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Posted Jul 13, 2022, 2:51 pm
Jacob Owens
/TucsonSentinel.com
A black bear was relocated from the town of Oracle on Friday, after the animal had been spotted around the community since late May. Reports of bears and mountain lions have increased this summer, officials said.... Read more»
Posted Feb 8, 2022, 6:08 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
A prescribed burn in the Southwest portion of the Galiuro Mountains sent a plume of smoke over the Catalina Mountains that was visible from Tucson on Tuesday. Burns in the area are expected to continue until the end of the month. ... Read more»
Posted Jun 19, 2020, 12:47 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Photos showing the spread of the Bighorn Fire burning north of Tucson on Thursday night, as the fire continued to spread across the Catalina Mountains. ... Read more»
Posted Jul 23, 2014, 12:48 am
Arnie Bermudez
/TucsonSentinel.com
Adam Kwasman, Republican primary candidate for Congress, showed up in Oracle last week. Hearing that there was a bus full of undocumented children POSSIBLY headed his way, he decided he would protest that bus.... Read more»
Posted Jul 16, 2014, 10:52 pm
Arnie Bermudez
/TucsonSentinel.com
Sheriff Paul Babeu decided he needed to call attention to himself — again — by ginning up a protest of the arrival of undocumented immigrants in Oracle.... Read more»
Posted Jul 16, 2014, 9:03 pm
Roberto De Vido
/politicomix
When Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu tipped anti-immigrant protesters to the arrival of undocumented minors to a shelter in Oracle, hilarity ensued.... Read more»
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Updated Jul 15, 2014, 9:54 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Passions ran hot among two groups demonstrating near a new shelter for undocumented children in this small Arizona town, with both gearing up to display their fervor as the first buses of migrant kids were expected to arrive. Around noon, officials said that the children would not be driven to the shelter Tuesday.... Read more»
Updated Jul 14, 2014, 9:29 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Some residents of Oracle are planning a blockade of a new shelter for unaccompanied undocumented children, called after Sheriff Babeu told organizers about the facility. Babeu raised questions about the children's possible affiliation with the notorious MS-13 gang, and the chance they might spread disease.... Read more»
Posted Jul 18, 2013, 5:52 pm
Reity O'Brien & Adam Wollner/Center for Public Integrity
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito may have more than quintupled his net worth in 2012 according to a financial disclosure statement released Wednesday.... Read more»
Posted Feb 1, 2012, 9:09 am
Jessica Testa
/Cronkite News Service
Arizona State Parks hasn’t received state funding since 2009, and only nine of the state’s 29 public parks have stayed consistently open throughout the budget crisis. Thanks to $21,000 raised by a local group, Oracle State Park is reopening to the public, if only on Saturdays.... Read more»
Posted Apr 9, 2010, 8:59 am
Michael Truelsen
/TucsonSentinel.com
Tucson will get its first Nordstrom Rack next year.... Read more»