Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio apologized today to the victims of El Mirage sex-crimes cases that went uninvestigated due to incompetent police work under his watch.”Sometimes these kinds of things occur in big departments like (the Maricopa sheriff’s office),” Arpaio said during a press conference today, as tweeted by Arizona…
Mark Goudeau, who already is on his way to death row after nine murder convictions, heard the rest of his prison sentence today–more than 1,100 years on 58 felonies ranging from sexual assault to armed robbery. Unrepentant to the end, the 47-year-old Phoenix man again blamed the world–specifically, his defense…
As an elected official, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne could make himself as relatively unseen as, well, Governor Jan Brewer.But Horne likes to get his hands dirty every now and then in the legal field, arguing the law in person before judges. Did Terry Goddard ever do that? Tomorrow at…
Steven Kleinedler, executive director of the American Heritage Dictionary, took note when Immigration Policy Center criticized its definition of “anchor baby.”Kleinedler says American heritage will tweak the definition of the phrase for the third printing of the dictionary’s Fifth Edition by noting that it is an offensive and derogatory term. He…
A Mesa 19-year-old and his 6-year-old brother were injured severely on Friday after their scooter slammed into a full-size pickup truck.Cops say that Elias Redden, while trying to make a left-hand turn onto Horne as he traveled west on University Drive at about 7:15 p.m., turned the 2008 Shanghai Meitian…
You may be having a better Monday morning than Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was slammed yesterday in a damning story about how his agency bungled hundreds of sex-crime cases.The Associated Press story by Jacques Billeaud presented news that’s familiar to local observers of the five-term sheriff of Maricopa County –…
The Arizona Cardinals have life — in the form of tiny wide receiver LaRod Stephens-Howling, who caught a screen pass from quarterback Kevin Kolb and took it 52 yards to paydirt for a 19-13 overtime win over obnoxious owner Jerry Jones and his Dallas Cowboys. More than half of the…
A year-long child-porn investigation led FBI agents this summer to a Maricopa teenager with a personal stash of 500 videos and pictures of sexually exploited children.The case was outlined in court records filed yesterday by the Arizona U.S. Attorney’s Office, which requests the forfeiture of computer equipment seized from the…
Something’s gotta be up.Glendale City Manager Ed Beasley — the architect for the city’s now flailing Phoenix Coyotes Arena and mega-city projects such Westgate City Center and Main Street — has announced his plans to retire in 2012 to spend more time with his family.He’s been with the city for…
Usually, Arpaio loves a good probe. The list of questionable investigations the five-term sheriff has launched against his political foes includes county Supervisors, judges, bureaucrats, lawyers, journalists and political activists. (See “Enemies List,”, “Joe Knew,” for starters.) But he won’t investigate his deputy chief’s alleged threat against a reporter and…
A Hells Angels hanger-on who helped alleged murderous biker Paul Eischeid flee the country in 2004 has been sentenced to prison time for supplying Eischeid with a false passport before he skipped town.Eischeid — a former Charles Schwab stockbroker with a “relatively clean criminal record” — is accused of the…
The wordsmiths over at New American Heritage Dictionary usually point out when a word or phrase is offensive or disparaging, particularly when it comes to terms loaded with racist sentiments.You know them: the n-word, “spic,” “white trash.”When you look up those words you get a little extra — and useful…
If you happen to run into the parents of accused murderer Paul Giovante Jones, do him a favor and let them know he’s a killer and he’s “proud of it.”That’s the message Jones, 26, asked Scottsdale police to relay to his parents after he fatally shot his boyfriend, Colton Scharge,…
The days of sounding off about the day’s news under the anonymity of the Interwebs have come to an end at Arizona’s paper of record.Arizona Republic editor and vice president for news Randy Lovely announced yesterday that readers would no longer be able to comment on stories on the paper’s…
If there were Black Hole of Calcutta for bad sheriffs, is there any doubt that Joe Arpaio would be in it? Arpaio, the biggest un-indicted criminal in Arizona, is responsible for so much malfeasance, illegal activity and human misery, that his Teflon Don persona continues to amaze, even as the nearly…
The Glendale Police Department says it no longer plans to search a city landfill for the remains of missing 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley, who was reported missing nearly two months ago.Glendale Sergeant Brent Coombs says police no longer expect to find any investigative leads in the landfill, and are no longer…
Nothing quite says “merry Christmas” like Santa and a few high-powered machine guns — in Arizona, anyway.In honor of the Scottsdale Gun Club’s celebrating the holidays by giving people the chance to have holiday photos taken of their children holding machine guns, we’ve opted to go with the above photo…
Arizona State University reportedly has offered University of Houston football coach Kevin Sumlin the head coach position that opened up when soon-to-be former coach Dennis Erickson was given the boot earlier this week.KTAR broke the story about the offer, and reports that the university is ready to cough up nearly…
Lois Fraley, a former Arizona Department of Corrections officer, spent 15 days in early 2004 as a hostage inside a tower at the Lewis Prison Complex in Buckeye — the longest prison standoff in the nation’s history.Tonight at 8 p.m., her story will be featured on the premier of Hostage:…
It’s been a while since you blew off that fine or court date following a misdemeanor arrest.You’ve become an expert at spotting cop cars in the rear-view mirror as you drive, and you’ve ditched more than a few by making a quick turn into parking lot before your license plate…
Rick Perry’s presidential campaign is on life support at the moment, and according to a group of Hispanic Republicans, Joe Arpaio’s recent endorsement of Perry could be the final nail in the Texas Governor’s coffin.”We believe the Arpaio endorsement is a colossal blunder from which Rick Perry will never recover,…
Arizona Congressman Trent Franks — best known for his fear of homosexuals, his belief that black people were better off under slavery, and tackling the non-existent problem of race/gender-based abortions — has endorsed his Congressional colleague Michele Bachmann in the GOP presidential primary. Additionally, Franks will serve as the Congressional…
