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Police are investigating the on-campus shooting death of a UArizona sophomore as a homicide. By Alexis Blue, University Communications Feb. 22, 2021 The University of Arizona is mourning the death of a student killed in an on-campus shooting over the weekend. The University of Arizona Police Department and Tucson Police Department are investigating the death of student Forrest Keys as a homicide. Keys was a sophomore majoring communication and a member of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. "My hope is that justice will be swift (and) we will find the perpetrators that took this beautiful,...

Depending on where they live, Arizona's restaurant workers may have to wait a little longer for their chance to sign up for COVID-19 vaccines, despite the fact that their jobs often require interaction with customers.  The new plan, however, isn't uniform across the state. Individual counties are each developing their own plans, merging aspects of the original and the new, to form hybrid plans.  Additionally, the state has authorized allocation of the new, single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine to be used exclusively for vaccinating frontline workers. Johnson & Johnson vaccines will be d...

Chris Richards/University of Arizona In the United States, more people have been at least partially vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes COVID-19 – than have contracted it. To date, over 27.4 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported, while 38.3 million people have received at least one dose of the vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Arizona, nearly 800,000 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date, while more than 840,000 people have received at least one shot. Yet, this is just the beginning of the battle. The numb...