Five months after having (ahem) its first lawsuit against former Arizona Cardinals cornerback Eric Green thrown out by a Florida judge, a New York tranny has refiled a similar lawsuit alleging Green performed “forcible sodomy” on him (or is it “her?” If anyone knows the PC objective pronoun to describe…
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office today announced that the officer involved in last week’s shooting of an unarmed domestic violence suspect has been charged with murder.If you’re unfamiliar with the case click here. It’s nuts.The county attorney also provided some background on the accused officer, 37-year-old Richard Chrisman, including a…
Two arrests have been made in connection with a body dumped at a truck stop in the far West Valley earlier this week.Around 12:30 p.m. Monday, police got a call about two men who were seen dumping a human body at the Travel Center of America Truck Stop at 339th…
The Congressional candidates for Arizona’s Third District debated last night at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix. There were a few surprises — Democratic candidate Jon Hulburd said he doesn’t know if he’s qualified for the job, Republican candidate Ben Quayle finally went negative, and…
Ben Quayle sat in Jon Kyl’s office on February 14. Quayle already had privately made the decision to run for Congress in Arizona’s Third District, and with the junior U.S. senator having once represented Arizona’s Fourth Congressional District, Quayle was turning to him for advice. Quayle had yet to announce his…
Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd has based the majority of his campaign around attacking his opponent, Ben Quayle, over his ties to The Dirty, a raunchy, Scottsdale-based gossip site, to which Quayle admits contributing a few satirical posts.Hulburd opened his campaign by saying “this race is now between Jon Hulburd and…
As is almost always the case when police find a suspicious anything, the suspicious device found in a car entering the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station this morning was nothing sinister.If you’re unfamiliar with this morning’s brief scare click here.As it turns out, all the hubbub was over a smoke…
Robbing an armored-car is serious business in the criminal world. Armored-car companies take a lot of precautions because they know they’re targets for robbery attempts. That’s why the driver and other guards carry guns.In other words, robbing an armored-car takes planning — and probably an actual gun, too.A Valley robber…
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard went on Fox News this morning to pimp his latest probe into mortgage companies he says provide flawed foreclosure documents.He came across well — for example, he didn’t say anything like “we have did what’s right for Arizona,” as his opponent in the gubernatorial election,…
The Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station is the largest nuclear power facility in the country. So, naturally, people freaked out this morning when a suspicious package was found at the facility.Security guards at the plant called the Sheriff’s Office about 5 a.m. today after they found the package in the…
A Phoenix resident found a stinkier-than-usual trash can in his neighborhood last night and when he looked inside he found a decomposing human body.Cops got a call about 10:30 p.m. yesterday after a neighbor was walking in an alley near 47th Avenue and McDowell Road.The neighbor passed a dumpster and…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer may think that she has “did what is right” for Arizona, but an independent analysis by the financial news Web site 24/7 Wall St. disagrees. The site has issued its “State of the States” rankings and Arizona has been ranked 48th on its list of well-run…
The campaign of Rodney Glassman, the Democrat trying to unseat Senator John McCain in this year’s election, is in rough shape, according to a new poll released today.Glassman’s campaign has taken some hits since the last poll was conducted — most notably, the news that he plagiarized parts of his…
The standard argument over whose responsibility it is to do the dishes following a meal may have finally been settled by a Mesa man, who shot and killed his father — before apparently trying to kill himself — following an argument on the matter.Last night, 21-year-old Aaron Farinacci had dinner…
Keith King, the less-than-better half of a marriage built on stolen luggage, was sentenced to some pretty lengthy prison time during a hearing in a Maricopa County courtroom this morning.King, whose wife, Stacy King, was already sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for her role in the massive theft operation,…
Last week, we told you about a couple of Chandler residents, who happen to think they’re vampires. How do we know this? Because one of them allegedly stabbed their roommate when he wouldn’t let them suck his blood.Today, police released tapes that further confirm the two actually think they’re vampires.If…
Remember when Politico claimed Congressional candidate Ben Quayle lied about his connection with the raunchy Web site The Dirty? And the news that he lied spread like wildfire around the Internet, ultimately making its way to the front page of the New York Times? The (ahem) funny thing about that…
In case you hadn’t heard, an unidentified Hispanic man had his head cut off over the weekend and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer said “see! Told ya so!” OK, so the part about Brewer’s not true but a guy really was decapitated and police need the public’s help in finding some…
At most places of employment, someone charged with defrauding their employer would get fired — or at least placed on leave until the whole thing was sorted out. Not if you work for the City of Nogales, where the boss — in theory — is the taxpayer.Nogales Mayor Octavio Garcia…
The suspect in the robbery of a Phoenix convenience store apparently forgot that his body would still require oxygen while robbing the store, which might explain why he used a plastic bag as a mask.According to the Phoenix Police Department, on September 19, the unidentified suspect went into the Circle…
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard isn’t as down and out of the Arizona governor’s race as once thought — if you believe the latest poll numbers, that is.A Rasmussen poll released last week had the race broken down as follows: – Brewer: 55 percent.- Goddard: 39 percent.- Other candidate: 3…
A 36-year-old Chandler man is behind bars after police say he stabbed his neighbor to death. Oh, yeah, he allegedly chopped the guy’s head off, too.Police were called to a house in the 300 block of West Fairview Drive in Chandler early yesterday morning.When they got there, they found the…
