A U.S. District Court judge in Texas has ruled that Asarco LLC and its parent company must work out a deal that could be worth more than $6 billion to the Tucson-based copper producer.

Judge Andrew S. Hanen ruled Wednesday that Asarco and Mexico City-based Grupo Mexico must hash out a settlement that needs to include, among other things, Grupo Mexico returning stock that amounts to a 54.18 percent share in the Southern Peru Copper Company.

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Across five months, Jim Livengood researched every conceivable elite-tier coach in college basketball.

The Big Four vanished before Livengood had a chance, face-to-face, to propose a deal.

That left USC's Tim Floyd, Xavier's Sean Miller and Oklahoma's Jeff Capel on the priority board. It was Floyd's job to turn down. And so he did.

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A former Tucson man convicted in the October 2001 rape of a local teenager was sentenced to 18 1/2 years in prison Thursday - a sentence he won't begin serving until after his current prison sentence expires.

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Daily Star sportswriter Patrick Finley answered your questions regarding the University of Arizona's search for a men's basketball coach.

Read the chat transcript - just updated with more Q&A.

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Can you tell the fake food from the real food?

There's one of each in the two pictures. Take a good guess; all the correct answers will go into a drawing for "The Williams-Sonoma Cookbook," loaded with recipes with real food.

Enter by 9 a.m. Tuesday.

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The shaky economy does not discriminate: It smacks us all across the face, making us frugal, scared and wondering if we'll make it through. It's the same for art groups here and across the country.

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