Arizona lawmakers have been playing hooky at an alarming rate during this year’s legislative session, with 21 state legislators missing more than 20 percent of the floor votes in both houses of the Legislature.Eat your heart out, Ferris Bueller…
Two Middle-Eastern men were detained by federal and local authorities Saturday night at Sky Harbor International Airport after passengers on their U.S. Airways flight told flight attendants the pair was “acting suspiciously.”The men weren’t running up the aisles screaming “Allah Akbar” — according to the FBI, the “suspicious” behavior that…
If preliminary numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau hold true, Arizona is set to pick up a congressional seat when the census is complete. And the, um, “vast right-wing conspiracy” wages on. According to the newest data, Arizona is one of six traditionally “red states” slated to get a boost…
It used to be that winning 10 pro football games in two seasons was a milestone around here. This year, the Cardinals have won that many in just one season, making Arizona history. But the success hasn’t come without problems. The Cards beat up on the St. Louis Rams yesterday in Glendale 31-10…
If you’re willing to pay the price, all sorts of high-priced machinery can be yours at the Barrett-Jackson luxury auctions in Scottsdale — and at the 2010 auction, buyers will be able to bid on a little piece of rock n’ roll history. Barrett-Jackson announced today that Buddy Holly’s 1958 Chevy Impala is on…
You would probably think the newsroom at a college newspaper would be a fairly non-confrontational environment — a few stories about how much the latest tuition increase sucks, a professor winning some award, and how much the basketball team needs a new coach. This is apparently not the case at…
A few hunters in the high country had a Stand By Me moment Sunday night, while in the mountains about 50 miles east of Prescott — they found a badly decomposed dead body. Police are trying to identify the body, but given the condition it was in when it was found, the…
Governor Jan Brewer is having a little trouble convincing people to pony up the cash she needs to qualify for public money to fund her 2010 gubernatorial campaign. Brewer is running under the state’s clean election system, which means she will be given public money to fund her campaign, but…
The purpose of a mug shot is to get a visual idea of what a suspect in a crime looks like, in order to identify him in the future. That being said, unless 25-year-old Albert Allen Evans walks around all day looking like he just got kicked in the crotch,…
The Arizona Cardinals clinched the division last week with a sloppy win over the dismal Detroit Lions — winning a second, consecutive post-season appearance. Woo-hoo. However, if the Cards head into the playoffs acting like they have the last two weeks, it will probably be a pretty short post-season ride…
For women doing any last-minute Christmas shopping, you may want to consider wearing pants next time you’re shopping at the Target in Tempe Marketplace. Tempe police arrested a man that has been walking around the store using a mirror to look up women’s skirts, which is frankly one of the more creative methods of perving we’ve heard…
The sale of snake oil seems to still be a hot commodity in Sedona, despite “spiritual warrior” James Ray’s October sweat lodge ceremony that killed three people and left dozens injured. Businesses in Sedona, as well as other self-help retreats, say the sweat lodge incident hasn’t hurt business, and that it may have even helped…
Country music star Jimmy Wayne is leaving Nashville and coming to the Valley, and he’s doing it the hard way — he’s walking. Wayne, responsible for trailer-park love ballads like “Stay Gone,” and “Blue and Brown,” will be leaving Nashville, Tennessee, on foot on January 1 in an attempt to walk all…
Department of Justice data is in, and federal prosecutions reached a record high in fiscal year 2009, and Arizona deserves much of the, uh, credit. In 2009, there were 169,612 federal prosecutions — more than half of them cases against illegal immigrants, according to new report from Syracuse University. Check out the…
If Tiger Woods winds up in Wickenburg for rehab over his apparent sexual compulsion and pill addiction, local businesses are ready. As the rumor mill seems to suggest, Tiger would be checking into the Meadows Rehabilitation Center in Wickenburg just after New Year’s, and despite being a little late in covering Tiger-gate’s…
They got him! The man police believe is the infamous Peoria Pill Bandit is behind bars today, just days after cops increased the reward for information leading to his arrest from $2,000 to $5,000. Police from Glendale and Peoria announced yesterday that they had taken 43-year-old Steven E. Hochuli of Phoenix into custody on one charge…
In an emergency cabinet meeting today, Governor Jan Brewer laid out her latest plan to help bridge the state’s multi-billion-dollar budget gap: Releasing non-violent illegal immigrants held in the state’s prisons. Following the meeting, Brewer ordered the state’s prison director to begin releasing prisoners — a move that the governor believes will…
The fallout out from Sarah Palin’s latest, um, scandal, isn’t nearly as devastating as gossip rags everywhere had probably hoped. Last week, Palin was spotted on a Hawaiian beach wearing a John McCain campaign visor with the senator’s name scribbled out with black marker. The incident was caught on film…
Grammy winning rapper Lil Wayne, despite awaiting a probable one-year jail sentence for gun charges in New York, a trial for drug and gun charges in Arizona, and coming off the heals of a small brawl in a Phoenix parking lot, was detained by police yet again Friday in Texas…
The Arizona Cardinals will be heading to the playoffs again this season thanks to a 31-24 win over the Detroit Lions yesterday in the dreary Motor City. Unfortunately, that’s about the only good news coming out of Sunday’s narrow victory. For the second week in a row — and despite…
The infestation of chihuahuas at animal shelters across Maricopa County has been contained.Shelter officials say that because of an “overwhelming response and generosity of the community” all of the adoptable chihuahuas have been scooped up — and just in time for the holidays…
John McCain’s former rogue running-mate, Sarah Palin, was photographed on a Hawaiian beach this week wearing a McCain campaign visor with McCain’s name scribbled out with black marker.Check out the photos here.Palin says the gesture was no jab at Arizona’s senior senator but just her best effort to keep the paparazzi…
