One hurt in Sahuarita crash involving school bus

One person was taken to the hospital with minor injuries Monday after a three-vehicle accident in Sahuarita that involved a school bus.

Tucson hosts tours of landfill, recycling center on Valentine's Day

Some people think Valentine's Day is just a bunch of garbage. This year it is.

Grant will help students get involved with restoring historic buses

Old Pueblo Trolley received an $8,120 grant from the Collectors Foundation to establish a vehicle restoration training program that would enlist the help of high school students.

TUSD bus yard to be built on Tucson's SW side

TUSD is to break ground Thursday on its new transportation center, which will serve the growing southwest side of the district.

Streets reopen after Tucson Greyhound station bomb scare

The Greyhound bus station downtown was evacuated and surrounding streets were closed for hours while Tucson police investigated a suspicious item left outside the station that turned out to be a fake.

$5.6M in US funds to help city begin replacing aging buses

The city of Tucson will get $5.6 million in federal grants to replace aging SunTran buses and upgrade a bus fueling station.

Tucson wins grant to replace old buses

The City of Tucson will get $5.6 million in grants from the Federal Transit Administration's State of Good Repair program.

Josh Brodesky: TUSD's buggy bus system par for course

Why is it that TUSD is a place where efforts to improve the district somehow make it worse? No, I'm not talking about Mark Stegeman. This is about last week's bus debacle, which left thousands of students stranded across the city.

Police: TUSD bus driver cited for striking boy, 11

A Tucson Unified School District bus driver who struck an 11-year-old boy at a midtown intersection this week was cited Friday, police said.

Corrections

• "Public meeting set on Ryan Airfield plan,'' Friday on A18, included a wrong date for a public meeting to review the final draft of the Ryan Airfield Master Plan Update. The meeting is Monday, Nov. 9.

N. Calif. couple charged in 1991 kidnap appear briefly in court

PLACERVILLE, Calif. — The Northern California couple charged with kidnapping and raping Jaycee Lee Dugard made a brief appearance in a courtroom Thursday for a hearing that gave two people with personal stakes in the case their first glimpses of the defendants in court.

N. Calif. couple charged in 1991 kidnap appear briefly in court

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Tucson boy struck by school bus remains critical

A Townsend Middle School student struck by a school bus remains in critical but stable condition at University Medical Center Thursday morning, police said.

Tucson boy struck by school bus remains critical

A fab prize package for Battle champions

The grand prize package of the 2010 Battle of the Bands is shaping up to be one of the best.

Battle of the Bands 2010 prize list

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Reports: Case opened against Russian activist

MOSCOW (AP) — A lawyer for Chechnya's strongman president said Tuesday that a criminal libel case carrying possible prison time has been opened against one of Russia's most prominent human rights activists, news agencies reported.

State may lift takeover of schools in sect's area

PHOENIX — A school district serving a remote area of Northern Arizona and southern Utah long dominated by a polygamist sect is poised to emerge from a state takeover implemented nearly four years ago because its finances were in disarray.