S. Renee Greene, examiner.com freelancer until Thursday, called us Friday to admit she’d plagiarized from New Times, saying she’d done it in protest of the low pay she’d received as a writer for the Examiner website. Greene reached out to us following our Thursday blog post that called her on…
Murder suspect Jodi Arias wrapped up her 18th (or 19th, by some accounts) day on the stand this week with trial watchers wondering whether her lengthy testimony helped or hurt her. We’re still predicting the jury will hand Arias a death sentence, for reasons that will be explained below. See…
Debra Milke, on Death Row since her 1990 conviction for conspiring to have her 4-year-old son killed in 1989, won’t be released from prison anytime soon. The federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Milke’s conviction yesterday, raising the possibility that she could be set free in 30 days. But…
El Mirage officials are hosting an Easter Eggstravaganza — “the greatest Easter event El Mirage has ever seen” — on March 30 at Bill Gentry Park, 14010 N. El Mirage Road. As children get their photos taken with the Easter Bunny, color eggs, pet ponies, and romp around in a…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office is proud to announce that 11 taco shop employees are off the streets today, thanks to the boys in beige.This is the 72nd such workplace raid by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office branded as “employer sanctions operations,” “criminal employment operations”, and now, “operations targeting false identifications…
The Arizona Cardinals have released quarterback Kevin Kolb, and the replacement plan isn’t exactly reassuring.Former Indianapolis Colts backup Drew Stanton joins Brian Hoyer, John Skelton, and Ryan Lindley as the Cardinals’ quarterbacks — a group of guys we couldn’t say with 100 percent certainty would be starters at the Arena…
The eyebrow-raising part of the newly-released “Reporter’s Guide to the Goldwater Institute,” isn’t that GI’s executives make lavish six-figure salaries working for a non-profit 501c3, or that the Goldwater Institute is, according to the report, a tool of the Koch bothers and the American Legislative Exchange Council. Read the Center…
You may have noticed that Phoenix tends to get a bit warm, and the weather gets a bit weird sometimes (think “haboobs).According to one writer, though, Phoenix is in the “climate crosshairs,” and a future Superstorm Sandy-like or Hurricane Katrina-like disaster might not be unlikely.See also:-Climate Change May Lead to…
A former U.S. soldier raised in Phoenix is hopping around the Middle East lending his services to various warring countries and jihadist groups, according to Fox News – there’s a seemingly authentic Youtube video to back it up (see below).The article says that Eric Harroun, 30, was most recently in…
Do your own freakin’ work, Renee! We’re speaking of “S. Renee Greene,” one of the citizen-journalists who publishes articles on Examiner.com — and who ripped off portions of the Jodi Arias feature article published in Phoenix New Times this week. Greene, through her writer’s account with Examiner.com, published her own…
A Mexican national discovered on Tuesday that a bunch of bell peppers won’t conceal more than 2,000 pounds of marijuana from the authorities.U.S. Customs and Border Protection made the find while the man was attempting to enter the United States through a commercial facility in Nogales with the load in…
Yesterday marked the end of the 7th annual Phoenix Border Security Expo, and we should all feel much, uh, safer knowing that the 180 companies attending have devoted so much time and resources to keeping our border safe from low-grade pot and immigrants. The companies set up individual booths like…
“Is Phoenix tap water safe to drink?” the City of Phoenix’s Water Services Department asks itself in a Q&A document.”Phoenix tap water meets or surpasses all federal and state requirements for health and safety,” it answers in the document revised last week. “More than five million tests and measurements are…
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The end of Phoenix metro area may be nigh, at least, according to one guy.A writer who focuses mostly on environmental affairs in the Southwest says that Phoenix just keeps getting hotter, and among other problems, it could lead to a Superstorm Sandy-like or Hurricane Katrina-like disaster…
The convictions and death sentence of Debbie Milke — who’s been on death row in Arizona for more than two decades in her son’s murder — have been overturned by a federal appeals court.Milke’s 4-year-old son, Christopher, went “missing” in December 1989 after a friend and a roommate took the…
The Arizona Cardinals have signed quarterback Drew Stanton, and you might be wondering, “Who the hell is Drew Stanton?”Although there are several answers to that question, here’s one of them: Just a few years ago, he was the fourth-string quarterback on the absolute worst team in NFL history.See also:-Cardinals Quarterback…
Buying an AR-15 rifle is probably at the top of the list of things you would never expect former Congressman Gabrielle Giffords’ husband, Mark Kelly, to do.However, that’s exactly what Kelly did at a Tucson gun shop, and it looks like not everyone’s buying his explanation…
It’s not everyday that you see the chair of a state house committee mock a blind man in public, but, then, that’s just the kind of guy state Representative Eddie Farnsworth is. Indeed, the Gilbert Republitard and charter-school pimp has a well-earned reputation as a self-important, fatuous tool. But he…
I would be most interested in hearing your point of view regarding our raza always voting for someone with a Latino last name, without even considering whether the vato/vata is qualified for a particular office. Often, I hear comments like, “If he is Latino, it makes up for all the…
Prosecutor Juan Martinez rapid-fires questions to murder defendant Jodi Arias, bouncing through timelines, appearing to want to confuse and scold as much as to elicit useful information. Arias sometimes gets confused and upset. She admits she can’t keep her stories straight. She intermittently breaks down sobbing, especially when forced to…
The Phoenix mom who spent Christmas ’11 choking one of her kids — and threatening both of her kids with a butcher knife — has pleaded guilty to a charge in the case.Jutrina Tillman, who was 32 at the time, had been drinking that Christmas and was mad at her…
