Well, Arizona Speaker of the House Andy Tobin decided yesterday that Democratic National Committee executive director Patrick Gaspard is a “very ghetto” individual.As we wrote about yesterday, Tobin eventually deleted it, and blamed it on someone else who wrote the “tweet” calling Gaspard very ghetto.”Kid Sharpton,” Reverend Jarrett Maupin II,…
We’re not at the Maricopa County Superior Court, but a court spokesman tells New Times that “Burning Man” Michael Marin collapsed after his guilty verdict was announced.The Arizona Republic’s Michael Kiefer was in the courtroom, and is saying Marin had a seizure after the verdict was read — as Marin…
UPDATE: Michael Marin has been transported to a hospital. He collapsed shortly after the verdict was read.A jury found “Burning Man” Michael Marin guilty of arson of an occupied structure today for burning down his Biltmore Estates mansion in July 2009. Marin gave his explanation to New Times writer Paul…
Here’s something Arizona House Speaker Andy Tobin will learn today: when you’re posting in a public forum on the Internet, everyone can see it.Like this morning, when he called Democratic National Committee executive director Patrick Gaspard “very ghetto.”Gaspard drew the ire of many people who weren’t happy with the Supreme…
Republican state Senator Nancy Barto is the chairman of the Senate Healthcare and Medical Liability Reform Committee, which would make you think Barto knows a thing or two about how health care works.After taking a look at her comments on the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Patient Protection and…
Brian Dicamillo, 39, is accused of offering a 10-year-old boy one whole dollar to have sex with him.According to police, that’s just the start of what landed Dicamillo — and eventually, his wife — in jail.Did we mention Dicamillo’s a bus driver for the Deer Valley Unified School District?According to…
Glendale police announced yesterday that the search for the body of 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley in the Butterfield Landfill came to an end.Rick St. John, assistant chief of police, said investigators know she’s in the landfill somewhere, which has 691 acres full of garbage in total, but she wasn’t in the…
The body of 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley will likely never be found after Glendale police announced today that the search of the Butterfield Landfill has been completed.Rick St. John, assistant police chief, said at a press conference this afternoon that people have sifted through 9,500 tons of trash since February. But…
George Kuykendall is off to prison for 24 years after taking a plea deal in what Mesa police told New Times was “the worst case of child abuse [they’ve] seen where the child survives.”Kuykendall beat his 4-year-old daughter with a power cord so severely that her kidneys shut down after…
All three people accused of using Craigslist to find a dog to “fornicate” with have pleaded guilty.The charges stem from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s latest Craigslist bestiality case, in which a detective responded to a post on the website looking for a dog for sexual purposes, and the three…
After a few rounds of mental-competency hearings, Michael Crane — accused of murdering Paradise Valley couple Glenna and Lawrence Shapiro and Phoenix man Bruce Gaudet — would now like to represent himself against charges of murder, kidnapping, arson, and burglary.A court spokesman says Crane and his current attorney said in…
It looks like the near-endless hit parades the Arizona Diamondbacks had against the Seattle Mariners and Chicago Cubs last week didn’t carry over into Atlanta.The Diamondbacks were limited to just one run against the Braves last night, as D’Backs starting pitcher Daniel Hudson tossed four or fewer innings for the…
Yesterday we told you about the unsuccessful attempt to challenge independent Maricopa County Sheriff candidate Mike Stauffer’s signatures, which was supported by Democratic candidate Paul Penzone.Stauffer’s already set to be on the general election ballots in November, as would Penzone — a former Phoenix police sergeant — if he defeats…
The campaign manager for independent Maricopa County Sheriff candidate Mike Stauffer says the challenge to Stauffer’s nomination signatures has been dropped.With the support of Democratic candidate Paul Penzone, plaintiff Lois Pfau filed the claim, alleging 12,726 of Stauffer’s 29,794 submitted signatures were invalid, for various reasons.Stauffer needed 19,410 valid signatures…
As the Tempe Police Department got verification earlier this month that the five burned bodies found in an SUV in the Vekol Valley were identified as James and Yafit Butwin and their three children, another group of five people was still apparently missing. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s theory was…
Moses Ulloa — the man voted by our readers as having the third-dumbest hometown pride face tattoos in the Valley — was arrested yet again yesterday.Ulloa and his moronic tattoos — which include the City of Glendale logo on the top of his head, “Murdercopa County” on his neck, horns…
When Governor Jan Brewer’s being dumped on by her compadres at Fox News for something, it would seem to be an indication that she may not have the brightest idea about what’s going on…
Sharon Holmes was picked by the Mohave County Republican Party to head to the state GOP convention last month for a shot at becoming a delegate for the Republican Party National Convention.She didn’t win that spot, nor did she win a car chase with Kingman police Sunday evening.According to an…
Governor Jan Brewer declared yesterday that the Supreme Court’s decision on SB 1070 was a “victory,” as the high court sided against Arizona on three of the four provisions challenged.The governor was basing her “victory” on the Supreme Court letting section 2(b) — “papers please” — stand, though the opinion…
Scott Verbout’s the guy who edits the spelling and grammar for the writers of the Casa Grande Dispatch, online at TriValleyCentral.com.He’s also the guy who was arrested by Ak-Chin police last week for allegedly doing some creative writing of his own, which he sent, along with pictures of his penis, to…
There have been only 10 documented bear attacks in Arizona since 1990.Three of those have come in the last month.A Tempe man hanging out at the Ponderosa Campground in the Tonto National Forest was the third person attacked by a bear this month, after the bear went into his tent…
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