Will the real Mike Zullo please stand up? By noon Thursday, Zullo had invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination nearly 220 times while being questioned by plaintiffs counsel Stanley Young, during Day 19 of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s seemingly never-ending contempt trial. Through much of it, Zullo looked perturbed, angry…
Republican Presidential candidate Ben Carson told Arizonans that if elected president, he would seal the entire U.S.-Mexico border with a double-fenced wall within a year of taking office. His statement came in response to a question asked during a live half-hour telephone town hall meeting: “How practically and quickly can…
Law enforcement agents with the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office are on the lookout for an adult male accused of stalking two young teenage girls and exposing himself to a third in San Tan Valley. A statement from the PCSO describes the man as about 5-feet-8-inches tall, weighing 200 pounds, white…
Former Arizona Wildcats basketball star Michael Wright was murdered this week in Brooklyn, New York, police say. The New York City Police Department says officers found his lifeless body Tuesday morning sprawled out under trash bags in the backseat of his white SUV. His skull was severely fractured, and the…
If you were worried that the Democrats’ second presidential debate will infringe on your fun weekend plans, we’re here to help, because as everyone knows, politics and drinking games are a great combination. Here are the details: the two-hour debate starts at 7 and will be co-hosted by CBS News,…
Hours after Phoenix police Officer Richard Tucker was released from jail for a domestic-violence charge against his wife, he was arrested again and booked into jail on eight counts of alleged sexual exploitation of a minor over whom he had partial custody, police say. The timeline of events is a…
Someone call Guinness Book of World Records: Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse commander Mike Zullo may have a claim. In federal court Tuesday, during what likely is the last week of testimony in Arpaio’s civil contempt trial before U.S. District Court Judge G. Murray Snow, Zullo invoked his Fifth Amendment…
It was January 2, 1999, and 9-year-old Kimber Biggs and her 11-year-old sister were playing in the street in their Mesa neighborhood while waiting for the ice-cream truck. After a while, Kimber got cold and went inside for her jacket; her sister stayed to wait, clutching the quarters she got…
A big crowd of fast-food workers and their supporters marched through downtown Phoenix Tuesday afternoon demanding a $15-an-hour minimum wage and union rights. “In today’s economy and with the cost of living, $15 an hour is the bare minimum needed to get by,” said Gilbert Romero, one of the organizers…
Immigration advocates used words like “frustrated” to describe their reaction to the news that a federal appeals court has dealt another setback to President Barack Obama’s plan to shield millions from deportation. In a 2-1 ruling issued Monday night, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided to uphold a…
In what is increasingly looking like a tit-for-tat game of politics, mere days after Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva formally introduced federal legislation declaring 1.7 million acres around the Grand Canyon a national monument, his colleague, Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar, introduced another piece of legislation intended to undermine it. In a…
A Montana billionaire secreting thumb drives of sensitive info through airport security in his socks. Handwritten receipts for cash payments to MCSO confidential informant # 1437, aka, Dennis Montgomery, whose e-mail alias, “David Webb,” is also fictional super-spy Jason Bourne’s birth-name. And multiple timelines’ tying together former Phoenix Mayor Phil…
Do terminally ill individuals have the right to end their own lives? Should it be legal for doctors to help facilitate the process? According to a new poll from the Phoenix-based Behavior Research Center, 56 percent of Arizonans think so. Researchers asked Arizonans if they would “favor or oppose a…
Mesa Police now say that when medical staff at Banner Health Cardon Children’s Medical Center discovered 5-year-old patient Helious Griffith and his mother Lola “Tami” Griffith dead in a hospital room this weekend, the little boy had a piece of medical tubing wrapped around his neck. As has been widely…
The Campaign to Legalize Marijuana Like Alcohol in Arizona announced today that it’s collected 100,000 signatures, or 2/3 of what it needs to get The Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act on the November 2016 ballot. CRMLA still needs to get at least 50,000 more valid signatures by July, though…
Federal Judge G. Murray Snow on Friday denied a motion from Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse commander, Mike Zullo, for a protective order on 87 disputed items of evidence in Arpaio’s ongoing contempt trial. Snow instructed defense counsel to produce the documents, which are related to the MCSO’s controversial…
Supporters of a municipal identification card that Phoenix residents could use to access city services or use as a valid proof of identity say Phoenix City Council members have the votes to approve the plan but have refused to do it. “At this point, there is very little excuse for…
At 19, Phoenix resident Ryan O’Sullivan got a tattoo of a black and red star… on his lower back. “I got a tramp stamp, believe it or not, back before there was such a thing as tramp stamps,” says O’Sullivan, now a 36-year-old married executive. “It was the spur of…
In a move designed to increase transparency, accountability, and civilian-officer relations, officers with the Arizona State University Police Department now wear body cameras as part of their uniform. ASU purchased 80 cameras that weigh only 3.5 ounces and can record up to 9.5 hours of audio and visual footage. The…
Masked protesters marched up and down Camelback Road waving shredded American flags, shouting expletives, and flipping off passing drivers as part of a worldwide show of discontent organized by hacktivist collective Anonymous. Phoenix authorities warned nearby businesses of possible violence and a squad of bicycle-mounted police officers hovered nearby, but…
A conservative non-profit group that helped drive former Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne from office today called on the U.S. Attorney for Arizona to investigate Arizona Corporation Commission Chair Susan Bitter Smith for possible federal crimes. In a press conference held outside the U.S. Attorney’s office in downtown Phoenix, Tyler…
Standing on the sidewalk outside the Arizona Department of Health Services building in Phoenix, midwife Wendi Cleckner addressed the crowd of about 200 men and women—many cradling babies or holding protest signs. “What we want is safe birth in Arizona,” said Cleckner, president of the Arizona Association of Midwives, which…
