Pizza Hut's $5.55 pizza deal starts today

Deal is good through June 15.

Tucson's 12th Avenue, mecca of ethnic stores, due face-lift

Graffiti - a common sign of a blighted neighborhood, covers the sign for Menny's Tire Shop at 4920 S. 12th Ave. Businesspeople and community leaders want to wipe out graffiti and other signs of urban decay on South 12th Avenue.

Tucson's 12th Avenue, mecca of ethnic stores, due face-lift

Benjamín Galaz, left, owner of BK Carne Asada & Hot Dogs, and Rogelio Dávalos, another businessman, outside the BK eatery, which has helped popularize Sonoran-style hot dogs. It's at 5118 S. 12th Ave.

Tucson's 12th Avenue, mecca of ethnic stores, due face-lift

A Sun Tran bus glides past a section of badly buckled sidewalk at the southeast corner of 12th Avenue and Virginia Street.

Tucson's 12th Avenue, mecca of ethnic stores, due face-lift

Graffiti and broken windows mar the front of a closed location of El Guero Canelo restaurant, which has since grown into a small chain of Mexican eateries.

Tucson's 12th Avenue, mecca of ethnic stores, due face-lift

With its corn-on-the-cob street vendors, sizzling Sonoran hot dog stands, Mexican meat markets and bakeries, 12th Avenue is Tucson's quintessential Latino immigrant business enclave.

World War II veteran Morton Tuller

Morton K. Tuller, left, started Tuller Trophy in 1955. His son, Howard L. Tuller carries on with the business. Here, they're photographed with some of their wares, Thursday, May 31, 2002. Photo by Chris Richards

Tucson chef parks food truck

Jamie's Bitchen Kitchen ends run; may return in the fall.

Longtime Italian eatery La Madrina to close

After 28 years, owner says he can no longer keep up with increased operating costs.

Tax-filing tips and information

A collection of tips, articles and practical information to help you file your taxes for 2012.

Ariz. Senate bans unwanted text messages

PHOENIX — Those unwanted text messages for everything from special sales to dating services could soon be a thing of the past.

Tucson Border Patrol agent arrested

A U.S. Border Patrol agent in Tucson has been arrested on suspicion of structuring bank transactions to evade reporting requirements.

Mexico coffee co-op, with border operations, helping ease immigration pressures

In the late 1990s, residents of a coffee-growing town in southern Mexico began noticing something unusual.

Mexico coffee co-op, with border operations, helping ease immigration pressures

Elvia Carrillo dumps a bucket of arabica beans into a grinder while preparing orders at Café Justo in Agua Prieta, across from Douglas. The cooperative's exports to the U.S. are helping to stabilize small towns in Mexico, heading off immigration pressures.

Mexico coffee co-op, with border operations, helping ease immigration pressures

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Hoping for pay, workers camp at abandoned Nogales factory

Dora Alicia Rojas pours a cup of coffee in a makeshift kitchen as she and other former employees of the Legacy de México factory keep a vigil on the sidewalk in front of their old workplace. They and other former employees are trying to make sure the machines are not removed from the factory.

Hoping for pay, workers camp at abandoned Nogales factory

Supervisor who had spent nearly 14 years at the company.

Hoping for pay, workers camp at abandoned Nogales factory

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Hoping for pay, workers camp at abandoned Nogales factory

NOGALES, Sonora - It's been 25 days and 24 nights that more than a dozen people have taken turns camping out in front of a recently closed U.S.-owned factory, making sure nobody tries to take the machinery left inside the building - one of their last hopes of getting paid.