The "Tucson Values Teachers" campaign to improve public education kicked off yesterday at an event held at the Tucson Convention Center called the "State of Education: A Community Conversation on K-12 Education."

That's the day the Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer opens four new stores called Marketside in Tempe, Mesa, Chandler and Gilbert to gauge consumer response to their brand of small neighborhood markets.

About 200 people came out to support the event, which raised money for the Arizona Daily Star's Sportsmen's Fund Send a Kid to Camp program.

The Kirk-Bear Canyon Library, 8959 E. Tanque Verde Road, is holding a diaper drive for the Diaper Bank of Southern Arizona this month. People can drop off unopened, original diaper packages in a box located in the library's lobby. The

They played games with a parachute, competed in a frozen T-shirt contest, played in a jumping castle and won prizes such as zippered coin bags, T-shirts and pen-and-pencil sets, said Brianna Curran, garden coordinator.

2Burglary was reported at 5:28 p.m. Sept. 9 in the 2800 block of North Indian Ruins Road. A resident told deputies the following: His garage door was not working and two back doors were open when he came home. He

More than 45 vendors staged a mock wedding, allowing brides-to-be, mothers, sisters and fiance's to check out the latest in wedding trends.

Besides the weather, another cool thing about the event is that it will benefit the Summerhaven Community Center and the Mount Lemmon Fire Department.

The entire Tucson Medical Center campus at 5301 E. Grant Road is now tobacco-free.

The Easoms were at Brandi Fenton Memorial Park, 3482 E. River Road, for Ilaria's Walk 'n' Lemonade for Childhood Cancer, a benefit that raised $1,645 for organizations that help families dealing with pediatric cancer. The annual event — which included

Each year the fiesta grows bigger as the town grows. Debbie Summers, the town's parks and recreation director, says the fiesta grew by 40 percent this year. Close to 5,000 people were expected for the day-long event at the park,

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Buzz Isaacson was named first vice president of the local CB Richard Ellis operation. Ike Isaacson was named vice president and Annie Lewis is marketing assistant and on-staff interior designer. Buzz Isaacson Realty has ceased operations and the three will

Nowhere is that more prevalent than in the race for Pinal County Treasurer, where Democratic incumbent Dolores "Dodie" Doolittle faces Republican challenger Rayna Palmer.

United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona, Catholic Community Services and the Internal Revenue Service are hosting a one-day event in mid-October to help people who don't normally have a filing requirement to file a 2007 tax return so they

The Fort Huachuca soldier, who stands 5-feet-4 and weighs 120 pounds, is competing this week in what the Army calls its "Super Bowl" — the first time a woman has been a contender for the service's seventh-annual Best Warrior award.