Above is the first look at Jared Loughner after he was taken into custody for allegedly shooting 20 people in Tucson on Saturday, killing six. The photo was taken by the Pima County Sheriff’s Office’s forensic unit. It’s not his booking photo, PCSO officials say.Loughner made his initial appearance in…
Amy Joanne Loughner, mother of Tucson shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner, works for Pima County as a manager at Agua Caliente Park. A lot of people ask that we pray for Amy and her husband, Randy, Jared’s father. That’s about all we can tell you about Amy and her place in…
for its divisive politics and extreme rhetoric, it’s no wonder that the eyes of the nation are on us.It is even less surprising that Arizona politicos started jumping into the fray — issuing obvious statements or overstating their relationships with U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords or using the opportunity to shine as…
“What kind of music did he listen to?” It’s a question as old as loonies have gone on shooting sprees. Jared Loughner, the 22-year-old Tucson man who shot 20 people, including a federal judge and U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was a band geek, as you can see in photos of…
Arizona’s mental health laws are among the best in the country and might have been used to get Jared Loughner treatment if applied properly, says Charles “Chick” Arnold, the state’s leading expert in mental health law. “While our system sucks, our statutes are the best in the country,” says Arnold…
As news media across the nation turned to the Web to report updates about Saturday’s tragic shooting, Tucson residents went online to vent their personal perspectives.What follows is a list of links to Tucsonans’ political frustrations, personal mourning, and collective grief expressed through the blogosphere.A Tucson writer for the Arizona Jewish Post…
embers of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, announced today that they plan to protest the funeral of a 9-year-old girl murdered during Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson.(UPDATE: Westboro Baptist Church agrees to not protest funeral in exchange for radio air time)In a press release, the group –…
While details are still trickling in as to the exact extent mental illness — and a lack of reporting/intervention — may have played a role in preventing the tragedy in Tucson, one local mental health professional tells New Times that Tucson school administrators regularly turn away help from a program designed to…
The editor of the Arizona Capitol Times has resigned in what the Arizona Guardian news site calls a “shake-up” of the newspaper’s management staff. Matt Bunk joined the Cap Times in December 2007 after leaving the financially challenged East Valley Tribune. His exodus comes just two months after the departure of his assistant, Bill Bertolino (also a former…
Four people who restrained murder suspect Jared Loughner during Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson may have prevented him from killing not only additional innocent bystanders who assembled to meet Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords that morning, but himself. Based on Loughner’s often-incoherent ramblings on social media Web sites, it seems the four…
It’s never too soon for a domain-name buy, apparently. With Jared Loughner’s Glock still cooling, someone bought the URL www.jaredloughner.com on Saturday and began uploading content. A computer search for the buyer reveals only a GoDaddy proxy server name. But at least the person isn’t paying homage to Loughner and…
The attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the incidental execution of Arizona’s Chief federal judge, the collateral killing of five bystanders, including a child, and the deranged wounding of 13 politically curious civilians is not the result of the First Amendment’s perversion by talk radio, Sarah Palin or the recent emergence of…
I was standing at the border “fence” down in Palominas last spring chatting with John Ladd Jr., an articulate and outspoken cattle rancher with no love for the federal government, Barack Obama, or anything with the phrase “illegal immigrant” attached to it. I was reporting this story, “Badlands,” which took…
Terrible and strange weekend that it was, life (by which we mean sports) didn’t stop because of the Tucson massacre, what with the National Football League wild-card and Pacific-10 basketball games carrying on as scheduled. We’re here to talk about the Arizona schools and how they fared at home against…
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Authorities investigating Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson found some bizarre notes in the home of Jared Loughner, the man accused of killing six people and injuring several others, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.According to multiple reports, investigators searched Loughner’s home and found a safe containing at least three strange notes.On one…
The call has come, from CNN and The New York Times to innumerable liberals, to “ramp down” the rhetoric and invective of politics in Arizona and the United States in general. The implication is that right-wing, extremist propaganda led to the massacre in Tucson on Saturday. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik…
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The second “person of interest” sought in the rampage shooting that left six people dead and several — including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — injured yesterday in Tucson has been located and cleared by federal authorities. And as promised by FBI Director Robert Mueller, in Arizona from Washington, a federal complaint has…
Doctors treating Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords following yesterday’s shooting rampage in Tucson that left six people dead and several injured say the congresswoman is responding to commands. Meanwhile, a second “person of interest” is sought by authorities investigating the tragedy.Of the many heroes who prevented shooting suspect Jared Loughner from committing…
Normally, I do not post press releases in their entirety on this blog, but I think an exception is warranted in the case of this statement from the United States’ Ninth Circuit Court regarding Arizona’s Chief District Judge John Roll, who was killed in the massacre that also severely wounded Congresswoman…
Law enforcement officials investigating this morning’s shooting rampage in Tucson just wrapped up a press conference and say they have reason to believe there could be a second suspect in the shooting that left six dead and several — including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — seriously injured.Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik…
