Tucson Metro

A thick dust storm moving across Interstate 10 near Casa Grande on Tuesday caused a fiery 22-vehicle pileup that left three people dead, including two siblings. At least seven people were injured.

A grisly animal-dumping site was discovered this week after a rescue group received a tip about a female horse clinging to life in a deserted area on Tucson's southeast side.

Tucson Water insists it hasn't been adding anything to the water.

Pima County will not be buying the Coronado Hotel building.

Store clerk Lisa LeAnne Atkins had just ended a telephone call with her mother when a hooded stranger walked into the Village Pet Mart, 3684 W. Orange Grove Road, on April 4, 1988.

Northwest Medical Center is in the midst of putting the final touches on a multimillion-dollar expansion and revamp of its emergency room, which has a new design intended to maximize patient privacy.

A death, a job loss and a bankruptcy — 2009 was a year of tumult and sadness for Nick Cosentino and Nancy Naugles.

Kids in Tucson seemingly don't expect Santa to bring mom a job, or help save their homes or bring their brothers back home safely from Afghanistan.

The soon-to-begin construction of an interim Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 19 north of Tubac is expected to have less of an effect on area businesses during the construction phase.

A 21-year-old man was sentenced to five years in prison Monday for his part in the kidnapping and slaying of a man three years ago.

Tucson Time Capsule: 8 UA Students Arrested for Flower Raids

The deceased are from Tucson unless otherwise noted. Occupations are stated when available.

• "2nd UA prof defends Climategate e-mails," Dec. 7 on A1, inaccurately stated an estimate from a 1998 study of how long it had been since global temperatures were as warm as in the 1990s. The study, by the University of Arizona's Malcolm Hughes and two colleagues, said 1990s temperatures were warmer than in any decade since about A.D. 1400. The story also inaccurately said a tactic of trying to hide a decline in global temperatures shown by tree-ring records since 1960 was used in studies by Michael Mann of Penn State University and Keith Briffa of East Anglia University. Neither researcher used that tactic in a published paper. Thirdly, the story inaccurately reported that Hughes and other scholars formerly delayed releasing scientific data underlying their studies. Now, as then, they release the data as their studies are published.

Today

The city's two police radar vans are scheduled to snap photographs of speeders at these locations today, according to the Tucson Police Department:

A Sierra Vista man was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in federal prison for child-pornography possession.

A conversation with preschoolers about hunger and going without during the difficult economic times turned into a boon for a local soup kitchen and a source of pride for the classroom of 4- and 5-year-olds.

Decades ago the city used its eminent domain power to force El Charro out of its long-time home to redevelop what is now known as La Placita. The plus, if there was one, was ample free night and weekend parking nearby.

Richard Leland was a teen testing his boundaries when he left his family's west side home near El Rio Golf Course on June 17, 1981, after a spat with his mother over chores.