A 16-year-old Chaparral High School student has been arrested in a bizarre case involving two rapes in Scottsdale.Danny Jackson’s the one accused of the rapes, and was arrested Friday — about a week after another man turned himself over to police in the case…
Here’s the thing about the propositions on the ballot for tomorrow’s election: for the most part, they’re boring, and at the end of the day, you may not really give a damn.Thankfully, people like ousted state Senate President Russell Pearce, Governor Jan Brewer, and the lobbyists from Center for Arizona…
Driving under the influence: not very funny. Republican state Representative David Burnell Smith’s arrest for alleged DUI: hilarious.Smith pulled the alleged DUI trifecta in his encounter with Scottsdale police: as an attorney who claims he “fights for those who have been arrested and/or charged with a DUI,” he reportedly tried…
The Arizona Cardinals’ trend of playing mediocre-but-losing football continued for a fifth straight game, as the Cards lost to the Green Bay Packers 31-17 at Lambeau Field yesterday.Even with the offensive line not playing at Pop Warner-level for once, the offensive unit was still meh, and as you can imagine,…
Democratic congressional candidate Kyrsten Sinema purportedly described herself as a “criminal defense attorney who represents murderers” a few years ago, and that’s apparently caused some controversy.That comment sparked supporters of her Republican opponent, Vernon Parker, to start demanding Sinema’s client list, including the names of any “murderers.”See also:-Bill Montgomery Joins…
Imagine putting just about everything you own in a U-Haul truck to move out-of-state, and just a few blocks after saying goodbye to the old house, the truck explodes.That’s what happened in the area of 51st Avenue and Loop 101 this morning, and the driver’s stuff went just about everywhere…
Over the past couple of weeks, the Arizona Republican Party, supporting Republican congressional candidate Vernon Parker, has demanded that Parker’s Democratic opponent, Kyrsten Sinema, release a list of her clients as a criminal-defense attorney.The odds of that happening are pretty close to zero, if not exactly zero, but now Maricopa…
Half of a Sun City couple that allegedly ran a meth lab in their garage pleaded guilty this morning to child abuse.Brenda Lipe initially faced five felony charges after she and her husband, Lancelot Lipe, were arrested in April after Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies found out Lancelot had allegedly started…
Every week we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest.This week, our Fourth Avenue visitors look like something definitely went wrong…
President Obama’s campaign manager Jim Messina says they’re done trying to win Arizona, now that the election’s a few days away, according to Politico.”Messina called Arizona an ‘enticing prospect’ and said that public and private polling has shown the state fairly close,” the Politico report says. “But the Obama adviser…
A suspected illegal immigrant who was just recently released on bond from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody was arrested yesterday in the fatal stabbing of his wife.Maria Gonzalez was stabbed to death on Friday, although her husband, Salvador Garcia-Sanchez, was just arrested yesterday since he remained hospitalized after accidentally stabbing…
Cocopah Tribal Police Chief James Spurgeon wasn’t charged for allegedly leaving his gun at the Yuma home of an “acquaintance” in August, but the man whose 6-year-old son found that gun still has some questions.Levi Cochnauer told Yuma police at the time that his son found the gun next to…
Not only did Herbert Ridge fail in his attempt to siphon gas out of a truck in a Mesa neighborhood yesterday, he also managed to light himself on fire in the process.Based on the video-surveillance footage of Ridge going up in flames, it appears that he did not want to…
A hoax video of President Obama’s birth in a Kenyan hospital, intended to make asses out of “birthers” like Sheriff Joe Arpaio once they bought into its legitimacy, failed miserably.The New York Observer, um, exposed the video as fake — a video we hadn’t even heard of until they called…
Tempe resident Michael Tolley loves purses so much that he allegedly broke into 17 houses in his own neighborhood to steal them.Maybe its not the actual purses he loves, but the meth- and heroin-money he got from his alleged purse-stealing spree…
Yesterday, we told you about an online advertisement targeting Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Marc Victor, which says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid really wants Libertarians to vote for Victor.”Every morning, Harry Reid wakes up, eats his breakfast, and says a little prayer that Libertarians will vote for Marc Victor,” the…
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors rejected the $3.25 million settlement for the family of diabetic Deborah Braillard, who died in 2005 after not getting medical treatment in MCSO jail.ABC 15, which has been closely tracking the Braillard case, reports that the vote ended in a tie after Supervisor Don Stapley…
For all the “build the dang fence” advocates, or people who like to laugh at idiots, here you go — someone tried to drive over the border fence near Yuma yesterday, and failed…
It’s a sad day when you find out that Republican Florida Congressman Allen West is trying to squeeze some bucks out of Arizona residents.West — for those not familiar with him — is the most outspoken member of Congress, a tea-party king who has a penchant for making things up…
One of the biggest “Super PACs” in the nation is focusing part of its cash on the U.S. Senate Race that will undoubtedly be won by Democrat Richard Carmona or Republican Jeff Flake.However, the Ending Spending Fund — which has spent $9 million in races this year, the 10th-most of…
Attention Arizona State University President Michael Crow: You may have gotten a letter from Republican Congressional Candidate Vernon Parker, bashing his opponent Kyrsten Sinema for calling ASU a “party school.”Did Parker write that letter in his University of Southern California shirt?See also:-Vernon Parker Tattles on Kyrsten Sinema to ASU President…
After getting crushed on Monday Night Football by the San Francisco 49ers, the Arizona Cardinals have now lost four games in a row.That’s quite a difference from the start of the season, in which the Cardinals won their first four games.See also:-Arizona Cardinals Smoked by San Francisco 49ers on Monday…
