Tag: Arizona
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Lute Olson, the Hall of Fame coach who turned Arizona into a college basketball powerhouse, has died. He was 85. Olson’s family said he died Thursday evening. The cause of death…
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona city official making $107,000 a year resigned after an investigation found he used city workers for an outside job involving an attempt to secure irrigation water for farmers who paid…
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Hundreds of foothills homes on the outskirts of Tucson remained under an evacuation notice Friday as firefighters supported by helicopters worked to keep a wildfire from moving downhill from canyons and…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas prisons have exceeded their operating capacity and it will cost the state millions of dollars to send hundreds of prisoners to a privately owned and operated prison in Arizona. The…
WASHINGTON The construction of President Donald Trumps border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border could damage or even destroy up to 22 archaeological sites at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona,…
WASHINGTON The construction of President Donald Trumps border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border could damage or even destroy up to 22 archaeological sites at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona,…
APACHE JUNCTION, Ariz. (AP) Dozens of members of an out-of-state hiking group had to be rescued after they tried climbing a mountain trail near metro Phoenix in sweltering temperatures, authorities said Friday. Forty-four people…
TOPEKA The drive from Topeka to El Dorado Correctional Facility takes about two hours each way. Leoti Masterson makes the trip every week without hesitation. She would never pass up a chance to see…
To ease overcrowding in Kansas prisons, more than 600 male prisoners can expect to be transferred to a facility in Eloy, Ariz., according to the Kansas Department of Corrections. Thats more than 1,000 miles from…
Kansas will send 360 of its male prisoners to a privately owned and operated prison in Eloy, Arizona, starting this summer. The Kansas Department of Corrections announced Friday that it had finalized a contract with…
