LAW ENFORCEMENT
Three local hospitals are cited by the state for violating patients' right to privacy. Tucson Medical Center, St. Joseph's Hospital and University Medical Center were illegally turning over patient names to their fund-raising operations.
Roger Osborne, 41, of East Walker Place, is arrested and charged with running a chop shop for stolen autos.
GOVERNMENT
Speaker of the Arizona House Mark Killian questions Gov. J. Fife Symington III's goal of eliminating the state income tax.
Arizona Department of Corrections gives away hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of weight-lifting equipment from the state prisons as part of a move to reduce inmates' attempts to intimidate staff.
Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods, a Republican, attacks major state GOP policies, including those of Gov. J. Fife Symington III. Woods calls the states' rights movement very much like "driving off a cliff," blaming it for damaging efforts to aid the environment as well as civil rights. He also lambastes school vouchers and tort reform.
YOUTH
Pima County is seventh among Arizona's 15 counties in the rate of teen pregnancy--46.4 per thousand girls 19 and under. According to the state health department, last year there were 2,083 in Pima County.
BUSINESS
The Arizona Corporation Commission grants U.S. West a 74-cent monthly increase in the basic phone rate to take effect January 16. The company had asked for $5.10.
Hughes Missile Systems Co., a major Tucson employer is rumored to be planning to cut 500 to 1,000 jobs in the near future.
SOUNDBITE
"I have no regrets. I didn't do anything to regret."
--convicted savings & loan swindler Charlie Keating, 71, in an interview with Phoenix station KSAZ-TV.
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