Photo by Jamie Peachey Arpaio telling everyone what he contends is some really serious stuff. An elderly man and his friend shouted about the president on Tuesday. And Sheriff Joe Arpaio and so-called Cold Case Posse lead investigator Mike Zullo added nothing to their running total of zero evidence that President…
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Bullhead City resident Jonathan Lane had this one in the works for more than a year — he was going to have sex with someone he met on the Internet.Finally, Lane got a plane ticket to Tampa, Florida, and landed at the airport early Sunday morning.Lane, 33, was then arrested…
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The audio clip above — a voicemail from Republican state Senator Rich Crandall to fellow Republican Senator Brenda Barton — is apparently enough to get an ethics complaint lodged against Crandall.This all started (as so much drama does) over a campaign-sign feud, in which there are photos of two women…
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There are reasons political campaigns send “trackers” to follow every public move of their opponents, and collecting soundbites is one of the primary reasons.Republican Congressman Jeff Flake’s U.S. Senate campaign has provided a couple soundbites that were likely collected by “trackers,” in which Flake’s primary opponent Wil Cardon drops a…
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The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office says a 6-year-old was whipped with a hose and dropped on his head by his father, who then tried to hide to hide from the cops.The 6-year-old’s crime that earned an alleged beating from his father: drinking from an irrigation system.YCSO says deputies got the…
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Many Republican candidates for state and federal office would like you to believe that they want people to go to prison for selling porn, and think tipping strippers should be illegal.The lobbyists at the Center for Arizona Policy released the candidates’ answers to their questionnaires for this year’s elections, which…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio had about an entire day to come up with a response to alleged comedian George Lopez calling him a “fat motherfucker” and “fucking puto.”And here’s what Arpaio’s “ghost tweeters” eventually delivered to the world.”Go back to school. Learn to make intelligent commentary rather than dropping F bombs…
Republican Congressman-turned-lobbyist-turned-congressional candidate Matt Salmon promises he’ll “join the fight to repeal Obamacare” if he’s elected to Congress this fall.If you ask his primary opponent in the state’s Fifth Congressional District, former Arizona House Speaker Kirk Adams, Salmon already joined that fight — except he was lobbying for the bill’s…
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If you trust politicians (ha, ha), then get this — many local Republicans believe people need to go to prison for selling porn, and tipping strippers should be illegal.The lobbyists at the Center for Arizona Policy released the candidates’ answers to their questionnaires for this year’s elections, which is not…
Let’s hope this isn’t becoming a trend, but today marked the second time in as many weeks that a school bus driver pleaded guilty to doing something sexual with a kid.On July 6, it was the former Legacy Charter School bus driver who liked to be called “Mr. Bill” who…
