Glendale police announced this morning that investigators will start searching a landfill south of the Valley for the body of missing 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley on February 6.Shockley was reported missing in October. The case is now a homicide investigation, with her mother, Jerice Hunter, as the prime focus of the…
Christian Turcios, a 26-year-old former custodian at the Highlands Church in Scottsdale, was in Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where he pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of kiddie-porn-related crimes.Turcios, it turns out, basically beat the rap on a child molestation case in 2010 — then he allegedly got…
Remember Victoria Jackson? She’s a former Saturday Night Live cast member (she was the show’s token ditz in the mid-1980s).She also happens to be the focus of this week’s New Times cover story because of her new career as a far-right-wing, Bible-thumping political pundit.Read the story, written by Gus Garcia-Roberts,…
Anyone with any respect for what the office of the president of the United States represents should take one look at the above photo of Governor Jan Brewer sticking her finger in the face of this country’s commander in chief and say “who the f**k do you think you are,…
It’s so sad to see your wimpy answers. Your replies scream self-hatred and self-shame for your raza. You’re pathetic! No plan or desire to fix Mexico’s problems. You’re a puto with no huevos. My DREAM Act would be that you Mexicans would stop groveling to gringos, and scream about fixing…
Victoria Jackson hurtles through intersections and down side streets while using her left hand to hold a Flip cam to her face. The inside of her car — a weathered Honda Civic with “Nobama,” Marco Rubio, and Tea Party bumper stickers — smells like it’s been fumigated with sweet incense…
The big-applause lines from former Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona’s address at Democrats’ recent winter meeting in Tucson conveyed two important messages: He can beat Republican Congressman Jeff Flake in a general election for exiting U.S. Senator Jon Kyl’s seat and, with him in that race, Arizona could turn blue…
DIRTY JOE A culture of corruption: This is a great article with plenty of historical perspective on the culture of corruption that is Joe Arpaio’s Maricopa County (“Coddling Joe,” Michael Lacey, January 12). Dennis Gilman, Scottsdale Time for a new hero, Stefan: Hey, you are way off base [with this…
As we noted yesterday, Phoenix/Scottsdale ranked among the top 10 rudest cities in America, according to surveys by Travel + Leisure magazine. On Wednesday, our fine Arizona Governor Jan Brewer “has did” all she “could did” during an Arizona visit by President Barack Obama to live up to the reputation…
Leave it to Jan Brewer to humiliate Arizona — yet again…President Barack Obama was in town today to tour an Intel factory getting built in Chandler — and it took Brewer all of five seconds to make a goddamned scene.A scene that has now gone viral — which was likely…
Apparently, Arizona hasn’t cornered the market on blatant insensitivity to the Latino community. In case you missed it, Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. of East Haven, Connecticut shared some thoughts with a reporter who questioned him about how he was going to reach out to the Latino community. He makes the…
We don’t condone rape in any way, shape, or form. That said, if you’re enough of a scumbag to have sex with someone against their will, do yourself a favor and don’t give that person your phone number afterwards.Just ask 21-year-old Rafael Chavez, who, after raping a woman in Chandler…
As I anticipated in a blog item late last year, the Arizona version of the Utah Compact, called the “Arizona Accord,” was introduced to the public at the state Capitol yesterday. It argues for a rational, humane approach to immigration reform.The accord’s statement of principles, which you can read, here,…
When most people look at Tent City, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s infamous outdoor detention facility, they see a jail.Not Sheriff Joe Arpaio — he, apparently, sees a stage…for a reality TV show.Yet again, Arpaio has opened the MCSO’s doors to reality TV film crews — this time for a…
A Phoenix man was “too tired” — and his wife’s blood-pressure was “too high” — to take an extremely ill 13-month-old baby to the hospital in November of 2010 — despite having been told by doctors the baby needed medical attention.The result: the baby died.Now, the baby’s mother, 21-year-old Kristen…
Phoenix/Scottsdale made Travel+Leisure magazine’s list of America’s Rudest Cities. In fact, the Phoenix metro area moved up four slots to No. 8 over last year’s ranking. Here’s the blurb on the Valley of the Sun:…
As Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio pointed out when a story about his office’s bungling of hundreds of sex-crime investigations resurfaced late last year, other Valley law enforcement agencies had “way worse” problems when it comes to investigating sex crimes.One of those agencies is the Phoenix Police Department — and…
The FBI arrested four police officers, including the president of the police union in East Haven, a Connecticut suburb, over allegations that the men, for years, orchestrated civil rights abuses against Latino residents. The cops, indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury sitting in Bridgeport, pleaded not guilty and were…
Gabrielle Giffords formally resigned from Congress this morning in an emotional goodbye that brought tears to the eyes of several lawmakers present — including, of course, House Speaker John Boehner.While holding Congressman Jeff Flake’s hand, Giffords listened on as Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz read her letter of resignation to…
Unless you frequent right wing blogs such as Sonoran Alliance or SeeingRedAZ, you may have missed the tidbit that disgraced ex-state Senator Russell Pearce has won the endorsement of Arizona GOP Chair Tom Morrissey for the unpaid position Pearce is seeking: First Vice Chair of the Arizona Republican Party.Morrissey’s endorsement…
The Toronto Raptors had lost 14 straight games to the Phoenix Suns dating back to 2004. Clearly, the good old days have long past for the Suns, who lost 99-96 to the perennial doormat Raptors on Tuesday night at US Airways Center. It was only the fifth win of the…
If you didn’t get an O-boner from President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech last night, you probably didn’t watch it.Per usual, the president killed it — the man’s got a gift for gab.Unfortunately, talking about doing things doesn’t get things done.For example: his comments on comprehensive immigration reform…
