Drugs and immigrants get most of the ink when it comes to Arizona’s criminal exports, but an Arizona man, who police in a small town in Wyoming believe murdered one guy and nearly murdered another, is dominating the news in Diamondville, Wyoming, these days.Police in Diamondville tell New Times that…
Attorney General Terry Goddard announced today that a former Scottsdale office manager has been sentenced for embezzling more than $250,000 from her employer, a Scottsdale-based medical practice.Kacee Sissener, 29, who now lives in San Diego, pleaded guilty to theft and fraudulent schemes and artifices last year she was extradited from California.According…
Yesterday, NBC sports analyst Mike Florio planted the seeds for rumors of former Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner’s triumphant return to the gridiron.When Warner retired at the end of last season, we thought he made it pretty clear that he had no intention of pullin’ a Favre and backing out on retirement,…
The first image of Cowboys and Aliens, Jon Favreau’s futuristic answer to the über-successful Avatar, was “tweeted” by Favreau today, and it looks pretty awesome. The film is described as a 3-D journey into a Southwestern conflict between Arizona settlers, who must resolve their differences when an alien spaceship crash-lands in their…
According to the latest poll from Scott Rasmussen, Senator John McCain holds a 12-point lead over his GOP primary challenger J.D. Hayworth.This is a significant jump from a poll conducted a month ago, where Rasmussen showed McCain with only a five-point lead, but that’s not stopping the pollster from comparing…
As the Phoenix Suns are in the process of trying to win the NBA Western Conference Championship, the mother of Suns star Amar’e Stoudemire has been arrested — again. Carrie Mae Stoudemire was stopped by Scottsdale police on Saturday for driving her Lincoln Navigator erratically on Shea Boulevard. According to court…
The Arizona Diamondbacks got blown out 8-0 by the Florida Marlins yesterday. It’s the ninth loss in 11 games for the 16-24 D-Backs, and aside from poor offensive production, the team’s miserable bullpen owns much of the blame. Yesterday, the bullpen gave up six runs in three innings in the loss,…
Before this afternoon, the Arizona Diamondbacks had lost eight of their last 10 games, and after this afternoon’s shiteous performance from the D-backs bullpen — as well as producing almost no offense whatsoever — the Snakes can throw another one in the loss column.The Diamondbacks got blown out by the Florida…
Attention Valley residents: When you go to a bar, don’t leave your kids sitting alone in your car in the bar’s parking lot. For the second time in less than a month, somone was arrested for doing exactly that. Tempe police arrested a man on Sunday who they say left…
Opponents of Arizona’s controversial, new immigration law are probably saying one thing today: Dammit, Janet!Former Arizona Governor and current Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano said during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing yesterday that despite criticizing Arizona’s new law, she hasn’t actually read it…
After his campaign’s less-than-successful embrace of that danged immigration issue — the debate du jour for any politico (or beauty queen) at the moment, which has critics saying Arizona’s senior senator flopped like a fish — Senator John McCain’s campaign released a new Web video that could shift the discussion…
Phoenix police are looking for a teenage girl whom they say stole an elderly Phoenix woman’s wedding ring after meeting her at a grocery store on Sunday afternoon, after the woman offered to buy the suspect gas.About 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, the 80-year-old victim was in the shampoo aisle of…
Tucson police announced last night that they arrested a teacher at a Tucson high school for allegedly having sex with one of her male students. Police say 25-year-old Christie Elliot, an English teacher and cheerleading coach at Empire High School, had an inappropriate, sexual relationship with a minor student at the…
Today’s the day for the public to decide on Governor Jan Brewer’s miracle cure for the state budget: Proposition 100. Brewer’s been pushing for the one-percent sales-tax increase since the doom and gloom of Arizona’s finances set in last summer. Brewer’s been tugging on the heartstrings of the public in her campaign…
Two of Senator John McCain’s veteran campaign advisers — one being his campaign manager, Shiree Verdone — have left the campaign, the McCain camp announced Friday.After the “danged fence” ad, and what Dan Nowicki at the Arizona Republic is calling an “about face” on his stance on immigration, we figured…
If someone’s beaten to death in front of you, thrown in a garbage can, and dragged into the desert, do yourself a favor and let someone else clean up the blood.A Laveen woman learning this the hard way after she was sentenced today to 14 months in prison after pleading guilty…
Kurt Warner, the notorious “nice guy” who took the Arizona Cardinals to the Super Bowl for the first time ever two seasons ago, will have his number retired by the Iowa Barnstormers on Friday.With all the accolades Warner racked up in his 12 years in the NFL, you might think…
The Chandler Police Department is asking the public’s help in finding a missing 16-year-old girl who they fear is currently on the run with a man who’s wanted for first-degree murder.Mixarai Zumaia, 16, was last seen on Saturday morning at her home in Chandler.Chandler police Detective Joseph Favazzo tells New…
Last week, a biologist working for the Borderlands Jaguar Detection Project admitted that, in February 2009, he illegally placed a jaguar scat in the Atascosa Mountains near Ruby and directed a woman to place jaguar scats at sites that were authorized to snare only mountain lions and bears. Those scats led…
We stumbled upon the Miss USA Pageant (known in the world of beauty pageants as Miss America’s even ditzier cousin) on NBC last night, and before we could change the channel, one of the contestants nervously answered the question “how tall are you” with “I’m great, thanks.” Then, much like ghoulishly watching a…
About a year ago, then 81-year-old Orville Richardson kicked the bucket in Iowa and was buried by his family near his home. Now, a year after his death, Richardson’s body will be dug up, his head will be chopped off, it will be frozen, and then stored in Scottsdale thanks to…
Robin Lopez, the Phoenix Suns’ 7-foot center, is likely to return to action against the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA’s Western Conference Finals, beginning at 6 p.m. tonight from La La Land, after suffering a back injury in March. The Suns are outsized by the Lakers with 7-footers like Andrew Bynum and Pau…
