All Headlines for Wednesday, 08.20.2008

Front Page Headlines

• Yaqui lawsuit aims to make poker club fold
• Climate shift and SW fires
• Parking-lot funds are focus of probe
• Bush visit cost us $99K, and Dems want Bee to pay

TODAY'S UPDATES

• Tucson woman found slain in East Side condo
• Naco border officers find marijuana in truckload of furniture
• Tucson's HoCo Festival celebrates local, national musical talent
• Tucson chicken joint to expand
• Disco, drag highlight Tucson's new 'cosmic bingo'
• Court to decide public access to trail at Marana's Saguaro Ranch
• Neko Case: Singer, songwriter, animal lover
• Recent suicides at Pinal County jail has experts concerned
• Tucson police radar van locations for Wednesday
• Tucson gas-price tracker: Use the Star to save at the pump
• Plane carrying McCain security forced to land
• Situation still 'fragile' in Grand Canyon village
• Knife-wielding man arrested after following a school girl
• Obama, VP choice to campaign together Saturday
• McCain, Obama to silence critical ads on Sept. 11
• Coalition speaks out against Arpaio

TUCSON REGION

• Climate shift and SW fires
• Marine with local kin dies
• Deaths
• Parking-lot funds are focus of probe
• Bush visit cost us $99K, and Dems want Bee to pay
• Voting-database flap was last straw, Bronson challenger says
• UA band on the march
• West Nile confirmed in Pima woman
• Political Notebook by Daniel Scarpinato : Dems strive to paint McCain as $5M man
• Family: Slain woman was leaving lover
• Tucson Time Capsule : UA sign-up gets easier
• Giffords touts her support of veterans in TV spot
• Man, 20, shot to death on North Side
• Body of missing woman found in desert at Saguaro Park East
• GOP rivals for Dist. 26 House lay out top concerns
• Catholic official to speak on voting
• AZ justices: Petition names valid with just a P.O. box
• Jimmy's forecast

NEWS

• Yaqui lawsuit aims to make poker club fold

Nation

• Q&A on the News
• Scientists make blood cells in lab
• New study reinforces diabetes-arsenic link
• 'Bigfoot' not half man, half ape — just all rubber gorilla suit
• Black, Indian students more likely to be paddled
• McCain, Obama will pull negative ads planned 9/11
• McCain campaigns offshore; Obama talks to VFW
• Obama tells McCain to lay off
• Touch-screen voting machines out of touch
• Around the nation
• N.C. hospital facing loss of U.S. funds after patient is left to die
• FBI: Pa. student hoped to breed sex slave society
• Man pleads guilty in SC student bikini strangling
• Funeral homes facing problem of abandoned ashes
• Ohio says no to voting machine 'sleepovers'
• Lennon's killer told parole board he's ashamed
• California fines 18 hospitals for shoddy care
• Conn. umpires group rescinds sex offender's award
• Rights museum picks Gore, Nash for Freedom Awards
• 50 years after Okla. sit-in, participants honored
• Former Mich. teacher accused of sex with boy, 12
• Mich. shoplifting suspect crushed in compactor

World

• Around the world
• Crackdown by Iraqi troops prompts Sunni objections
• Two Afghanistan attacks suggest bolder insurgency
• Russia still flexing its muscles in Georgia
• Vietnam releases Gary Glitter from prison
• Mexico church assailed for maligning miniskirt

Washington

• Rule barring pollution checks tossed
• Overhaul of Guard training, tours to cost an extra $128M

Arizona / West

• 11 missing Grand Canyon hikers found

Sports

• Grigsby takes on qualities of a leader
• Optimism running high by Cats coaches about fall season
• Opinion by Greg Hansen : Jury out on Phelps as best Olympian
• Gold mettle
• Tucsonan McDaniel advances at U.S. Amateur; Galletti in tiebreaker today
• Sports on the air
• U.S. escapes scare from Japan on Bustos' home run
• Day 11 highlights
• 'Perfect ending' for Johnson on balance beam
• Olympian, 67, is simply not horsing around
• Best of Day 11
• Tough hurdle to overcome
• Happening today
• USA rallies past Italy in volleyball; Cuba is next

Football

• Grigsby takes on qualities of a leader
• WR Boldin asks Cards to trade him

Baseball

• Around the NL
• Dunn sends one deep
• AL inside pitch
• NL inside pitch
• Damon's blunders hurt title hopes
• Around the AL
• What you missed
• Ineffective pitching dooms Tucson

Auto Racing

• Hornish gets new crew chief
• If even Joe Gibbs' team is cheating, NASCAR is America's most crooked sport
• Kentucky Speedway not on Sprint Cup schedule again
• 3 NASCAR tracks swap dates in 2009

Business

• Credit, debit data topic of free talk
• Francesconi joins UniSource boards
• Small SUVs improve in crash tests
• Passenger count at airport dips
• Tucson chicken joint to expand
• Chamber round-table panel sought for Sept. 8
• Nogales commerce port could stay open longer
• Laser-diode maker here to cut 79 employees
• Digital TV switch: Are you prepared?
• West Texas oil patch towns reap benefits of latest boom
• Homeowners don't have to buy from builders to sue for defects
• Humberto Cruz: Careful planning key to providing care for disabled child

Neighbors

Accent

• Community calendar
• Carolyn Hax: Support her food choices
• Dear Abby : Tell her what she wants to hear
• Bridge : An honorable decision
• Horoscope

• So easy kids can do it
• Stricker's Cuvée menu promising
• Eating in China is a daunting adventure
• Cafe Poca Cosa open again
• Tapas in Oro Valley
• Send recipe to food blog
• Fire up the grill for this salad
• Elegant Cornish hens cook up quickly
• Making pizza on the grill is quite simple and really fun

Opinion

• TPD policy on immigrants will make us safer
• Cell phones not a luxury
• Letters to the editor
• Daily Fitz Fix 08/20/2008
• Other views and voices
• Conversation makes state fair go 'round
• My opinion Eugene Robinson : Big events reflect a multipolar world