Jury in Stevens trial having problems

The 36-year-old quartet has championed composer Jiri Gemrot and has found a friend in that effort in the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music.

But not everyone shared his passion for the production that makes a Tucson stop on Sunday.

The Arizona Wildcats volleyball team developed confidence after upsetting then-No. 11 USC 3-2 on Sunday. The Cats hope to sustain momentum as they face two more ranked teams this weekend. Arizona plays at No. 24 Oregon State tonight and No.

With Upton leading the way, the AL champions rebounded from a punchless offensive performance in a one-run, series-opening loss by reverting to the unselfish brand of baseball that's carried the team this far.

The seven-year deal, thought to be worth between $5 million and $7 million annually, was announced Thursday by NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France and Camping World chairman and CEO Marcus Lemonis .

For the first time in its 30-plus-year history, the chamber ensemble that stages musical portraits of famous artists and musicians will perform outside, on the patio of the Tucson Museum of Art.

In Nemer Hassey's seven years as Cienega coach, the Bobcats have faced fellow 4A-I power Sabino three times (2003, 2004, 2007). And all three times Cienega exited into losing locker rooms — including a 35-31 loss at Sabino last year

Human-rights pick enrages government

Olson stepped down just six days after the Arizona Wildcats began official practices for the 2008-09 season for reasons that are as unclear as those driving his season-long leave of absence last season.

It was Jim Livengood flanked by two thinkers from the school's public relations brigade, Paul Allvin and Stephen J. MacCarthy, saying something in code that really meant "the lawyers will clean up all the details."

Greenspan, who stepped down in 2006, called the banking and housing chaos a "once-in-a-century credit tsunami" that led to a breakdown in how the free- market system functions. And he warned that things would get worse before they get better,

Patterson, a Democrat, and Kilburn, a Republican, are running against Democrat Matt Heinz and Republican Juan Ciscomani.

The Bureau of Land Management will approve the first wind-turbine installation on public land in Arizona at a signing ceremony today in Phoenix.

Robert Shelton has been Lute Olson's boss for the last two years. He talked to the Star on Thursday about Olson's legacy, both at the UA and in college basketball history.

The bomber drove his Toyota Land Cruiser into the convoy carrying Labor and Social Affairs Minister Mahmoud Mohammed al-Radhi as it passed near Tahrir Square in the busy Bab al-Sharji market area — not far from the U.S.-protected Green Zone.

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Adam Hall could be at stake.