No thanks to a baseball-collecting douchebag, the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the New York Yankees last night in 12 innings, to avoid being swept in New York.That baseball-collecting douchebag, a dork named Zack Hample, pretty clearly committed fan interference in the bottom of the ninth, when he — wearing Diamondbacks gear…
Some weeks just tend to bring out the criminal weirdness more than others, and this has been one of those weeks.There’s been a DPS officer accused of refusing to leave a women’s restroom, a guy who was drunk-driving an electric cart at Walmart before swinging a knife at an employee,…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office says a former Sinaloa Cartel member was found with police body armor, badges, a ballistic helmet, and Phoenix Police Department patches, as well as weapons and other “law enforcement identifiers.”The former cartel member, 40-year-old Edward Alvarez, allegedly was operating a group wearing the police gear…
Glendale police found what appeared to be a lab for manufacturing the substance known as “spice” in the back of a convenience store.Arizona Department of Revenue officers were doing a routine inspection of Pronto Mart, near 59th Avenue and Missouri, and found some sort of manufacturing process going on in…
Members of the conspiracy-theory wing of the Republican Party in Arizona, sometimes referred to as the “Black Helicopter Caucus,” gathered last week at the Capitol to discuss Agenda 21 and their fears of the plan that appears to have been adopted from Glenn Beck.Republican State Senator Judy Burges headed up…
A member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club was arrested this weekend after cutting off a Scottsdale police detective who was trailing several Hells Angels during an Arizona Bike Week event.Bruce Schweigert, one of the seven Hells Angels bikers who beat charges from a 2010 shootout with Vagos bikers in…
A Queen Creek man was arrested for an incident at a Walmart store in Mesa that included drunkenly driving an electric cart in the parking lot and swinging a knife at an employee, according to police.Jeremiah Kuczynski, 19, was just recently arrested in the March incident, which started with him…
Republican Senator Jeff Flake helped defeat amendment that called for an expansion of the federal background-check system for gun sales.Senator John McCain supported the amendment, as did two women who reportedly ended up being escorted out of the Senate — Patricia Maisch, who grabbed a gun magazine from Jared Loughner…
After spending a year studying 156 penises in Uganda, researchers say male circumcision reduces bacteria on the penis, and perhaps is the reason why circumcision can protect men from contracting HIV.Scientists have been studying the relationship between circumcision and rates of HIV for more than two decades, and this study…
Republican Senator John McCain announced today his support for an amendment that calls for an expansion of the federal background-check system for gun sales, an amendment that’s specifically being targeted for defeat by the National Rifle Association.According to all the newspapers in Washington, the so-called “Manchin-Toomey amendment” is likely headed…
Police say the man who shot at a group of people attending a birthday party in Phoenix this weekend, killing two people, admitted to doing just that.One of the men killed in Carlos Rodriguez’s drive-by shooting was the birthday boy, 18-year-old Jason Acosta-Ramos…
A 17-year-old Peoria girl has joined her mother and brother as a murder defendant.Alysa Gibson is now the third family member arrested in the murder of her father, Steve Gibson, who was killed at his Peoria home about six weeks ago.See also:-Steve Gibson of Peoria Killed by Teenage Hitman Hired…
Gilbert resident Jamison Eaton shouted racial slurs at Hispanic day laborers outside a Phoenix Home Depot store as he chased them with a baseball bat, according to police.Eaton, 30, was seen by “several independent witnesses” chasing the laborers near the store, and out into traffic on McDowell Road near 75th…
As our colleague Ray Stern pointed out yesterday, it was not even a year ago that Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk declared the feds would shut down every medical-marijuana dispensary in Arizona “as it opens.”Stern called bull on Polk’s claims at the time, and as you can tell at this…
Above is the video clip we referenced Monday, the one in which Sheriff Joe Arpaio successfully used the explosions at the Boston Marathon for some attention on Fox News.”They’re even after the sheriff here,” Arpaio told Fox’s Neil Cavuto.See also:-Boston Marathon Explosions: Fox News Goes Straight to Clueless Joe Arpaio-Boston…
An outline of the immigration bill formed by the “Gang of Eight” — which includes Arizona’s Republican Senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake — has been released.There’s a whole lot of stuff in this outline, including some of the more specific details on immigration law, but it includes sections on…
Steven Craig Shiflet, the Mesa resident who admitted to starting the near-18,000-acre Sunflower Fire in the Tonto National Forest last year with an “incendiary shotgun shell,” was sentenced Monday to probation.Shiflet fired the shell during a bachelor party in the desert near Sycamore Creek on May 12, and the fire…
Most of the time, things don’t work out like they do in action movies, which apparently came as a surprise to 18-year-old Luis Cardenas this morning.Cardenas, who allegedly started a car chase with the Phoenix PD a little before 1:30 a.m. today, ended up driving to Scottsdale and onto a…
For what it’s worth, the biggest name in women’s basketball was drafted by the Phoenix Mercury Monday.Baylor’s Brittney Griner was taken with the first overall pick in the WNBA draft, meaning she’s probably unlikely to be drafted by the pathetic Phoenix Suns…
While TV news programs around the country played footage of the explosions at the Boston Marathon, and interviewed witnesses and people with knowledge of the situation, Fox News rolled with a clueless county sheriff from 2,500 miles away.Of course, Arpaio used the setup for shameless self-promotion: “They’re even after the…
There are varying counts of people dead and injured from the explosions Monday afternoon at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, but the updated count from a police spokeswoman was three people dead, and more than 170 injured.Of the 26,839 people entered in the race, 259 of them are…
The news is still unfolding about the explosions near the finish line at the Boston Marathon today, but Sheriff Joe Arpaio already has managed to exploit the situation on national television, thanks to Fox News.”They’re even after the sheriff here,” Arpaio told Fox’s Neil Cavuto.See also:-Two Explosions and Dozens of…
