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Tucson Sentinel | Politics
59m ago
Steven Frid, former executive director of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, obtained a substantial pay increase without the knowledge of EAC commissioners, expensed Harvard University courses without approval and did not properly disclose dozens of hours of personal leave ..read more
Tucson Sentinel | Politics
7h ago
Four people arrested during a November protest at the University of Arizona's Tech Park argued trespassing charges should dismissed because they were exercising their sincere beliefs and are protected under a federal law intended to protect religious freedom ..read more
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10h ago
As Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives devised and executed a plan on April 17 to block Democrats’ efforts to repeal the state’s 1864 abortion ban, scores of opponents of abortion rights looked on from the gallery above them, eagerly cheering them on ..read more
Tucson Sentinel | Politics
10h ago
The proposed legislation to ban the video social media app TikTok was motivated by a set of national security concerns - but some of the arguments are stronger than others ..read more
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10h ago
With the help of the Arizona Department of Child Safety’s Office of Prevention, the Dads Together program officially began in 2021, and now offers one-on-one mentoring and a 13-week course called Nurturing Fathers, that teaches dads the fundamentals of parenting and nurturing ..read more
Tucson Sentinel | Politics
12h ago
The Douglas basin has seen agricultural development explode in recent years, and despite attempts to limit groundwater usage, the increase in pumping - at an intensity not previously - is largely under industrial-scale owners who have consolidated the land into massive operations ..read more
Tucson Sentinel | Politics
12h ago
Republican Abraham Hamadeh should be fined more than $50,000 for filing a groundless lawsuit to overturn his 2022 defeat, say Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, who were forced to go to court to defend the election results ..read more
Tucson Sentinel | Politics
1d ago
Pima County Attorney Laura Conover joined a panel of local business owners, along with the co-founder of Second Chance Tucson, to encourage companies to hire people who were previously behind bars ..read more
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1d ago
After more than two days of jury deliberations, a Superior Court judge declared a mistrial in the case of George Alan Kelly, the Kino Springs man charged with the second-degree murder of Mexican citizen Gabriel Cuen Buitimea ..read more
Tucson Sentinel | Politics
1d ago
A federal judge reversed course in the decade-old legal challenge to the conviction of Louis Taylor, accused of starting the deadly 1970 Pioneer Hotel Fire in Tucson, denying his request to expunge his murder conviction ..read more