Border agents in Nogales scored more than two tons of weed during a routine search of a truck at a border checkpoint. On Friday, a tractor-trailer rolled up to the checkpoint near Interstate-19 in Nogales. After an initial inspection of the truck, agents decided to do an additional inspection. During the secondary…
Rapper Lil Wayne, who has avoided his date with the hoosegow twice in as many months, is now in jail serving a sentence for gun charges in New York City. Wayne, who pleaded guilty to the gun charges in October in exchange for a reduced, one-year jail sentence, has finally…
There’s a delay in the sentencing of a former beauty queen and law student, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping after the bizarre kidnapping and torture of her ex-boyfriend, because her lawyer says he wants off the case.You may recall Kumari Fulbright, the former University of Arizona law…
Phoenix police are asking the public’s help in tracking down the killer of a Phoenix man murdered early Saturday morning.The victim, whom police identified as 21-year-old Aaron Mathew Ford, was shot just after midnight on Saturday, near the northbound access road to the Black Canyon Freeway near 4450 N. Black…
An Arizona congresswoman has a suggestion about how the United States can chip away at its $12 trillion national debt: pay the folks running the show a little bit less.Representative Ann Kirkpatrick (D-Flagstaff) introduced a bill last week that calls for members of Congress to take a 5 percent pay cut,…
Meet the new safety, same as the old safety — just cheaper.The Arizona Cardinals, just days after losing safety Antrel Rolle to the New York Giants, picked up a Big Apple replacement for the safety spot in Kerry Rhodes, who the team signed over the weekend.Rhodes spent the last five…
With college spring break just weeks away, many college students are looking forward to drinking their faces off at an exotic, Mexican beach, but Grand Canyon National Park is offering college students a different way to kick back during their time off: volunteering.For the third year in a row, the park…
The quack attack was no match for the Phoenix Coyotes on Saturday night in Glendale, as the doggies shut out the Anaheim Ducks 4-0. Coyotes goalie Ilya Bryzgalov, acquired from the Ducks in 2007, set a franchise record on Saturday, when his 32 saves gave the Coyotes their 34th win…
One member of an Arizona State University fraternity could be looking at a little more than double-secret probation after allegedly stabbing another member when he tried to throw him into a pool.Members of the Sigma Nu fraternity threatened to throw 21-year-old Samson Fivey into a pool at the fraternity house early…
It’s widely known that the self-righteous voice of conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh is enough to irritate the pants off of liberals and hippies from Burlington to Berkley, but two scientists at Northern Arizona University are using Limbaugh’s squawk to annoy a different type of nuisance: beetles.We would have suggested…
It’s not exactly the Tonight Show, but late-night funny-man Conan O’Brien’s return to the stage could happen at a Valley theater.It’s believed that Coco is planning a live theatrical tour, and the only stop getting talked about so far is an April visit to Phoenix’s own Dodge Theater…
Two Illinois residents were arrested after a UPS package, which originated in Maricopa County, was delivered to them and was found to contain about four pounds of marijuana. In the words of the late, great Mitch Hedberg, “I love the Fed-Ex guy because he’s a drug dealer, and he don’t even…
TLC’s newest babe-cop reality show, Police Women of Maricopa County, aired its second episode last night, and if you’re a fan of bad attitudes, blatant disrespect, and an awful use of police resources, the show didn’t disappoint.Let’s get this week’s review started with a look at Kelly Bocardo, whose level…
In case you hadn’t noticed — and by all accounts of the team’s attendance, you haven’t — the Phoenix Coyotes are marching toward the playoffs in fine fashion. And last night’s last-second 3-1 win over the Colorado Avalanche is proof that if you haven’t gone to a Coyotes game yet this…
An Associated Press story making national headlines says there is a spike in reports of man-on-man sexual-harassment claims over the last two decades.There doesn’t seem to be too much of a story here — the percentage of such sexual-harassment claims has only gone up by 2 percent in 10 years…
The Arizona Cardinals officially released starting safety Antrel Rolle to avoid paying him a boat-load of cash.The move comes as no big surprise. To keep Rolle, the Cards would have had to pony up a $4 million roster bonus he was due and the additional $8.1 million salary he’s owed in the…
An Arizona appellate court ruled today that it is still illegal to take a piss wherever you feel like it and that Tucson’s ordinance against public urination is not violating the Constitution.A Pima County man, convicted of public urination in a Pima County Superior Court and sentenced to a year of…
Michael Moore, the ultra-liberal film director who brought us Fahrenheit 9/11 and his latest jab at democracy, Capitalism: A Love Story, was in Arizona to attend the 16th Annual Sedona International Film Festival, where he vowed to not come back to our state until it elects a Democratic U.S. senator.Considering how…
Arizona, a state known for its serene canyons and sprawling desert, is now becoming more synonymous with treatment for sex addiction.In a new book chronicling the downfall of former New York Governor (and the only guy to make the number nine more famous than Gordie Howe) Eliot Spitzer, an aide claims he…
Justin Upton told the Arizona Diamondbacks to show him the money, and that’s exactly what they did — lots of it.Yesterday, Upton signed a six-year, $51.25 million contract extension with the D-backs, making him the second-priciest player in the franchise’s history.Randy Johnson was the only Diamondback to sign a larger contract,…
A new study conducted by the Southern Poverty Law Center shows Arizona near the top of the list of states when it comes hate groups — and the number is growing.The study, released this morning, finds that Arizona has 21 “nativist extremist” groups operating within the state, as well as 19 hate groups.California is the…
A man dubbed by New Times in a 2006 feature as the “Killer Candidate,” who beat a murder rap for shooting a woman and then ran for a seat in the Arizona House of Representatives, is giving it another shot — politics, that is.Dan Coleman announced his candidacy for South Mountain justice of the peace,…
