than 25 years since James Wallace called the Tucson Police Department and begged to be arrested for murdering his girlfriend and her two children, and yet his punishment is still undecided.

A Pima County Superior Court judge is keeping alive a lawsuit that is 1 of the first court cases involving a state constitutional requirement for compensation for property value reduced by land-use regulations.

A handyman convicted of killing an elderly Sahuarita woman in 2007 was sentenced Thursday to life in prison with release possible after 25 years.

The novel H1N1 virus is expected to cause widespread mild flu illness in the fall of 2009.

The family of a man who was struck and injured in a south-side crosswalk has sued Pima County, alleging the crosswalk fails to meet safety standards.

The Pima County Sheriff's Department is investigating an assault at the T.J. Maxx at 6230 N. Oracle Road.

Between the shots and the nasal mist, Pima County had more than 6,000 vaccines to give out.

Former Tucson City Manager Mike Hein has been hired to head up the countya s Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security.

The last of five men charged in a Tucson home invasion case are facing up to 56 1/4 years in prison after pleading guilty in the case Tuesday.

A spooky discovery on Halloween night near Green Valley. The Pima County Sheriff's Office said a group of campers found a "bleached white" human skull about 6 p.m. Saturday.

The Pima County Medical Examinera s Office has released the autopsy report for a 16-year-old boy found murdered in Northern Arizona.

The Pima County Health Department has received more H1N1 vaccine. The next clinic will be held on Tuesday, November 3rd from 1pm to 7pm.

A former security guard has decided to let Pima County Superior Court Judge Christopher Browning decide if he was legally prohibited from carrying the gun he used to shoot a suspected shoplifter.

The family of a man killed in an alcohol-related crash in Tucson have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver of the other car and her parents.

TUCSON, Ariz. - Defense attorneys are neither entitled to the source code for the breath-testing machine commonly used in drunk driving cases nor to its software, the Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled.

The Arizona School Board Association will conduct its annual county workshop at 5 p.m. on Thursday at the Pueblo Elementary School cafeteria, 2803 W. 20th St.

Tucson police have arrested a 28-year-old man in connection with a shooting death outside a midtown strip club early Wednesday, the second homicide outside the business in the last three months.

A former real estate agent has pleaded guilty to felony charges for defrauding an elderly Tucson resident, authorities said.

A 28-year-old man has been indicted on a first-degree murder charge in the death of a Tucson man five years ago.