A 61-year-old man was found shot to death early Friday morning inside a home on Tucson’s southwest side, police said.

About 12:30 a.m. Tucson police responded to the 5900 block of South Birchwood Drive, in Midvale Park near West Drexel and South Mission roads, where a 47-year-old man met police outside, Tucson Police Department spokeswoman Sgt. Diana Lopez said.

Tucson is in a budget crisis and city leaders say it’ll be tight even if voters approve a .5¢ sales tax increase in November. But one city council member claims to have a plan for budget relief.

Higher bus fares or fewer cops on Tucson streets, it’s a reality residents may soon have to face.

“If you and i have a problem in our home,we don’t wait to win the lottery, we start making decisions now,” said Council Member Steve Kozachik.

It is time to start talking about flu shots again. Tucson has already started receiving the new formulation.

The shot this year includes the vaccine for H1N1, something officials at the Pima County Health Department say they expect to see another round of this year.

Tucson police are investigating an early morning homicide. A witness called police to say a man had been stabbed near the intersection of north First Avenue and east Prince Road just after 1 a.m.

Officers arrived and found a man with stab wounds.

The victim was transported and later died at the hospital.

Officers immediately initiated a search for a suspect but so far, no arrests.

A soldier from Tucson was shot to death, because he shot at a police officer in Salt Lake City.

Friday afternoon, Brandon Barrett was walking the streets of a busy downtown intersection heavily armed and in uniform.

Someone saw him, called 911 and when police arrived, Barrett shot an officer in the leg. The officer shot back and killed Barrett.

Tucson Police are looking for a man involved in a deadly shooting on the Southeast side.

On Thursday at 9:17 p.m., the Tucson Police Department received a 911 call reporting shots fired near 36th Street and Country Club. As officers were arriving on scene, they received another 911 call reporting that a man suffering from gunshot wounds had been dropped off at Kino Hospital. He was transferred to University Medical Center, where he later died. Authorities have identified the victim as 27-year-old Christopher Montaño.

Federal investigators arrested eight people connected to a family-run drug smuggling and money laundering ring based in Tucson. The five year investigation found that the Troncoza family used a seafood company, hot dog stand and trucking company as a front to ship drugs across the country.

Cash, weapons, homes and expensive jewelry are just some of the items seized by the U.S Drug Enforcement Administration and IRS Criminal Investigations in “Operation Frozen Freight.”

Voters in Tucson, Pima County and Arizona will have a choice between Republican Senator John McCain and Democrat Rodney Glassman on Novmeber 2, 2010.

As of August 25, 2010, at 10 p.m, McCain had beaten his closest rival, J.D. Hayworth 56% to 32% and nothing was expected to change that in any dramatic way.

Glassman had 35% of the vote with Cathy Eden coming in the closest with 27%.

Another border tunnel has been found on Arizona’s border with Mexico.

U.S. Border Patrol agents working in cooperation with local and federal law enforcement agencies found a tunnel Friday in Nogales, under the southbound lane at the DeConcini Port of Entry.

Tucson Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the in-custody death Sunday of 35-year-old Benjamin L. Sotelo, according to a media release from the department issued Monday morning.

Sotelo died after a struggle with police. Officers were called to the area of Speedway Boulevard and Interstate 10 to investigate a report of “a man with a gun.”