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Tucson’s Ernie Perez captures 14U USA Wrestling Kids 102-pound national title
Tucson youth Ernie Perez won all four his matches, including the championship by technical fall, to capture the 14U USA Wrestling freestyle 102-pound national title last weekend at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Perez, who will be an eighth grader this upcoming school year, a month ago brought home the USA Wrestling...
Tucson ramada reservation fees offer relief to some
TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - Outdoor gatherings can be a big part of the summer holidays and a ramada can offer a place to hold your celebration. The city of Tucson changed its ramada reservation fees on July 1 but that can mean relief for some looking to use our city parks.
Sunnyside’s Jimenez retains overall No. 1 national ranking; Pueblo’s Valenzuela-Smith No. 8 in 105 pounds
USA Wrestling, FloWrestling and the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum have published the final rankings for girls wrestlers for the 2023-24 school year and Sunnyside’s Audrey Jimenez, who graduated in May, retained the No. 1 ranking for pound-for pound in the nation. She is the No. 1-rated...
CU Buffs opponent preview: Arizona manages to keep offensive stars despite coaching change
Arizona denied Colorado its last real chance at victory in Deion Sanders’ first season in Boulder. In the Buffaloes’ final home game of the year, they never trailed in the entire 60-minute game — except on the final scoreboard. CU led for much of the afternoon, including by a touchdown at the end of each quarter. But the Buffs failed to score in the final 15 minutes after putting together...
Arizona woman to compete in Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog-Eating Contest
NEW YORK - An Arizona woman will try to regain her title on Thursday at the 2024 Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest. Michelle Lesco, who is a math teacher at a Tucson middle school, won the women's competition in 2021, eating over 30 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes. She finished third in 2023.
Effort to require ‘open primaries’ files nearly 600,000 signatures for November ballot
Proponents of a ballot measure that would radically change how Arizona’s primaries are run — making them more equitable, they say — turned in hundreds of thousands more voter signatures than it needed to make it onto the November ballot. The Make Elections Fair Act would amend the Arizona Constitution to open up primaries in […] The post Effort to require ‘open primaries’ files nearly 600,000 signatures for November ballot appeared first on Arizona Mirror.
Arizona workers one step closer to extreme heat protections with proposed Biden rules
Heat waves in Arizona have become increasingly frequent, extreme and lethal in recent years due to the warming influences of human-caused climate change and the urban heat island effect of development. Yet even as regional research, awareness and mitigation initiatives ramp up, efforts to enact statewide heat protections for workers...
Arizona's former top cop sued for defamation by man who was cleared in Freeway Shooter investigation
PHOENIX — Arizona's former top cop is being sued by the man his investigators once pegged as the prime suspect in a shooting spree that terrorized the Valley. Leslie Merritt Jr., who was cleared of all charges in the 2015 I-10 Freeway Shooter investigation, filed the defamation lawsuit this week.
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