Senator John McCain is doing a pretty good job, according to hardly anyone.That’s according to a poll from Behavior Research Center, which says McCain’s 26 percent approval rating among Arizonans is the lowest level in 21 years.See also:-John McCain Bucks the NRA, Supports Expanding Background Checks for Gun Sales-John McCain…
The Transportation Security Administration has decided that it’s not quite ready to let people bring small knives and other objects onto airplanes.Originally, the TSA decided to allow passengers to bring small folding knives on planes, as well as some sports equipment that’s been banned since 9/11…
One of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s detention officers stabbed his father six times Sunday morning after a long night of drinking, according to Avondale police.C.J. Joe, a 27-year-old guard at Durango Jail, claims he “blacked out” and doesn’t remember what happened, but his sister told police that Joe stabbed his father,…
Respect Arizona, the group attempting to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio from office, may yet prove the naysayers wrong. At a press conference Monday in downtown Phoenix, about 20 members of the group gathered to announce that, so far, they have collected 200,359 valid signatures to recall Sheriff Joe. See also:…
A Phoenix cop smelled marijuana coming from a car last week while he was on routine patrol, and that officer ended up finding a bag of weed and a pipe — after the passenger in the car pulled the items out of her vagina.The officer didn’t see anything in the…
A week after charges were dropped against one of six family members accused of abusing 10-year-old Ame Deal, who was murdered in Phoenix almost two years ago, another family member has pleaded guilty.A spokesman for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office wouldn’t elaborate when child-abuse charges against Ammandea Stoltzmann, Ame’s cousin,…
There’s no surprise here: Governor Jan Brewer doesn’t support the so-called “Gang of Eight” immigration proposal, and her predictable reasoning is that the “border is not secure.”Brewer’s explanation seems fairly meaningless, though, as her spokesman Matt Benson tells New Times there’s “not a specific definition” for “secure border.”See also:-“Gang of…
Arizona State University has opened the voting process to replace the recently designed costume for Sparky the Sun Devil, and the four options for the new, new Sparky look far less likely to be behind the wheel of a windowless white van, telling children that they have candy and puppies…
Word on the street is, Yuma police are recommending misdemeanor charges against Republican State Senator Don Shooter, for his recent episode at a Yuma school.According to a Yuma PD report, Shooter barged in to his grandson’s classroom at a charter school and started shouting at the teacher, only after he…
The Arizona Diamondbacks may have dropped two of three games over the weekend to the Colorado Rockies, it quite possibly could have been a complete sweep if not for the impressive efforts of Didi Gregorius. The 23-year-old left-hander, who walloped a pair of base hits during Arizona’s 3-0 loss to…
I’m heartened to see local Democrats unabashedly supporting the effort to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio, which is spearheaded by Respect Arizona, and assisted by Citizens for a Better Arizona, headed by everyone’s favorite kick-ass activist Randy Parraz. See also: -Joe Arpaio Recall Boasts 169,283 Valid Signatures, 166,034 More Needed by…
Members of the Superstition Search and Rescue have discovered what they suspect is the body of a hiker missing since Monday. Crews from the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office responded to Lost Dutchman State Park on Monday night — four days ago — after receiving a call of an overdue hiker,…
A Tempe criminal-defense attorney is accused of shooting his secretary/girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend, an event the victim says he recorded on video with his iPhone.Attorney Joe Palmisano, 48, is the alleged shooter, and police say he shot Ryan Hall Thursday morning in the parking lot of Palmisano’s law office, near Rural Road…
Anthony Giunta got a little scraped up earlier this week while being picked up by a pair of Phoenix bail bondsmen for skipping bail, and he urged that his friends and family who were watching the incident shoot the bail bondsmen.Police say 23-year-old Nicholas Malicki obliged, and murdered the men…
Phoenix resident Jorge Valencia has been conducting marijuana sales in full view of anyone who visited his public Facebook account, according to police.”There were two conversations between Valencia and other subjects wherein they inquired about purchasing illegal drugs from Valencia and Valencia responded,” state court documents obtained by New Times…
Mesa resident Pierson Honahni seems to have a pretty nice girlfriend — she’ll take off Honahni’s shoes if he falls asleep on the couch.The problem is when she takes off his shoes and a bunch of cocaine falls out…
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…
The feds are bringing another child-porn watcher to justice with the recent guilty plea of Arizona resident Douglas Earl Leach. When Leach’s Peoria home was raided on September 5, 2012, following an FBI investigation, agents found nearly 4,000 child-porn pictures, mostly of young boys engaged in sex acts. At least…
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…
