Peoria resident Bryan Teague has been sentenced to a week in federal prison and two years’ supervised probation for starting the August 2012 Mistake Peak Fire in the Tonto National Forest. Still uncertain is whether he’ll have to pay nearly half a million dollars in firefighting costs…
Phoenix resident Hector Olalde does not like being called gay.He dislikes the accusation so much that police say Olalde, 28, pulled a gun on his girlfriend, and fired that gun all around his neighborhood after she called him gay, according to court documents obtained by New Times…
The Arizona Cardinals earned their first win of the season yesterday, in a 25-21 win at home over the Detroit Lions.Larry Fitzgerald hardly played, while Calvin Johnson had 116 receiving yards and two touchdowns against the Cardinals defense, Carson Palmer threw a pick-six, and the Cardinals still managed to win…
Welcome to Courthouse Update, a weekly rundown goings-on at the Maricopa County Superior Court.This week, two now-deceased children get their justice, jurors continue deliberations in the murder trial of former Phoenix cop Richard Chrisman, and more:…
If we had to pick the two best (and by “best” we mean “worst,” of course) moments in the last five years of local TV news, we know exactly which two moments we’d go two.One would be the C-bomb Fox 10’s Kari Lake dropped on the air last week, and…
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:…
One of Arizona State University’s more prolific partyers says self-proclaimed tough-guy Sheriff Joe Arpaio won’t be putting the kibosh on ASU’s party scene this weekend.The Tempe Police Department is enlisting the help of Arpaio’s office for its “Safe and Sober” campaign, which already racked up nearly 1,400 arrests in three…
A Fox 10 anchor kind of dropped the C-bomb on air yesterday.Fox 10’s Kari Lake described in the segment how Tempe police shot a man on Mill Avenue yesterday, but only after that man lunged at officers with a box cutter. Lake accidentally inserted an “n” in the most inconvenient…
Arizonans kind of take cacti for granted, but the rest of the nation still seems to find them weird — weird enough that a 16-foot cactus landing on a man gets attention from “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!”William Mason, a worker with the city’s utilities department, was checking out a…
If a valid excuse exists for biting a 9-month-old kid, “he bit me first” certainly isn’t it.However, police say that’s the excuse 23-year-old Chandler resident Justin Hornketh gave his girlfriend after his girlfriend’s son was hospitalized with bruising, swelling to his face, and several adult bite marks on his body,…
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, our alleged offenders are displaying a…
The group that was behind Arizona’s medical-marijuana law plans to push a marijuana-legalization initiative in Arizona in 2016.The national Marijuana Policy Project actually hopes that Arizona is one of 10 states where it can help pass marijuana-legalization laws, such as the one in Colorado, by 2017…
As long as Joe Arpaio is sheriff, every day in Maricopa County is Groundhog Day. Despite federal Judge G. Murray Snow’s May finding that Arpaio and his immigration-obsessed office are guilty of racial profiling and that the MCSO’s prejudiced policing toward Latinos must cease, Tempe Police Chief Tom Ryff has…
Two right-wing news websites, Breitbart and the Drudge Report, have riled up their followers with headlines about the Arizona GOP issuing a “formal rebuke” of Republican Senator John McCain.There’s one critical bit of information missing from the “news” there. When you read the story, you’ll see it’s actually the Republican…
The national Marijuana Policy Project, bolstered by federal approval of state pot-freedom laws, plans to put a Colorado-style legalization initiative on Arizona’s ballot for 2016. It’s part of a master plan to pass similar legalization laws in 10 states by 2017. “We’re feeling very good about what we can accomplish,”…
Opponents to Arizona’s House Bill 2305, a Republican-supported omnibus elections law, turned more than enough signatures to block the bill from taking effect until voters can decide on it next year.The Protect Your Right to Vote Committee says it delivered approximately 146,000 signatures to the Secretary of State yesterday, and…
Prescott Wildland Division Chief Darrell Willis now claims the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots who died fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire “could have made it” if the feds sent air-tankers requested by state firefighting officials.Although firefighting officials made several requests for aircraft to fight the relatively small fire in Yarnell, the…
A Chandler man drugged his girlfriend and branded his initials into her vagina while she was passed out, police say.Christopher Lynn Jackson, the owner of a landscaping business called Lawn Tamers, “bragged” to his now-ex-girlfriend about doing the same thing to other girlfriends in the past, according to court documents…
While politicians like President Obama and Senator John McCain continue to call for military action against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, an Army veteran remains in jail for fighting against the same regime.Eric Harroun, a 30-year-old Phoenix native, faces life in prison for allegedly providing material support to…
Well, same-sex marriage probably won’t be legal in Arizona until 2016, at the earliest.A ballot initiative to put the issue on 2014 ballots stopped before it really got started, due to problems with funding…
I have a Mexican friend at work, and we happened to get in a discussion that started off fine — but I believe that I offended her as the discussion progressed. My intention, of course, was not to do such. We were talking about an upcoming Cinco de Mayo celebration,…
Michelle Lynch has a suitcase full of disturbing stories to tell about accused child molester and former minuteman leader Chris Simcox. Some are really creepy, especially in hindsight. Simcox had “tons” of little girls in his apartment playing with his two young daughters, according to Lynch, who lived in the…
