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, our alleged offenders all look like…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne is running his re-election effort from his state office, and using AG staff members to raise money, organize events and do other campaign-related work on state time. These are among the many serious allegations leveled against Horne by ex-staff member Sarah Beattie, who resigned April…
Firearms activist Alan Korwin has won his appeal against the city of Phoenix’s ban on his pro-gun ads at bus shelters. The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled today that a lower court, which previously had sided with the city, must reverse course and stop the city from rejecting Korwin’s ad…
The NFL draft is tonight, and the Arizona Cardinals have the 20th overall pick.The Cardinals have been big winners and big losers with some past first round picks: There’s Larry Fitzgerald, but there’s Matt Leinart. There’s Patrick Peterson, but there’s Andre Wadsworth.We took a look at all of the first-round…
Complaints of abuse against Border Patrol agents along the southern border are rarely met with action, according to a report from the American Immigration Council.The organization obtained public records from Customs and Border Protection to gain information about the complaints of abuse. The group obtained 809 complaints filed against Border…
In Arizona, 21 percent of the people receiving health insurance through the exchange established by Obamacare are children.That’s easily the nation’s highest proportion of children getting insured through Obamacare, and on its face, it seems like a good thing — kids are getting insured in a state with notoriously high…
Six state employees were fired last month after an investigation into the thousands of ignored Child Protective Services cases, but five of those employees say it wasn’t their fault.The five women held a press conference Wednesday with their attorney, explaining that they were just doing what they were told by…
I’m a pocha and my husband is a gabacho (by the way, we loved your explanation in your book on why Mexicans and Irish get along so well — it really explained a lot about our marriage). We had the rehearsal dinner for our wedding catered by one of our…
At BC Wellness Center, a small retail shop in Black Canyon City, two black vending machines sit side by side behind a counter, where they can be accessed only by employees. Instead of Famous Amos cookies or soda pop, packets of buds and various cannabis-infused edibles and juices sit tucked…
Describing Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s scandal-a-second administration, Horne’s Republican primary foe, former Arizona Department of Gaming director Mark Brnovich recently referenced the ’60s bard born Robert Zimmerman. “If you’ve ever listened to the song ‘Desolation Row’ by Bob Dylan, every day ‘the circus is in town’ when Tom Horne…
We now know it takes close to a month for the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office to send out a mass e-mail, and even then, only under the threat of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s being found in contempt of court by a federal judge. How close Arpaio got to having the cuffs…
At BC Wellness Center, a small retail shop in Black Canyon City, two black vending machines sit side by side behind a counter, where they can be accessed only by employees. Instead of Famous Amos cookies or soda pop, packets of buds and various cannabis-infused edibles and juices sit tucked…
Randy Pullen, a CPA who’s running for state treasurer, is either a fool or a liar. Not in general, mind you: We’re talking strictly about his role in a campaign-finance scandal that helped destroy the careers of three of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s top men…
Describing Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s scandal-a-second administration, Horne’s Republican primary foe, former Arizona Department of Gaming director Mark Brnovich recently referenced the ’60s bard born Robert Zimmerman. “If you’ve ever listened to the song ‘Desolation Row’ by Bob Dylan, every day ‘the circus is in town’ when Tom Horne…
The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona is looking into the program known as “Project ROSE,” which involves sending suspected prostitutes to a church-based diversion program as an option to avoid jail.The ACLU has filed records requests seeking a wealth of information on the program, which is a collaboration between…
Being drunk in public is not a crime, according to an Arizona Appeals Court decision.The court was considering the case of a man cited for public intoxication in Scottsdale in December 2011, and the three-member panel unanimously ruled that state law has a specific ban on city ordinances outlawing public…
Phoenix criminal-defense attorney Dwane Cates was robbed at gunpoint inside his office last month.Cates says if the men are caught, he’ll fight for a “second chance” for those robbers and ask that they be placed on probation if it’s their first offense…
The monthly real estate reports from Arizona State University’s Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice have suggested for several months that Millennials aren’t buying homes in the Phoenix area.This month’s report includes more evidence this is true…
DUI task forces around the state arrested 500 people on DUI charges this weekend, including Monday, Cinco de Mayo.Of those 500 people, 155 of them were arrested on a charge of “extreme” DUI, meaning their blood-alcohol level was at least double the legal limit of .08…
Ramon Charley Armendariz, who was an MCSO deputy before his run-in with police last week, had drugs in his garage that investigators found in evidence bags, according to court documents.According to court documents, deputies found “possible drugs” at Armendariz’s place, including pot, meth, heroin, and LSD. These finds were made…
Arizona is leading the nation in both cuts to higher-education funding and increases in tuition costs since 2008.The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities looked at pre-recession levels of higher-ed funding and tuition costs in all 50 states. Though a vast majority of states made both funding cuts and tuition…
Arizona’s water supply, barring unlikely and extreme weather events, should get us through the next 30 to 50 years. After that, as our December feature article on the subject pointed out, water will be in short supply sometime this century. The reason isn’t global warming or reduced Colorado River flow…
