Buckeye PD released its version of a shoplifting suspect’s bloody take-down during last night’s Black Friday event at a Walmart, saying the guy brought on his injuries himself.Jerald Allen Newman, 54, was arrested following a chaotic scene at the store in which a video-game display was destroyed by a mob…
A few hours from now, the Arizona State Sun Devils will take the field in Tempe against the equally mediocre California Golden Bears in what fairly can be called an “important” game. Remarkably, the Devils still have a very decent chance of making it to the Pac-10 championship game against…
According to a new survey by North Carolina-based Public Policy Polling, Arizona Democrats might actually have a shot at beating Republican golden-boy Congressman Jeff Flake in the 2012 race to replace U.S. Senator Jon Kyl. If they nominate former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona instead of ex-Arizona Democratic Party Chair Don…
Police “body-planted” a man at a Buckeye Walmart’s Black Friday event after the man put a video game in his waistband while helping a grandson who was being jostled in a crowd. The take-down, which left the man bloody, was one of several violent acts reported across the country related…
GOP Senator Mel Martinez authored a decent compromise bill to resolve the growing illegal immigration problem in the United States. He broke up the group of 11 million illegals into three classes, depending on the amount of time they were in the country. Those in the United States for two…
EVIL THAT MEN DO A writer with insight: I never understood the intricacies of the Baseline Killer case until I read your article (“Waiting for Goudeau,” Paul Rubin, November 10). I always wonder whether cops are railroading some poor ex-con schmuck to [clear] a bunch of cases, but after reading…
Raven sleeps every night tucked away in an alley in East Central Phoenix. Each morning, he grabs his bedroll and his backpack and shuffles across a quiet street to a sprawling city park. After using the public facilities — “I don’t go on the ground; I go to the bathroom…
An airplane crashed into the Superstition Mountains about 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday evening, near the Flatiron formation. Witnesses saw an explosion and fireball, says Channel 5 (KPHO-TV). We tried to get in touch with Elias Johnson, spokesman for the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office — he’s on his way out there,…
Man, this drama is getting moldier than a rerun of 21 Jump Street. This afternoon, the Arizona Supreme Court — for the second time — handed Governor Jan Brewer a big fat loss on her attempt to remove Colleen Mathis, chairwoman of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, the panel charged…
Shawn Nau, Maricopa County’s general government director, was responsible for leaking records about former deputy Joel Fox to the press in apparent defiance of a court order.Though county spokeswoman Cari Gerchick told us last week that the leaker had received a written reprimand for his actions, it turns out that…
Dr. Andrew Weil, alternative medicine guru, will ask the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to cover employees who choose to visit his pseudo-scientific health center. Weil is the founder of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, and has helped establish medical residency programs in some…
Just after midnight today, Armando Salazar heard someone knocking loudly on the front door of his west Phoenix home. He opened the door, but left closed the outer security door.Several bullets suddenly penetrated the security door and struck Salazar. His wife, also in the home at the time, was uninjured.Salazar,…
One major difference between the old and new lawsuits against Maricopa County by a retired judge and current County Supervisor is this name:Peter Spaw.Spaw, a deputy prosecutor with the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office since 2000, was a key figure in the 2009 federal racketeering complaint against county officials that got…
Israeli citizen and former high-living real estate investor Eitan Maximov was found guilty in a jury trial yesterday for his role in a “cash-back” mortgage-fraud scheme.He stands to get between 14 and 17.5 years in prison at his sentencing hearing, scheduled for February 27 before U.S. District Judge David G…
If Jose Arnulfo Leyva had a hammer, he’d hammer in the evening — on your car, or possibly you. So say police, anyway.Cops say Leyva, 28, did have a hammer last night just after 10 p.m. when he stalked a Mesa street, “stepping out in front of cars” as he…
A Valley bail-bond company says it has denied an offer to write a bond for Jerice Hunter because her daughter is still missing and the bond amount is too low. The operators of Regulator Bail Bonds, Inc., tweeted and Facebooked their displeasure last night, urging the state’s other bail-bond companies to follow…
[jump] Cops witnessed Watson driving recklessly near Prescott College on Grove Avenue before pulling her over, says the report. Once out of the vehicle, she began dropping f-bombs and screaming at the officers, then resisted their efforst to cuff her, kneeing one officer in the groin as he grabbed her…
She’s been shot in the butt.Criticized for questionable deals.Indicted twice by a grand jury — only to see her charges dropped and her accuser face potential disbarment.But Mary Rose Wilcox, one of five members of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors since being elected in 1992, isn’t giving up her…
All charges have been dropped from September’s high-profile bust by the Drug Enforcement Agency of a Tempe medical marijuana clinic.The DEA arrested James Chaney and Rachel Beeder of Arizona Go Green Co-Op on September 29 following a morning raid on the clinic and Chaney’s Phoenix home. About 60 or 70…
Christmas came early this year, I thought to myself, as Jerry Lewis, the man who played David to ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce’s Goliath in the Legislative District 18 recall, was sworn in this afternoon on the Senate floor by Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Rebecca White Berch.Yep, Christmas. And…
Phoenix Mayor-elect Greg Stanton has assembled a 24-person team of community and business leaders to help him put together a staff of policy advisers for the Mayor’s Office.Stanton has tapped individuals from Phoenix’s LGBT and minority communities with backgrounds in business, arts, education and social services. They’re all volunteering to…
Lots of talk in Sportsland about the hiring today in Tucson of Rich Rodriguez as the Arizona Wildcats’ next head football coach. Price tag: 5-year deal for $9.55 million. Nice work if you can get it, huh? ixed bag of opinions about the hiring from what we’ve heard so far, in…
