Mike Tyson cancels Tucson performance

Former boxing champ scraps Tucson due to scheduling conflicts

Ed Koch, ex-NYC mayor, dies at 88

NEW YORK (AP) — Ed Koch’s favorite moment as mayor of New York City, fittingly, involved yelling.

Giffords on cover of Time magazine

Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is on the latest cover of Time magazine.

Giffords, Kelly to lobby for gun control

PHOENIX — Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband launched a political action committee aimed at curbing gun violence on Tuesday, the second anniversary of the Tucson shooting that killed six people and left her critically injured.

Man killed mother before deadly school rampage

A man opened fire Friday inside the Connecticut elementary school where his mother worked as a teacher, killing 26 people, including 20 children.

Tucson theaters to simulcast 12-12-12 concert

Proceeds benefit super storm victims.

New storm bears down on Sandy-battered NYC, NJ

NEW YORK — A nor’easter blustered into New York and New Jersey on Wednesday with rain and wet snow, plunging homes right back into darkness, stopping commuter trains again and inflicting another round of misery on thousands of people still reeling from Superstorm Sandy’s blow more than a week ago.

Sandy’s receding waters reveal more deaths; 2 N.Y. boys swept from car

WASHINGTON — The number of dead from super storm Sandy continued to increase Thursday as floodwaters slowly receded back to the sea, exposing bodies including two small boys killed on Staten Island, N.Y.

Lang Lang Carnegie Hall show postponed to June

Chinese pianist Lang Lang canceled his Tucson concert on Sunday so that he would not be trapped outside of New York City and miss his Carnegie Hall concert on Tuesday.

Review: TSO conjures up young lovers, bustling city

George Hanson and the orchestra bring "Romeo and Juliet" to life.

Fitz Blog: Out of the smoke of 9-11

Guinness says this is the world’s tallest mohawk

NEW YORK —  A fashion designer from Tokyo showed off his 3-foot-8.6-inch hairdo in a New York City park on Wednesday.

Gunman kills 1, wounds 9 at Empire State Building

NEW YORK — A laid-off women’s accessories designer shot a former coworker to death near the Empire State Building, causing a chaotic showdown with police Friday in front of one of the world’s best-known landmarks. Police killed the suspect and at least nine others were wounded, some by stray…

KXCI House Rockin' Blues Review tonight

Host of Tucson blues artists on tap for El Casino Ballroom show.

Anderson Cooper reveals he is gay in online essay

NEW YORK  — Anderson Cooper, who has been reluctant to talk about his personal life in public, revealed that he is gay in an essay posted online on Monday.

No Triple Crown: I'll Have Another scratched

NEW YORK — I’ll Have Another’s bid for a Triple Crown ended with the shocking news that the colt was out of the Belmont Stakes because of a swollen left front tendon.

Lucky, a rescue dog with celebrity sidekicks, dies in NY

NEW YORK — A little dog with a big mission and a pack of celebrity sidekicks has lost her battle with cancer.

Workers express anger, gloom, elation on May Day

MADRID — On the front lines of the world’s May Day protests this year, along with the traditional chants, banners and marches, a gamut of emotions flowed through the crowds: Anger. Fear. Elation. Despair.

'American Bandstand' host Dick Clark dies at 82

Dick Clark, a music industry maverick and creator of the iconic "Rockin' Eve" New Year's Eve program, died today after suffering a massive heart attack, according to numerous news reports quoting Clark's agent Paul Shefrin.

Review: Trans-Siberian Orchestra brings fire and sizzle to Tucson show

On a stage painted in blue light, with plumes of smoke drifting above, Trans-Siberian Orchestra pianist Vitalij Kuprij softly played the opening strains of the Overture to “Beethoven’s Last Night.”