After more than a year of trade rumors involving Arizona Diamondbacks right-fielder Justin Upton, he’s actually being traded.The Diamondbacks traded Upton and third-baseman Chris Johnson to the Atlanta Braves for five players, including Martin Prado…
After all that, a federal judge sentenced former state Representative Ben Arredondo yesterday to zero days in jail.This, less than a year after being charged with bribery, extortion, and lying to FBI agents in a ticket-bribery exchange, then eventually pleading guilty to a mail-fraud charges, related to running a scholarship…
A 10-year-old 5th-grader at Guadalupe’s Frank Elementary learned a valuable lesson about “snitches” on Tuesday.See, the boy had enlisted help in stabbing one of his classmates for “snitching,” but the classmates ended up ratting him out to the teacher, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. He also learned how…
As we outlined yesterday, Republican state Representative Steve Smith is sponsoring some legislation that makes no damn sense to the rational mind.For one, consider his sponsorship of a law that only allows public-school children to avoid reciting the pledge of allegiance if they have consent from their parents.See also:-Republican State…
The Tucson Police Department says a 22-year-old high school teacher’s aide was involved in a sexual “incident” involving six male students.We’d love to tell you exactly what happened, but the cops were first to discover the video of the incident, filmed by one of the six students involved…
With the news that Republican state Representative Steve Smith is again trying to get the public to cut a quarter-million-dollar check to ousted Senate President Russell Pearce, we took a look at all the bills Smith’s sponsoring this session.To describe the list of Smith-sponsored bills in one word: nutso.See also:-Russell…
A 26-year-old Mexican national is apparently a new record-holder in the world of marijuana smuggling.According to Customs and Border Protection, nobody’s been caught with this much marijuana at an Arizona port of entry — more than 14,000 pounds.See also:-230 Pounds of Cheese Seized at U.S./Mexico Border-Drug Smugglers Now Shooting Cannons…
Three people have been arrested — two of them on murder charges — in the death of a Phoenix man whose body was found in December, just a couple miles from Phoenix International Raceway. Hector Sanchez Duque, 43, had “no known ties” to the Tolleson farm near where he was…
A woman who was married at the age of 14 thanks to convicted child-rapist Warren Jeffs is now free — at the age of 26.Attorney General Tom Horne set up the press conference yesterday with the woman, Ruby Jessop, as Horne’s chalking up her escape to his office’s payment to…
Arizona may have the highest rate of high school dropouts in the nation, but some of the legislation that’s been proposed thus far in the realm of education does nothing but continue the nationally recognized circus act known as the Arizona State Legislature.Chiefly, we’re talking about two especially worthless bills…
A majority of Americans are in favor of a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, according to poll commissioned by the Associated Press.Not only do Democrat and independent voters favor this idea, but 53 percent of Republicans do too, according to this poll…
Democratic Congressman Raul Grijalva says it’s pretty clear that deferred action beneficiaries should be allowed to apply for driver’s licenses.Grijalva, and previously, the ACLU, have disagreed with the executive order issued by Governor Jan Brewer, in which she stated that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program do not have…
Remember that original Batmobile that was sold at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale over the weekend for more than $4.6 million?Forget about that, because two Ferrari were sold for more than $8 million each at two different, smaller, Valley auctions this weekend.See also:-Batmobile Sells for $4.6 Million at Barrett-Jackson; Man…
Maybe there’s something to be said about the posts on this blog today — legislators hoping to make high school students take a loyalty oath to graduation, Arizona leading the nation in high school dropouts, and now, an effort to make reciting the Pledge of Allegiance a “requirement.”Under current Arizona…
Out of all 50 states, there’s no state where kids are dropping out of high school at a higher rate than Arizona.That’s according to a report on graduation and dropout rates released today by the National Center for Education Statistics, which is part of the U.S. Department of Education.See also:-Arizona…
If you haven’t heard the latest brilliant idea out of the state capitol, it’s to make high schoolers pledge their loyalty to upholding and defending the Constitution in order to receive their diplomas.That’s how the sponsors of House Bill 2467 — Republican state Representatives Bob Thorpe, Sonny Borrelli, Carl Seel,…
State lawmakers have been trying to regulate salvia divinorum, a hallucination-inducing plant, since 2009, and it still hasn’t been regulated.Now, legislators are trying once again to regulate salvia, this time banning its sale to anyone under the age of 21.See also:-2009: Salvia Targeted by Arizona Lawmakers…
“Finally, our state legislators are making sure Arizona’s teenagers will ask for the Lord’s help defending the Constitution before they’re allowed to earn a high school diploma.” –NobodyIf a handful of Republican state legislators have their way, high school students in Arizona would not be allowed to graduate until taking…
While the ACLU is still suing over Governor Jan Brewer’s order to deny driver’s licenses to participants in the Obama Administration’s deferred-action program, a bill has been submitted that would change the current policy.Democratic state Representative Catherine Miranda submitted House Bill 2032, which aims to get the people receiving deferred…
Saturday night was a typical Saturday night at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction — the day the real money is tossed around.For example, the gentleman who dropped $4.62 million — four point six-two million American dollars — for an original Batmobile, and the man who spent $1.1 million to be the…
As the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office pulled off its 70th “employer sanctions operation” — which MCSO now refers to as a “criminal employment operation — we pointed out yet again that no employers were arrested, or sanctioned, in the operation.It was revealed last week in a federal court filing that…
The American Civil Liberties Union says the federal government has confirmed what ACLU officials have been saying all along — participants in the Obama Administration’s deferred-action program should be allowed to apply for driver’s licenses.That’s not exactly what U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is saying, but the ACLU’s claim does…
