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Sheryl Kocher - Receptionist

In response to E. Echkhoff “problems with hospital billing”. We have been victimized by the same hospital, and it has been a sore spot with me ever since! In March of 2010, my son was scheduled for a sleep study at the building next to the OV Hospital. There is no way to get into that particular building after hours. We were told to go to the OV Hospital ER and someone there would contact the staff in the other building and someone would come over to the ER and get my son. No wristband, no insurance card given to OV Hospital ER, no nothing done at the hospital. The lady at the ER simply made a call. Someone came from the other building and got my son for the sleep study test!! A while later, we received a bill from OV Hospital for $500. I did what you did Mr. Echkhoff - I talked to the billing office, to a manager or supervisor, etc. They had no reason to collect $500 They did not care and threatened us with a collection agency!! Bottom line; my son had to pay them the $500. Through payments because he could not afford to pay the entire amount! Just recently I had to go to ER for a medical condition. Even though I had to get there quickly. I refused, and was driven to NW Hospital. I want nothing to do with the unreasonable people at OV Hospital. In fact, I still want the $500 refunded to my son. No one deserves to be treated like we have been, Mr. Echkhoff. I seriously think an investigation should be conducted.

The N.W. Tucson Tea Party, a group of grassroots activists, is being formed to draw together independents, moderates, conservatives, and libertarians in Oro Valley, Marana, Catalina and Saddlebrook. Its mission is to restore and preserve our nation’s political heritage and to select and support approved candidates at the local, state, and national levels to win elections in 2014 and 2016.

Having read a previous Dave Safier article when he took a victory lap after the recent election, I hoped that possibly his trend for future articles would become less outrageous, and somewhat tempered after his obvious over the top giddiness had subsided.

A man was shot by Pima County Sheriff's deputy early Sunday morning after responding to a domestic violence call on the Northwest side.

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On Monday morning, at about 10:30 a.m., The U.S. Bank inside the Safeway store at 9777 N. Thornydale Road was robbed.

Amber Lights Retirement Community

Picture Rocks Fire District firefighter Scott Lackey hunkers low in the doorway with his fire attack team as Golder Ranch Fire District Battalion Chief Bill Foss twists a doorknob and opens a steel door. Blackish-brown smoke billows out of the entrance as the Picture Rocks firefighters start a ventilation fan to help clear the smoke, then crawl into the room, pulling a charged 1-3/4-inch hose line to extinguish the fire.

Northwest Fire District’s Ironwood Hotshot crew, consisting of about 20 firefighters, has returned to Tucson after being dispatched to help subdue the Waldo Fire in Colorado and Grapevine Fire at Mt. Graham in Safford. 

Northwest Fire District paramedics have responded to three medical incidents that have involved heat related issues. The calls began shortly after noon Tuesday, as the temperatures reached above 100 degrees.

Just before 4 p.m. on Sunday, Northwest Fire Crews were dispatched to a reported mobile home fire at 4213 N. 16th Pl, near Limberlost and Fairview.

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The Northwest Fire District responded to the Villa's at Montebella, 1777 W. Orange Grove to find a single unit with smoke and flames from the bedroom window. Crews made an aggressive interior attack on the fire after arriving within four minutes of the call, which kept the fire from spreading to the remaining eight units in the building.