Posted 8:46 AM 5/21/2013 by Lorraine Rivera
TUCSON - A Tucson fire paramedic has been reinstated to the role of captain, a civil service commission voted Monday.
Sloan Tamietti, a nine-year veteran of the department, was demoted after a November 2012 incident in which a subordinate made allegations of harassment and assault. In the (More)
Posted 6:18 PM 5/17/2013 by Lorraine Rivera
MARANA - The Marana Police Department says a woman is in jail charged with murdering her husband.
Captain Ruben Nunez said police were called to the couple's home in the 8900 block of Palm Brooke Drive Thursday night just after 11 p.m. The victim is 59-year-old Jerry Mayfield and his wife (More)
Posted 8:39 PM 5/16/2013 by Lorraine Rivera
TUCSON - The Missouri family who was stung by bees last Sunday in Pusch Ridge has returned to its home state.
A spokesman for the Golder Ranch Fire Department said the family's six-year-old son was hospitalized for several days after bees stung him more than 150 times. The boy's grandfather (More)
Posted 7:23 PM 5/15/2013 by Lorraine Rivera
TUCSON - Hundreds rallied on the front lawn of the Arizona Capitol Wednesday in support of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's plan to expand Medicaid.
The state's health insurance program would cover an estimated 300,000 more people. Approximately 1.3 million are already enrolled in the Arizona (More)