How can anyone say Arizona State University isn’t a party school when there’s a former Republican presidential candidate there dancing “Gangam Style”?We told you last week that Mitt Romney would be at ASU over the weekend for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ “Young Single Adult” (YSA) conference,…
Governor Jan Brewer said Monday that she signed an executive order to get rid of Child Protective Services “as we know it.”Today, Brewer’s office released a document that attempts to explain why CPS 2.0 and the Division of Child Safety and Family Services are improvements over the previous CPS system…
The best item, by far, to come from a police blotter in the Valley today is the tale of a Phoenix cop rescuing a cat from a can of soup.You can see from the photo above why the cat needed to be rescued from the can, and the tale told…
It’s been said that the most important demographic group for the success of Obamacare is the “young invincibles” — healthy young adults.And there’s no state with a smaller proportion of young people buying health insurance through the Obamacare exchange than Arizona…
Among the first bills submitted this legislative session is a proposal from a trio of Republicans to create a drug-testing program for people seeking unemployment insurance.Perhaps the most important part of the legislation from Representatives Phil Lovas and David Livingston and Senator Judy Burges is that it wouldn’t apply to…
Governor Jan Brewer says she has signed an executive order that “abolishes [Child Protective Services] as we know it.”UPDATE: Brewer’s office has provided information about how this new system’s supposed to work. Click here for details.Brewer made the announcement Monday afternoon in her final State of the State speech…
The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal of a decision on Arizona’s ban on abortions past 20 weeks of gestation, which was found by a lower court to be unconstitutional.The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals had blocked the law from taking effect…
The Maricopa County Republican Committee voted to censure Senator John McCain.In other words, with a 1,150-351 vote, the county GOP passed a resolution that says it doesn’t like McCain anymore…
Carmen Figueroa, the Arizona Department of Public Safety detective who had to resign after discovering that she wasn’t in the country legally, had a near-perfect record as a police officer.Figueroa’s resignation became a national story last month, as Figueroa had believed what her parents told her since she was young…
Welcome to Courthouse Update, a weekly rundown of goings-on at the Maricopa County Superior Court.This week, a few creeps had court dates: a sex offender got his sentence for killing a man looking to buy pot, the alleged snatcher of a little girl pleads not-guilty, and more:…
In case you missed any news action this week, we’ve got you covered.Here’s our recap of the most-read news stories of the week:…
Not long after Peoria police made public a bust of an unlicensed medical-marijuana facility, Sheriff Joe Arpaio was touting a similar bust by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Avondale.In both cases, police allege the businesses were illegally selling the pot to medical-marijuana patients by using a fitness or wellness…
The number-one story on the CBS 5 website at the time of this post is a report of a man who claims he has a Bigfoot corpse.This, of course, comes from the local news station that claims to be “telling it like it is” — with a history of reports…
Like many retirees, former Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger has come to Arizona for his later years.Bulger’s not exactly moving to Sun City, though — he’s been transferred to the U.S. Penitentiary in Tucson…
At the end of the 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, we bring you the hottest ladies…
In 1981, a lawsuit was filed alleging that the state health department and Maricopa County had not put together a comprehensive mental-health system, as required by a law a couple of years earlier.That lawsuit was settled. Yesterday…
The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted this week to shut down all 11 speed cameras in the county.”Reviews of the program by the Pima County Department of Transportation and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department found no conclusive evidence that fixed stand-alone cameras effectively and consistently reduce speeds or crashes…
Mesa Mayor Scott Smith, a Republican, announced that he’s entering the race for governor.Unlike several others who have threatened to run for governor, including a B-list actor and a disbarred attorney, Smith actually has a solid chance of becoming Arizona’s governor in 2014…
News flash: You can’t bring a gun on an airplane.This apparently comes as a big surprise to people flying out of Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, as the TSA confiscated more guns at only three other airports in the country last year…
Remember Mitt Romney?The 2012 Republican presidential nominee is listed as one of the keynote speakers for this weekend’s Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints “Young Single Adult” (YSA) conference at Arizona State University…
Activists aren’t satisfied with the court-ordered community meetings run by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and its “community liaison,” who participated in the MCSO’s immigration sweeps.So, members of Citizens for a Better Arizona brought folding chairs to the new MCSO headquarters in Phoenix and held what they called a “real”…
Peoria police served a search warrant at an alleged “illegal medical marijuana dispensary,” leading to the arrests of five people.A Peoria police spokeswoman says Pure Essentials, near 77th Avenue and Deer Valley Road, was leased as a “weight loss and wellness facility.”…
