WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- EMILY's List issued the following statement on Aug. 2, 2023: * * * Today EMILYs List, the nation's largest resource for women in politics, congratulated Mayor Regina Romero on advancing to the general election for mayor of Tucson, Arizona. Romero is one of 14 women in EMILYs List's Madam Mayor program, which was recently launched to support Democratic pro-choice women running for and serving in local executive office. EMILYs List President Laphonza Butler released the fo  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Aug. 4 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Aug. 3, 2023: * * * Cleanup will pave the way to beneficial groundwater use, ensuring future drinking water security * * * The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized its plan for the cleanup of the Cyprus Tohono Mine Site Basin Fill Aquifer under the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), also known as the Superfund law. The newly signed  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Aug. 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona issued the following news release: Angel Daniel Miranda-Contreras, 29, of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, was sentenced last week by United States District Judge Rosemary Marquez to 41 months in prison. Miranda-Contreras pleaded guilty on April 10, 2023, to Importation of Fentanyl, Importation of Heroin, Importation of Methamphetamine, and Importation of Cocaine. Miranda-Contreras crossed the border from Mexico in  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Aug. 3 -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * A new image taken with the James Webb Space Telescope reveals a variety of unusual, distorted galaxies in the distant universe, magnified by a "gravitational lens" - a massive galaxy cluster in the line of sight between the space telescope and the objects behind it. * * * The Fishhook. The Thin One. These are just two of several striking-looking targets revealed by a cluster of galaxies so massive t  more