For perhaps the first time this week, the sports-reporting world managed to go a day without spreading a rumor involving the Arizona Cardinals acquiring a quarterback.In the absence of a quarterback rumor, how about the guy who’s already on the Cardinals — Kevin Kolb?See also:-Cardinals Quarterback Rumor of the Day…
Eighty-year-old Sheriff Joe Arpaio tripped, fell, and broke his arm on his way to lunch today…
In a couple of weeks, the Phoenix Police Department will recognize the 50th anniversary of one of the most famous arrests in the department’s history — that of Ernesto Miranda.You probably recognize Miranda’s name by the “warning” named after him that lets an arrestee know he has the right to…
A Mesa doctor who was charged with a dozen sex-abuse charges in 2010 was found not guilty yesterday by a jury of his peers.Gabriel Ogbonnaya, who was a physician with Healing Touch Internal Medicine in Mesa, was accused by multiple women of making sexual advances toward them in his capacity…
A 24-year-old man with a criminal history in five states managed to spend last week in a room at the Scottsdale Hilton with nothing but a $20 prepaid credit card.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Thomas Burgman-Panky checked in at the Hilton on the afternoon of February 18…
The Mesa Police Department says a taxi driver for Discount Cab Company offered to waive the fare for two women, in exchange for “sexual favors.”Believe it or not, police say 43-year-old Eric Vincent didn’t get any takers…
There’s something that’s just so priceless about Sheriff Joe Arpaio having to thank the Mexican authorities for helping return an inmate who escaped from one of his jails months ago.From his general immigration-enforcement policies and the multiple racial-profiling lawsuits against him to specific comments, like the time he urged a…
We’re now getting to the point where it’s impossible to go 24 hours without hearing a rumor from a legitimate sports reporter involving a quarterback and the Arizona Cardinals.On Tuesday, the Arizona Republic’s Kent Somers said the Cardinals were “exploring the possibility” of trading for San Francisco 49ers quarterback Alex…
Democratic Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick seems to be concerned about the possibility of “devastating sequestration cuts.”She also seems concerned about the fact that she’s gonna need some cash for the 2014 election, so if you could create and equal concern for the sequester and the re-election effort, then you’ll have your…
According to most of the people running law-enforcement agencies along the U.S./Mexico border, so-called “spillover” violence from Mexico isn’t really happening.Some grandstanding politicians would swear otherwise, but a Government Accountability Office report says officials from 31 of 37 state and local law-enforcement agencies on the border “stated that they have…
Kristopher Harvey, the father from Surprise who was “just trying to teach his boys a lesson” by making them get really drunk, will spend the next three years on probation.Police described the boys, ages 13 and 14, as “highly intoxicated,” as officers discovered them on a June day in their…
The man who escaped from one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jails in May was captured again.The U.S. Marshals Service says Rocky Marquez was arrested in Mexico — which is the second time Marquez had to be tracked down. Shortly after the Marshals Service found Marquez in the Detroit area a…
Arizona State University is suing a locally based porn website, “Sun Devil Angels,” for alleged trademark infringement, but here’s a tip — the porn website isn’t the first thing with the “Sun Devil” name.Brent Townsend — who’s with Digital Dream Media, which is one of the parties in the lawsuit…
UPDATE: Smith’s been traded to Kansas City.Stop us if you’ve heard this one before — there’s a rumor involving a quarterback and the Arizona Cardinals.The last 48 hours were devoted to a rumor about the Cardinals being interested in drafting USC quarterback Matt Barkley, but the Arizona Republic’s Kent Somers…
Sure enough, Arizona State University’s suing a locally based porn website, “Sun Devil Angels,” for a variety of reasons, including trademark infringement.Rumor mill TMZ actually got wind of this lawsuit last week, but the lawsuit itself hasn’t been made public until now, as it was filed in federal court Monday.See…
You can sleep easy tonight, folks — one of the many, many people who has said mean things about Sheriff Joe Arpaio on the Internet was arrested on a misdemeanor charge.Specifically, MCSO says a man posted to the “People Against Sheriff Joe Arpaio” Facebook page that he’d kill Arpaio for…
The love story of Gary Noel — the man who has admitted to lighting his wife’s house on fire this weekend but claims, “The bitch deserved it,” as he killed his estranged wife’s cat in the process — is currently playing out on local television.3TV is really, really following the…
We’re not sure whether this is a serious thing, but right-wingers are touting their response to the attempted recall of Sheriff Joe Arpaio: an effort to recall County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox.Forgive us for being skeptical, but if you think it’s a longshot that Arpaio will be recalled, consider the…
Democrat Felecia Rotellini, 2010’s Attorney General election runnerup, announced that she’s making another run for the AG post in 2014.Also, we’ve found out what 2012 U.S. Senate election runnerup Richard Carmona’s up to — being the chairman of Rotellini’s campaign.See also:-Terry Goddard Wants to Be AG Again? Puh-lease-Arizona AG Tom…
This week in the Arizona Cardinals’ desperate, years-long search for a functional quarterback: Matt Barkley.According to one of the NFL.com writers at the scouting combine this week, the Cardinals found Barkley “extremely impressive,” and there’s a “rumor” that the Cardinals are “very interested” in the USC quarterback…
Jennifer Dempsey, the 35-year-old Phoenix woman accused of lying about her age to teenage boys she had sex with, lying about being pregnant, and lying about having cancer, pleaded not guilty to her charges this morning.The actual charges she’s facing are related to Dempsey’s meeting a pair of teenage boys…
According to Arizona’s most powerful homophobic organization, Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is trying to let men “gain access” to little girls in bathrooms.Yes, the Center for Arizona Policy — which claims pornography “has been linked” to rapes, child molestations, and serial killers and claims “homosexual activists” are “attempting to indoctrinate…
