There’s a freak-out brewing over a Tucson-area school district’s pledge for parents to sign, asking for them to agree to be responsible gun owners.The completely meaningless pledge asks for such controversial things like teaching children not to shoot someone during an argument…
Topless women (and men) will be marching down Mill Avenue in Tempe in a couple of weeks.Last year marked the first time a Phoenix-area “Go Topless Day” protest was organized, as about 40 men and women marched in downtown Phoenix in what was billed as a protest against gender inequality…
Skeletal remains found in a wash in Apache Junction may belong to 19-year-old Adrienne Salinas, a Tempe resident who’s been missing since June, police say.Although Tempe Police Sergeant Michael Pooley says the remains were found August 6, members of several police agencies and the FBI currently are out there looking…
The Marijuana Policy Project has named Arizona Republican Representative John Kavanagh the third-worst state legislator in the country.Obviously, the Marijuana Policy Project is taking into account only Kavanagh’s fanatical anti-marijuana crusade, which is just one freaky thing about the guy’s record…
The manager of a Fry’s grocery store in Phoenix took a rotisserie chicken to the face while chasing a theft suspect, police say.The alleged chicken-chucker, 46-year-old Carlos Ramon Guzman, tried to pull off his heist at the Fry’s at 67th Avenue and Indian School Road, according to court documents obtained…
There have been at least 10 people “accidentally” shot and killed in Arizona this year.Just this week, a 56-year-old Prescott Valley man was killed after he asked his wife to grab his shotgun for him and the gun discharged during the transfer, fatally wounding him…
Republican Representative Bob Thorpe has a thing or two (or three) to say about black people, and none of its too pretty.But, were the remarks racist?…
Today is your lucky day: You can live in the former home of ex-Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner.All you need to cough up is a bare minimum of $15,000 per month…
The legislature’s not in session at the moment, but that apparently doesn’t mean the nutty legislators go back to normal during this off-season.Take Republican Representative Bob Thorpe, who seems very concerned about issues involving black people in this country — and not in a good way…
Among other things in school-registration packets, a Tucson-area school district has a pledge for parents to sign, asking for them to agree to be responsible gun owners.Of course, someone’s offended. Apparently, this has to do with Obama-loving liberals trying to tell free Americans how to live their lives…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne is trying to shave about a decade off the delay between verdicts and executions.It’s not exactly Horne’s idea, but he’s been trying to get the Justice Department to approve Arizona’s rules that expedite the post-conviction process in death-penalty cases…
A Phoenix couple tried to trade their food stamps to grocery shoppers in exchange for drugs, police say.Perhaps the drug use has done a number on couple’s brains, but people don’t usually carry bags of drugs while grocery shopping. Thus, they were unsuccessful in making any transactions…
ESPN personality Skip Bayless has proclaimed that the Arizona Cardinals will be “the NFL’s biggest surprise.”Bayless’ job at ESPN just seems to be arguing unpopular opinions, so perhaps this isn’t surprising…
A Prescott Valley woman attempted to hand a shotgun to her husband Monday, but she accidentally shot him, according to police.The woman’s husband, 56-year-old Gary Wingate, was pronounced dead at the home…
Money magazine claims Phoenix’s Windsor Square is one of the “best big-city neighborhoods” in the United States.The mag picked one neighborhood from each of the biggest cities in the nation, so Windsor Square — which essentially runs from Central Avenue to Seventh Street, between Camelback Road and Missouri Avenue –…
If your car-buying options in Scottsdale seem to be getting a little weak, don’t worry — McLaren’s coming.Consider the McLaren P1, a 903-horsepower hybrid. Of course, you’ll need $1.15 million, which is a little on the high side…
After a Mesa woman tossed boiling water on her husband and child, the couple decided that only the husband should be hospitalized, as they feared that Child Protective Services might find out.CPS did find out, and that 4-year-old child has since been taken to the Maricopa County Burn Unit –…
If there were a field guide to spotting members of a political party, the Arizona Democrat would be listed as a “rare bird.”Still, there are some identifiable types of Democrats from here, as observed in their natural habitats. Check out our run-down of 10 types of Arizona Dems:…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced yesterday that his armed citizen-patrols of schools will continue for a second school year.In other words, some old geezers will be armed and doing laps around schools in the MCSO’s jurisdiction…
A Phoenix-area resident claims he swallowed a piece of metal that was inside a burrito he purchased at a Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant.According to the lawsuit filed on behalf of Tyler Maiden, that piece of metal got stuck in his esophagus, and he “suffered serious, significant, and permanent injuries which…
Question: What’s the best way to get home from the police station after being arrested?Cesar Garcia’s alleged answer: Steal the ambulance from the police department parking lot, of course…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s armed citizen patrols of schools is continuing for another school year.Arpaio’s NRA-approved posse patrols went without any serious incidents last year, when Arpaio instituted the program in response to the Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school shooting…
