Just two more days before Talking Points Memo (TPM), a lefty political website, announces the winners of its Sixth Annual Golden Duke Awards to recognize the “year’s best purveyors of public corruption, outlandish behavior and The Crazy.” Not one, but two top officials in Arizona have been nominated for the…
Tom Horne, Arizona’s Attorney General, is pushing for a new law that would allow one trained official at each Arizona school to have access to a gun. See also: – Valley Fever’s 12 Most Popular Arizona News Stories of 2012 The firearm would be “locked in a secure place” until…
Sofi Collis, the 19-year-old girl from Scottsdale reported missing on Christmas Eve, returned home safely late Tuesday night, Scottsdale police say. See also: – Valley Fever’s 12 Most Popular Arizona News Stories of 2012 Collis had been reported missing after being last seen about 1 p.m., possibly on Rollerblades. She…
It seems like every year there’s one local story that defines the news more than others. Last year, it was the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson (which we got a horrific reminder of with the recent mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary). This year, as far as actual…
If there were a law against keeping parents from their children for no good reason on Christmas, or any other day, then Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, and many of his functionaries, would be guilty as charged. Currently, neither the county attorney’s office nor the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office can…
In a move that wasn’t exactly unexpected, President Obama nominated Senator John Kerry for the secretary of state post to replace Hillary Clinton.That reminds us of the moment earlier this month when Senator John McCain — who essentially forced out Obama’s original pick for the spot, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice…
Sedona resident Peter Gersten was left high and dry last night after a vortex failed to open at the base of Bell Rock, the popular red rock hiking spot. Gersten had been planning to leap into the “portal” last night. Instead, he apparently wandered home in an anticlimactic ending to…
It’s dang encouraging to learn that the National Rifle Association’s top propagandist Wayne LaPierre is practically on the same page as Maricopa, Arizona neo-Nazi Harry Hughes regarding what the nation should do in response to the massacre of the innocents in Newtown, Connecticut. More guns! As I noted in a…
Just about every 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.Do you ever see a guy with a terrible face…
UPDATE: Sedona Vortex Jumper Peter Gersten Wanders Home After Vortex Fails to Open The man who has been planning on taking a “leap of faith” off Bell Rock in Sedona today is out there waiting for his “portal” to open, but it does not appear that he plans on blindly…
Neo-Nazi Harry Hughes is like the National Socialist Movement’s version of the traveling gnome in those Travelocity.com commercials. See also: -Why Authorities Could’ve Prevented J.T. Ready’s Murder Spree The Maricopa, Arizona-based swastika-lover’s been photographed next to Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, demonstrating in support of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Maricopa…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio claims his detectives may have prevented a “serious mass murder” similar to the one carried out at an elementary school last week in Newtown, Connecticut.While referencing the Connecticut shooting several times, Arpaio explained yesterday morning ‘s arrest of a 16-year-old student at Red Mountain High…
According to a handful of dolts, we’re all supposed to be dead right now, based on some theory about calendars made by a guy who we’ll guess was high on hallucinogenic drugs at the time.Nobody really said what time the world was supposed to end today, but it’s already Saturday in some…
Echo Magazine has selected Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and his wife Nicole as man and woman of the year for taking a strong stance in support of the LGBT community. Here’s an excerpt from the article honoring the Stantons:…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office claims it has ended a 16-year-old girl’s “serious murder/suicide plot” at Mesa’s Red Mountain High School.Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s heading up the press conference later today to answer questions, but according to information provided by MCSO, the girl posted threats on YouTube about killing herself “and…
GOP blogging badass Jeff Vath of PolitocoMafioso fame was the first to report the news that Arizona Republican Party Chair Tom Morrissey is punking out on his bid for re-election at the party’s January 26 state committee meeting, where new officers will be elected. Morrissey has since issued a statement…
In June, a woman told Phoenix police that she was pretty sure Samuel Nelson put his penis on her foot while she was sleeping at a relative’s house — which is the second time she believed he’d done this.Turns out, two other women and a 12-year-old girl told police very…
According to the court of public opinion, last week’s shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school isn’t viewed as an “isolated act,” unlike the shootings carried out by Jared Loughner and James Holmes.Although the public’s just about split on the issue, a Pew Research Center survey shows more people think…
Less than one week after a gunman murdered 27 people, including 20 children, in Connecticut, three Arizona teenagers have made some incredibly poor decisions relating to schools.One, in Gilbert, was walking on a high school campus with a “toy rifle,” while the another, in Kingman, posted to Facebook that he…
Many of my friends think I’m loco for playing with my dad the way I do. See, mi padre is now retired and living in Mexico and is very worried that I am now 30 and not married yet, so he wants me to go back to where he lives…
Emily Decker stands on a narrow ledge more than 80 feet above the desert floor, clinging to the side of Flatiron Peak, a massive tower of rock in the Superstition Wilderness. She knows she’s in trouble, and fear tingles through her body. Her boyfriend, John Wilkinson, hangs about 10 feet…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s corruption is blatant, in your face, unrepentant. Yet, given the machinations of Horne’s lawyers, battling both Horne’s misdemeanor fender-bender charge with the city of Phoenix and the campaign-finance-law complaint brought by Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, I suspect the AG will escape all but the…
