The Southern Arizona Beagle Rescue is holding a raffle for NASCAR race tickets. The races will be held in Phoenix Nov. 12 through 14 at Phoenix International Raceway.

The prize includes two pre-race pit passes (good for all three races), a parking pass for all three days, and two Budweiser Roll-Bar club passes for Sunday Nov. 14.

Raffle tickets cost $5 each and can be purchased by calling Tim Noblin at 393-8479. Visit the SOAZBR website for additional information.

Trouble with black bears in Tucson.

UA journalism student Chen Ziniu introduces us to Steve Temple, the owner of 4 Ropin Ranch in Marana. Temple coaches and practices team roping at his ranch.

Corey Lueker brings us a look at Rebecca Lohes' day as a zookeeper in this third and final part of the three-part package on the Reid Park Zoo.

Katrina Arrington, in part two of the Zoo project, introduces us to Lauren Bradford. Bradford is a zookeeper at the Reid Park Zoo.

This is the start of another three-part series on a local favorite: the Reid Park Zoo! We start off behind the scenes with the administration in this project by Blair Kurland. We will have two more projects that follow two zookeepers in their day-to-day activities.

Stay tuned!

Since she picked Kobe up in early February, the puppy had been her constant companion. He’d join her for drinks on the patio at Hotel Congress and chew up maps on road trips to the beach.

“He slept with me every single night,” Schwartz says. “A total cuddler. He went everywhere with me. We were inseparable.”

So she didn’t think twice about taking Kobe along to pick up her late-night takeout order just as Chang’s closed at 11 p.m. Thursday, April 15.

It took only minutes to duck inside the restaurant and grab her food, but when she got back to her car, she saw the window had been rolled down. The car was unlocked.

Kobe was gone.

Some heartless douchebag had made off with her four-month-old puppy.

Schwartz is terrified to imagine what could be happening to Kobe.

“I feel like the kind of person who would steal a dog probably don’t understand what a dog is,” Schwartz says. “And they don’t know how to treat a dog. And that’s the part I’m really scared about. He could be hurt. And that’s what breaks my heart

Throughout the week, we'll be posting slideshows of some of the sights at this year's Pima County Fair, which is running through April 25. See all our photos at Flickr.com/TucsonWeekly. Next up: The animals.

octopus steals my video camera and swims off with it (while it's Recording) from Victor Huang on Vimeo.

Who isn't dazzled by the undersea footage we see these days? Here's a clip of octopus snatching a vidcam away from a diver and continuing to film during a chase to get it back.