How stupid does Sheriff Joe Arpaio think the citizens of Maricopa County are? At least as stupid as “Randall,” a supposed former meth addict who claims in one of Arpaio’s campaign commercials that she got straight in Joe’s jails during one of several stints there. “I thought my life was…
James D. Clark is delivering his father to the enemy. It’s the afternoon of April 19, the betrayal occurring around a conference table at the Tempe law office of Mark Sahl. Clark’s the son of prominent Arizona gold dealer Jim Clark, owner and CEO of Republic Monetary Exchange in Phoenix…
As a resident and sheriff of a rural Arizona county, driving on dirt roads was second nature to Larry Dever. So how the law enforcement professional end up rolling his three-quarter-ton pickup on one? One possibility: Excessive speed. “That certainly is one school of thought,” says Gerry Blair, spokesman for…
Despite what the Yavapai County Attorney’s Office is saying, the sales of “bath salts” and “spice” have not been banned in the county.Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk sure isn’t the first to announce that a ban on “bath salts” or “spice” has been enacted around here — the Legislature tried…
The Justice Department’s inspector general has released the agency’s novel-length report on the “Fast and Furious” gunwalking scandal, which mostly calls out the ATF’s Phoenix office and the U.S. Attorney’s Office of Arizona for the botched operation.Attorney General Eric Holder released a statement on the report, pretty much saying I…
Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever lost control of his truck “for an unknown reason” on a dirt road, leading to a fatal rollover, the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office says. Dever, 60, died at the scene following the one-vehicle crash at about 6:30 p.m. last night on Forest Road 109 about…
As you may have heard, a video surfaced of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney pandering to a wealthy group of potential donors, in which he described 47 percent of Americans as people who “pay no income tax,” and are committed Obama voters addicted to the government teat.That’s good news for…
Legislative District 13 voters will be able to vote for state House candidate Darin Mitchell, despite the fact that a judge ruled he doesn’t live in the district.Mitchell, a Republican, decided to appeal the county superior court ruling ordering him off the ballot, and he ended up winning that battle.See…
Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever, a likeable symbol of the lawless U.S. border with Mexico, died in a one-car crash on a forest road near Williams on Tuesday night. The cause of accident is under investigation; media reports say Dever was on his way to a hunting trip with one…
See also: Arizona Diamondbacks Win One of Three Against San Francisco Giants, Increase Odds of Making Playoffs to 3 PercentIan Kennedy and the rest of the Arizona Diamondbacks got a big monkey off their backs last night by beating the San Diego Padres 3-2 at Chase Field. Both the ginger-haired…
Steven Briones had the cops called on him Monday morning north of Lake Havasu, because he walked into a convenience store without pants.Aside from questioning Briones about allegedly stealing a jug of milk, Mohave County Sheriff’s deputies asked him about the whole not-wearing-pants thing. According to Briones, he had not…
As the so-called “papers please” provision of Senate Bill 1070 was cleared for use yesterday, Governor Jan Brewer issued a statement reminding the public that there are also laws “barring racial profiling” practices by police.”It is not enough that SB 1070 be enforced. It must be enforced efficiently, effectively and…
U.S. District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton has lifted the injunction on Senate Bill 1070’s “papers please” provision, which allows cops to begin enforcing that section immediately.This move was pretty much expected, as Bolton signaled her intent to release the injunction a few weeks ago, as she noted that the…
UPDATE: DHS Director Will Humble drops some knowledge after the jump. Just about every legislative session, the pro-choice crowd causes a stink with all the anti-abortion bills promoted by the Center for Arizona Policy, and the lobbying organization takes credit for nine such bills being passed into law since 2010.According…
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In case you just went over your article limit on the Arizona Republic’s website, azcentral.com, and you just have to read all five sentences about some guy who got kind of scared because he’s not very good at landing airplanes, we have the solution.Just as a couple of our sister…
A Republican state House Candidate has been ordered off general election ballots by a Maricopa County judge, since the candidate pretended to live in a friend’s/campaign worker’s vacant house to qualify as a resident of the district.Darin Mitchell already got enough votes in the primary to land on general election…
In case you missed ’em, Occupy Phoenix gathered yesterday for the Occupy Wall Street movement’s one-year anniversary, and some things don’t change — banks and Sheriff Joe Arpaio are still terrible.There was a new one out of at least one of the Occupy folks yesterday, though, regarding the Democratic candidate…
See also: Joe Arpaio Takes Credit for Creating Five Jobs at Mexican Restaurant Last week, Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced his newest conspiracy theory, by proclaiming that he’s a job creator.After running “employer sanctions operation”/immigrant roundup number 65, Arpaio figured that since his deputies arrested four people with jobs at a…
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A Glendale couple is suing the Deer Valley Unified School District, claiming staff at the boy’s elementary school fed him sugar, and often kept him in a small, windowless room due to his behavior.The boy’s parents contend that the school kept giving their boy sugar — which the boy is…
Democrat for U.S. Senate Rich Carmona speaking to supporters on Saturday Former U.S. Surgeon General Rich Carmona, the Democrat currently locked in a neck-and-neck race with Republican Congressman Jeff Flake for Jon Kyl’s U.S. Senate Seat, paid a visit Saturday to a Tempe field office for a Q and A…
