Longtime Arizona GOP Rep. Jim Kolbe Dies at 80

PHOENIX—Jim Kolbe, a Republican congressman who represented a heavily Democratic region of Arizona for more than two decades, has died. He was 80.Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said in a statement that Kolbe died Saturday. Ducey ordered flags lowered until sunset Sunday.
Kolbe served in the Arizona Legislature before being elected in 1984 to Congress, where he often was at odds with other Re …