Policing the FLDS towns of Colorado City and Hildale on the Utah/Arizona border could become with a new $420,000 for taxpayers.Attorney General Tom Horne’s funding for the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office to patrol the area is running dry, after a bill that attempts to deal with the situation in Colorado…
Eugene Maraventano, a 64-year-old Goodyear resident, told police this weekend that he stabbed his wife and son to death and failed to kill himself after multiple tries over the course of the next four days.”I killed my wife and I killed my son; I can’t kill myself,” Maraventano told a…
Breitbart.com, founded by the late Andrew Breitbart, made an unsurprising move this morning by publishing an article about the recall effort against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, effectively soliciting donations for the pro-Joe forces.What is surprising, however, is writer Warner Todd Huston’s revisionist explanation of Arpaio’s sex-crimes debacle. Actually, it’s more gross…
The “Marshal’s Office” for the FLDS towns of Colorado City and Hildale on the Utah/Arizona border could become the reason for a new $420,000 burden on taxpayers.It turns out that Attorney General Tom Horne won’t continue to use his office’s funds to pay the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office for extra…
Don’t let the name fool you — Clint Eastwood Maez has just about nothing in common with the salty Hollywood actor.In fact, we’re only talking about Clint Eastwood Maez because he’s accused of stabbing two men, one fatally, in the parking lot of a Phoenix apartment complex a couple of…
What can brown do for you? Transport thousands of pounds of weed for your drug-trafficking organization — that is, if Chandler resident Robert Gene White was your UPS driver.White, 45, was convicted in federal court of several charges for helping drug traffickers get their product across the country through the…
According to poll results released yesterday by Rasmussen Reports, 11 percent of U.S. voters think that “people who want to secure the border and prevent illegal immigration” are racist.An additional 22 percent said they didn’t know if these people are racist.See also:-Poll: One-Third of Voters Not Convinced People Who Want…
It’s difficult to listen to Republican Congressman Matt Salmon’s gay son explain his relationship with his father.See, he says their relationship is better than ever, but Congressman Salmon doesn’t think his son should be allowed to marry a man — and his son claims to be fine with that. Even…
Good news for people who talk up their desire for the country to “secure the border” and try to prevent illegal immigration — most American voters don’t think you’re racist.The problem is, according to poll results, that still leaves one-third of American voters who still think you might be racist…
The audio of the 911 call placed a couple of weeks ago by 61-year-old Scottsdale resident Michael Cohn, informing the dispatcher that he just killed his wife, has been released by police.As it was explained in a court filing, Cohn seemed extremely calm after he’d just killed his wife of…
As you may know by now, Bisbee became last week the first city in the state to give same-sex couples the right to a civil union.Not mentioned in any of the news coverage, however, was that comedian Doug Stanhope, perhaps the best-known Bisbee resident, showed up to the city council…
Phoenix police discovered the apparent reason that 29-year-old Jeremy West hopped on a school bus with a gun and took a ride to an elementary school last week.According to court documents obtained by New Times, West told police he got on the bus — which transports special-education students — because…
Governor Jan Brewer has signed into a law that creates the non-legal holiday of the “National Day of the Cowboy” in Arizona.The purpose of this “holiday” is to, um, you know, uh . . …
Former Arizona State University quarterback Andrew Walter wants to be a congressman.Walter, a Republican, would have to beat out the rest of the Republican field, then presumably defeat Democratic Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema to do so.See also:-Marc Victor Planning to Run Against Sinema, Expects Help From Ron Paul…
Republican State Representative Carl Seel just detests the United Nations’ Agenda 21 — he and his pal, Senator Judy Burges, have been trying to prevent part of that agenda, the Rio Declaration, from being used in Arizona.On the House floor yesterday, however, Seel was unable to produce the reasoning as…
The reason the phrase “stranger danger” exists is because of people like Jeremy West.Thursday, Phoenix PD put out a bulletin to media, in an attempt to identify the grown man who A) asked a kid if he wanted a “a cigarette or a fix,” B) hopped on a school bus…
Phoenix resident Taylor Basilio told police in December 2011 that he’d done some “stupid things” in recent days, which apparently led to his 7-week-old baby’s several rib fractures, a broken clavicle, fractures to both legs, and two skull fractures.Basilio’s now pleaded guilty to two child-abuse charges in the case.See also:-Taylor…
In an apparent case of better late than never, Phoenix police say a city parks and recreation department employee admitted to molesting three teenagers between 1995 and 1998.Arthur Rey Juarez, 42, was picked up by detectives on Saturday, the day before he had a “a scheduled activity with children on…
Despite all the denials, the FLDS border towns of Colorado City and Hildale on the Utah/Arizona border still aren’t up to par on the American way of life.Even after recent reports of more horrific animal abuse (even more recently than we’d previously thought), and the reports that as many as…
There’s no ballpark in Major League Baseball where you can get intoxicated for less money than at Phoenix’s own Chase Field.Fourteen ounces of beer at a Diamondbacks game is $4, which makes the Diamondbacks the cheap-beer champs, according to an annual report on baseball-game costs produced by a company called…
If a 25-year-old guy asks a woman if he can date her 13-year-old daughter, there’s only one reasonable response — hell no, you may not.Jose Zarate apparently found this response so unreasonable that he killed the mother of the 13-year-old girl he was chasing, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s…
Yet again, the state of Arizona is the subject of one of Comedy Central’s “news” programs, this time thanks to Tucson gun advocates who are “standing up for guns.”This time, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart profiled the gun worshipers who are protesting the gun-buyback programs in Tucson, as well…
