University of Arizona

Are you bugged by a munching, gnawing, tree- or crop-decimating, even cattle-annoying, insect? It just happens that there is probably a wasp for that. Wasps have a reputation of being indiscriminate stingers of anyone who happens to pass. But the...

Universities across the nation have offered courses on hip-hop culture for several years, but the University of Arizona has decided to take its program further, adding the subject as as a concentration in its Africana Studies minor program. The...

A gunman at a Connecticut elementary school killed 26 people, including 20 children, on Friday. It is among the world's worst mass shootings. Here is a look at some others: The...

Mark C. Stanberry was a psychiatrist who resisted the trend toward medication only, and instead concentrated on careful listening and helping his patients unravel their problems. It wasn't that he was against the pharmacopeia that has helped millions...

The Tucson Unified School District was forced to shut down its Mexican American Studies program earlier this year after Arizona Supt. of Public Instruction John Huppenthal threatened to withhold millions of dollars in state aid. Huppenthal said the...

Jewish students in the University of California system labeled terrorists for their support of Israel. Black high school students pelted by bananas on a Tennessee campus tour. A hostile student in Maryland challenging his professor to a fight after the...

'NBC Sunday Night Football' isn't just in a league of its own when it comes to NFL telecasts. It lives on another planet so far away from the nearest competition that it can't even be judged by the same standards. And last night's broadcast of the...

Pasadena High football coach Randy Horton officially stepped down less than 24 hours after his team suffered a stinging 37-7 defeat to Muir in Thursday evening’s 59th annual high school football edition of the Turkey Tussle at the Rose Bowl. The...

Matthew P. Manoukian, a captain in the U.S. Marines, came from a family committed to public service and the law. Both his parents are judges — his father, Socrates Peter Manoukian, a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge, and his mother,...

MEET THE CANDIDATES   When Marylanders head to the polls Nov. 6, they will elect members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in addition to casting their ballots for president. Dozens of people are running for a chance to represent the...

In his bid for a second six-year term, U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, D-Md., has three opponents in the Nov. 6 general election. Cardin was elected to the Senate in 2006 and took office in 2007. His Republican opponent is first-time candidate Dan...

IMPERIAL — Taylar Dill is not certain where she would like to attend college. She is certain, however, that she would like to study outside of the state. “I don’t want to go too far,” Dill, a 15-year-old junior at Brawley Union...