Echo Canyon Trail at Camelback Mountain is scheduled to re-open to the public on January 15 with a new trailhead, restroom facilities, and expanded parking lot. This looks like a firm date (following an “oops” moment in September). Expected temperatures in the low 70s should help make it a great…
A Cave Creek man who bilked an Idaho-based company of nearly half a million dollars was sentenced this week to serve more than three years in prison. U.S. District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill handed down that punishment for Christopher L. Myers, 37, along with orders that Myers serve three…
News flash: You can’t bring a gun on an airplane.This apparently comes as a big surprise to people flying out of Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, as the TSA confiscated more guns at only three other airports in the country last year…
A tall, heavy-set man with shaggy blond hair and straight-cropped bangs stands in the middle of an empty gravel parking lot. He looks around aimlessly, hands shoved in his pockets. When he sees a car pulling up, he turns, hands still stuffed in pockets, and hurries over to a small…
How do we humanize the illegals in this country? My reasons for asking this question are many, but mainly a very personal one. I’ve been in this country illegally for 16 years, y ya chole no? For 16 years, I lived my life like anyone else: going to school and…
Maricopa County has a monkey on its back: Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The local media act as the delivery method, funneling the dope to Arpaio junkies. At least twice a week — sometimes more — the eyes of this town’s TV hacks glow like coke fiends’ as they regale their audiences…
A tall, heavy-set man with shaggy blond hair and straight-cropped bangs stands in the middle of an empty gravel parking lot. He looks around aimlessly, hands shoved in his pockets. When he sees a car pulling up, he turns, hands still stuffed in pockets, and hurries over to a small…
Remember Mitt Romney?The 2012 Republican presidential nominee is listed as one of the keynote speakers for this weekend’s Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints “Young Single Adult” (YSA) conference at Arizona State University…
Activists aren’t satisfied with the court-ordered community meetings run by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and its “community liaison,” who participated in the MCSO’s immigration sweeps.So, members of Citizens for a Better Arizona brought folding chairs to the new MCSO headquarters in Phoenix and held what they called a “real”…
Peoria police served a search warrant at an alleged “illegal medical marijuana dispensary,” leading to the arrests of five people.A Peoria police spokeswoman says Pure Essentials, near 77th Avenue and Deer Valley Road, was leased as a “weight loss and wellness facility.”…
People in Phoenix don’t take off many days from work compared to the rest of the country, according to research.TriNet, a national HR company, compared the paid time off of the more than 218,000 workers employed by its clients, to see which regions where workers took more or less time…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s war continues against a 16-year-old Canadian kid who spends too much time on his computer.As the kid — whose name has never been released — continues to get arrested in Canada for a series of whimsical threats he’s e-mailed to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, Arpaio’s office…
Israel Lomeli, arrested last year for the 1998 slaying of a Phoenix teenager, has received probation and will be released from jail in March. Lomeli’s high-publicity March 2013 arrest marked the end of tragic saga for the family of victim Pete Cadriel, who disappeared without a trace in 1998. The…
From the week of Thanksgiving through New Year’s Eve, DUI task forces around the state arrested nearly 4,000 people on charges of driving under the influence.According to stats provided by the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, there were actually fewer DUI arrests this holiday season (3,942) than in 2012 (4,054)…
Today in Found at the Border: U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers inspecting the vehicle of a Phoenix man on his way back into the United States found a Thai woman in the man’s suitcase.According to a CBP spokeswoman, the 56-year-old Phoenix resident — whose name wasn’t released — was…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s newly appointed “community liaison” officer Hector Martinez received e-mails during his time with the MCSO’s notorious Human Smuggling Unit from other MCSO employees that contained offensive photos and videos demeaning Mexicans and other Latinos. The e-mails, one of which Martinez forwarded to his home address, speak to…
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has spent $375,442 to stop Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox from receiving a $975,000 settlement and is preparing to spend more. A lawyer hired by Maricopa County will fly to and stay in San Francisco at county expense for a March 11 hearing on the…
The Scottsdale plastic surgeon accused of breaking into a neighboring surgical business and stealing vials of medicinal cocaine is back at work.Dr. Paul Holden sent an e-mail addressed to “friends and patients” to announce that he’s now working at North Valley Plastic Surgery in North Phoenix, near Desert Ridge…
Just to illustrate how miserable other parts of the country are right now, it feels about 110 degrees warmer in Phoenix than it does in Minneapolis, at the time of this post.It’s around -12 degrees in Minneapolis, according to AccuWeather, but it feels like it’s about -40 degrees. In Phoenix,…
We may have to change our mind about not wanting Phil Gordon to make another run for mayor of Phoenix. It’s just too much fun to poke fun of him…
The lead pastor at one of the largest megachurches in the state resigned after leaders at the Gilbert church heard he’d engaged in multiple extramarital affairs.In a note posted on the Mission Community Church website, lead Pastor Mark Connelly resigned after he “confessed to the affairs.”…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s actor buddy Steven Seagal claims to be “remotely” considering a run for Arizona governor.Although we assume Seagal’s aware that his chances of becoming governor here are somewhere between zero and none, his platform of choice is not surprising: anti-immigration…
