Though he can’t boast much in the way of contributions, Scottsdale Police Lieutenant and sheriff’s office hopeful Mike Stauffer may have earned his place on the November general election ballot as an Independent.According to a press release issued today by the Stauffer camp, which you can read below, Stauffer has…
David Denton did not want to talk to the cops this weekend while staying at the Arizona Grand Resort.This urge to avoid the cops was so bad that police say Denton, 33, left his meth and heroin stash with his 6-year-old kid and jumped off the third-floor balcony to hide…
Recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce has just encountered his first major obstacle in his revenge campaign for state Senate from Legislative District 25: Republican businessman Robert Worsley.Today, the wealthy Mesa executive has announced that he’ll be Pearce’s rival in the Republican primary for LD 25, effectively upstaging Pearce’s planned announcement…
We usually don’t call DDS of the year this early — or at all, really — but we’ll give the honorary title to the Phoenix dentist who chased down the guy who decided to show off his penis in his waiting room.According to court documents obtained by New Times, 40-year-old…
Tempe’s Luna Fitness can keep its name and logo, thanks to a settlement last week in a federal trademark lawsuit against the small gym by Clif Bar, the maker of Luna Bar energy snacks.The gym’s been fighting the energy-bar giant in court for almost a year. As we reported last…
By turning a two-game win streak into a four-game win streak with a pair of wins over the weekend, the Phoenix Suns are currently half a game back of the last playoff spot in the Western Conference, and one game over .500.The Suns’ win on Friday night wasn’t too unexpected…
UPDATE: Denver!The Arizona Cardinals and Ken Whisenhunt delivered the news on Friday, saying free-agent quarterback Peyton Manning is “no longer an option for us.”Cardinals quarterback Kevin Kolb got his $7 million roster bonus, and Manning’s still shopping around for a team to play for.According to the sports rumor mill, the…
Former Arizona Democratic Party Chair Don Bivens will not go gently into that good night, like he should.Rather, Bivens seems hell-bent on an ugly contest in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate this year. Already, he’s going negative on former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, the guy President Barack Obama and…
Meghan McCain, daughter of Senator John McCain, isn’t a lesbian.That’s about the most important fact we derived from her new Q&A with Playboy, in which she mostly talked about dudes and some politics.McCain was asked to expand upon her recollection of a girls trip to Sedona after her father’s unsuccessful…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Maricopa County won a lawsuit this week filed by former County Schools Superintendent Sandra Dowling over the 2005 raid of her home and subsequent prosecution.Dowling launched the lawsuit in 2009, alleging she’d been the target of a conspiracy by Arpaio and members of the Board of…
First Solar, the Tempe-based solar-panel manufacturing company, is being targeted by a class-action lawsuit alleging its principals hid negative facts to mislead investors.The federal complaint (see below) comes about a week after the company revealed that it was being investigated by the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission for alleged problems with…
Republicans. I know some of them are sane here in Sand Land, but you wouldn’t know it by their wingnutty hijinks in the state Legislature this year, where they’ve placed a birther-bill, a late-term abortion ban and a state-funded border militia ahead of doing anything to aid the economy, bring…
New York Senator Charles Schumer has been trying to get Governor Jan Brewer to show up to his Senate subcommittee hearing on immigration in April, and gave the governor a few general questions that would be asked.The governor’s spokesman has said on a few occasions that Brewer isn’t planning on…
State Senator Steve Gallardo, D-Phoenix, says he’s “suspicious” that funds may have been misappropriated from another foundation run by corrupt former lawmaker Richard Miranda. Miranda, a Democrat from Tolleson who resigned abruptly on February 16 after 13 years in the Arizona Legislature, pleaded guilty March 14 to stealing $144,577 from…
UPDATE: The Arizona Cardinals released a statement from coach Ken Whisenhunt saying Manning “is no longer an option for us.”You can throw that Arizona Cardinals Peyton Manning jersey you prematurely ordered straight in the garbage — the Cardinals won’t be landing Manning, and Cards quarterback Kevin Kolb got his $7…
Speaking recently to reporters who showed up for a Pinal County Board of Supervisors meeting, embattled Sheriff Paul Babeu said that cease and desist notices were filed with a “one news station in particular” and that “there’s likely legal action that will follow with that.” ABC 15, along with other…
Corletha Sherie Davis was sentenced today to 22 years in prison for fatally shooting 37-year-old Discount Cab driver Brian Mann in November 2010.Despite initially telling the cops she had nothing to do with Mann’s murder, Davis didn’t make it extremely difficult for the cops by hiding the evidence — including…
Like millions of other hard-working Americans, we took pause yesterday (just occasionally, boss!) to sneak some peaks at the first-round games of the men’s NCAA basketball tourney. The annual March Madness first-round Thursdays and Fridays are among our favorite days of the year. Thirty-two flippin’ games in 48 hours, and…
Pedro Reyes-Lopez, who was arrested by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office over the weekend for allegedly hosting a cockfighting party — then rearrested on a first-degree murder charge Tuesday by Phoenix police — may have also been known as your child’s crossing guard.ABC15 got the scoop, but a district official…
Arizona Republican Congressman David Schweikert’s trying to phase out the dollar bill, and replace it with a dollar coin through his “COINS” Act.According to a poll commissioned by a pro-dollar bill advocacy group, Schweikert’s own Republican constituents and base voters aren’t too hip to the idea by a pretty wide…
Right-wing attempts to legitimize nativist border wacko Glenn Spencer persist in the strangest fashion.Today, the conservative website Right Side News reported on a letter from former GOP gubernatorial candidate John Munger to Luis Heredia, Executive Director of the Arizona Democratic Party, demanding that Heredia issue a “letter of retraction” concerning statements…
Cathi Herrod, a heavyweight lobbyist and president of the Center for Arizona Policy, believes there is a grand conspiracy afoot for gays to “gain access to our schools and to our children.” We’re not sure what is supposed to happen after this “access” is gained, but it seems like something…
