Bad news, rapists (good news, society): Customs and Border Protection says officers caught a woman attempting to enter the United States with 310 vials of a “date rape” drug.According to CBP, 51-year-old Josefina Irene Dominguez was pointed out for additional questioning and a vehicle search at the Mariposa Port of…
For the second time, materials from the Maricopa County Elections Department have been discovered with the wrong election date in Spanish, but the correct one in English.After the second instance was found — and due to other controversies regarding the county elections office — Randy Parraz and Citizens for a…
Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell issued a clarifying statement Tuesday regarding an erroneous report on early ballots by CBS 5/KPHO’s Donna Rossi last week. That report misquoted Purcell as saying that having an early ballot in one’s possession is a Class 5 felony. After I wrote a blog item pointing…
The Maricopa County Elections Department documents showing the incorrect date for the election — but just in Spanish — were not the only things offering the wrong date for Spanish speakers.See also:-Helen Purcell Urged to End Confusion Over CBS 5 Early Ballot Report-Maricopa County Elections Department Prints Wrong Date in…
As evidenced by Secretary of State Ken Bennett’s dabbling in the “birther” theories, elected officials around the state have probably received a decent amount of phone calls and emails asking them to help further the embarrassment of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “investigation” into President Obama.One such recipient of that attention is…
The family of U.S. Army veteran Marty Atencio is filing suit today in Maricopa County Superior Court over his brutal death late last year in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Fourth Avenue Jail. Atencio, who suffered from mental illness, was off his meds and wandering the streets in a daze on December…
Manuel Antonio Gonzalez called 9-1-1 in Phoenix on Friday to report that his 22-month-old nephew had apparently drowned and was unresponsive.That boy was pronounced dead shortly after that, and police say not only was there no water for the boy to drown in where he was, but the boy’s other…
Folks, take your early voting ballots and throw them straight in the garbage — KPHO, Channel 5, has already “called” the election for President Obama.”The 2012 presidential election is still more than two weeks away, but on Friday a CBS News affiliate in Arizona called the race for President Barack…
Sadly, confusion still reigns after CBS 5’s recent report on early ballots and the volunteers from different groups picking them up, in which this legal, and very common activity was labeled, wrongly, as illegal. CBS 5 reporter Donna Rossi incorrectly paraphrased the remarks of Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell as…
Don’t like readin’? Then say hell no to Proposition 204, because that monster is 15 pages long. It practically makes War and Peace look like a pamphlet, and we might as well just vote on enacting the Lord of the Rings trilogy into law while we’re at it…
President Obama and Mitt Romney squared off in the final presidential debate last night, a foreign-policy debate in Boca Raton Florida.An extremely colorful recap can be found with our sister paper, New Times Broward-Palm Beach, which makes the debate seem a hell of a lot more exciting than it looked…
El Mirage Councilman Jim McPhetres wants to hang out at the city-owned El Mirage Senior Center once a month, invite residents to stop by and chat about city issues. But, city officials are not making it easy — even though it is pretty standard for elected officials to set up…
The Hells Angels seem like the kind of guys who would be absolutely allergic to anyone wearing a suit — unless their somewhat infamous lawyer Fritz Clapp wears a suit.Clapp and the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club have teamed up for the badass biker move of the week, which involves filing…
A jury found Joseluis Marquez guilty of first-degree murder and robbery in the 2010 death of 21-year-old Arizona State University student Kyleigh Sousa.Sousa was dragged by a car in an attempted robbery of her purse in an IHOP parking lot just south of the University’s Tempe campus on May 26,…
It’s elections season, which means it’s time for claims of “voter suppression” across the country — claims that will also become convenient excuses after a given candidate loses their election.That said, it’s not too surprising that MSNBC jumped on the Spanish error printed on a handful of elections-registration documents here…
Despite the initial report, Phoenix police say the incident involving a guy with a Samurai sword on the Metro Light Rail was reported, and it’s under investigation.Phoenix police Sergeant Steve Martos says the incident appears to have occurred around 2 a.m. on October 13, which wasn’t really clear based on…
The Arizona Cardinals are now the losers of three straight games, after the Kevin Kolb-less Cards lost by a touchdown to the Minnesota Vikings yesterday.John Skelton — taking over as the Cardinals’ quarterback again due to Kolb’s injury — got in the good graces of Cardinals fans last year thanks…
If you spent this weekend within civilization, there’s probably a good chance you were exposed to an advertisement for U.S. Senate candidates Richard Carmona and Jeff Flake.Maybe you opened your mailbox, or maybe you got a robo-call from Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan — for Romney’s “good friend,” Flake –…
So why can’t a man be prettier than a woman? Look at Brad Pitt. Leonardo DiCaprio. Johnny Depp. David Beckham. And, um, Congressman Jeff Flake. Not that Channel 12’s Brahm Resnik is in their league. I mean, he’s no Joe Dana. If you ask me, you folks who were outraged…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s financial disclosure forms for his re-election campaign show an ocean of greenbacks flowing into the coffers of Summit Consulting, the firm owned by local Republican consultant Chad Willems. Willems is one of the political geniuses who ran former state Senate President Russell Pearce’s disastrous 2011 recall election…
A recipe for disaster: U.S Customs and Border Patrol’s lax policies over the use of lethal force. Inadequately trained agents sent to patrol rough desert terrain blanketed with fear and tension that’s fueled by potential danger. A border-hawk sheriff putting weapons in the hands of unpaid civilians who want to…
Medical marijuana in Arizona faces an important court decision in a case that local prohibitionists see as a weak link in the voter-approved 2010 pot law. Arizona Republic reporter and rapid-fire Tweeter Yvonne Wingett-Sanchez has been filing live updates from the courtroom this afternoon. The hearing’s over, but you can…
