Yesterday had both its highs and lows for the Phoenix Suns. First the good news: Steve Nash was named to this year’s NBA All-Star team as a reserve on Thursday, which shouldn’t come as a surprise based on his outstanding play thus far in the season (including leading the league…
Phoenix has made public portions of the logs that former Mayor Phil Gordon’s security-detail once maintained to track how they spent their time. Though much anticipated, the documents hardly read like declassified top-secret Pentagon documents. Partly because their release comes more than two years after they were originally requested…
A minimum-security inmate at one of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jails escaped “several days ago,” but was arrested this afternoon at his girlfriend’s house in New Mexico, the MCSO announced this afternoon.If this is the first you’re hearing about an escaped MCSO inmate, that’s because the Sheriff’s Office didn’t…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery announced this afternoon that a sixth suspect has been arrested in connection to the murders of a Paradise Valley couple found bound and burned in their home last week.Additionally, Montgomery defends releasing Michael Crane from custody after he’d been arrested for unrelated crimes just weeks…
Ron Barber, a former aide to former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, announced this morning that he’ll run in the special election to finish the remainder of Giffords’ term.Giffords resigned from Congress last month so she can focus on her recovery after getting shot in the head during last year’s shooting rampage…
A detention officer with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office accused of getting drunk and pointing a loaded gun at his own son has pleaded not guilty to one count each of aggravated assault and criminal damage.Jeffery Higgins entered his plea in Maricopa County Superior Court this morning.According to court records,…
Phoenix police said yesterday that the woman to the right could potentially be the mother of a newborn who was dumped in front of a Phoenix home on Tuesday. They’ve since contacted the woman, and it turns out she is NOT the mother of “Baby Kathleen.” “The woman pictured in…
Lots of sports action in Tempe this weekend, which for our purposes starts tonight at the Wells Fargo Arena, where the ASU Sun Devils should be in a close, if not so artistic, battle against the equally lowly Utah Utes. With Lockett, ASU was a marginal-at-best team. Without him, well,…
My family for six generations have been born and raised in Brownsville, Texas. Everyone speaks Spanish most of the time. Right now, almost every Republican in the state is trying to get redistricting to the finish line to cut out the bumper crop of Mexican-American candidates from coming up. They…
Long before we were officially a state, Arizona was making history — and not all of it bad, though some of it certainly borders on the unbelievable. In 1910, a Maricopa County Sheriff by the name of Carl T. Hayden took part in the first known automobile chase. He caught…
PRINCESS VICTORIA Victoria herself responds: Most interesting thing to me is that [inside the article] in an Arizona paper, the close-up photo of my ukelele case (with a bumper sticker that says “I Support Arizona!”) is covered by my Santa suit. Feels like George Orwell’s 1984, where truth is forbidden…
A Goodyear teen who brought a gun to school to kill his math teacher last year pleaded guilty this afternoon to one count each of attempted first-degree murder and possession of a firearm.Izrahias Morales was only 15 when he brought the gun to school last February, but was charged as…
A scholarship has been set up to honor the memory of slain Maricopa County Sheriff’s Deputy Bill Coleman, who was murdered last month while responding to a burglary call at a medical facility in Anthem.The Rotary Club of Anthem is the group behind the scholarship honoring the slain deputy.The scholarship…
A bill that would replace local police in Colorado City with deputies from the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office was unanimously approved by a state Senate committee this morning.Colorado City, for anyone who doesn’t know, is a haven for members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints…
Brian Weymouth, a Paradise Valley businessman now facing major felony charges, has filed a civil lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court against several county officials and a former business partner. Brian Weymouth, who definitely prefers this photo better to his mugshot. The suit, which was preceded months ago by a Notice of Claim…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio went hunting for illegals again this morning, this time at a Phoenix maid service business, where his deputies arrested a grand total of two suspected illegal immigrants, neither of whom are drug-dealing gang-bangers — they’re maids.Per usual, the sheriff conducted his raid of the business…
Former Valley reporter turned Gotham journo Nick Martin reports today on the TPMMuckraker blog that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s political action committee Joe PAC has scored only a little over $20,000 since its inception.When Arpaio’s campaign guru Chad Willems of Summit Consulting announced Joe PAC’s formation in September, his press release…
[jump] Phoenix was up 73-52 at the beginning of the third quarter after running circles around the Bucks in the first half as their starters racked up a double-digit lead by landing 62 percent of their buckets. That includes Michael Redd, who scored 14 points during his first visit to…
If you happened to have had a baby yesterday, and then dumped it in front of a home in north Phoenix, police would like to have a word with you — and make sure you’re not bleeding out after giving birth.Oh…and don’t worry about naming your newborn, the cops did…
The Paradise Valley Police Department confirmed today that five people have been arrested in connection with the murders of Glenna and Lawrence Shapiro, whose bodies were found bound and burned inside their Paradise Valley home last week.Police say the five arrested are the “major suspects” in the case, but that…
As if we needed another anecdote about how Arizona fails its mentally ill residents, we bring you the story of James Copeland, a mentally ill convicted sex offender who was arrested twice in 24 hours for failing to register as a sex offender.Copeland, who’s homeless, was arrested on Sunday morning…
Republican Arizona Representative Kimberly Yee has taken a page out of fagala-phobic abortion bully Trent Franks’ book, and is taking it upon herself to attempt to dictate when women in Arizona can have an abortion.Yee introduced a bill into the Arizona Legislature yesterday that would ban abortions of fetuses that…
