For the past 13 years, Olympian LaTanya Sheffield has been helping turn students into athletes with her organization, Pops Track Club. The culmination of her effort took place last month, when four of her athletes competed in the USA Track and Field Junior National Olympic Championships in Wichita, Kansas.

Federal budget policy and the fiscal health of the United States were discussed during a luncheon and town hall event hosted June 29 by Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ office.

Sheila Foraker, bike ambassador with the Pima County Department of Transportation, uses a hand signal with Nicholas Anderson, 7, of Oro Valley, as he completes his bike run during Oro Valley's National Night Out event on Tuesday, Aug. 3. The Town of Oro Valley, the Oro Valley Police Department and Target put on the event in the Target parking lot. National Night Out is a crime and drug prevention event hosted by police departments across the U.S. and Canada.

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To prevent the spread of buffelgrass, Saguaro National Park officials plan to treat 18 miles of roadways and 173 acres of wilderness in the Tucson and Rincon mountains with herbicides in the next three weeks.

A Tucson woman has been chosen 2009 president-elect of the board of the National Association of Realtors

Last Friday, the action stormed at the University of Arizona’s Hillenbrand Field.

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Dec. 8, 2004 - It took 11 games and one quarter of another before its defense finally buckled. After that, however, no one was going to move the ball on the Marana Broncos' Pee Wee squad.

Fewer flags are flying from car windows and homes around town since the post -9/11 days of patriotic fervor, but waiting in the wings is a wellspring of volunteerism just waiting to be tapped, local experts involved in improving homeland security agree.

Friday afternoon's mass at Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church was blanketed with sadness as hundreds congregated to remember the victims of the worst terrorist attack in America's history.

Gov. Jan Brewer today signed into law SB 1139, legislation that officially establishes an annual “National Day of the Cowboy” in Arizona.

Earlier this month, two schools within the Marana Unified School District and one within the Amphitheater School District were recognized by the National Center for Educational Achievement (NCEA) as 2012 NCEA Arizona higher Performing Schools.

After taking first place in a local competition, three students from Canyon Del Oro High School are going to represent Arizona in the Family Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) National Culinary Arts Competition.

Last month, former Mountain View High School wrestling coach Bob Newman was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.