The Pima County Sheriff’s Office now confirms that a black bag sought by authorities, which may have belonged to Jared Loughner — the suspect in Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson — has been recovered.The bag was found by a man walking his dog in the vicinity of Loughner’s parents’ home.The…
A Republican congressman’s idea to ban weapons within 1,000 feet of federal officials fell flat with House Speaker John Boehner. New York Congressman Peter King’s proposed law had been embraced by gun control advocates like New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but Boehner doesn’t want to discuss it, the Hill reports…
When Arizona Senator Russell Pearce voted in favor of a law prohibiting protests and pickets near funeral services, he called it a “balance of rights,” according to Arizona Republic reporter Alia Rau.Where is that balance of rights when Pearce proposes other laws that impact the rights and freedoms of Arizona…
Doctors treating Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords updated the media on the congresswoman’s condition this morning and say she’s making tremendous progress, given the circumstances.Doctor Peter Rhee confirmed what President Barack Obama told the world last night: Giffords opened her eyes on her own as some of her colleagues and friends visited…
Daniel Hernandez: An awesome dude. While most interns spend their time filling Starbucks orders and finding ways to screw up making photocopies, Daniel Hernandez was busy applying pressure to the entry wound on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ forehead to keep her alive. Hernandez, who had only been Giffords’ intern for…
The Wall Street Journal, among other large-scale news outlets, has reported that Jared Loughner, the suspect in Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson, bought ammunition used in the massacre at a local Walmart hours before the shooting. That, as the story goes, was only after an employee at a different Walmart…
Forget background checks for a moment. Maybe, in reaction to Saturday’s mass shooting in Tucson, a whole new take on the problem is needed when it comes to potentially dangerous, mentally ill people buying guns. Maybe a complete mental health evaluation should be conducted on people who want to buy…
Authorities investigating the shooting rampage in Tucson on Saturday are looking for a black bag at the center of an argument between suspect Jared Loughner and his father, Randy Loughner.In an update provided by Pima County Sheriff’s spokesman Deputy Jason Ogan, the PCSO confirms that Loughner was stopped by an…
The Phoenix Suns have let a lot of games slip away from them recently, but they refused to let that happen in Wednesday night’s home 118-109 win over the New Jersey Nets. Sure, it took an extra five minutes to nail this one down — only the Suns’ second win…
Quick quiz: The perfect number of bullets in the magazine of a handgun is — A) Zero. Bullets and handguns shouldn’t be sold to anyone but cops. B). Ten. That’s the maximum in California, and was the maximum under the expired federal assault rifle ban. C). 16. This is roughly…
I think I have a Mexican problem. In short, I have a home in sunny California on a property with an abundance of agave cactus and century plants growing along the street. Every year for the past 20 years, five to 10 cactus leaves (three to four feet in length)…
PEARCE’S PROBLEM Classic AZ double-standard: At first blush, I thought that your story on Russell Pearce’s son’s problems was dirty pool. But after considering the ending of your piece — where you note that he has condemned children of illegal aliens because of the transgressions of their parents — I…
The hottest new drug on the streets is perfectly legal — and totally dangerous, according to everyone from the DEA to local toxicology experts. Sold on the Internet and at head shops under names such as Ivory Wave, Cloud 9, Vanilla Sky, and White Lightning, “bath salts” sound so sweet…
COMMENTARY They were wanding down visitors at the Arizona state House for the first day of the Legislature, where Governor Jan Brewer dispensed with her State of the State address and focused instead on the massacre in Tucson. “Tragedy and terror sometimes come from the shadows,” the governor read from…
It has been a mostly hellish ride for Louie Puroll, fired last week as a range deputy by Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu for lying. Puroll’s name was unknown to most before he said a gang of drug smugglers attacked him with semiautomatic weapons April 30, 2010, in the desert…
At a memorial service held for those killed and wounded in Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson, President Barack Obama offered the most encouraging update yet about the condition of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords since she survived being senselessly shot in the head four days ago.”I have just come from the University…
Seung Hui Cho slipped through a loophole in Virginia law when he bought his gun. Lawmakers in that state fixed the problem. The deadly mass shooting in Tucson on Saturday was by no means the first to raise questions about how a mentally ill person was able to buy a firearm. …
A mention of Columbine evokes images of two teenage gunman shooting up a school full of terrified classmates. Waco? The public mind recalls the infamous standoff and siege, the flames that ripped through a compound and the more than 80 people who died. Will the same be true of Tucson? For people across…
Getting any information about how Jared Loughner, the 22-year-old suspect in Saturday’s deadly shooting rampage in Tucson, has been acting since he’s been in custody has not been easy (trust us, we’ve tried…and tried). However, the Daily Beast caught up with U.S. Marshal David Gonzales who described Loughner as often…
In the wake of Saturday’s shooting rampage that left six dead and 13 wounded, the satirical masterpiece that is The Onion is poking fun at Arizona’s Wild West image. In short, the paper jokes that the suspect in the Tucson shooting, Jared Loughner, was released from custody because murdering six…
After being offered a place to live by an elderly Mesa man, 41-year-old Henry Eric Young decided to show his gratitude by allegedly beating the man into critical condition. Police say they found 81-year-old Gene Fitzsimmons in his car on the 700 block of East First Avenue in Mesa about…
In an attempt to clear up any misconceptions that the Pima County Sheriff’s Office had prior knowledge of death threats made by Jared Loughner — accused of shooting 19 people, six of whom are dead, in Tucson over the weekend — the Sheriff’s Office released all the paperwork documenting its contact with the…
