The 26-year-old Tempe man arrested in the murder of former ASU football player Tyrice Thompson pleaded not guilty this morning.MacDonald, a Marine who has a “top security clearance” — at least, according to his lawyer — is accused of stabbing Thompson outside the Martini Ranch bar in Scottsdale on January…
Gary Noel set fire to his wife’s house Saturday morning, and Noel says it’s because his wife left him for a woman.As far as the fire is concerned, Noel claims, “The bitch deserved it,” as he killed his estranged wife’s cat in the process…
A Phoenix man with a history of domestic-violence-by-biting pleaded guilty late last week to the 2011 murder of his girlfriend, whose body was found beaten and bitten in a pickup truck.Paul Hamilton pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, as well as kidnapping and threatening, as police said at the time that…
Last week, we sifted through the archives of the Colbert Report, and found some of the best Arizona-based clips in the show’s history.As was the case with the Colbert Report’s comedy-news counterpart, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, there were plenty of segements to choose from.See also:-Arizona’s Top 10 Appearances…
The joke’s on Arizona so much that we had to separate the state’s best appearances on Comedy Central “news” shows into two lists.Last week, we brought you some of the best Arizona-themed segments from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Now, we’ve gone through the Colbert Report’s archives, to bring…
Unless someone’s familiar with a Nogales-area establishment that sells chicken and meth in the same bucket, we’ll have to rely on U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s claim that it busted a smuggling attempt.Yes, the preferred method of smuggling in this attempt apparently was to hide multiple pounds of meth inside…
The buckled pavement on U.S. Route 89 outside of Page, which was shown in almost-unbelievable photos released on Wendesday, was likely caused by a landslide.Aside from the highway just looking dangerous, one of the Arizona Department of Transportation’s engineers says the guardrail to the side of this pavement “drops off…
What are the chances that a lawyer who was found by a court to have “inappropriately touched” children would try to stop the recall of a county sheriff whose agency failed to properly investigate more than 400 sex crimes?This is quite the, um, coincidence, as we stumbled across a judgment…
Josh Booty has won the strange MLB Network reality television competition show in which former college quarterbacks battle to see who can throw the best knuckleball and earn the chance to pitch for the Arizona Diamondbacks during the team’s spring training.We’re not sure how we didn’t see this coming, but…
After more than 100 years of searching, nobody’s been able to find the Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine, which is supposed to be located in the Superstition Mountains.We bring this up because one of the most recent unsuccessful gold hunters, Robin Byrd, had to be plucked out by a search-and-rescue team…
We’re not entirely sure what separates good accountants from bad accountants, but we can say with some certainty that only a terrible accountant would get caught stealing cash several times.That said, 39-year-old west Valley accountant Michelle Hice is allegedly a terrible accountant…
A pair of high-ranking cops who were at a Prescott bar where a Glendale man was injured in a fight said they couldn’t remember the name of the fellow cop who punched the man, although they went to that bar with this cop as part of their motorcycle club.According to…
When you think of cocaine in America, you might think of South Florida, where the cocaine trade was absolutely insane in the ’80s.Well, it turns out that “the biggest cocaine dealer” in one South Florida county gets his cocaine from Tucson, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office…
For the second time in just a few months, a woman had to be located and rescued from the Superstition Mountains, in her hunt for the fabled Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine.And, wouldn’t you know, just like every single other person who’s searched for the mine over the past 100-plus years,…
The people behind Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “birther” investigation are now trying to tell the Arpaio recall effort that they’ll go to court to shut it down if they don’t do it themselves.Spoiler alert: Fat chance, for Arpaio’s friends.See also:-Why Sheriff Joe Actually Is Nervous About the Recall Effort Against Him-Joe…
Here’s something in Phoenix you can enjoy during the summer and winter: obnoxious names for weather events.It’s nearly impossible to live in the Valley for more than five minutes without hearing the word “haboob,” and yesterday, meterologists decided to piss on everyone’s parade, and tell people that the Valley was…
Excuuuse all of us who thought it’s been snowing in Phoenix this afternoon.According to the weather Nazis — by “weather Nazis,” we mean every meteorologist in the Valley, as well as the National Weather Service — it’s some substance called “graupel” that’s dropping in Phoenix…
If you have an e-mail account, it’s highly likely you’ve received a nonsense, political chain e-mail — you know, FW:FW:FW: Barack Hussein Obama II has signed more secret orders than any dictator in human history, even George Soros!Based on the video footage of Senator John McCain’s town hall meeting on…
The anti-immigration-reform crowd’s broken record is currently playing in the offices of Republican Congressmen Matt Salmon, Trent Franks, Paul Gosar, and David Schweikert.The congressmen, like Governor Jan Brewer, insist that they can only even fathom immigration reform proposals if the border is secure. Still, no one’s able to provide a…
PETA, an organization that seems to have a never-ending supply of publicity stunts, has a new one for us — its appeal to people in Arizona who believe in aliens.See also:-UFO Convention Brings Skeptics, Scientists (and a Few Loonies) to Arizona…
At the bottom of this post, you can see the full-sized photo from the Arizona Department of Transportation of U.S. Route 89, which looks really messed up.And, as the headline suggests, if we had to describe the photograph to someone, we’d say it looks like Godzilla stepped on it…
Believe it or not, after listening to Republican state Senator Judy Burges run her mouth on an Agenda 21 conspiracy theory earlier this week, we’re not actually sure if Burges is behind the craziest legislation at the capitol this session.There’s also Republican Representative Steve Smith, who’s more of a young…
