NOGALES, Arizona (Reuters) - A resident walking near the rusted boundary fence in this Arizona border city last month reported suspicious knocking coming from an abandoned warehouse to the Border Patrol. The agents found two men constructing the exit for a sophisticated but unfinished tunnel from Mexico. The discovery was no great surprise because authorities have been finding tunnels every two or three weeks all year. As security tightens along the Mexico border, the twin cities of Nogales -- where stores, homes and warehouses in Mexico and Arizona lie just a few ...

Bank robber John Dillinger might have thought he'd found the perfect hideout in Tucson, Ariz., in January 1934. The dusty city was a far cry from Chicago, where every law enforcer was looking for him. "The Dillinger gang was the most notorious gang in America at that time," said Marshall Trimble, Arizona's official historian. "Tucson was considered kind of a quiet place in the boondocks." But Tucson authorities soon apprehended the Dillinger gang without a ...

Dayne Morris eats out less, cooks at home more. He hunts for online bargains and shops at discount stores. So when will he start spending freely again? "When I get a promotion," says Morris, 24, a business consultant in Washington, D.C., "and the economy turns around." What used to be an afterthought, from ordering wine with dinner to jetting off on a resort vacation, still feels like a splurge. No one knows when consumers ...