Court records show that violence and meth use are constants throughout the life of Ryan Giroux, the man accused of shooting six people in Mesa, killing one, on Wednesday. After an arrest last year, Giroux’s probation officer wrote to the court that Giroux “took it upon himself” to get mental-health…
The Arizona Senate yesterday passed a bill that creates a new tax break for certain religious groups. A version of the bill, which is being pushed by the notorious Center for Arizona Policy, was vetoed by Governor Jan Brewer after it was passed by lawmakers last year. Now it’s up…
Why do wabs, regardless of age and body size, always have one hand rubbing their bellies under their shirts? Is this something that is inherent in all wabs? Because they all do it, especially the “fresh from the border” ones. I don’t get it. I’m a pocho, and I’ve never…
A man with white-supremacist tattoos on his face is the man police believe shot six people in Mesa today, killing one person. Ryan Giroux, age 41, has been identified as the suspect, and was arrested by Mesa police this afternoon after an hours-long manhunt…
Update 3/17/15 7:30 p.m.: An amendment to SB 1445 passed in the House Wednesday afternoon. The vote was 44 to 13, with three members not voting. (View the full voting breakdown here) Original story follows: Community leaders and members of the ACLU gathered on the capital lawn this morning to…
Without abortion and gay sex, Cathi Herrod would cease to exist, melting like the Wicked Witch of the West hit with a torrential downpour. Why, the more sodomy, scissoring, and pregnancy terminations there are, the better off Herrod, president of the Center for Arizona Policy, is. See, her six-figure salary…
Those allegedly small-gub’mint Republicans are at it again in the state legislature, proposing a brand spankin’ new law enforcement agency, beholden only to the governor, and apparently exempt from state public records law. The proffered legislation comes in the form of a “strike everything” amendment from state Senator John Kavanaugh…
UPDATE: The suspect has been caught. Click here to read the latest about the suspect, a white supremacist. Six people were shot in Mesa this morning, killing one person, and police are still searching for the shooter. Mesa Police Detective Esteban Flores says there were four shooting scenes, starting with…
The Arizona Department of Education is throwing out 84 standardized math and reading assessments after an investigation at a Santa Cruz County middle school revealed irregularities in answer patterns. But the state isn’t accusing the kids of cheating. It’s pointing at teachers. An analysis of eraser marks on AIMS tests…
The Arizona Senate Committee on Rural Affairs and Environment recently advanced three bills and one memorial demanding that all federally owned public lands in Arizona be transferred to the state immediately: • HB 2321 tells the federal government to give up the title to all public lands in Arizona; •…
Before you buy into the line that “Politics is showbusiness for ugly people,” take a look at these 10 bold-and-beautiful women pols from the Grand Canyon state. Not too shabby, eh? Feminists, spare us, please. Coming soon is a list of top-10 hot politician dudes for you to peruse…
Arizona’s highest court won’t be overturning a decision to prevent putting Debra Milke on trial again for the murder of her 4-year-old son. Milke spent 23 years on Arizona’s death row for the murder of her son Christopher, before finally being released in 2013 after a federal appeals court ruled…
In a bombshell filing in federal court Tuesday, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan admitted that they are guilty of civil contempt, in a blatant attempt to avoid an upcoming civil trial before U.S. District Court Judge G. Murray Snow. Since earlier this year, when Snow ordered…
Debra Milke has filed a lawsuit for being “robbed” of 23 years of her life, which she’d spent on death row for her son’s murder. Milke was released from prison in 2013 after a federal appeals court ruled that the state unconstitutionally withheld information about the key witness in the…
Arizonans, here’s a video of your lawmakers at work, debating whether God is responsible for letting you have guns. This debate took place late last week as the Arizona House of Representatives voted on a pair of gun-related bills, and Democratic Representative Sally Ann Gonzales took exception to Republican Representative…
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich is in no way backing down from the state’s lawsuit that seeks to end in-state tuition for young people who have been granted relief from deportation. Although many Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients in Arizona have been educated their entire lives in Arizona…
As the closing of the Men’s Overflow Shelter makes headlines, another more frightening countdown looms: the day the Central Arizona Shelter Services runs out of money for the East Lot, the parking lot where 300-400 homeless men and women sleep every night. As it stands, CASS only has funds to…
Drunk driving is bad. That said, here’s where police will be setting up “saturation patrols” around the Valley, looking for impaired drivers this weekend, as well as St. Patrick’s Day:…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, we point out some things…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is dropping the hammer on convicted killer Jodi Arias. For the foreseeable future, she’s been cut off from visitation, phone calls, and buying snacks from the jail commissary. Sheriff Joe Arpaio issued a statement saying Arias “seems to be escalating her bad behavior now that…
Were it not for the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Act, Diane Douglas would not be Arizona’s Superintendent of Public Instruction. The crazy cat lady now in charge of the Arizona Department of Education would still be a wall-eyed instructor at Glendale’s Stained Glass Shop if she hadn’t scored $97,620 of…
A Phoenix police officer was stabbed yesterday morning while trying to break up an attack on a woman in the middle of rush-hour traffic. Phoenix Police Sergeant Trent Crump says both the woman and the officer were stabbed by the man, who turned out to be a suspect in a…
