Reporters for the New York Times rode a subway this week to ask riders about Scottsdale.In the Scottsdale Convention and Visitors Bureau’s latest attempt to get New Yorkers to visit Scottsdale, it’s decorated subway cars, themed with potential tourist draws, like golf. The best part of this being, of course,…
Forest Service employees at the Kaibab National Forest in northern Arizona spent the last two days picking up more than 4,000 pounds of cow poop — and they didn’t get all of it.According to information released by the Forest Service, cows on a property adjacent to the forest broke down…
Believe it or not, there’s a purpose to taking someone’s picture when they’re booked into jail.The preceding sentence appears to have been left out of the training manual for the jail guards at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office…
“Birther” attorney Larry Klayman, who is fighting the recall of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, wants to know if the chairman of the Arpaio recall organization is a “homo” who “want[s] my nuts.”Klayman probably didn’t mean to let everyone know he asked that, but it appears that Klayman isn’t very good at…
A 15-year-old girl faces a charge of murder for allegedly shooting and killing a 17-year-old boy earlier this week while she was playing around with a gun they stole in a home burglary.Prosecutors from the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office have decided to charge her as an adult.See also:-Ladajianna Mosely, 15,…
Republican Representative John Kavanagh delayed a hearing on his proposal on his “bathroom birther” proposal, which would criminalize the use of a public restroom if the sex on someone’s birth certificate doesn’t match the sign on the door.It just so happened that as Kavanagh tried to sneak this one in…
Clint Hickman, whose family name graces egg cartons in local grocery stores — the ones with the chicken wearing sunglasses and a tuxedo jacket — was chosen by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to be the newest supervisor.Hickman was one of more than a dozen people who applied for…
A 15-year-old girl faces a charge of murder, as an adult, for allegedly shooting and killing a 17-year-old boy earlier this week while she was playing around with a gun they stole in a home burglary.Ladajianna Mosely — who was born in 1997 –said she thought she had unloaded the…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio sure has some suckers in his fan base, and you can bet his “birther” pals at World Net Daily are well aware of that.That’s why you can head over to the “superstore” for WND — the conspiracy-theorist website known for the ramblings of master-birther Jerome Corsi –…
Alan Champagne, the man Phoenix police believe is responsible for the deaths of two people found in a homemade coffin in a backyard earlier this month, pleaded not guilty this morning to murder charges.Champagne, 42, has an extensive record of murder-related crimes, allegedly. Champagne, who was already convicted of second-degree…
This week’s everyone-hates-the-TSA story comes from Phoenix’s own Sky Harbor airport, where a group of Marines claim TSA agents humiliated one of a fellow Marine.According to multiple press accounts, one Marine claims that a 22-year-old Marine who lost his legs due to injuries sustained in Afghanistan was supposedly told by…
A 17-year-old was shot and killed Tuesday after he and his friends burglarized a neighbor’s home in Tolleson, according to Phoenix police.The fatal shot was delivered from the homeowner’s gun, but it wasn’t the homeowner who shot the boy. Police say a 15-year-old girl who helped burglarize the neighbor’s house…
Republican Representative John Kavanagh of Fountain Hills has had quite the legislative session thus far.He kicked it off by announcing his support for repealing Arizona’s voter-approved medical marijuana law, followed it up with vocal support of a bill that would protect Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the event of a recall…
The Gilbert mother who shoved feces in her 10-year-old son’s mouth and shoved his toothbrush in his anus, among other abuses, has pleaded guilty in the case as part of a plea deal.Jennifer Barnes pleaded guilty today to two counts of child abuse, but the other 11 charges will be…
Believe it or not, the new version of Arizona State University’s Sparky mascot, which looks like Buzz Lightyear — if Buzz Lightyear looked like a registered sex offender with horns — didn’t go over too well with students and fans.Now, the University says it will allow the students and fans…
A Chandler man who claimed he “accidentally” shot his ex-girlfriend in the head with a rifle in 2011 was found guilty yesterday of manslaughter.Eric Coulter, who was 18 at the time, killed his ex-girlfriend Monique Cota with what the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office calls a “military-style assault rifle.”See also:-Eric Coulter…
Arizona schools are one step closer to having guns inside them, as the Senate approved a bill that would allow school employees to carry a gun.And, only in Arizona would we have to tell you which bill calling for guns in schools that we’re talking about.See also:-Lock and Load, Lunch…
Republican Representative John Kavanagh apparently thinks people are incapable of selecting which bathroom they should do their business in.Kavanagh’s proposing making it a crime to intentionally enter a public restroom if that restroom has a designated sex, and the person “is not legally classified on the person’s birth certificate as…
As if there was a need for more reasons for Arizona to be stereotyped as a state full of gun nuts, get a load of this one from the town of Gilbert — a 5-year-old went shooting this weekend.This wasn’t a supervised shooting expedition, either. Police say the 5-year-old took…
A radio host from a Tucson radio station posted a photo online of what he calls proof of “elitist hypocrisy”– former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords holding a so-called assault rifle.The only thing is, that radio station host, as well as Breitbart.com, showed the photo of Giffords with the rifle, although a…
About three weeks ago, Gary Noel set fire to his wife’s house and said it’s because his wife left him for a woman — “the bitch deserved it,” as he explained.It turns out, at least, according to his estranged wife, that she sure didn’t leave him for a woman, and…
Arizona is “the best” state for gun owners, Guns & Ammo magazine says today.Believe it or not, Guns & Ammo magazine omitted the fact that the former editor of the magazine shot and killed a man in Arizona less than a year ago.See also:-Richard Venola, Former Editor of Guns &…
