Emerging from a two-hour negotiating session, Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., the Banking Committee chairman said, "We are very confident that we can act expeditiously."

Organized by the city of Tucson's East District Senior Committee, the event drew about 90 people to Udall's Senior Addition to enjoy the music, the food and a chance to dress up.

The school's ALS Awareness Poster Contest raised $531.27 for Tucson's annual Walk to Defeat ALS. Twenty-one classes made posters that people voted for through online donations or by making donations at the school, 9950 E. Rees Loop.

Before the postseason got going, most everyone was touting regular-season sensation Kyle Busch, who has gotten off to a devastating start in the 10-race Chase, finishing 34th and 43rd in the first two races, virtually eliminating the 23-year-old from contention.

With about 20 laps to go at Dover, Roush wasn't sure where he should sit. Greg Biffle, Carl Edwards and Matt Kenseth were racing three wide, bumper-to-bumper and just every other exciting combination as they pushed hard on the concrete

With the administration's original proposal deeply unpopular in Congress, top House leaders issued an upbeat statement at day's end saying that they had made progress toward revised legislation.

The four-day gala, run by the St. Demetrios Hellenic Center, lets thousands of Tucsonans taste traditional Greek foods and experience Greek culture.

I have relieved Matt Millen of his duties effective immediately," Lions owner William Clay Ford said in a statement Wednesday afternoon.

Gone is the meddling sergeant James Doakes (Erik King), the suspicious detective set ablaze during Season Two, leaving the rest of Morgan's Miami police unit, including Angel Batista (David Zayas), Vince Masuka (C.S. Lee) and Debra Morgan (Jennifer Carpenter) clueless

The date marks the opening of "Quantum of Solace," the latest James Bond film, in U.S. theaters. Keys does not play a Bond Girl, much to our disappointment, but she does perform the theme song, "Another Way to Die," with

The man was shot by an Oro Valley officer assigned to the department's Community Action Team, which is investigating drug use at area schools, including Canyon del Oro High School, said Lt. Rick Middleton, a Tucson police spokesman.

But you can't tell that by the elaborate birthday party it throws for itself every year.

Lane, which operates a bottling plant at 3131 E. Transcon Way, is the eighth largest Pepsi bottler in the U.S.

Fire district plans class for teen babysitters

First up is an acoustic performance by Mudwagon . Also on the bill is Static Session , a Tucson band. The show starts at 7 p.m.

The breakthrough came after lawmakers decided to postpone a decision on how to resolve a power-sharing dispute over the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. The Kirkuk controversy has stoked ethnic tensions in northern Iraq and stalled approval of the election bill.

Northwest Airlines Corp. shareholders were to vote on the stock-swap deal with Delta Air Lines Inc. at their annual meeting in New York, perhaps the last in the 82-year-old airline's history before it is swallowed by its larger rival.

Proceeds from Saturday's Fun Chili Cook-Off at Jonathan's Cork, 6320 E. Tanque Verde Road, will help send local boys and girls to camp next summer. This annual fundraiser benefits the Arizona Daily Star's Sportsmen's Fund Send a Kid to Camp