Obituaries

Cedric Dempsey, former executive director of the NCAA and University of Arizona athletic director, passed away this weekend at the age of 92.

Funeral services were held in Tucson on Wednesday for the late southern Arizona Congressman Raúl Grijalva. The 77-year-old lawmaker died this month after a yearlong battle with lung cancer.

Memorial services for the late Congressman Raúl Grijalva will be held in Tucson next week.

Raúl Grijalva chaired the House Natural Resources Committee and championed preservation across the Southwest. Sandy Bahr, director of the Sierra Club’s Grand Canyon Chapter, worked alongside him on those issues throughout his career.

Arizona’s longest-serving congressman has died. Rep. Raúl Grijalva passed away from complications from cancer treatment on Thursday. He was 77.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva of Arizona, who championed environmental protection during his 12 terms in Congress, died Thursday from complications from cancer treatments, his office said.

Phoenix lost a punk rock legend this week — and Robrt Pela lost a dear friend.

A self-help guru convicted of negligent homicide in the sweat lodge deaths of three people 15 years ago has died.

Terrol Dew Johnson was probably best known as a basket weaver and sculptor, but the member of the Tohono O’odham Nation was also a health advocate committed to Indigenous food sovereignty.

Mike Sversvold, widely known as "Bam-Bam," was a legendary drummer in the 1980s Phoenix punk scene. Sversvold was involved in many bands, and was a founding member of the skate punk band JFA.