Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio won’t say whether one of his deputy chiefs, Paul Chagolla, deserves to be investigated for allegedly threatening an Arizona Republic reporter two years ago. Arpaio would only tell us yesterday that “it’s not over” — a reference to the still-unfolding scandal of mismanagement and allegedly…
Meghan McCain, daughter of Senator John McCain, is taking the high road after Fox News’ biggest blabbermouth, Glenn Beck, went on his radio show earlier this week and pretended to puke into a bucket when he saw McCain in a new skin-cancer PSA, in which she appears naked from the…
A Phoenix mom who put a newborn baby in the trash was convicted of abuse yesterday. However, she faces retrial on a charge that her actions constitute murder.In January 2010, Williams delivered a baby in her family’s Phoenix home. According to authorities, none of her family members knew she was pregnant. Rather…
The man police say raped three young girls as they walked to school in south Phoenix was arrested earlier this week, and despite some pretty damning evidence, his family and pregnant fiancee are telling anyone who will listen that he’s being set up.Dejuan Donaldson, 18, has been hit with a…
A nativist nutcase sticks Corky Gonzales quotes into the cheap blender of her brain and makes mush of it allIt’s always amazing to me the way ignorance spreads like a vicious rash through the Internet. One idiot spouts some bull that the confirms the prejudices of the far right, it…
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Phoenix lobbyist Wes Gullett, in the running to be Phoenix’s next mayor, says that he isn’t trying to “push” one of his opponent out of the mayor’s race.He sent an e-mail sent yesterday to a few of his supporters asking for them to “talk to [Attorney Jennifer Wright] about her realistic…
The identities of the two Border Patrol agents killed this morning when their SUV collided with a train have been released. In addition to the release of the agents’ identities, it turns out Attorney General Tom Horne was right — members of the “group” the two agents were following were later…
Phoenix lobbyist and mayoral candidate Wes Gullett is threatened by the newest candidate to enter the Phoenix mayors race.He sent out an e-mail — a day after the Arizona Legislative District 11 Republicans hosted a Republican-only mayoral forum — asking them for help getting attorney Jennifer Wright to pull out…
We first came upon John Dowd when he represented Major League Baseball in the Pete Rose scandal. Dowd was the consummate Washington D.C. bigtimer who could bloviate with the best (or the worst) of `em. (If you have trouble viewing this clip, try Firefox). At least a few readers may…
United We Dream Obama’s solicitation A national coalition of DREAM Act student activists is furious over Barack Obama’s latest fundraising letter soliciting re-election funds based on his “support” of the DREAM Act. United We Dream is circulating a petition calling on Obama to stop using the DREAM Act for…
Professional and amateur boxes at Friday Night Fights on April 8 pummeled each other and thrilled the sold-out crowd at the Madison Events Center in downtown Phoenix. Michelle Rosado, president of Face to Face Events, organized the event and hopes that it will spur more enthusiasm in boxing through out…
A Peoria man was sentenced today for his role in an international kiddie porn racket, and when the judge read his sentence, he cried like a baby.David Dean, a 43-year-old trucker from Peoria, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised probation after pleading guilty…
David Clark Nelson, a former Jehovah’s Witness elder, pleaded guilty to charges that he played strip poker and had oral sex with a teenage boy in 1980. He was sentenced this morning to six months in county jail and three years’ probation. If that seems like a light sentence, that’s…
Glenn Beck took a break from hysterically sobbing whenever he hears the word Democracy to crack some jokes about a new public-service announcement in which Meghan McCain, daughter of Senator John McCain, appears half-naked.The ad is to raise awareness for skin cancer and reminds people to wear sunscreen.”My mother would…
A former Jehovah’s Witness preacher who pleaded guilty to charges that he repeatedly played strip poker and felated a 14-year-old member of his congregation more than 30 years ago got a tap on the wrist this morning when he was sentenced by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Karen O’Connor –…
Two Border Patrol agents were killed this morning when their unmarked SUV was hit by a train near Gila Bend, and Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne already is implicating illegal drug traffickers in their death.Either Horne knows something Border Patrol authorities don’t, or he just assumes every illegal immigrant walking through the…
A great way to draw attention to a house in which you just anally raped a child is to set it on fire –, which is exactly what Phoenix police say Dejuan Donaldson, the alleged south Phoenix rapist, did last month.The 18-year-old Donaldson’s been hit with a laundry list of crimes for…
College valedictorians tend to have job offers and paid internships lined up long before graduation. But not Angelica Hernandez, the Distinguished Graduating Senior in Mechanical Engineering at Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. Hernandez graduates from ASU today with much hope and little opportunity. She is undocumented…
eft-leaning Public Policy Polling released results yesterday of a poll showing that — assuming Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords doesn’t run for the Senate seat getting vacated by Senator Jon Kyl — former Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard is the overwhelming favorite amongst Arizona Democrats.Seriously? Terry Goddard is the best candidate Arizona Democrats can…
ON THE MARK Editor’s note: Nearly every reader responding to our cover story on Mark Spencer’s reign as Phoenix Law Enforcement Association president (“Demolition Man,” Stephen Lemons, April 28) preferred to remain anonymous, which’s why we include no names after the following comments. Spencer’s a self-serving scumbag: Every righteous Phoenix…
Michelle Rosado stands a few feet from the ropes, bouncing back and forth and clapping her hands as the ring announcer summons Phoenix fighter Alexis “Beaver” Santiago to his corner. It’s Rosado’s debut boxing show — Friday Night Fights — and Santiago, a local favorite, is going against Walter Santilbanes…
